Let The Drums Be Your Heart

Clashing together outrageous musical influences and extravagantly visual imagery, Queen's place in history as the greatest glam band of them all is rock solid. Their fan base continues to grow, a decade and a half on from the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen's super-charismatic front man. Georg Purvis's meticulous, session-by-session, song-by-song, album-by-album, tour-by-tour record of the band's progress is the complete reference source that Queen fans have been waiting for. If you love the Champions of Rock, it's all here: The Band - detailed insights into Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon The Albums - detailed production history and analysis of every album, including solo releases The Sessions - in depth coverage from the early days via A Night at The Operaall the way to Made in Heaven The Songs - hundreds of individual entries on all the famous recordings, as well as obscure, unreleased rarities The Tours - set-lists and histories of every live show The Videos - a complete guide to Queen's groundbreaking video work The Movies - Flash Gordon, and other projects Plus - the reunion shows with Paul Rodgers, the radio sessions, the costumes, the parties and much, much more...

Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination. As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction, storytellers and historians have always played a vital role in aboriginal communities, ensuring that indvidiual cultures, languages, legends and customs would survive. In this book, as in his earlier anthology Steal My Rage, Maki presents the work of writers from a variety of nations and backgrounds. Honouring past and present struggles of Native peoples everywhere, this anthology will serve to remind readers, as Maki says, of the proud warrior spirit that lies within.

Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior's paradise and in the virtue of sacrifice. This volume contains an exact transcription of the thirty-six Nahuatl song texts, accompanied by authoritative English translations. Bierhorst includes all the numerals (which give interpretive clues) in the Nahuatl texts and also differentiates the text from scribal glosses. His translations are thoroughly annotated to help readers understand the imagery and allusions in the texts. The volume also includes a helpful introduction and a larger essay, "On the Translation of Aztec Poetry," that discusses many relevant historical and literary issues. In Bierhorst's expert translation and interpretation, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain emerges as a song of resistance by a conquered people and the recollection of a glorious past. Announcing a New Digital Initiative http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/utdigital/ UT Press, in a new collaboration with the University of Texas Libraries, will publish an interactive digital adaptation of the Ballads that will expand the scholarly content beyond what is possible to publish in book form. The web site, to launch in conjunction with the book in July 2009, includes all of the printed book plus scans of the original codex, a normative transcription, and space to interact with the author and other scholars, as well as art, audio, a map, and other related material. The digital Ballads will be open access, bringing one of the university’s rare holdings to scholars around the world.

Author D'Ann Swain suffered fifteen years from an autoimmune disease. There were times when she couldn't walk without help or even swallow. Today, she's back to her physically demanding full-time career and keeping up with women half her age as a nursing manager at a busy pain-management clinic. In Autoimmune Saved Me! She shares the story of her total restoration, a restoration that came as a result of this holistic living plan. She narrates how she found healing and a more fulfilled life through holistic health. Swain reveals her story-from the dark days to the victorious ones where she now finds herself. This practical guide contains a list of useful resources, a two-week schedule of steps to implement, and a collection of recipes for food and household products. With a section of inspirational quotations and suggested further reading included, Autoimmune Saved Me!, offers help for those trying to navigate their way from illness back to health and to anyone wanting to experience a fuller life.

Longing for a retreat? A safe haven where you can disappear from the world for awhile? A Blueprint for Your Castle in the Clouds is an inspirational guide that will help you lighten up your life by showing you how to design twenty-five mind expanding rooms to uncloud your thinking and create new opportunities in your life. Every room in your Castle in the Clouds has a special meaning and offers new insights perspectives to look at yourself in a completely new and original way. This beautiful book with the author's charming four-color illustrations includes blueprints for: The Mental Spa: For inner cleansing of intrusive, bothersome thoughts. The Royal Suite of Evil: Where your dark side will be so comfortable you'll always know where it is (and it will stop surprising you at inopportune times). A Small Chapel for Your Soul: Where you can release your ego and let go of false ideas. The Hall of Tears: Where you are allowed to cry as much as you want. The Library: Where you learn to trust your intuition when facing a problem or dilemma. The Kitchen: Helps digest information and things that have been said to you.

DANCE OF NO NAME (DONN) is a conscious dancing system. A combination of moving meditation that uses practical but playful tools to help you release the tensions caused by stresses of modern life. You are invited to move your body in its unique and awesome, unlimited way. Using seven different forms, the system helps you to break through your repeating patterns and find a new way to move. It is a TRANSFORMATIVE journey, taking you beyond your FORMS. In DONN you’ll learn: -How to move your body in its unique and authentic way. -Seven different forms helping you to explore and expand your body awareness into movements. -How to create a loving supported community and how to communicate to one another in a loving, safe, and supported way. -How to trust and stay grounded. -A new way of living that is free and in tune with who you really are inside your precious heart. DONN is a journey within YOURSELF. The aim is meditation. Is to reconnect to the source. It is your authentic dance of life; You only know how to name it once you find your own dance story...

Presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of the complete poems of twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg.