The story follows the young researcher Anton Lizavin's efforts to piece together a biography of the provincial writer Simeon Milashevich from the bits of candy wrappers Milashevich wrote on during the early period in Soviet history, when paper was scarce.

Heather Roan Robbins brings you an accessible and practical system of palmistry that is easy to integrate into your daily life. Distilling decades of experience, palmist and astrologer Heather Roan Robbins has developed a uniquely grounded but soul-centered approach to palmistry. She teaches you how to explore the landscape of the hand and come to know the hills and valleys of the hand’s contours, recognize the deep rivers of the major lines, and listen to the bend of the fingers. When you understand the shape and form of a person’s hand, you can understand their disposition. Get a glimpse of their lines and get a clue as to how they communicate. Understanding the hand’s topography will help you accept and deal with yourself and others. For those who want to become a professional palmist, Be Your Own Palm Reader lays a good foundation in an accessible and memorable format. And for those of us who just want to know more about ourselves, this approach to palmistry offers a visual portrait of the patterns of the soul and can give us clues on how to bring ourselves and our lives into a better balance. Because the landscape of the hand changes over time, it reflects shifts in our life habits and the consequences of our major decisions. The hand is your energy conduit to the world—paint a beautiful future with the power of your choices now.

This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind. Barker has organized the book into chapters that mirror many of the major topics covered in introductory cultural anthropology, such as kinship, economic pursuit, social arrangements, gender relations, religion, politics, and the environment. The second edition has been revised throughout, with a new timeline of events and a final chapter that brings readers up to date on important events since 2002, including a devastating cyclone and a major court victory against the forestry industry.

Everyone knows that "the face can wear a mask," that a person may be a good actor and put on a certain expression that may deceive even the best judgment.But hands cannot change as the result of a mere effort to please; the character they express is the real nature of the individual-the true character that has been formed by heredity or that has grown up with the person by long years of habit.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Gypsies have been reading palms for hundreds of years and everyone knows that they can tell you the future. Madame La Roux is a bona fide gypsy who has traveled the country and read thousands of palms. In this fact-packed book, she teaches you how to get information from the lines, the fingers, the thumb, the bumbs and knots, the hills and valleys of the palm--so you can accurately predict the future for yourself and for your friends. It is an easy-to-learn technique, and she provides pictures of hands and lines, present case studies, checklists, and supplies worksheets that enable you to quickly grasp the overall meaning of all of the features of the hand. Also included are instructions for making good palmprints. This is the book to have if you want to learn to read the palm!

The recognized standard - 1254 illustrations. One of the most comprehensive books on the subject ever written. This covers 29 years of experience, all examples and illustrations taken from life.

A practical "hands on" guide to self-improvement using the principles of palmistry.