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Practical feng shui

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Description: Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of designing your surroundings in order to channel the positive energies of the universe and promote success in life, health, wealth, and happiness. This book shows readers the way with guidance in choosing colors, fabrics, plants, artwork, mirrors, lighting, and more.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1997.
Call number: 655247
Creator: Brown, Simon (1957-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 070637634X; 9780706376340
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 26 cm
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AmazArt Colors

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Three boxes of paint labeled AmazArt Colors, manufactured by Binney & Smith Co., New York, ca. 1935. Each of the three yellow and red boxes contains a 2 oz. tube of paint and printed directions for use. The three colors here are green, blue, and vermilion. Promotional text on the sides of the boxes reads: "New sensational art medium. Easy to use no special talent needed to hand-decorate fabrics, wood, glass, china and other surfaces," and "Draw, paint, design, write, mark with tube tip, no waiting to dry - no fixing of colors, made in vermilion, yellow, green, blue, brown, black."

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The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana

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"The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, a Sanskrit book of about the third century A.D., has for long been honoured in India as the earliest Indian treatise on the science and art of sex and love. It describes social customs in early India, analyses sexual techniques and comments on the many different situations in which men and women of the day might find themselves involved and how best these should be dealt with. Its purpose is to discover in what ways happiness and enjoyment can be best achieved. While sharing the Indian attitude to love as an ecstatic experience, it assumes that sexual happiness is founded on scientific knowledge and to this end it provides a series of chapters based on the practical experience of sex. In this respect it is a forerunner of the marriage guidance books of today. The Kama Sutra underlies all later Indian writings on love including Sanskrit love poetry and is a classic contribution to Indian culture"--dust jacket.

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Psycho-cybernetics : a new way to get more living out of life

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Put more living in your life! Psycho-Cybernetics is renowned doctor and professor Maxwell Maltz's simple, scientific, and revolutionary program for health and success. Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. But negative habits can be changed--and Psycho-Cybernetics shows you how! This is your personal guide to the amazing power of Psycho-Cybernetics--a program based on one of the world's classic self-help books, a multimillion-copy bestseller proven effective by readers worldwide. Presenting positive attitude as a means for change, Maltz's teaching has the ring of common sense. Psycho-Cybernetics is the original text that defined the mind/body connection--the concept that paved the way for most of today's personal empowerment programs. Turn crises into creative opportunities, dehypnotize yourself from false beliefs, and celebrate new freedom from fear and guilt. Testimonials and stories are interspersed with advice from Maltz, as well as techniques for relaxation and visualization. Dr. Maxwell Maltz teaches you his techniques of "emotional surgery"--The path to a dynamic new self-image and self-esteem and to achieving the success and happiness you deserve! -- Amazon.com.

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Tony Newhall collection of rock concert posters

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The Tony Newhall collection of rock concert posters consists of 62 offset lithographed concert posters produced from 1966 to 1967 for the Bill Graham concert series at the Fillmore Auditorium (later Fillmore West) in San Francisco, California. Bill Graham was a concert promoter who ran the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California, and the Fillmore East in New York City. Graham's concerts were originally designed to promote local-based San Francisco musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. His influence in promoting artists spread to the wider popularization of rock music during the late 1960s and 1970s counterculture movement. A total of 289 posters were created for the entire concert series spanning from 1966 to 1971; this collection contains the first 62 prints of the series. Tony Newhall assembled the collection by acquiring pieces from concerts he attended at the Fillmore Auditorium, from purchases made through vendors in the Bay Area, and through receipt of 20 prints from Bill Graham directly when he interviewed him as a student in Stanford. Images on the prints by artists Wes Wilson, Peter Bailey, Bonnie MacLean, and John H. Myers exemplify graphic design during the early years of the psychedelic era. Many of the printmakers also incorporated photographs taken by Edmund Shea, Gered Mankowitz, and Herb Greene of the musical performers in their prints. The concert posters include visual motifs of Art Nouveau-inspired curvilinear forms, illegible and fluid block lettering styles, and usage of vibrant optics and colors.

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