A collection of photos to delight you and writings to enlighten you. Among the cuddly llamas and other creatures featured in this book, you’ll also find encouragement from Buddhist teachers like Thich Nhat Hahn and the Buddha himself. Don’t let the adorable alpacas fool you—they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom to share in the form of quotes and verses. These timeless verses will continue to be helpful and relevant to your life for years to come. Meditate along with these verses daily. Learn from the lovely llama to be true in body and mind—and let your inner Zen Llama guide you to enlightenment.
Inspirational Llamas and Alpacas Readers of Start with Why, You Are Here and Whatever You Are, Be A Good One will love the quotes and teachings of Zen Llamas (and Alpacas) Advice from Zen Leaders: Join some cuddly llamas for encouragement from Buddhist teachers like Thich Nhat Hahn and the Buddha himself in Zen Llamas (and Alpacas). Don't let the adorable alpacas fool you--they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom to share in the form of quotes and verses. These timeless verses will continue to be helpful and relevant to your life for years to come. Daily Mindfulness: Meditate along with these verses daily. Learn from the lovely llama to be true in body and mind. If you appreciated the mindfulness encouragement from Peace Is Every Step, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching and Together Is Better, you will love the quotes in Zen Llamas (and Alpacas). Let your inner Zen Llama guide you to enlightenment.
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The Vicuña-an animal with near-mythical characteristics that you may have never heard of. For centuries, the Vicuña's story lay hidden 16,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Now, in the first-ever comprehensive book dedicated to the Vicuña, Mike Safley weaves a tale as fine and as delicate as the Vicuña's priceless fleece. Once thought by ancient Peruvian animists to be a deity, Vicuñas roamed the Andes in millions, protected by their sacred status. However, as time marched on, so did the Vicuña's journey to endangered species designation. Poachers realized that the Vicuña fleece could fetch riches beyond their imaginations. To the outside world, the Vicuña fleece was worth more than gold, and everyone wanted a piece of the action. Within years, the once-prosperous Vicuña herds dwindled, and as recently as 1970, only 1,000 Vicuñas remained in the Pampa Galeras Reserve. Peruvians had a decision to make-watch the Vicuñas vanish in front of their eyes or do something about it. What follows is one of the great untold conservation efforts in history. Working together, the international fashion industry, the Peruvian government, and Andean shepherds formed an unlikely marriage that pulled the Vicuña back from the brink of extinction. The story of these improbable partners plays on the following pages in never-before-published pictures. In addition to illuminating what makes the Vicuña one of the most captivating animals in the world, this book will show its readers why the Vicuña's conservation model can help save other endangered animals from an untimely fate.
Meet your local farmer! Published for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's September 1609 journey along the river that today bears his name, this fascinating illustrated portrait celebrates the local farms—and farmers—in one of the country's most scenic and storied regions, once known as the Breadbasket of America. Hudson River Valley Farms brings to life the renaissance of food producers who have developed the region as a source of artisanal cheeses, grass-fed beef, and first-rate organic fruits and vegetables. Stunning photography and short, evocative essays take you on a rare, behind-the-scenes journey to forty-four farms from Westchester County to the Capital District of Albany, and include the colorful maverick entrepreneurs behind the striking scenery. The book also includes a directory of nearly 100 local farmers' markets, directions to the featured farms, and an introduction by the region's popular U.S. Congressman, Maurice Hinchey.
Covers world cultures from prehistory through the year 700 C.E., including essays on persons, cultures, wars, battles, documents or works, traditions or cultural phenomena, structures or artifacts, places or sites, terms, and groups or civilizations.
Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.
Machu Picchu, recently voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, yet it remains a mystery. Even the most basic questions are still unanswered: What was its meaning and why was it built in such a difficult location? Renowned explorer Johan Reinhard attempts to answer such elusive questions from the perspectives of sacred landscape and archaeoastronomy. Using information gathered from historical, archaeological, and ethnographical sources, Reinhard demonstrates how the site is situated in the center of sacred mountains and associated with a sacred river, which is in turn symbolically linked with the sun's passage. Taken together, these features meant that Machu Picchu formed a cosmological, hydrological, and sacred geological center for a vast region.
