A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," the stranger says, "draw me a sheep."
The Dark Ages, England: a warrior gives his son to a monastery that rides the border between two rival Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Growing up in a land wracked by war and plague, the child learns of the oat
The newly updated fifth edition, published for an exhibition at Wallace Collection in fall 2014, The Founders of the Wallace Collection details the fascinating history of the Hertford family. This lat
Rekindled is a historical fiction about how Roger Williams becomes the original architect of the separation of church and state. He must survive the men that intend to silence him in order to engineer
A Bouquet of Utpalas: Brief accounts of the lives of siddhas of Ga whom my guru actually met or whose stories he heard from trustworthy sources, set forth here as medicine to restore faithKhenpo Tsult
I am a native but not exactly at home, says the speaker near the end of "The Song of the Weed Witch," a declaration that echoes through Jeff Gundy's Spoken among the Trees. Gundy is restless in body a
Based on a true story, The People With No Camel, weaves two journeys of freedom: A ten year old girl escapes Iran in 1981 with her family, due to the heavy persecutions they face as Baha'is, carrying
Money and privilege no longer describe college students who, books in hand, stroll across fair campuses. Changes in American college life since the 1960s make the previous 300 years-from the founding
This book will change the way you look at your home and work environments and all spaces you occupy as you realize the power you have to change and improve your surroundings naturally, while working w
In Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr, Marlys West takes a coolly amused look at what we create of ourselves: our habits of home and mind, the prosthetics and courtesies, the small timid gestures and sc
Luigi Zoja argues that the pervasive abuse of drugs in our society can in large part be ascribed to a resurgence of the collective need for initiation and initiatory structures: a longing for somethin
This is a handbook about participating in-group dream modalities. Practical exercises included in each chapter anchor the step-by-step instructions given for running a safe, yet deep and meaningful gr
Remember, different eyes see different things. The beauty of life is to see what you can see. Anoo and Pashmack is a joyful and imaginative tale of what humans, especially children, can learn from the
Engineering in a Land-Grant Context is a volume of well-crafted essays that consider the federal government's first foray into higher education by examining engineering education at the nation's land-
Summit's Glory is George Knepper's eloquent personal history of The University of Akron. For more than 40 years Knepper has been associated with the University as student, faculty member, administrato
The 70th volume of the Eranos Yearbooks presents the work of the last three years of activities at the Eranos Foundation (2009-2011). It includes the papers given on the theme of the 2011 conference,
Increased caloric intake, increased refined carbohydrate consumption, and physical inactivity have led to an explosion in the worldwide incidence of abdominal obesity and the emerging epidemic of insu
Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem-solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses i
This monography presents the tools available for the follow-up and the analysis of the energy input to the refining and petrochemicals industries.The first part familiarizes the reader with energy acc
A quality manager for an oilfield services center in Texas, Theys explains the principles of acquiring data and validating it in the well log, primarily for earth scientists who use log data, but also
