For centuries, the monks of Mount Athos have enjoyed long lives, healthy bodies and calm minds thanks to their unique diet and lifestyle. Now you too can discover the secrets of good nutrition from this ancient community in a remarkable new diet book.In The Mount Athos Diet, you'll follow the intermittent diet that keeps the monks slim, youthful and largely free from disease. The diet is made up of three easy-to-follow patterns throughout the week:- Three fasting d...

Harness the power of the leaders in your organization to grow your learning culture.Expanding on the leaders-as-teachers (LAT) model introduced in the 2009 book, Leaders as Teachers, this new action guide shows you how to create a leader-teacher program at any organization. Whether you are ready for a sophisticated learning initiative or you merely want to test the waters with a couple of courses, this book can help you turn ideas into action.Case studies and success storie...

For nearly forty years, this almanac has provided dozens of articles that fascinate and inspire magical practitioners of all skill levels.Written by some of the most esteemed Witches and Pagans today, the essays in this collection feature spells, rituals, and insights on a wide variety of subjects. Enhance your practice with urban animism (Kate Freuler), a survey of English fairies (Alaric Albertsson), earth magic (James Kambos), and crystal grids for the zodiac (S...

Prometheus brought the gift of enlightenment to humanity and suffered for his benevolence. This collection takes on scholars’ Promethean view of themselves as selfless bringers of light and instead offers a new vision of public scholarship as service to society.Thomas J Billard and Silvio Waisbord curate essays from a wide range of specialties within the study of communication. Aimed at scholars and students alike, the contributors use approaches from critical meditations to case s...

Ritual theatre is a powerful healing system that has been practised since ancient times by early societies and in tribal communities. It has the ability to effect deep transformation in its participants, support growth and development, and resolve personal issues.This book considers the relevance of ritual theatre in contemporary life and describes how it is being used as a highly cathartic therapeutic process. With contributions from leading experts in the field of dramatherapy, t...

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds.Cornbread Nation 7, edited ...

Originally published in 1978, this concordance to Conrad'sAlmayer’s Folly includes a verbal index and field of reference, along with some notes on why they are useful. This volume is part of an experimental series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, television adaptations of books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and new series ...

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and colleagues collaborate to complete the work that he began on this critical p...

**National Book Award Longlist Title****Asian/Pacific American Award Honor Book**This funny, fast-paced, and heartrending story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants is perfect for fans of New Kid and Front Desk.A DREAM TRIP TO AMERICA TURNS INTO A NIGHTMARE!Feng-Li can't wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed ...

Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place per...

Can one spoiled cousin upend three kids' hard-won happiness and stability? Find out in this hilarious, hair-raising, high stakes companion to the award-winning bestseller Parachute Kids! Perfect for fans of School Trip, A First Time for Everything, and The Tryout.WITH FAMILY LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?After seven months on their own as undocumented immigrants, the Lin siblings have settled into their new lives in Califo...