This little book is here to send you some love. Packed with quotes to inspire you and statements full of compassion, this ink-and-paper hug will help you to keep your chin up, your chest out and to BE STRONG.

Find calm with this little book. Offering tips to help you let go of stress, and a collection of inspiring quotes to help you unwind, it's an antidote to the bustle of every day. You might think that "being calm" means being unfazed by stressful events - but nobody is completely immune to worry, anxiety or concern. In fact, these feelings are a normal and vital part of the human experience. Being calm is all about how you deal with these feelings, and this little book is here to help you navigate them. Within these pages you will find a raft of simple but effective tips to help you manage your emotions and think clearly, including: How to recognize stress in your body Mindfulness exercises How to manage anxiety in the moment Calming self-care ideas Breathe in... breathe out... and let this book be your guide to staying calm and feeling good.

A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap Brown ? Will Rogers ? Kwame Ture ? Plato ? Chief Seattle ? Maurice Bishop ? Anne Wilson Schaef ? Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Mahatma Gandhi ? Helen Keller ? Stevie Wonder ? Buddha ? Fidel Castro ? Ptah-Hotep ? Denzel Washington ? Socrates ? Karl Marx ? Arundhati Roy ? Paul Robeson ? Zhuge Liang ? Malcolm X ? Confucius ? Sekou Toure? ? Marvin Gaye ? Mother Jones ? Hugo Chavez ? Kwame Nkrumah ? Ho Chi Minh ? Amilcar Cabral ? Eugene V. Debs ? Jose? Marti ? James Loewen ? Marcus Garvey ? Augusto Sandino ? Aesop's Fables ? Harriet Tubman ? Chief Joseph ? Frantz Fanon ? Mark Twain ? Simon Bolivar ? Thomas Sankara ? Lao Tzu ? Miriam Makeba ? Howard Zinn ? Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ? Subcomandante Marcos ? Mumia Abu-Jamal ? Kim Il Sung ? Sitting Bull ? W.E.B. Du Bois ? Red Cloud ? Paramahansa Yogananda ? David Walker ? Assata Shakur ? Albert Camus ? Steve Biko ? KRS-One ? George Santayana ? Carter G. Woodson ? Black Hawk ? Muhammad Ali ? John Lennon ? Chuck D ? John H. Clarke ? I Ching ? Jean-Jacques Rousseau ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ? Victor Hugo ? Salvador Allende ? Dick Gregory ? Emiliano Zapata ? Oprah Winfrey ? Upton Sinclair ? Bill Cosby ? Cesar Chavez ? John Brown ? Various International Proverbs ? Jack London ? Henry David Thoreau ? Frederick Douglass ? Emma Goldman ? Michael Jordan ? George Orwell ? Rage Against The Machine ? Albert Einstein ? Kareem Abdul-Jabar ? Voltaire ? Thomas Carlyle ? Lauryn Hill ? Sojourner Truth ? Depak Chopra ? The Bible ? Prophet Muhammad ? Rumi ? V.I. Lenin ? Meister Eckhart ? Fred Hampton ? Michael Moore ? The Tao ? George Carlin ? Ralph Nader ? Rosa Parks ? Margaret Storm Jameson ? Louis Farrakhan ? Nina Simone ? Yuri Kochiyama ? Woody Guthrie ? Bertrand Russell ? Rosa Luxemburg ? Willie Nelson ? Joan Baez ? Bhagavad-Gita ? Gen. Smedley Butler ? Fyodor Dostoyevsky ? Duke Ellington ? Ralph Waldo Emerson ? Jawanza Kunjufu ? Erich Fromm ? Jimi Hendrix ? Big Elk ? Fannie Lou Hamer ? Immanuel Kant ? Ziggy Marley ? Poor Richard's Almanac ? Public Enemy ? Bill Russell ? Kenneth Stampp ? Spock ? Peter Tosh ? Nat Turner ? Desmond Tutu ? Sun Tzu ? Booker T. Washington ? Saul Alinsky ? The Zulu Declaration ? Brother ? A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs On ? God ? Faith ? Endurance ? Agitate ?Organize ? Unity ? Commun-all-ism ? Comrades ? Enemies ? No (Know) Sellouts ? United Snakes of America ? Poli-tricks ? The Rich & Greedy ? Warmongers ? The Slick, Selfish & Wicked ? The Humble, Righteous & Just ? Resistance ? Independence ? Criticism/Self-Criticism ? Time ? Tell-Lie-Vision ? Poverty/Class Struggle ? Poli-tricks ? The (In) Just-Us System ? Women ? Children ? Family ? Pride ? Death ? Culture ? History ? Slavery ? The African Holocaust ? The Question of Race ? Religion ? Money ? Work ? Education ? Knowledge & Wisdom ? Political Power ? Socialism ? Revolution ? Free the Land ? Afreeka ? God ?

The Vietnam War: An Encyclopedia of Quotations presents the story of this seminal conflict as told through the words of the famous, infamous, and anonymous. All sides of the controversy are presented in chronological resource that starts with a look at Vietnamese history, then traces the events preceding France's war, continues through America's entry into the conflict, and concludes with the war's aftermath. This is the story of the Vietnam War told through quotations in chronological sequence. Starting with the beginnings of Vietnamese history, it traces the events preceding the French war, continues through the American war, and ends with its aftermath. All sides of the controversy are represented. Here are the voices of warriors, presidents, generals, government leaders, civilians, aid workers, pilots, infantrymen, nurses, historians, war correspondents, sociologists, POWs, peasants, draft dodgers, guerillas, and war resisters. They speak from government capitals, hooches, hospital wards, jungle trails, landing zones, aircraft carriers, draft boards, Buddhist temples, and prison cells. They talk of firefights, ambushes in the jungle, bombing raids, coups, assassinations, suicides, demonstrations, atrocities, and teach-ins. Here are Ho Chi Minh, Lyndon Johnson, Giap, Westmoreland, Kennedy, De Gaulle, Eisenhower, Nixon, McNamara, Kissinger, and many people you have never heard of. Meet Hanoi Hannah, who broadcast propaganda from the North Vietnamese capital; John McCain tells you what it was like to be shot down over enemy territory and taken prisoner; John Kerry tells a U.S. Senate committee why he opposes the Vietnam War. You will learn about My Lai, Agent Orange, Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, and the plan to free American POWs that went awry. Features include a chronology, biographical sketches, Medal of Honor winners, bibliography, nineteen photos, and an index.

Foreword by Alexandra Stoddard, author of Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life. "Often we come to a point in our lives when we dispense with thetrivial and tire of ordinary superficialities," writes Peter MegargeeBrown in Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Here he has collected someof the most profound statements of all time, and gathered them intotopical sections reflecting the depth of the thinker behind the triallawyer. Sprinkled with his comments on the quotations he has carefullyselected over many years, sparkling anecdotes and essays complementthe quotations and provide a complete and thought-provoking portraitof each subject. Brown leads you through the great subjects mankind has grappledwith since the beginning-spirituality, love, life, death, friendship-and offers much more-his appraisal of the complexities of character, writing, history, memory, privacy, travel-drawing on the wisdom ofgreat philosophers including Aristotle, Hillel, Voltaire and Hegel, Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo andJoseph Story, the late Tony Snow, writers such as George Bernard Shaw, Ayn Rand, Maureen Dowd and Malachy McCourt, politicians WinstonChurchill and Theodore Roosevelt, painter Henri Matisse and architectFrank Lloyd Wright. A collection that can be read cover-to-cover or flipped throughfor a moment of illumination, Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom willentertain and enlighten seekers of truth. Turn to this treasury forinspiration, as Alexandra Stoddard says in the Foreword, "Whether youare a reader, a writer, a historian, a philosopher, or a speaker atimportant events-even making a toast-this personal selection willdelight you, uplift you, and help you to Figure It Out." Peter Megargee Brown began his legal career as assistant counselto John Marshall Harlan on the New York State Crime Commission. AfterMr. Harlan was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Brownwent on to become chief litigator for the New York firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. In 1982, he founded his own law firm in New York, Brown & Seymour. He is a Past President of the Federal Bar Council anda Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the author ofnumerous books, including The Art of Questioning: Thirty Maxims ofCross Examination. He was educated at Yale College and Yale Law Schooland lives with his wife, the designer and author Alexandra Stoddard, in Stonington, Ct. The Peter Megargee Brown Papers, the legal papers of the author, comprising 303 bound volumes of his principal law suits over 50 yearsof practice in the United States Supreme Court and Appellate Courts, are available for the use of students and scholars and can be found inthe "Manuscripts and Archives" section of the Yale University Library.

It is indeed a pleasure to prepare the foreword for vidual surgeons. In addition, it can be read from this text, mainly because I am now a senior ortho- front to back as a history of orthopedics. We are pedist who has known so many of the great ortho- all indebted to S. B. Mosto? for this fascinating pedists who are described in such great detail in book. It is truly a text for everyone who has an this book. Some of the named physicians have interest in orthopedics, and surely should be read been my very close personal friends, many have by orthopedic trainees, faculty members, and been my teachers, professors and colleagues. practicing orthopedists. I suggest it be placed in Indeed, these physicians through their contribu- every library in medical institutions and hospitals. tions have made the ?eld of orthopedic surgery what it is today worldwide. Charles A. Rockwood, Jr. , MD This is a wonderful source of information on University of Texas Health Science Center the interesting lives and contributions of the indi- San Antonio, TX, USA vii PREFACE My obsession with history goes back a long way. To keep the book readable and reasonable in Some years ago I began to focus my curiosity on size, I sadly had to cut down the number of individuals whose names are attached to orthope- entries.

An essential, inspiring collection of quotations about creativity, social justice, and more from musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell Williams Rising to global fame with his hit single “Happy,� Pharrell Williams has influenced every corner of music, from cowriting and producing the monumental track “Alright� with Kendrick Lamar to composing music for the Academy Award–winning film Hidden Figures. But his work also extends to fashion, design, and the visual arts, and he has collaborated with leading artists and designers, including Takashi Murakami, Daniel Arsham, and Comme des Garçons. Gathered from interviews and other sources, this compelling and provocative collection of quotations offers new insights into the personality and creative process of one of today’s most exciting and intriguing artists. Select quotations from the book: Self-awareness is a muscle that needs exercise. It needs a regimen. You’ve got to continue to reinvent yourself today, all the while thinking about tomorrow. Music is the key, the skeleton key that’s opened every door for me. There is no humanity without education. There is no education without demand. The only way to make life better for yourself, the only true and lasting way, is to make life better for others.

Empowered women empower women! This small but mighty book - bursting with kick-ass quotes and uplifting statements - is a celebration of female strength and solidarity. There's nothing more powerful than a strong woman - except for two strong women supporting each other! When girls stick together, amazing things can happen, and this little book is here to make sure you never forget it. Whether you need a boost to help you follow your dreams, or you want to lift up the women around you, this book is in your corner. It's filled with inspiring quotes and affirmations to put a spring in your step and fire in your heart. Featuring a groovy design to lift your vibe Includes awesome affirmations to help you feel like a badass Serves up fearless feminist wisdom to keep you focused on your goals 160 pages of empowerment, with quotes from a diverse range of inspirational women, from Taylor Swift to Audre Lorde

A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From

? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap Brown ? Will Rogers ? Kwame Ture ? Plato ? Chief Seattle ? Maurice Bishop ? Anne Wilson Schaef ? Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Mahatma Gandhi ? Helen Keller ? Stevie Wonder ? Buddha ? Fidel Castro ? Ptah-Hotep ? Denzel Washington ? Socrates ? Karl Marx ? Arundhati Roy ? Paul Robeson ? Zhuge Liang ? Malcolm X ? Confucius ? Sekou Toure? ? Marvin Gaye ? Mother Jones ? Hugo Chavez ? Kwame Nkrumah ? Ho Chi Minh ? Amilcar Cabral ? Eugene V. Debs ? Jose? Marti ? James Loewen ? Marcus Garvey ? Augusto Sandino ? Aesop's Fables ? Harriet Tubman ? Chief Joseph ? Frantz Fanon ? Mark Twain ? Simon Bolivar ? Thomas Sankara ? Lao Tzu ? Miriam Makeba ? Howard Zinn ? Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ? Subcomandante Marcos ? Mumia Abu-Jamal ? Kim Il Sung ? Sitting Bull ? W.E.B. Du Bois ? Red Cloud ? Paramahansa Yogananda ? David Walker ? Assata Shakur ? Albert Camus ? Steve Biko ? KRS-One ? George Santayana ? Carter G. Woodson ? Black Hawk ? Muhammad Ali ? John Lennon ? Chuck D ? John H. Clarke ? I Ching ? Jean-Jacques Rousseau ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ? Victor Hugo ? Salvador Allende ? Dick Gregory ? Emiliano Zapata ? Oprah Winfrey ? Upton Sinclair ? Bill Cosby ? Cesar Chavez ? John Brown ? Various International Proverbs ? Jack London ? Henry David Thoreau ? Frederick Douglass ? Emma Goldman ? Michael Jordan ? George Orwell ? Rage Against The Machine ? Albert Einstein ? Kareem Abdul-Jabar ? Voltaire ? Thomas Carlyle ? Lauryn Hill ? Sojourner Truth ? Depak Chopra ? The Bible ? Prophet Muhammad ? Rumi ? V.I. Lenin ? Meister Eckhart ? Fred Hampton ? Michael Moore ? The Tao ? George Carlin ? Ralph Nader ? Rosa Parks ? Margaret Storm Jameson ? Louis Farrakhan ? Nina Simone ? Yuri Kochiyama ? Woody Guthrie ? Bertrand Russell ? Rosa Luxemburg ? Willie Nelson ? Joan Baez ? Bhagavad-Gita ? Gen. Smedley Butler ? Fyodor Dostoyevsky ? Duke Ellington ? Ralph Waldo Emerson ? Jawanza Kunjufu ? Erich Fromm ? Jimi Hendrix ? Big Elk ? Fannie Lou Hamer ? Immanuel Kant ? Ziggy Marley ? Poor Richard's Almanac ? Public Enemy ? Bill Russell ? Kenneth Stampp ? Spock ? Peter Tosh ? Nat Turner ? Desmond Tutu ? Sun Tzu ? Booker T. Washington ? Saul Alinsky ? The Zulu Declaration ? Brother ?

A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs On ? God ? Faith ? Endurance ? Agitate ?Organize ? Unity ? Commun-all-ism ? Comrades ? Enemies ? No (Know) Sellouts ? United Snakes of America ? Poli-tricks ? The Rich & Greedy ? Warmongers ? The Slick, Selfish & Wicked ? The Humble, Righteous & Just ? Resistance ? Independence ? Criticism/Self-Criticism ? Time ? Tell-Lie-Vision ? Poverty/Class Struggle ? Poli-tricks ? The (In) Just-Us System ? Women ? Children ? Family ? Pride ? Death ? Culture ? History ? Slavery ? The African Holocaust ? The Question of Race ? Religion ? Money ? Work ? Education ? Knowledge & Wisdom ? Political Power ? Socialism ? Revolution ? Free the Land ? Afreeka ? God ?

This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.

Life is better with a spaniel This paw-some collection of delightful photos and wise words will have you swooning for spaniels With their irresistible smiles, ears for years and endless amounts of energy, it's no wonder spaniels are one of the world's favourite dog breeds. Featuring the English cocker, Welsh springer, Cavalier King Charles and all spaniels in between, this little book is a celebration of the spaniel's happy personality and majestic attitude. Whichever type is your favourite, these clever canines are always ready to demonstrate their love and loyalty. Our fondness for these pooches spans the globe, and whether you have a spaniel of your own or just think they're the best pups in town, the adorable doggos in these pages will melt your heart and leave you feeling warm and fuzzy. This paw-some little book will prove that it's not just any old dog who deserves to be your best friend - it's a spaniel.

Whatever dream you’re working toward, a few wise words can help make the challenge easier. This uplifting little book is packed with inspiring quotations and simple but effective tips to help you get the most out of every day.

The authors present hundreds of affronts and indignities spoken by and about entertainers, athletes, artists, lawyers, literary figures, businessmen and, of course, everyone's favorite targets--politicians and presidents.

A deck of 52 beautiful cards featuring mini meditations you can fit into your busy day, inspiring affirmations to repeat aloud, and soothing quotations from wise souls. The box also includes a booklet on mindfulness and a stand for displaying the cards. You don't need long hours of silence to feel the benefits of mindful meditation. There are so many little moments throughout the day when you can pause, be present and find peace within. Whether your goal is to dial down your stress levels or refresh your outlook on life, the journey begins with this box. Alongside a pocket-sized booklet covering the essentials of mindfulness and mindful meditation, this box contains a set of 52 beautifully designed cards, each with a brief meditation on one side and either a calming affirmation or a wise quotation on the reverse. Each card can be displayed individually using the wooden stand, allowing you to bring tranquil inspiration to any shelf, windowsill, desk or side table. This is the perfect gift for anyone looking to bring a sense of peacefulness and presence into their daily lives. The box includes 52 individual cards, a 16-page booklet and a high-quality wooden stand Choose to display a mindful meditation, a soothing affirmation or an inspiring quote Beautifully presented and featuring bespoke card designs

'Just be yourself, there is no one better.' From her girl squad to the Swifties to the world at large, Taylor's the BFF of the pop music world. As the go-to shoulder to cry on and chronicler of heartbreak, she relates her personal life and experiences in a 'dear diary' style in her music, but the artist is even more popular than her hit songs. One of the most followed on social media, she is a defender of the underdog, open about her feminist and pro-choice views and frequently speaks up against sexism and LGBTQ discrimination. This collection of Taylor's relatable, inspiring and hugely optimistic quotes and lyrics reveals a caring, generous personality who is all about 'the feels' and following your dreams. Sparkling with positivity and feel-good vibes, Taylor is always there to give you the best advice and lift you up when you're down – she's your own personal cheerleader. SAMPLE FACT: Swift has so far won a whopping 11 Grammys, smashing several records for the most wins as artist and as female artist.