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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do When it comes to changing a tire, scrambling… eggs, telling a joke or doing laundry, author Ettus found the experts, and asked their advice. Former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige explains how to shake hands; make-up guru Bobbi Brown teaches how to apply lipstick; and tennis champ Jennifer Capriati instructs readers on hitting a tennis ball. 2004.
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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
A guide to building a well designed perennial flower garden that will bloom from spring until fall, and provide an everchanging variety of colour. 1987.
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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
Shows how to overcome the Canadian climate and produce a bountiful garden of vegetables and herbs. Discusses soil preparation and seed selection. 1982.
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Religion, Buddhism
The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world… in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us. 1992.
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Religion, Buddhism
Statements of ethical and spiritual principle as guides in finding inner tranquillity. Written in the fifth century B.C., these teachings… focus on "mastery and purification of the self, strength and sobriety of character, and the ultimate attainment of freedom and independence." 1994.
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Health and medicine, Hobbies and crafts
A comprehensive guide to massage techniques with clear step-by-step instructions, written and demonstrated by a leading international expert on massage.… "Clare's massage course is a sensuous sun-filled treat. And the bonus is that afterwards you have a terrific, much-appreciated skill". 1988.
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Hobbies and crafts
Features lots of great projects using cardboard boxes, designed for indoor or outdoor play. Chapters discuss where to find boxes… of different sizes, what a basic tool kit consists of, how to use paint and glitter, when adult help is needed, and the time involved in constructing the creations. Clearly labeled and illustrated steps, lists of supplies, handy tips, suggested variations, and "Reality Check" fact boxes are found throughout. The authors - a father and his two sons - deliver plenty of humour along with the instructions. Grades 3-6. 2006.
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Nature, Animals and wildlife, Christianity, Buddhism
O'Reilley embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, she describes her work in an agricultural… barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks in both places a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world. 2000.
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Buddhism
A handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart, and how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine… compassion toward others. The author shows how to "start where we are" - embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives - and frames her teachings around 59 traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims. 2001, c1994.
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Business and economics, Canadian non-fiction, Hobbies and crafts
The author provides information about how to start up and run a successful home-based business. It emphasizes three main aspects of business: marketing, administration and finance. 1997.
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Hobbies and crafts
This is a guide to creative knitting, including step-by-step techniques, personal tips and over 20 inspiring projects by Debbie Bliss,… successful knitwear designer and author of numerous best selling books. Colour knitting, embroidery on knitting and index are omitted from the recording. 2001.
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Hobbies and crafts, Science and technology
Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Grades K-3 and older readers. 1984. (Let's-read-and-find-out science book)
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Careers and job hunting, Hobbies and crafts
Includes nearly 100 sample resumes in a variety of eye-catching formats, and 20 cover letters. Explains how to create a… concise and stylish resume using worksheets, and how to format and submit them electronically. 2006.
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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
This book is packed with DIY techniques and technology. It gives hundreds of ideas for the home, to fire your… imagination and show you how with step by step descriptions. 1995.
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Philosophy, Buddhism
L'auteur, philosophe et maître zen, s'interroge sur le sens que nous pouvons donner à notre vie et sur notre présence… en ce monde. Une méditation sur le mystère de l'existence s'appuyant sur les philosophes d'Orient et d'Occident. 2007.
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Religion, Buddhism
Discusses getting rid of fear and worry and the pursuit of happiness. 1999.
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Philosophy, Buddhism
L'auteure nous parle du bouddhisme : "Le terme bouddha n'est pas un nom, mais indique un état d'esprit, un esprit… parvenu au point le plus élevé de son développement. Traduit littéralement, il signifie "l'illuminé"...". 1991.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Religion, Buddhism
" En juillet 2000, Danielle Lamoureux fait sa petite valise et met le cap sur la Nouvelle-Écosse, où elle passe… les neuf années suivantes à l'abbaye de Gampo, dirigée par Ani Pema Chödron. Elle y prend les vœux monastiques dans la tradition bouddhiste de Shambhala. Elle devient Ani Lodrö Palmo. Dans L'armée de la bienveillance, l'auteure, sous forme de lettres à son fils, livre le récit captivant de l'expérience spirituelle authentique qu'elle a vécue au Cap-Breton. En plus de témoigner de sa transformation profonde, Ani Lodrö Palmo répond à la soif de sens actuelle et nous aide à composer avec les petits et grands défis de la vie. Convaincue qu'il nest pas nécessaire de se retirer du monde pour trouver la paix de l'esprit, capable de prouver qu'il y a un monastère dans le cœur de tous les êtres humains, elle s'applique, à l'aide d'enseignements simples, tout en douceur, à éveiller la nonne ou le moine qui dort en chacun de nous. " -- 4e de couv.
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Religion, Buddhism
Dix contes tibétains est un recueil d'histoires ancestrales qui ont pour thème l'essence même du bouddhisme : la compassion.Ces contes… à la beauté sobre et sublime éveilleront votre esprit et le nourriront. Ils vous inviteront à effectuer les changements auxquels vous aspirez pour être en harmonie avec vous-même et avec les autres. 2018. Titre uniforme: Ten tales from Tibet.
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Biography, Religious biography, Buddhism
Conte dans l'esprit du bouddhisme tibétain, sous forme d'une "pièce monologue" jouée au Festival d'Avignon en 1997. Premier volet de la Trilogie de l'invisible. 2002, c1997.