Are you tired of the "get rich quick" schemes and the constant anxiety of the stock market? The Mindful Investor offers a refreshing alternative. By combining proven financial strategies with the principles of mindfulness, this book helps you build wealth that doesn't just grow your bank account—it enriches your life.Inside, you'll discover how to:Align your investments with your core values.Eliminate the emotional stress of investing.Crea...

Here are poems with music matched to matter, so that reading them often involves both swoon and startle: “When it folds open, the rule-less rile / of sky,” Evans, writes, “the comets and giants. And also: / books, chamomile, and more kissing.” Panoramic in time and space, Lives knows each of us, our ordinary lives and our occupancy within history and the universe, our yearning for connection: “And if I turned to you now, my one wet muscle run dry, would you / turn to me? And what ...

An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. It is designed to serve as an important source for environmental scientists and decision-makers in industry, governmental and regulatory bodies. Volume 3, Part E of this series is dedicated to organometallic compounds, aluminium and to chemicals used in the rubber industry.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book ReviewPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture w...

Essays by a Whiting Award winner: "Like a descendant of Lewis Carroll and Emily Dickinson . . . one of the most exciting and original writers in America." —Yiyun Li, author of Must I GoThings That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far-flung celestial bodies—considering the similarity of gods to do...

This book will show you what to do if you are lost in the wilderness, or stuck in the snow, it includes advice on wild animal encounters, also covered is home defense, and urban disaster preparedness. it goes well with my other book, karate secrets revealed, for a higher level of preparedness. the life you save, could be your own.

What exactly is the difference between a love letter and a suicide note? Is there really any difference at all? These might be the questions posed by Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlin R. Kiernan's fourteenth collection of short fiction, comprised of twenty-eight uncollected and impossible-to-find stories.Treading the grim places where desire and destruction, longing and horror intersect, the author rises once again to meet the high expectations she set with such celebrated ...

In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler presents these poems in a fugal form, uniting the individual works in what he describes as a “holis...

"The closest thing to a sincerely new brand of poetry to come along in quite some time" from the National Book Award finalist ( Pedestal Magazine).The poems in Sarah Lindsay's debut, Primate Behavior, have been hailed as "dark-edged . . . with a buoying sense of respect—for the different, the unexpected and the challenging" ( Publishers Weekly). Her new collection, Mount Clutter, is the product of an immensely original and exhila...

How to Harvest Cedar Bark from Windfall and Salvage for Basketry is a how to guide written in a simple way to help the average novice learn how and where to collect materials which will be used later to make beautiful and sturdy cedar baskets. This book is filled with bold self explanatory pictures as well as a step-by-step easy to follow explanation of each stage of the process of gathering cedar bark from already downed cedar trees.

A gorgeous new take on Aesop's Fables with stories from around the world masterfully illustrated by an award-winning print-maker.The world is connected, and so are our stories. In this picture book, stunningly illustrated with Holly Berry's hand-carved wood cuts, we're introduced to short versions of Aesop's Fables as they're told in various corners of the globe.The stories included are:The Heron (USA, New England marsh)The Lion and the Mouse ...

D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9/11–a metaphorical “burnt island,” where diggers doze on their shovels, citizens contribute bottles of water, M&M’s, and casseroles to recovery ef...