The Forest Unseen
The Forest Unseen

Author: David George Haskell

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0143122940

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “Injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing.” —Outside, “The Outdoor Books That Shaped the Last Decade” The biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken combines elegant writing with scientific expertise to reveal the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands- sometimes millions-of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.

The Mandala Workbook
The Mandala Workbook

Author: Susanne F. Fincher

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1590305183

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From time immemorial, the mandala has been an expression of inner reality—for individuals, groups, and whole cultures. When you draw or paint a mandala of your own, you’re making a portrait of your unconscious at a particular moment in your life, which when carefully regarded, can provide astonishing insights into your own deepest truth. The Mandala Workbook offers a complete guide to mandala work, based on the Great Round—the twelve archetypal stages that represent a complete cycle of personal growth. Each stage offers a new way to connect with yourself and to discover the transformative powers of the mandala. Explore a full range of activities throughout the book and for each stage—including coloring, drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and more—in this engaging and hands-on guide. You’ll have fun doing it—and you may discover things about yourself that will surprise you.

More Marijuana Varieties from the World's Great Seed Breeders
More Marijuana Varieties from the World's Great Seed Breeders

Author: Ed Rosenthal

Publisher: Ed Rosenthal

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780932551825

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The Big Book of Buds Volume 3 showcases more than 80 new varieties from 24 marijuana breeders. It's the very first presentation of Wave 3 and 4 marijuana strains which are totally domesticated high yielders, bred to thrive in specific conditions--and to produce an incredible range of highs.--Back cover.

Mandala Symbolism and Techniques
Mandala Symbolism and Techniques

Author: Susan I. Buchalter

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 184905889X

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This book outlines practical exercises for using mandala creation with a variety of client groups, to elicit discussion about issues such as depression, anxiety, relationships and goals. Mandala design is presented in a variety of ways, allowing the therapist the flexibility to gear sessions towards clients' specific needs and capabilities.

The Soundscape
The Soundscape

Author: R. Murray Schafer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1993-10-01

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1594776687

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The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up around us: from the creaking wheel, the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the distant chugging of steam trains to the “sound imperialism” of airports, city streets, and factories. The author contends that we now suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and a proportionate diminishing of our ability to hear the nuances and subtleties of sound. Our task, he maintains, is to listen, analyze, and make distinctions. As a society we have become more aware of the toxic wastes that can enter our bodies through the air we breathe and the water we drink. In fact, the pollution of our sonic environment is no less real. Schafer emphasizes the importance of discerning the sounds that enrich and feed us and using them to create healthier environments. To this end, he explains how to classify sounds, appreciating their beauty or ugliness, and provides exercises and “soundwalks” to help us become more discriminating and sensitive to the sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, and an attempt to imagine what it might become in the future.

The Judas Mandala
The Judas Mandala

Author: Damien Broderick

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1473230160

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Early in the 21st century, after the Great Recession, poet and young mother Maggie Roche is harassed by a lovely woman, Sriyanie, and a famous neuroscientist, David Elfield. She doesn't know it yet, but she is about to become history's first time traveler. When agents from the far future attempt to kill her, in baffled fury she slingshots herself into the 7th millennium. Instantly she's on the run from the Ull Lords and their virtual reality devotees. These superbeings are cyborged humans constructed to live forever, with the ambition to rule the universe. Maggie is having none of this. Encountering an earlier version of Sriyanie, her fated future role in the formation of the multiverse falls upon her shoulder like a thunderous lightningbolt. A Being at the end of time she calls the Something wages endless war with its foes, the Ull Lords. Torn from her beloved child and her own time, Maggie must choose whether to accept this alienating path into an alternative cosmic history fit for a poet and a free woman.

Where?
Where?

Author: Margaret M. Blanchard

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-01-31

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1491722762

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In Where? Xavy, the endearing narrator of Who? is invited by Grace, her old friend from the Baltimore womens community, to investigate the disappearance of a friends daughter. Their reunion in Vermont after twenty years of separation provides the home base for an inquiry leading Xavy high and low, from coast to coast, and beyond. Issues of faith, mercy and redemption play out within a contemporary tangle of belief systems and allegorical exploration. In the process Xavy and Grace and their friends examine remnants of feminist activism as well as recent issues like marriage equality for lesbians and gays, and the rise of the occupy movement. Throughout Where? Xavy provides insightful and amusing commentary on current issues, as well as themes of place, belonging, and home. As Xavy and Grace renew the friendship between them, they reflect, from the perspective of aging, upon the trajectories and rewards of their unconventional lives.

Ladder To The Moon
Ladder To The Moon

Author: Allegra Taylor

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1446490203

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In many parts of the world there is a gathering groundswell of women seeking to reclaim their own direct experience of spiritual vision. The Goddess has become one of the most potent images of our time. Women are personally and collectively recovering their voices. Ladder to the Moon is a journey of discovery - meetings with women, like the author herself, who are asking, "What happened to the feminine aspect of the Divine? Was it ever there? If it was, can we reclaim it and come in from the cold? How can a woman, discouraged by the misogyny of most religions, begin to find a meaningful path?" The book is warmly personal and anecdotal - an Everywoman's search.

Vraja-mandala darsana
Vraja-mandala darsana

Author: HH Lokanath Swami

Publisher: Padayatra Press

Published: 2020-08-20

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 8193563557

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Vraja-maṇḍala Darśana is not only a guide through Vṛndāvana but a means to live in Vraja. Lokanāth Mahārāja has narrated Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in his simple yet erudite style so we may learn to live with Kṛṣṇa and thus be insulated from the Lord’s external potency. In this way, our dormant attachment for Vraja and its residents will gradually awaken in our hearts.

The Wisdom of Carl Jung
The Wisdom of Carl Jung

Author: Carl Gustav Jung

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780806524344

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One of the greatest psychological thinkers of modern times, Jung's ideas about inner growth, wholeness, aging, spirituality, parenting, and mystical experience have revolutionized the way we think. The Wisdom of Carl Jung celebrates his visionary pursuits in mythology, alchemy, comparative religion, and the exploration of ancient systems of knowledge such as Taoism, the I Ching, Yoga, Hindu meditation, and Kabbalah. In this seminal addition to the Wisdom series, Jung allows readers to contemplate his fascinating ideas for themselves.