Experience driving Canada’s longest road and travel with the adventurers who helped make it a reality.The Trans-Canada Highway is one of the longest highways in the world – 7,700 kilometres from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, with almost the same distance again on secondary routes. It’s ironically Canadian, but its story is a long and winding journey. In The Drive Across Canada, automotive journalist Mark Richardson tells the stor...

Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway, Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway, an iconic road that stretches almost 8,000 kilometres across six time zones.In the summer of 2012, on the highway's 50th birthday, Mark Richardson drove its entire length to find out how the road came to be and what it's now become. In his daily account of the 10-week road trip, originally published as a blog on macleans.ca, he follows the original "pathfinders," Thomas...

If you want to get rid of allergies or asthma this book reveals natural methods you won't find anywhere else. The authors 50 year healing journey led him to eradicate allergies and asthma from his life. Richardson identifies the real causes of allergies (it's neither genetics or allergens) with new insights into how memories, the brain, and the nervous system play a key role in allergic reactions. One of these causes could be your key to a healthier, happier life."I was written off...

O futuro próximo de São Francisco é um mundo sombrio onde a realidade é mutável e diferentes dimensões se sobrepõem.A adolescente Malibu Makimura descobre que pode sentir as emoções das pessoas e sente uma voz sinistra a crescer dentro dela. Ela consegue um emprego numa boate feminina a desenhar caricaturas surrealistas. Uma noite, enquanto desenhava um retrato, ela sentiu uma emoção sinistra projetada por uma mulher chamada Luciana, que convidou Malibu para a sua mansão em Presidi...

Part travelogue, part meditation on an author and his work, Zen and Now is a tribute to a beloved American book and the landscape that inspired it.Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has become a modern classic, a beautifully constructed blend of travel narrative and philosophical inquiry that has moved generations of readers. One of those readers was journalistMarkRichardson, who after rediscovering the b...

Native plants are drought tolerant, disease resistant, wildlife friendly, and environmentally sound. Experts increasingly encourage gardeners to use natives exclusively. This handy and practical guide focuses on 100 great native flowers, ground covers, shrubs, ferns, and grasses that will thrive in New England gardens. The presentation is aimed at gardeners, who want concise, practical information. It will also include material on the importance and desirability of using native plants.

El San Francisco del futuro es un mundo oscuro donde la realidad es cambiante y las diferentes dimensiones se superponen.La adolescente Malibu Makimura descubre que puede sentir las emociones de las personas y siente una voz siniestra que crece dentro de ella. Consigue un trabajo en un club nocturno de mujeres, dibujando caricaturas surrealistas. Una noche, mientras dibuja un retrato, siente una emoción siniestra proyectada por una mujer llamada Luciana, quien invita a Malibú a su ...

This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore, America is - has always been - an imaginary place with real people living in it. The second is that slavery and its legacies explain how andwhy this is the case. The second premise assumes that slavery - and, after that fell, white supremacy generally - have been necessary adjuncts to American capitalism. Mark Richardson registers these two premises at the level of style and rhetoric - in the texture ...

Zaireeka is the anti-headphone and the anti-mp3. It purposely makes the two biggest developments in end-user music in the last 30 years irrelevant. Zaireeka is not mobile. It is not personal. It is not solitary, cannot be easily controlled, and can't easily be consumed in small doses. So another way to think of Zaireeka is as a one-off piece of technology that comes in a highly inconvenient dead-end format.The Flaming Lips' 1997 album Zaireeka is...

Motorcycle Messengers 2 is another collection of stories from some of the leading writers in the motorcycle travel genre ... plus a few people you've never heard of. Consider it a sample pack of authors. Rekindle memories of your own trips, find inspiration for new rides, or learn a few lessons from those who have done things the hard way. Above all, enjoy the journey.Charley Boorman expounds on the benefits of motorcycle travel in his foreword.Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent side...

Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in the passenger transport sector. Profound technological advances are changing the mobility expectations of city populations around the world. Transportation design is an under represented research area of urban transportation planning. Urban Mobility Design addresses this gap, providing research...

For the fifteenth anniversary of its publication, this revised edition features a new introduction from the author on the state of the church and its “radical welcome” today, along with new reflections on how it continues to reshape the church.This book is at once a theological, inspirational, and practical guide for congregations that want to move beyond diversity and inclusion to present a vision for the church of the future: one where the gifts, voices, and powe...