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With quotes, scripture, and questions primed to uplift, inspire, and transform, and with pages for journaling, writing music, or just venting, "My Organic Soul" draws on quotes from the past, and mingles them with today's wisdom to reach an audience both young and young at heart.

Vividly illustrated with full-color maps and detailed graphics, this work catalogs the inhabitants of a wide variety of ecosystems. MacKay examines the major threats to biodiversity, from loss of habitat to hunting, and describes the steps being taken toward conservation.

In this modern world of professional runners, televised marathons, and hundred-dollar racing shoes, Berwick, Pennsylvania's Run for the Diamonds has the authenticity of an old boxing gym. A nine-mile race with a grueling two-mile uphill, contested on Thanksgiving since 1908, this is a throwback event that reflects the history of running in America.Some of the world's greatest runners have competed at Berwick. Boston legend Johnny Kelley said, ...

Richly metaphorical debut examines what it means to inhabit a world of "losses that outnumber us.

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For the first time in one magical volume-the three exciting novels of David Eddings's epic heroic fantasy THE TAMULIDanger stalks Queen Ehlana's realm. Peasants whisper of the heroes of old who will rise again. Outlaw bands ravage the hill country. Then comes an ambassador from the far-off Tamuli empire, requesting aid: Tamuli is being torn apart by monsters, ancient warriors, and foul magics. Queen Ehlana turns to the great knight Sparhawk, a...

Escape Artist"--based on Glenn Lovell's extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell--is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as "The Magnificent Seven, " "The Great Escape, " and "Bad Day at Black Rock.

Though the Russian Symbolist movement was dominated by a concern with transcending sex, many of the writers associated with the movement exhibited an intense preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Drawing on poetry, plays, short stories, essays, memoirs, and letters, as well as feminist and psychoanalytic theory, "Beyond the Flesh" documents the often unexpected form that this obsession with gender and the body took in the life and art of tw...

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From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late 19th century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920 and 1930s, from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese crafts have exhibited a rich diversity of media and techniques. One of the first illustrated surveys in English of modern-era Japanese crafts--including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft, and wood--this elegant book, with 70 color i...

Cathodic Arcs: From Fractal Spots to Energetic Condensation is the first book in over a decade dedicated to the physics and technology of cathodic arcs. It includes a detailed account of arc history, a textbook-like introduction to cathode phenomena, and some basic physics of expanding plasmas, it deals with the infamous macroparticle issue and describes a host of practical plasma filter solutions. In contrast to previous books on cathodic arc...

Recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been one of the world leaders in alternative and experiential education and stands at the center of the human potential movement.

Alex and Sandy are two normal guys just trying to get through college--until their troublemaking hamster, Echiboo, gets them thrown out of their dorm. With nowhere else to turn, the boys move into an anime clubhouse where five crazed yaoi fangirls call the shots!

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An intriguing collection of archival photographs that reveals the forgotten heart of a great cosmopolitan city

An avant-garde tale of beheadings both literal and metaphorical

The new revised edition of an essential Middle East studies textbook

Haunting and lyrical photographs of the theater of rural Egyptian life

Ancient myths and legends are explained from a higher spiritual perspective in this guide to the amazing energetic beings known as unicorns. Enlightenment seekers can use the meditations, rituals, and ceremonies featured in the book to unleash the great abilities of these elusive spirit guides.

Now for the first time, the complete history of the illustrated James Bond is chronicled by pop-culture historian Alan J. Porter in James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007. Before Bond became world famous with his movie series, the character was the subject of successful English newspaper strips and later in comic books. James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 examines it all, covering Bond's newspaper strip and comic book appear...