Douglas Abrams Books

A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope. The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than half a century advocating on behalf of our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe as a young woman to her tireless campaigning for the environment in her late eighties, Jane has become the godmother to a new generation committed to a better, more hopeful world. In The Book of Hope, Jane draws on the wisdom of a lifetime dedicated to nature to teach us how to find strength in trying times, and explains why she still has hope for the natural world and for humanity. In extraordinary conversations with her co-author, Douglas Abrams, that weave together stories from her travels and activism, she offers readers a new understanding of the crisis we face and a compelling path forward for us all to create hope in our own lives and in the world. The world needs a manifesto of hope now more than ever. This profound book from one of the world's most beloved figures shows that even in the face of great adversity, we can find hope in human nature, and in nature itself

"The Multi-Orgasmic Couple" is an intimate, and not humourless, book for all couples who want to expand their lovemaking for greater physical pleasure and emotional fulfillment. Based on the Taoist approach, it reveals how couples can achieve numerous sexual peaks together and cultivate a long-term smouldering passion. The book is illustrated throughout - with soft and appealing rather than "medical" images. The guide include: the pool of pleasure - women's desire, any woman can increase her pleasure by learning to circulate sexual energy and make the whole body orgasmic; fireworks - multiple orgasms for men; pleasuring each other - discovering the deep harmony between male and female; and "before you call the sex therapist" - a healthy approach to problems with sex.

Offers exercises to help achieve multiple and full-body orgasms, and discusses sexuality, the art of pleasuring a partner, impotence, and more

The bestselling parenting guide featured on "Oprah" and "Dateline" is revised and updated with new signs For every parent or caregiver who has struggled unsuccessfully to decode baby grunts and grabs, resulting in tearful frustration for both adult and child, there is Baby Signs. Based on 20 years of research, this one-of-a-kind classic shows you how to encourage your baby's use of nonverbal gestures to enhance communication. Simple hand movements signify objects, events, and needs, so your infant can enjoy interactions with you that otherwise would have been impossible until they could talk. New features of this revised edition include helpful tips on incorporating Baby Signs into the day care setting and more than 50 additional illustrated Baby Signs.

'I want to wish all of you joy-because there is no better gift. Two spiritual masters, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, share their wisdom in this uplifting book. I promise you, it's the best $26 you can spend.' Oprah Winfrey Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships - or, as they would say, because of them - they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu travelled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create this book as a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: how do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our times and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final goodbye.

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity. The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet. From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, and the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and here they share their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Now that they are both in their eighties, they especially want to spread the core message that to have joy yourself, you must bring joy to others. Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and humor how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of life.

Sevilla 1593: Als Don Juan die Verhaftung durch die Heilige Inquisition droht, ist er entschlossen, Spanien zu verlassen. Genau in diesem Moment begegnet er einer Frau, die nicht nur seine Leidenschaft entfacht, sondern auch wie keine je zuvor sein Herz berührt. Als der berüchtigte Frauenverführer Don Juan Tenorio seine jüngste Geliebte verlässt, um sich beim König von Spanien einzufinden, ahnt er nicht, dass diese Audienz sein Leben für immer verändern wird. Angestachelt durch den fanatischen Großinquisitor, verlangt Philipp II. von Don Juan, sich innerhalb eines Monats zu verheiraten. Aber der Freigeist ist entschlossen, sich dem Ultimatum nicht zu beugen. Er beginnt damit, sein Leben aufzuzeichnen, von seiner behüteten und liebevollen Kindheit bei den Nonnen, die ihn heimlich aufziehen, über seine Jahre als Dieb und Spion bis hin zu dem Augenblick, als er seine wahre Berufung als Liebhaber aller Frauen entdeckt. Gleichzeitig plant Don Juan seine Flucht in die Neue Welt, doch da begegnet er der schönen, unerschrockenen Doña Ana – Tochter seines Erzfeindes und Verlobte seines Gönners – und verliebt sich zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben rückhaltlos. Verzweifelt stürzt sich Don Juan in einen schier aussichtslosen Kampf um ein Glück, dessen Geheimnis ihm so lange verborgen war.