Are you looking for natural health and beauty treatments from around the world? Are you worried about daily exposure to toxic chemicals? Do you want to take charge of your own health with herbal remedies? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this book is your guide to herbal health and beauty remedies from around the world! In this book, you'll learn about time-tested methods for healing various health problems as well as for growing luxurious...

A selection of humorous stories, fables, cartoons, and drawings by early twentieth-century author James Thurber, most taken from previously published collections.

An art film enthusiast fears that decrease in attendance will force the Uruguayan Cinematheque to close. To save it, Jorge enters a new world and is exposed to an unknown passion. A modern classic film.

The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behavior, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past, and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate. This book, written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club,...

Special 20th Anniversary of this award-winning doc reveals the making of indie classic "Firecracker" with Karen Black, Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), and other celebrities, icons, and artists taking part in cult director Steve Balderson's process.

When Lucy’s new owners rescue her from the pound, the little girl shows Lucy around her new home. Then suddenly, Lucy starts to howl. “Wah-ooo-ooo-roo,” Lucy howls in the morning. She keeps howling in the afternoon, then on into the night. Dad tries showing Lucy a mirror, in case she misses other dogs. Mom makes Lucy special foods and treats. They even take Lucy to a dog psychologist, who prescribes classical music and lullabies.

For the young producer Norman Granz, the signing of Charlie Parker to the Mercury label was a real coup. The saxophonist had been thinking for some years about the opportunity to record music outside his usual quintet. The “Charlie Parker with Strings” project was an old dream of his that he realized in 1949. With an oboe, a few violins, a viola, a cello, a harp, a piano, a double bass and drums, he gave a new sound to classics of the 1930s like...

Academy Award winners George Burns and Walter Matthau star as Al Lewis and Willy Clark, the two former halves of a classic vaudeville comedy duo. Off stage they were bitter enemies, but on stage they were the hilarious SUNSHINE BOYS.They haven't spoken to each other for 20 years, but when Willy's nephew, Ben (Richard Benjamin) sells the pair to the network for a television special, all he has to do is get Al (Burns in an Oscar-winning role) and Willy...

From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits destined to become a classic.The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it’s made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly strange: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. If you think life in the country is a walk in the...