An "extraordinary" work of spiritual journalism that grapples with the themes of drugs, prisons, politics, and spirituality through Shaw’s personal story (Chicago Tribune), originally published as a series on Reality Sandwich and The Huffington Post.In 2005, Shaw was arrested in Chicago for possession of MDMA and was sent to prison for one year. Shaw not only looks at the current prison system and its many destructive flaws, but also at h...

Charles A. Shaw grew up in a segregated African-American neighborhood in St. Louis. His tight-knit community supported him, and he was inspired to become first a teacher and then a lawyer. From there, he worked his way up to federal prosecutor and state judge before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal bench.Shaw quickly became dismayed by the inequality and severity of mandatory U.S. sentencing guidelines and how they affected young African...

Read-along CD accompanied by book with illustrations showing that a cloud may look like spilt milk, an ice cream cone, a tree, a mitten, a rabbit, or many other objects.

It is understood that the first recorded history of slavery had its beginning in the United States in 1619, when approximately twenty Africans were brought by a Dutch soldier and sold to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia as indentured servants. The transformation from indentured servitude to racial slavery happened gradually. It wasnt until 1661 that a reference to slavery entered in Virginia law, directed at Caucasian servants who ran away with a black servant. It wouldnt be until...

I am not a historian. I am simply an American citizen who grew up in Brooklyn, New York after my birth in the state of Virginia. My family, African-Americans from the south, decided to leave a life of farming and despair to move to New York to start anew, with nine children; three girls, six boys, and mother and father, who firmly believed that they could make a better life for all their family members. As the exception to the rule, I finished high school along with my brothers and sisters...

Timeless Years With Shri Ramakant Maharaj 2012 - 2022 is the story of a couple who travel to India to meet their Guru, Shri Ramakant Maharaj, a rare Self-Realized Master, (Jnani). Unbeknown to them, they would become the propagators of his Teachings. Shri Ramakant Maharaj spent almost twenty years with the world-famous Guru, Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj.Sitting in the presence of an authentic Guru is like bathing in sacred sunshine. The sun’s rays of truth and love i...

A needed resource for pharmaceutical scientists and cosmetic chemists, Essential Chemistry for Formulators of Semisolid and Liquid Dosages provides insight into the basic chemistry of mixing different phases and test methods for the stability study of nonsolid formulations. The book covers foundational surface/colloid chemistry, which forms the necessary background for making emulsions, suspensions, solutions, and nano drug delivery systems, and the chemistry of mixing, which is critical f...

"This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas." — Basic Texas BooksWritten in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earli...

In 1919, Charles Kenilworth (“C.K.”) Shepherd—a veteran of World War I and former British Royal Air Force Captain—took some “time off” after his service. He traveled to the United States to “trot ’round America” on a brand new, top-of-the-line Henderson 4-cylinder motorcycle he dubbed “Lizzie.” Just eleven days after arriving in the States, Shepherd and Lizzie headed west on a pioneer adventure. He journeyed to California on America’s “highways,” which he soon realized consisted of dirt ro...

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era – the UK’s housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on the planet, with London virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home. At the core of this is one of the most centralised planning systems in the democratic world – a system that plainly doesn’t work. A system that has resulted in too few houses, which are too small, which people do not like and which are in ...

Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural ...

Learn about Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this collectible guide perfect for every fan, new and old!Get to know Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and all their friends in this ultimate guidebook to the Peanuts characters! Learn how Charlie Brown got his famous zigzag shirt, visit Lucy’s psychiatric booth for advice, meet Snoopy’s siblings, and more! Plus, see how the Peanuts characters changed over time and read quotes ...