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Shelley Wood is on a mission to create a new generation of joyful ChangeMakers who can tackle the myriad challenges facing our world today. Distilling twenty years of observation and study, she offers a head start to the next generation of leaders who want to make the world a better, more awake, and more self-aware place. Experience has shown her that positive results can come from making tough decisions in ways that enhance connection, mitiga...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...

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A book of poems, most of which have never been published before, though some are award-winning. They show over twenty years of living, and run through all the emotions. The styles range from free-verse to rhyming couplets. Something here for everyone.

Excerpt from The Tourist's California The Southern Pacific Railroad approaches California from three directions. The south easterly portal is at the junction of Mexico, Ari zona and California. Through it pass the trains of the Sunset Route which, leaving from New Orleans, traverse Texas and the southerly edge Of the American Sahara to arrive at Los Angeles and San Francisco. The latter is reached via Fresno, Merced, Stockton and Oakland, or ...

Excerpt from Honeymooning in Russia An Idyl of Little Russia, Paul, the First, Peter, the Great, Cathedral erected in St. Petersburgh in memory of Alexander II, A Chamberlain to the Tsar, Winter Palace, St. Petersburgh, Tsarevitch Alexis, Reproduction of an Izba, made by a Volga peasant, "The Peasant Lovers, " by Bekemichev, "The Conquerors, " by Vereschagin, Our host at Cronstadt, Selling homespun linen at a village fair, Peterhov Palace, Wh...

Excerpt from The Tourist's Russia Those who are ambitious for Russia industri ally, exult in her prodigious awakening. For the tourist, her advance assures even more wide spread transportation facilities, and better pro vincial hotels. The railways and steamers of Rus sia are not only luxurious, but the least expensive in Europe, or out of it. The service and cuisine of the hotels in her chief cities cannot be excelled. About the Publisher ...

Excerpt from The Tourist's Spain and Portugal In all that pertains to the evolution of the past three or four years, the Propaganda Societies of both Spain and Portugal must receive chief credit. Nearly every Spanish municipality has an organi sation whose sole aim is to smooth the way of the traveller, to bring about reforms affecting him, and to aid him in choosing tours and diversions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundre...

Excerpt from The Tourist's NorthwestThe Canyon of the Deschutes River, Central Oregon 92 Photograph by Kiser, Portland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperf...

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Benjamin Williams Leader R.A. became, during his lifetime, one of the most prolific and widely acclaimed Victorian landscape painters. This study covers his personal and artistic life and his long career of over seventy years. Working within the tradition of British landscape painting, and influenced by his lifelong admiration of John Constable, Leader's extensive coverage of the British countryside and coastal scenes reveals the distinctive a...

Tell us, Old Turtle...Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? How do we find happiness? Once again, Old Turtle's wise answers offer readers of all ages inspiration, solace, and the most important gift of all -- hope.A companion to the national bestseller Old Turtle and Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, Douglas Wood's timeless tale of healing and wonder finds its perfect complement in the ethereal and evocative paintings of acclaimed artis...

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This classic text introduces students to the structural approach of social work practice, which assumes that many clients' problems arise from harmful social forces. By focusing on the construction of such realities as poverty, racism, and domestic violence, the structural approach counters the focus on individual change that is so common in our age of managed care and corporatization. For this edition Gale Goldberg Wood and Carol T. Tully hav...

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