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Genre: Spirituality
Price: $12.99
Expected Publish Date: November 19, 2013
Publisher: Atria Books
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.
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An Angel By My Side: Amazing True Stories of the Afterlife
Genre: Spirituality
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: November 6, 2006
Publisher: Harper Element
Seller: HarperCollins
Following the hugely popular ‘An Angel Saved My Life’, comes another collection of powerful true stories of communication with those in the Afterlife. Includes real-life amazing rescues, mysterious dream visitations, near death experiences and miraculous recoveries. In the follow up to her first collection of stories entitled ‘An Angel Saved My Life’, Jacky Newcomb is back with more incredible, inspiring true life dramas and what happens when those from the afterlife intervene in our darkest hour of need. The book includes: • Miraculous survival stories which defy explanation. • Amazing rescues – mysterious strangers who proved to be angels in disguise. • People who came back from the brink of death – what is it really like to die? • Remarkable medical recoveries – spirit intervention to set the clock back on a person's 'time to go'. • Dream visitations by spirits – angels and spirit friends entering or creating dreams to give important messages. • The psychic power of children and their interaction with angels. • Incredible psychic animals – pets who came back from the dead to protect their owners. Reviews Praise for An Angel Saved My Life: ‘A beautiful read that will inspire and touch all who read it, and bring them to the realization we are always surrounded by angels.’ – Tony Stockwell, star of LIVINGtv’s ‘Psychic Detective’ About the author Jacky Newcomb, aka 'The Angel Lady', is becoming the UK's best-known expert on all things angelic. Jacky runs her own column, as a mystical agony aunt, for CHAT Its Fate magazine. She is a regular contributor to many other magazines, including Prediction, Fate & Fortune and Woman's Own. She is one of the UK's leading angel teachers and holds workshops at venues all over the UK. She is teacher at Colin Fry's International College of Spiritual Science & Healing in Ramsbergsgarden Sweden.
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If you open up Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits seeking answers as to who she was, prepare to be disappointed. Even when Maier turns the camera on herself, she doesn’t offer much.
In death, as in life, Maier left few clues about who she was, why she pursued photography, or what she was thinking. Four years after her death, and six years after the discovery of her photos (which author Alex Kotlowitz wrote about for Mother Jones), very little is known about her. She was born in New York in 1926, worked as a Nanny in Chicago, and died in 2009. She spent her life compulsively taking pictures. Most of those who knew her never even realized she was a photographer. Then again, she may not have considered herself a photographer.
May 5, 1955
With this book of Maier’s self-portraits, we hope for clues. We want to be a witness to her life. But we’re really just spectators, seeing only what she lets us—often just her shadow. Sometimes it’s almost like a game of Where’s Waldo: You need to find her in the frame, catching her reflection in the corner of a mirror that’s secondary to an otherwise great street photo. She is usually alone or with children. Rarely smiles. Mostly out in the world, on the street, experimenting with reflections, composition, shadows and shapes. We get more questions than answers.
The book, compiled by filmmaker and street photographer John Maloof, who first discovered Maiers’ work in 2007 while researching a book on the history of a neighborhood in Chicago, contains 60 never-before-published images. Most are black and white, shot with a medium format camera. However, in the ’70s and beyond, we see Maier more in color, shot on 35mm film. In the later work we see an aging Maier, generally even more alone than in earlier photos.
June 1978, Chicago area
It’s tempting to approach the book with a modern sensibility of the self-portrait, thinking of these as Maier’s selfies. That would be a mistake. As Elizabeth Avedon puts it in her opening essay:
So often contemporary photography needs something…It demands an audience, requires funding. It needs someone to like it, share it or comment to it. Images today are not content to exist on their own, they constantly seek opinion and validation…Vivian Maier’s work is extraordinarily different in that it only needed to be made.
According to Maloof, Maier almost never showed her work. Most of it she never even saw herself. The pictures “only needed to be made.”
1956, Chicago area
Some people see a particular vanity in photographers’ self-portraits. But with Maier’s, it seems like a case of the photographer trying to figure out her subject. Given that she died with most of her film undeveloped and negatives unprinted, it’s a safe bet that she never found the answers she may have been searching for.
May 1978, Chicago area
Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits by Vivian Maier, edited by John Maloof, is available from powerHouse Books.
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Who Was Vivian Maier? These Enigmatic Self-Portraits Only Add to the Mystery
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The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease
Genre: Health & Fitness
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: October 8, 2013
Publisher: Humanix Publishing LLC
Seller: Ingram DV LLC
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The Italian mob didn’t just murder its enemies. With its illegal dumping of toxic waste, it also condemned people living in and around Naples to cancer.
As the Italian Senate investigates links between toxic dumping and cancer clusters, a former mob boss is claiming that his disgust with the pollution prompted him to become a police informant. From the BBC:
Two decades ago doctors noticed that the incidence of cancer in towns around Naples was on the rise. Since then, the number of tumours found in women has risen by 40%, and those in men by 47%.
As senators investigate a possible link to the mafia — which secured lucrative contracts to dispose of waste, then dumped much of it illegally — one ex-mafia boss, Carmine Schiavone, looks on with particular interest.
He was once at the very heart of the criminal network that sowed the land with poison. He knows how much damage the mafiosi have done. …
He became what’s called a mafia pentito — “a penitent one”, siding with the police, and testifying for the state against his fellow mob bosses. …
But it seems that it was not the killing, in the end, that made him sick of his life of crime. What made him a pentito, he says, was his fear about the impact the Casalesi’s illegal dumping of waste was having on the land. …
“I did it when I knew that people were doomed to die from cancer. They had injected all this land — millions of cubic metres — with toxic substances. A scary cocktail.”
Too bad the victims and their families won’t be able to fuhgettaboutit.
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The toxic reason a mafia boss became a police informant, BBC
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