In five distinct but interrelated arenas of our lives -- the spiritual, the external (i.e., our broader communities), the relational, the internal (i.e., the personal), and the financial -- we feel overworked yet unclear about our purpose.In F.I.R.E.S., Fortune 500 veteran Daniel Purdy takes readers on a step-by-step journey to personal transformation, professional growth, and multi-faceted success through harnessing life's fires. The F.I.R.E.S. system leverages the best planning p...

A wonderfully immersive collection of short stories describing the otherworldly beauty of Norway's arctic fjords and villages seasoned with the comedy of an inexperienced group of international volunteers trying to run a remote island hotel.The shockingly turquoise, almost tropical, water of the Norwegian Sea provides the background to these stories as they crash into the dark and foreboding mountains that form Norway's famously rugged fjords. There, nestled on the...

Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of political identity and Europe’s own burgeoning global power.China in the German Enlightenment considers the place of German philosophy, particularly the work of Leibniz, Goethe, Her...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A BARNES & NOBLE BOOK CLUB PICK • A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) author of Peace Like a River Leif Enger.“A rare, remarkable book to be kept and reread—for its beauty of language, its gentle wisdom and its steady, unflagging hope.” — Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star TribuneA storyteller “of grea...

Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challenge-crossing the Pacific Ocean. Leaving from Lima, Peru, and traveling 4,400 miles in seventy-three days, Fontenoy landed in Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, becoming the first woman to complete what is known as the Kon-Tiki” route. Alone at sea for days and nights on end, Fontenoy’s story relates the ups and downs of her time at sea, from circling sharks to the celebr...

Falconry, the art and sport of hunting with raptors, is actually the oldest field sport known to mankind. Such sport requires dedication and patience, but getting into this activity also means that you need to have special equipment and other necessary items to ensure safe and effective training of your bird. Falconry Gear Guide provides you with complete information from the equipment a falconer must have such as Mews, Hood, Bell, Bewit, Anklets, Leashes, and Perches to proper caring such...

In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think twice about taking that long-awaited cruise, going for a midnight swim, or taking your next sh...

Thus begins the tale by Stephen Bodio, a lover of birds and nature, of the incredible connection between man and birds of prey. Falconry can be traced back over four thousand years and, as Bodio says, it is amazing that the practice did not die out soon afterward when its first adherents starved.”With a new introduction by Helen MacDonald, A Rage For Falcons not only shares the history of falconry, but shows the personal side in a way only Bodio can share. With masterful ...

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predatorsOver the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elus...

Two by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge.Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what they need...

“Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wide russet bowl of hips splaying open. From these sere flanks, her desiccating body, what a sea change is born.” From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Jenna Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts of climate change on north...

Five tales of romance and boats collected together on a voyage of love, travel, andadventure in a world afloat.Solo Crossing - sailing away from it all can chart a fresh course through the pastReturn Passage - setting a course for home leads to a new futureNarrowboat Goddess - love on the English canalsCarved from Sand - when sand sculpture and sailboat racing collideSanta and the Pirate Queen