Discovering The Essence

&ldquo;A lovely, satisfying parable of beauty and generosity . . . richly evocative of Far Eastern Art.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times&ldquo;The beauty of this book lies . . . in its luxury, its aesthetic, its gorgeous densely colored patterns of trees and ushes, and the birds themselves.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe&ldquo;Children will take the hopes and wishes of the little bird born without wings to their hearts. . . . A lovely book, and one that cannot but leave a lasting impression.&rdquo; &mdash;The Saturday Review&ldquo;Truly a beautiful book.&rdquo; &mdash;McCalls

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&ldquo;Eight Pieces of Empire is a unique, readable, and bracing work of eyewitness history by a brave foreign correspondent who risked his safety and more to document it.&rdquo;&mdash;The New Republic&ldquo;Lawrence Sheets is a foreign correspondent whose bravery exceeds one&rsquo;s comprehension. . . . He has produced some of the most gripping war correspondence I have ever read.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Times&ldquo;Unforgettable memoir and travelogue of a period and a place most of us would prefer to forget . . . [gives] meaning, and perspective, to the rocky transition of the past two decades, and infuses it with drama and despair . . . vital and vivid.&rdquo;&mdash;The Boston Globe&ldquo;An invaluable eyewitness account of the traumas of the Soviet collapse told through the lives of those who were caught up in it and often buried under it. The book is written with a disarming honesty, sympathy and humility.&rdquo;&mdash;The Economist&ldquo;A vivid, largely anecdotal account of the chaos and confusion that has followed in the two decades since the fall of the massive communist entity that once obsessed America. It leaves the reader hungry for more.&rdquo;&mdash;Associated Press&ldquo;Sheets&rsquo; suite of incidents bespeaks his Russian-fluent immersion among people unmoored by the Soviet collapse, a quality watchers of the Russian scene will appreciate.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist&ldquo;In an era when the media establishment supports foreign reporting less and less, Lawrence Sheets has lived a life of utter seriousness as a foreign correspondent: concentrating on one broad area&mdash;the former Soviet Union&mdash;in order to develop subject expertise, and then dedicating himself to indefatigable ground-level coverage of that area. Forget the pundits and the scandalmongers, this is a real journalist.&rdquo;&mdash;Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Good American&ldquo;Few Westerners understand the post-Soviet soul like Lawrence Sheets. Whether it is his hair-raising stories of the region&rsquo;s myriad armed conflicts or the black humor with which he captures the moral and physical impoverishment of a collapsing empire, Sheets brilliantly condenses twenty tumultuous years into an eminently readable tale."&mdash;Matthew Brzezinski, author of Red Moon Rising&ldquo;To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.&rdquo;&mdash;Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and other books&ldquo;With Eight Pieces of Empire, Lawrence Scott Sheets brings a journalist&rsquo;s watchful eye, an essayist&rsquo;s sense of humor, and a scholar&rsquo;s mind to the legacy of Soviet empire in all its color and complexity. This book is a great read, and its images linger in the mind long after the cover is closed.&rdquo;&mdash;Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?&ldquo;This may read like a mad journey through some of the most dangerous places on earth, but it is much more than that as well. Sheets witnessed most of the wars, disasters, and revolutions that followed the end of communism, and his accounts of them&mdash;from Chechnya to Chernobyl, and from Abkhazia to Afghanistan&mdash;serve as a passionate but considered obituary for the vanished Soviet empire.&rdquo;&mdash;Oliver Bullough, author of Let Our Fame Be Great&ldquo;War reporter Lawrence Sheets&rsquo;s edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two decades ago. Refreshingly free of faraway theorizing, this book focuses on what people actually saw and experienced in those years.&rdquo;&mdash;Hugh Pope, author of Dining with al-Qaeda&ldquo;Dean of the Moscow press corps Lawrence Scott Sheets has been everywhere and seen it all. Funny, engaged, and humane, he is a matchless guide to the tattered remnants of the Soviet empire.&rdquo;&mdash;Anna Reid, author of Borderland and The Shaman&rsquo;s Coat

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&ldquo;The fashion model turned television host Dawn Gallagher has collected recipes from far-flung spas (including the Bayan Tree Spa in the Maldives and the Overwater Spa at Kamalame Cay in the Bahamas) and adapted them using items you can buy at the grociery store, in Nature&rsquo;s Beauty Secrets&hellip;&rdquo; ~New York Times&ldquo;Former fashion model Dawn Gallagher brings you &lsquo;top to toe revitalization,&rsquo; world class treatments at grocery store prices&hellip; A virtual, visual feast for the eyes, gather your girlfriends for a staycation spa day and transport yourself to a land that will satiate the body, mind and soul.&rdquo; ~Splendora&#160;&ldquo;In addition to easy-to-follow recipes and tips, the book is brimming with beautiful photographs, making it a really lovely retail item.&rdquo; ~American Spa&#160;&ldquo;&hellip;I loved this book and highly recommend.&rdquo; ~Beauty Logic&#160;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s full of some really great useful health and beauty tips, everything from getting rid of puffy eyes naturally to all kinds of masks you can make at home for every kind of skin type.&rdquo; ~Champagne and Heels&ldquo;&hellip;in addition to beautiful pictures, Nature&rsquo;s Beauty Secrets is also chock full of do-it-yourself face and body treatments that sound exotic but are actually easy to whip up in your own kitchen.&rdquo; ~Daily Lounge

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