Most Popular Books by Milena

Do you feel uncomfortably bloated after meals, or wake up with a tight, distended stomach that lingers throughout the day? You are not alone—and there is a way to break free. Beat the Bloat offers a clear, compassionate roadmap to understanding and soothing your digestive system. Based on widely accepted medical and nutritional science, this book helps you identify your personal triggers—from certain foods and eating patterns to stress and gut microbiome imbalances—without resorting to extreme diets or quick fixes. You’ll learn practical strategies like mindful eating, gentle movement, and targeted meal timing that can dramatically reduce bloating within weeks. Each chapter builds on the last, guiding you step by step toward a calmer, more comfortable relationship with food and your body. Whether you experience occasional puffiness or chronic discomfort, this plan meets you where you are. No gimmicks, no shame—just solid, actionable advice you can trust. Part of The Sagewell Wellness Library.

Every scroll, every like, every carefully filtered photo reinforces a quiet habit: measuring your life against someone else’s highlight reel. This habit—the comparison trap—erodes self-worth, fuels anxiety, and leaves you feeling perpetually behind. Yet the pull is so subtle that most of us don’t notice we’re caught until the damage is done. Drawing on the latest research in social psychology and neuroscience, Milena Kovac Ashford explains why our brains are wired to compare, how social media exploits that wiring, and what you can do to break free. This book won’t ask you to quit your phone or pretend envy doesn’t exist. Instead, you’ll learn concrete strategies to reframe comparisons as information rather than judgment, cultivate genuine self-acceptance, and redesign your digital life so it supports rather than undermines your peace of mind. With a warm, evidence-informed voice, Ashford guides you through a step-by-step process to unlearn the comparison habit and reclaim your attention, confidence, and joy. Part of The Sagewell Wellness Library.

You''re exhausted from managing the household schedules, remembering birthdays, smoothing over conflicts, and tracking every detail that keeps your shared life running. Your partner probably doesn''t notice half of what you do—and when you try to explain, it sounds like criticism. This is emotional labor, the invisible work of maintaining harmony and making things happen. In this compassionate, research-informed guide, Milena Kovac Ashford helps you name what''s wearing you down and offers clear, practical steps for sharing the load more fairly. Drawing on decades of consensus from relationship researchers, therapists, and couples who''ve rebuilt their partnerships, this book walks you through the real patterns that create imbalance and the communication shifts that can repair them. You''ll learn to map your workload, talk about it without blame, and build habits that prevent resentment from returning. Whether you''re the partner doing too much or the one who wants to show up better, this book offers a path toward genuine partnership. Part of The Sagewell Wellness Library.

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Tens of thousands of Eritreans make perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea every year. Why do they risk their lives to reach European countries where so many more hardships await them? By visiting family homes in Eritrea and living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan, and Italy, Milena Belloni untangles the reasons behind one of the most under-researched refugee populations today. Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants’ choices of destinations.

Debut novelist Banks crafts a sweeping tale of seduction, betrayal and war...(her) evocative prose is impressive throughout....Banks delivers an engaging tale of forgiveness and the strength of familial ties, even when those ties have been frayed almost to extinction. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map. Kirkus Reviews Riding the Tiger In the turbulent years of the late 1930s on the China coast, Jack, a powerful foreign business tycoon, and Ana, a sensual and deep Russian jazz singermeet as strangers and part as lovers on the night Shanghai burns and falls to the Japanese. And then Ana simply vanishes. Besotted, Jack returns to Hong Kong determined to find Ana. He must hide his anguish from his fiance, Violet, a beautiful and paranoid Hong Kong socialite, as she begins her lavish wedding plans. As the Japanese army advances, a tragedy unfolds, encompassing the passion and destruction of humans clinging to their dreams as the only world they know changes around them. Half a century later, a young woman lives with a hidden shame. Jardine Woo is a modern Chinese girl who makes a living jumping out of party cakes, but under her cheerful exterior lies a secret: her mother was a Jane Doe, struck dead on a Hong Kong street nearly thirty years earlier, her infant daughter in her arms. Grown up now, Jardine has adjusted to life with no familyor so she thinks. Then, the extraordinary occurs, and her world will change in the blink of an eye. Algernon Worthing, an Englishman on his deathbed, claims not only that he knows her, but also that she is inextricably connected to a long-hidden crime that occurred before she was even born.

La quotidianitat transformada en delicioses peces literàries de la mà de l’autora de També això passarà. De vegades, en el fullejar distret d’un diari, trobes escrits que esquiven la immediatesa i que t’enlairen i et fan badar, rumiar i somriure. Homes elegants és una recopilació dels millors articles que Milena Busquets ha publicat a la premsa després de l’èxit internacional de la seva novel·la També això passarà. Peces curtes que limiten amb el dietarisme, l’anecdotari i la crònica literària i social. Seleccionats amb cura i reunits ara sota un mateix títol, aquests textos evidencien el talent i les línies mestres de l’univers creatiu de l’autora. De fet, tal com confessa al pròleg, estan escrits «amb el mateix impuls, la mateixa passió i la mateixa lògica» amb què escriu les novel·les. Entre vivències i situacions quotidianes, Milena Busquets s’ocupa d’incloure, amb gran precisió i elegància, càrregues de profunditat que conviden qui la llegeix al noble art d’aturar-se un moment i reflexionar. «Intento no avorrir i no avorrir-me, intento no repetir el que diu tothom, confesso que a vegades intento també empipar i molestar una mica, però només una mica. No escric per fer amics ni per congraciar-me amb ningú, ni per donar lliçons. Una vegada, un amic em va dir que escrivia “del meu temps i contra el meu temps”. I, com tots els escriptors, intento, sobretot, no trair-me, ser honesta.»

The authors of this volume seek to approach the May Fourth movement of 1919 from novel perspectives and contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse.

Demonstrates how Ondaatje''s multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text.

"Latin for the New Millennium, Levels 1 and 2 is a complete introductory course to the Latin language, suitable for both high school and college students, consisting of two volumes, each accompanied by a teacher''s manual and students'' workbooks. The strategy employed for teaching and learning incorporates the best of both the reading approach and the more abstract grammatical method. The choice of vocabulary in each chapter reflects ancient authors commonly studied for the AP Latin examinations. There are exercises designed for oral use, as well as a substantial core of more conventional exercises in each chapter. The readings, pictures, and supplementary inserts on cultural information illuminate Roman life, civilization, Roman history, and mythology, as well as the continuing use of Latin after antiquity and its vigorous literary tradition in such periods as the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Each chapter also includes derivatives, the influence of Latin vocabulary on English, and selected proverbs or common Latin sayings. Latin for the New Millennium Level 3 builds on the strong foundation of Levels 1 and 2 and provides students an in-depth experience of Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Vergil as well as of the Renaissance writer Erasmus. This text provides students an introduction to unadapted Latin literature and builds their literary analysis skills."--adapted from publisher website.

‘But what do we really know about other people?’ In this magical, jewel-like novel, a young Sardinian woman explores the life of her Nonna — her romantic, beautiful, and somewhat crazy grandmother. Nonna is an unforgettable character whose life spans much of the twentieth century. A dreamer with fierce loyalties and unbridled passions, we follow her search for perfect love to an ending both surprising and profound. Along the way, against the stunning Sardinian landscape of cities, marinas and mountains, we meet the members of her large family, and the mysterious Veteran, the man of her dreams — each one drawn with warmth, humour and deep insight. Milena Agus writes of family loves and secrets, of sexuality, of music, and of the harsh realities of war and migration in twentieth-century Europe in a powerful, compelling, and yet whimsical voice. A bestseller in Europe, The House in Via Manno introduces Milena Agus to English-speaking readers in this sparkling translation by Brigid Maher.

This work is justified in view of the emergence of the theme, in the face of a virus that changed the reality of the entire planet. In dentistry, many studies are still needed to clarify the interactions that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has on periodontal conditions. This work compiled various aspects of interaction between Covid-19 and other systemic conditions, in addition to highlighting the main problems affecting epidemiology in Brazil and other countries.

The stunning bestseller from Quebec, coming in English in May. Over 138,000 French-language copies sold! Within this book is the perfect recipe for success: An author who is one of the world’s foremost experts in the groundbreaking area of how food chemistry can fight cancer. A highly accessible and practical text. A beautifully designed package accompanied by full-colour illustrations. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, an estimated 149,000 new cases of cancer occurred in Canada in 2005. While this statistic is alarming, current research is showing convincingly that elements in particular foods may significantly reduce the risk of cancer in healthy individuals and slow its progress in those already suffering from the disease. We can help ourselves and our families through healthy eating. But the information coming through the popular media is confusing and often hard to understand. Just what should we be eating and in what combinations? Do all cancer-fighting foods work the same way? Do they all fight all kinds of cancers? In Foods That Fight Cancer, leading biochemist Richard Béliveau teams up with Denis Gingras to describe the science of food and which properties of particular foods are the active cancer-fighting elements. They deftly explain how different foods work to protect the body against different cancers and show which foods will be most effective. By understanding the science behind these therapeutic benefits, we come to realize not only why it is so critical to add these foods to our diet, but how easily it can be done.

This booklet is a manifesto in favour of a Muslim sociology focused on change and development, social justice/equity and multiculturalism. If Muslim sociology is based on interdisciplinarity and open research, it can represent an important force to struggle for human rights in Muslim countries. In particular, Muslim sociology can be an important non-eurocentric force in the struggle against slavery in Mauritania, the last stronghold of the Muslim world where slavery is still practised. Muslim sociology can overcome the still existing dialectics between aboli-tionism and anti-abolitionism in Muslim communi-ties by showing how the core message of the Quran can be exclusively abolitionist. By explaining different methods and approaches of Muslim sociology and by affirming the importance of opposing to positivism in sociology, the author Milena Rampoldi shows how microsociology and macrosociology must be integrated dynamically in order to deeply understand the relationships between master and slave and at the same time the institution of slavery based on racial discrimination, perpetuation of rape, and total reification of human beings who were born free. Muslim sociology is a discipline based on inclusion, promotion of knowledge/competence, respect and struggle for human rights.

Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: This work will depict the significance of Christian and non-Christian relations in the formation of early modern identities in John Fletcher s The Island Princess and Christopher Marlowe s The Jew of Malta. I have chosen these works to argue that Christian and non-Christian relations are explicitly demonstrated in the Elizabethan and Jacobean plays due to their incorporated issue of religion. The plays are set in the early modern period, during which many changes occurred. The significance of Christian and non-Christian relations increased as the age of colonisation advanced, and more territorial expansion and long-distance trade were undertaken. The encounter with different cultures and faiths awoke European consciousness to the existence of great non-Christian societies. This knowledge in turn evoked apprehension of the existing attitudes and beliefs in Christian Europe. Notions of race and religion began to shift. Non-European peoples commenced to be perceived as rivals to Christianity. Marlowe s and Fletcher s plays depict the anxieties towards the Other, where religion becomes the central issue of distinction. Marlowe s tragedy The Jew of Malta deals with Judaism and Catholicism and their mutual hostility. Fletcher s tragi-comedy The Island Princess deals with the pagan princess s conversion to Christianity. This work will explore various aspects influenced and sustained by Christianity. Christian beliefs laid a foundation for early modern European society. The emerging identities are indispensably intertwined with Christianity and Christian attitudes of that time. Notions of race and gender cannot be easily defined without religion. This work will explore the changes in the development of racial thinking and its religious underpinning. Christianity inevitably influenced different spheres of social life and conduct because of its popularity during this time period. Religion empowered European nations to endorse their values in foreign territories and advocated the spread of Christianity in the world. The Island Princess, for example, explores underlying Christian values, which set the heroine s conversion in the centre of the play. The Jew of Malta, on the other hand, explores the notion that Christians are not flawless. Not only does it reveal the condemned character traits of the Jews, but it also ridicules the Christians. This work will investigate the emergence of Christians repulsive attitudes towards the [...]