If we are lucky, we each have one special friend in our lives—the person who’s there to cheer every minor accomplishment, who can lift spirits in even the darkest crisis, who knows every secret and will never tell. Not surprisingly, celebrities have close friendships, too. In Getting Along Famously, bestselling author Melissa Hellstern illuminates these iconic pairings with photographs and quotes.
Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren—one the gamine good girl, the other the sexy siren—bonded over the pain of miscarriage. Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland met as neighbors in the late 1940s. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford defined the term frenemies, each trying to out-diva the other. Coco Chanel made fashion history alongside her friend Madame Misia Sert, an Impressionist muse.
Featuring quotes on friendship from the famous—Marlene Dietrich, Drew Barrymore, Ralph Waldo Emerson—and the unknown, this gorgeous, beguiling and heartwarming book is just the way to celebrate the art of friendship and those we hold dear.
The Power of the Middle Ground explains as no other self-help book does why and how the inherent difficulties entailed in the change process itself are daunting. Author Marty Babits, a seasoned couples therapist and educator, explains strategies and provides tips for grappling successfully with the challenges that change presents. This key aspect of working through relationship difficulties has, until now, been given short shrift in the popular and academic literature. Despite the central place of divorce in our culture, he teaches couples how to achieve a much greater impact in solving difficult interpersonal problems than is often thought possible.
Babits helps couples envision a place that brings their potential for love and compassion alive. This place, which neither partner can dominate and in which each learns to approach problems productively, he calls the middle ground. Through a series of exercises, he equips couples to appreciate and actualize what is positive and possible in their relationship.
This encouraging, yet realistic book empowers partners to negotiate differences, emphasize the positive, see issues from each other's point of view, defuse anger, and, as a result, rekindle warmth and love.
Drama queens come from all walks of life, regardless of age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status. As a drama queen, you perceive danger when there is none. You personalize things that aren't personal. You spend hours a day trying to control things you have no control over. You may fear you won't receive your fair share of things, often feeling mistreated or put upon by others.
Sounds grim, doesn't it? But despair no longer! Finally there is a solution. With this book, you will learn how to say good-bye to unnecessary response styles that cause you to feel unhappy, angry, resentful, disappointed, and stressed out by daily life. It also will help those who either know or are intimately involved with drama queens to cope with and understand the highly sensitive.
Certainly there are countless resources available that can assist those who are in need of stress management and anger reduction in order to lead happier lives. But these tools are either Band-Aids or fail entirely if you're a drama queen. This book takes a huge leap beyond the other resources by teaching prevention. With tests and personal stories from drama queens and those that love and care for them, this book will help drama queens take control of their happiness and live in the moment!
An exciting sex life isn’t just for Playboys or Playboy bunnies anymore. With this book on your nightstand, you will be challenged to throw away your inhibitions, increase your pleasure, and keep boredom out of your bedroom for good! There’s plenty to keep the passion alive with new positions, new locations, and new twists on old favorites. You will be tempted to try all sorts of new sexual maneuvers and put yourself in different kinds of erotic situations with dares like: have an “Everything But …” fashion show/sex romp series; host your own hot movie festival; have a (voluntary) dry spell; practice yoga together ... in the nude; slip a pair of your panties, his favorites, into his pocket before he leaves for work; and more! Looking for a more adventurous session in the sack? Then try this book - if you dare.
Three million fun, fearless readers of Cosmopolitan agree on one thing: no one knows sex better. And these 77 fully-illustrated passion positions, adapted from the magazine’s hugely popular Kama Sutra series, will take anyone’s lust life to a whole new level. Cosmo’s steamy how-to guide is no ancient text: it’s modern, all about pleasure (for both partners), and couldn’t be more fun. Replete with drawings and instructions that explain exactly how to master each move, this carnal collection has become a staple on nightstands across the nation. All 77 positions—from the Wanton Wheelbarrow to the Passion Pretzel to the Romp with a View—come with a “Carnal Challenge” rating to indicate the degree of difficulty. Add to that a slew of sex tips, and you’ve got a torrid tour-de-force that will be as much fun to give as to receive!
