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This is the first of three memoirs written by Eartha Kitt. Thursday's Child was originally published in 1956 and covers Eartha's childhood and early career. This book is what inspired the name of David Bowie's song "Thursday's Child."Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) was an American singer, actress, comedienne, dancer, and activist known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby", both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.Kitt began her career in 1942 and appeared in the 1945 original Broadway theatre production of the musical Carib Song. In the early 1950s, she had six US Top 30 hits, including "Uska Dara" and "I Want to Be Evil". She starred as Catwoman in the third and final season of the television series Batman in 1967.Eartha continued her career up until her death in 2008, appearing in both stage and film projects as well as lending her voice to several prominent Disney projects including "The Emperor's New Groove".

In 1959, blonde, blue-eyed Jerrie Cobb was selected to be the first woman to undergo the Mercury Astronaut tests at the Lovelace Foundation in Albuquerque, New Mexico."All my life," writes Jerrie Cobb, "I have wanted to fly . . . to share mankind's surge into the skies, to be part of the onrushing leap to the stars."She was the first woman to satisfy the criteria for space flight set by the NASA. Subjected to the identical battery of physical and psychological tests given to the seven male astronauts selected for Project Mercury, Jerrie Cobb's performance was described by a NASA official as "extraordinary."In this book, Jerrie tells her own amazing story. She describes her adventures as an international ferry pilot . . . her near-escapes with death while logging in more than 10,000 flying hours . . . her famous solo flights that set international records for speed, altitude and distance . . . and her role as America's #1 female astronaut candidate and special consultant to NASA on manned space flight.It was Jerrie Cobb's brilliant flying record which prompted NASA to invite her to undergo astronaut testing. Since 1957 Jerrie has established international records for speed, altitude and distance.Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace, II, chairman of NASA's Life Sciences Committee for Project Mercury, reported that Jerrie Cobb's favorable reaction to the tests indicated that women under stress, are able to withstand pain, heat, cold, monotony, and loneliness for longer periods and with less ill effects than men.

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (1877-1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Originally published in 1950 this work covers his viewpoint on art, the method of his work, and his creative process, with over 100 black and white illustrations from his career as an illustrator.The artist's memoirs recount his troubled youth, which was shadowed by his hatred for his estranged father, his attempted suicide at the grave of his beloved mother, and his mental breakdown during military service. Upon his 1899 enrollment at the Munich Academy, Kubin discovered a world of inspiration in the works of Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, James Ensor, and Max Klinger, and he vowed to dedicate his life to the creation of similarly imaginative art. The pen-and-ink drawings featured in this compilation include grotesques from his "Dance of Death" sequence, which employs a Renaissance theme to reflect the artist's interpretation of modern society and its rapid changes, as well as illustrations from various works of Edgar Allen Poe. Alfred Kubin is renowned as one of the all-time finest illustrators of fantastic themes, Kubin illustrated more than 70 books, including the works of Dostoyevsky and Poe as well as his own fiction.

Jonathan Troy is a brilliant, beautiful, intensely romantic, selfish and irresponsible (but never impossible) hero. Despite his youth, he is a born leader who, like a colossus, dominates the people who come into his life, whether they have sought him out or have been sought after by him. There is his lonely, one-eyed father whose radical activity for the Industrial Workers of the World leads to a shattering climax in which Jonathan knows his own fidelity has somehow been vitally involved. There is Etheline, whose body is irresistibly attractive-and whom Jonathan successfully seduces. There is Leafy who inspires his love and alone can discipline him. There is Feathersmith, the effeminate teacher, who encourages Jonathan's sensitivity to the poetic, and Fatgut, the pathological liar, who is foil both for Jonathan's friendship and his rage. In a way, Jonathan betrays them all, but his greatest, final betrayal is perhaps of himself. Edward Abbey writes with perception that measures the mood and experiences of his characters in every dimension. Beneath the facade of callous brutality lies the real Jonathan, finely sensitive and introspective. The author never loses touch with this spirit on Jonathan's quest, and the cumulative effect becomes overwhelming. This harsh, powerful, disturbing story is an extraordinary achievement for any novel, much less a first one.About the authorEdward Abbey was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1927. Eight months before his 18th birthday, when he would be faced with being drafted into the U.S. Military, Abbey decided to explore the American southwest. He traveled by foot, bus, hitchhiking, and freight train hopping.His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors.JONATHAN TROY was begun as a creative writing project and is Edward Abbey's first novel.

Looking for good health and the energy of youth? Discover how a few minutes of Yoga will do more for you than hours of ordinary exercise.When you speak about being 'young' or 'old' you are usually not referring to a definite age in terms of years but rather to a state of body and mind. If you stop to think for a moment you will realize that how 'young' a person looks and feels has nothing to do with his actual age in years, for one man is 'youthful' at 75 while another is 'old' at 40. What is the difference between these two individuals? It is simple. The youthful man who is 75 has retained the characteristics of youth. Consequently, he is vibrant and alive. The man who is old at 40 has lost the characteristics of youth and has acquired many or all of the symptoms of age. He therefore appears 'old'.One of the America's foremost Yoga instructors has organized 20 simple Yoga techniques into an easy-to-follow, 7-week course that will enable you to:Strengthen and recondition your entire body.Regain youthful flexibility in spine and limbs.Help control and redistribute your weight in accordance with your physical structure.Remove tension from its many hiding places in your body.Remain relaxed under pressure.Store and release energy and vital force to be used as needed.Heighten resistance to many common disorders.Restore grace, balance, poise and self-confidence.Awaken the vital force to help gain control of your emotions and your mind.Improve in every one of your activities.

BYRON E. ESHELMAN had served as Chaplain to the inmates of San Quentin's death row (and the rest of the prison as well) for over ten years when he wrote this book. Originally published in 1950 Death Row Chaplain is a riveting, revealing, and compassionate look at the penal system at that time and the men (and women) who awaited their fate in the gas chamber of San Quentin. Byron E. Eshelman was the son of a minister, but his early ambition was to practice law. Lack of funds for law school resulted in his accepting a scholarship to a seminary "temporarily." While there, he came to realize the many dimensions of theology and saw how psychology and the other sciences enriched it for daily pastoral work. Several brief touches with prison work during his training convinced him that here was rich field for his ministerial efforts and he had remained with it for many years.