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Discover the naked truth about your mind and thinking skills, your health and financial fitness, and the power of your spiritual adventure on this planet. Nightingale-Conant has more proven best-sellers and experts in each field of expertise to provide the facts, concepts, ideas, and inspiration. This course is about finding your balance, and there are three major categories we will call on our experts for help: mind, body, and spirit.

Uncooked is the newest comedic effort from David Dyer. “Effort” makes it sounds like he’s really trying this time...and he is. Recorded on the Saturday after Thanksgiving at Dr. Grins in Grand Rapids, MI, Dyer takes advantage of a crowd saturated with tryptophan and whiskey to create a festive and grateful environment. Topics spanning from game shows to lawn care are covered carte blanche. It’s an intimate recording where all of the nuances that make a show in a comedy club so engaging and rich are left in. It’s funny, smart, and raw…it’s Uncooked.

Historian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to visit somewhere in the BBC's vast archives of remarkable sound clips from the last 100 years. Using that clip as a jumping-off point to explore what has changed between then and now, Greg talks to experts and those connected to the archived people, places, and ideas, including Stephen Fry, writer Naomi Alderman, playwright Nell Leyshon, social historian Carol Dyhouse, author and disability campaigner Dr Amit Patel, food historian Annie Gray, and inveterate tennis fan Geoff Dyer.

Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk everything to land a starring role, costumed figures lead to mistaken identities, and on-stage deaths begin to look a little too convincing. This expertly curated thespian anthology features 14 stories from giants of the classic crime genre.