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RHS Gardening for Mindfulness
Par Holly Farrell, The Royal Horticultural Society. 2017
Gardening, like mindfulness, is a way of finding a sense of calm in an otherwise chaotic world, a simpler existence,…
even if it is only for a few minutes. Both forge a connection to the world around us, to nature and wildlife, which can bring pleasure and peace. In this beautifully illustrated guide to gardening for mindfulness, horticulturalist and mindfulness practitioner Holly Farrell provides a blueprint for a more contemplative way to garden, including projects, meditations and inspiration.Projects for the mindful gardener, including growing something from seed, planting a tree and creating a mandala, put the theory of mindfulness into practice, while plant lists and design ideas aim to enhance mindfulness in the garden through the senses. Beautifully packaged and easy to follow, this is the perfect book for keen gardeners, devotees of mindfulness, or simply those looking for calm in a busy and hectic world.A Simple Table: Recipes & rituals for a life in balance
Par Chi-San Wan, Natali Stajcic. 2017
Grounded in the belief that 'less is more', A Simple Table is about a shared love for a natural, balanced…
and sustainable way of living, good food and drink, and the simple measures we can take to have a healthier body and mind. Chi and Natali's easy recipes are brimming with beautiful flavours, full of fresh, whole foods that provide energy for the challenges of modern life. Gently guiding you towards ingredients that nourish your body, nothing is 'forbidden'; rather their focus is on uncomplicated food and on helping you to make simple, nutritionally-engaged switches to your store cupboard, so that you can eat healthy, natural food and live well.A Simple Table will inspire readers to cook with the seasons, embrace local produce and cook from scratch. Whether you are coming home late from work and need a quick yet wholesome supper, planning a weekend brunch with friends, or want to get your day off to the best possible start with a breakfast that will nourish and sustain you through your morning, there is something here for every occasion. In addition to the recipes, the book offers rituals that instil calm within a busy daily routine; from natural beauty and tips for sleeping, to gentle movement, meditation and daily gratitude. The authors present a refreshing modern approach to everyday living, and their aspirational message and calming tone cannot fail to inspire readers to bring the same balance to their own lives.Amid the pressures and demands of modern life, A Simple Table will encourage us to stay grounded. Feed your body and soul with this stunning book and support and sustain the way you live and eat now.'I love these girls and their approach to food and life, I'd like to sit around their table everyday' Anna Jones, author of A Modern Way to CookThe English Roses: Climbing, English, Shrub, Hybrid Teas And Old Roses
Par David Austin. 2008
David Austin Roses is one of the world's leading rose nurseries. The English Roses developed there have brought the rose…
to a new level of beauty and strength; their ability to flower continually throughout the summer and autumn makes them one of the most durable garden flowers.In this revised and updated edition, David Austin describes how he combines the beauty and fragrance of the Old Roses with the repeat-flowering and wide colour range of the Modern Roses. David presents seven groups of classification for his roses and advises how to grow and maintain them.Featuring more than 20 new rose varieties, all with detailed descriptions and updated photography throughout, this third revised edition of The English Roses is an essential reference for all rose lovers and gardeners.Organic Gardener's Composting
By Steve Solomon.
Los que no
Par Álvaro Uribe. 2021
«Los que no es un libro excepcional tanto en la fecunda trayectoria del autor como en el panorama de la…
literatura mexicana. […] Uribe revisa su paso por el mundo y descubre que lo ocurrido es tan importante como lo que pudo ser.» Juan Villoro «Conviértete en quien eres» dice un verso de Píndaro. Nietzsche se apropió de la sentencia como lema personal. Pero: ¿y si quienes somos es Don Nadie o Don Fracaso Reiterado o Doña Nostalgia Eterna? Los que no narra la saga rota de una generación de personajes que no llegaron a la meta de sí mismos. Por el contrario, con el paso del tiempo se fueron alejando. Este grupo de amigos, o casi, se conocieron de jóvenes, en la secundaria; los unieron el gusto por la literatura y la música, los diversos ritos de iniciación propios de la edad -el alcohol, las drogas, el sexo- y la admiración por un maestro que sería su guía, entre otras cosas, en extraviarse para siempre. El narrador de este libro, que se funde y confunde con el autor, también forma parte de esa constelación accidentada, cuyos miembros están vinculados por hilos invisibles de cariño, envidia y enfermedad. Magistral combinación de memorias y novela de formación, Los que no nos recuerda que el gremio de los que no cumplieron la promesa que llevaban dentro es mayoría absoluta en este mundo. La crítica ha dicho: «Los que no es un libro excepcional tanto en la fecunda trayectoria del autor como en el panorama de la literatura mexicana. Álvaro Uribe revela la misteriosa proximidad entre la vida y la escritura: la forma en que los hechos se convierten en historias. Novela múltiple, Los que no se alimenta de experiencias, pero también de posibilidades. Uribe revisa su paso por el mundo y descubre que lo ocurrido es tan importante como lo que pudo ser. Es testigo de la realidad, pero también de su principal fantasma: la imaginación.» Juan Villoro «Es, por mucho, nuestro estilista más fino y, también, nuestro mejor escritor en activo.» Rafael Lemus «Un escritor que conoce como pocos en qué consiste la verdad novelesca.» Christopher Domínguez Michael «No cabe duda: Álvaro Uribe es el poseedor de la palabra y de la linterna que la alumbra, y es el demiurgo que creó a los dioses que imaginan a los hombres.» Roberto PliegoOur Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
Par Jose Saramago, Juana Ponce De Leon, Subcomandante Marcos, Ana Carrigan. 2001
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked…
Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico." Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves "Zapatistas" revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas. In the six years that have passed since their uprising, Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion, and democracy. The prolific stream of poetic political writings, tales, and traditional myths that Marcos has penned since January 1, 1994 fill more than four volumes. Our Word Is Our Weapon presents the best of these writings, many of which have never been published before in English.Throughout this remarkable book we hear the uncompromising voice of indigenous communities living in resistance, expressing through manifestos and myths the universal human urge for dignity, democracy, and liberation. It is the voice of a people refusing to be forgotten the voice of Mexico in transition, the voice of a people struggling for democracy by using their word as their only weapon.Nonconformity: Writing on Writing
Par Nelson Algren. 1996
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one…
of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery." Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: "Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder." And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: "Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards . . . [where there] are still . . . defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope." In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer's relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy's heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra: Escritos Selectos
Par Jose Saramago, Juana Ponce De Leon, Subcomandante Marcos, Ana Carrigan. 2001
En este libro fundamental, Seven Stories Press presenta una poderosa colección de escritos literarios, filosóficos y políticos del enigmático vocero…
de los zapatistas, SubComandante Marcos. Con la Introducción del ganador del Premio Nobel, José Saramago, e ilustrado con bellas fotos en blanco y negro, Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra cristaliza, la pasión de un rebelde, la poesía de un movimiento y el genio literario de los indígenas de México. Marcos captura por primera vez la atención mundial el primero de enero de 1994 cuando un grupo guerrillero indígena que se llama a sí mismo "Zapatista", en rebelión contra el gobierno de México, se apodera de poblaciones claves en Chiapas, el Estado más al sur del país. En los ocho años que han pasado desde esa rebelión, Marcos ha alterado el curso de la política mexicana y ha surgido como un símbolo internacional de la construcción de los movimientos de base, rebelión y democracia. Su prolífico torrente de escritos de poesía política, cuentos, mitos tradicionales que Marcos ha recogido desde el primero de enero de 1994, llena más de cuatro volúmenes. Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra presenta lo mejor de sus escritos, muchos de los cuales no habían sido publicado antes en inglés. Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra está dividido en tres secciones. La primera junta sus ensayos políticos esenciales y muestra la evolución del pensamiento zapatista como un movimiento tanto dentro, como fuera de México. La segunda, presenta el pensamiento filosófico de Marcos, sus reflexiones personales e incluye una recolección humorística de sus primeros días de guerrillero, así como sus cartas a otros escritores. En la tercera aparecen muchas historias cortas, cuentos populares, y mitos indígenas que Marcos ha conocido, incluída la premiada "Historia de los Colores". A través de este libro extraordinario oimos la voz no comprometida de las comunidades indígenas que viven en resistencia, expresando por medio de manifiestos y mitos el apremio universal de dignidad, democracia y libertad. Es la voz de un pueblo que rehusa ser olvidado, es la voz la transición de México, la voz de un pueblo luchando por la democracia, usando sus palabras como su única arma.New Good Food Pocket Guide, rev: Shopper's Pocket Guide to Organic, Sustainable, and Seasonal Whole Foods
Par Margaret M. Wittenberg. 2008
This convenient pocket guide packs the knowledgeable information of the original whole foods bible into a concise, easy-to-carry format. Focusing…
mainly on core food products available at large-scale supermarkets and natural foods stores, easy-reference entries help shoppers navigate their many options when choosing organic, whole, local, and sustainably and ethically produced foods. An updated pocket-size edition of the definitive guide to buying, storing, and preparing whole foods. Handy charts and tables summarize what's in season when. Organic food sales totaled nearly $17 billion in 2006, up 22 percent from the previous year, in the U.S. alone. From the Trade Paperback edition.Mother Reader: Essential Literature on Motherhood
Par Moyra Davey. 2001
The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the…
child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.Many of the writers articulate difficult and socially unsanctioned maternal anger and ambivalence. In Mother Reader, motherhood is scrutinized for all its painful and illuminating subtleties, and addressed with unconventional wisdom and candor. What emerges is a sense of a community of writers speaking to and about each other out of a common experience, and a compilation of extraordinary literature never before assembled in a single volume.Not Under Forty: Large Print
Par Willa Cather. 1936
For Willa Cather, "the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts. " The whole legacy of Western civilization stood…
on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that. To that she directed readers of these essays, declaring that anyone under forty years old would not be interested in them. But she was wrong: since its first publication in 1936, "Not Under Forty" has appealed to readers of all ages who share Cather's concern for excellence, for what endures, in literature and in life.Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco-conscious Life
Par Louisa Shafia. 2009
Green Your Cuisine with Earth-Friendly Food Choices. With organic and seasonal cooking principles becoming ingrained in today's kitchens, and new…
buzzwords including locavore and CSA steadily gaining traction, how do we integrate food politics into daily life in ways that are convenient, affordable, and delicious? Lucid Food offers more than eighty-five healthy, eco-oriented recipes based on conscientious yet practical environmental ideals. Sustainable chef and caterer Louisa Shafia demystifies contemporary food issues for the home cook and presents simple, seasonal dishes that follow nature's cycles, such as Baby Artichokes with Fresh Chervil, Apricot Shortcake with Lavender Whipped Cream, and Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Soup. Her empowering advice includes how to source animal products ethically and responsibly, support local food growers, and reduce one's carbon footprint through urban gardening, preserving, composting, and more. This cookbook celebrates the pleasures of savoring home-prepared meals that are healthful, honest, pure, additive-free, and transparently made, from the source to the table.Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations, 1980-2004
Par Ariel Dorfman, Tom Engelhardt. 2004
"Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin…
Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup in which the U.S. government was complicit. "Beware the plague of victimhood, America ... Nothing is more dangerous than a giant who is afraid." Included in Other Septembers, Many Americas are major essays about the America south of the border, exploring the ambiguous relationship between power and literature and touching on topics as diverse as bilingualism, barbarians, and video games. In the essay "A Different Drum," Dorfman asks, "Isn't it time, as war approaches yet again, to tell each other stories of peace over and over again?" Over and over in these jewel-like essays, his best shorter work of the last quarter-century, Dorfman weaves together sentiment and politics with his sense of the larger historical questions, reminding Americans of our unique role in the world, so different from the one put forward by the current administration: the power to resist and to imagine.Newspaper Days: 1899-1906 (H.L. Mencken's Autobiography)
Par H. L. Mencken. 1941
Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.)
Par H. L. Mencken. 1956
In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at…
a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia only a little while before), suffered a stroke. He soon recovered his physical vigor, but writing was for him a thing of the past. Some months before his death, in going through some papers that he was putting in order for deposit in his beloved Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, his long-time secretary discovered these Notebooks. Mencken meant to publish them, as he makes clear in the preface, which also describes them better than I can. Suffice it to say that here is one more generous sampling of the old Mencken battling fearlessly for the freedom and dignity of the individual and for the general decencies of life and attacking all that seems fundamentally hostile to man: government, organized religion, professional philosophers, and pedagogues above all. It shows his restless and inquiring mind ranging over many of the problems that beset all of us who ever take time out to think, all in his unmatchable style, which, however much it crackles, has the supreme virtue--which Henry always found in his own great model, Thomas Henry Huxley--that of never leaving you in doubt of its meaning. Read the preface and note that this book is precisely what its title suggests; it consists of hundreds of notes--some only a few lines in length, some running to several pages, all reflecting a rigorous and exhilarating mind and personality. It may be a long time before another like him crosses our path.Lawn Gone!: Low-Maintenance, Sustainable, Attractive Alternatives for Your Yard
Par Pam Penick. 2013
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving…
options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner.Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.Love & War in Afghanistan
Par Alex Klaits, Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits. 2005
Love and War in Afghanistan presents true stories of fourteen ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan. In a…
quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. The country remains an object of fascination for journalists, academics, and filmmakers from around the world. In the midst of it all it is a startlingly powerful experience to discover, here, the voices of the Afghan people themselves. Young lovers who elope against the wishes of their kin; a mullah whose wit is his only defense against his armed captors; a defector from the Soviet army; a woman who is forced to stand up to gangsters in Tajikistan--their dramatic stories emerge in their own unforgettable words. Whether in the sudden awakening of mercy in a Taliban militiaman, the lingering contempt of a woman for her husband's first wife, the pain and confusion of flight into exile, or the resourcefulness of a child who must provide for an entire family, the real focus of these narratives is the strength of solitary individuals faced daily with their own vulnerability. Men, women, orphans, widows, widowers, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Turkmens, schoolteachers, mullahs, former Taliban, mujahideen, big brothers, little sisters, captive wives, lovers in flight: Love and War in Afghanistan tells their stories, putting human faces onto a country torn by war.The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L'Engle
Par Luci Shaw. 1998
In honor of Madeleine L'Engle's 80th birthday, a host of prominent writers and academics gather to create this unique collection.…
Madeleine's circle of friends and peers (writers, poets, scholars, theologians) here provide an intimate portrait of L'Engle and respond to her writings and mentoring influence.Ranging from the personal to the academic, these essays illuminate the many worlds of Madeleine's writings: the private, the reflective, the theological, the scientific, the mythic, and the literary.From the Trade Paperback edition.Portraits and Prayers
Par Gertrude Stein. 1934
Portraits and Prayers is a collection of early essays and word portraits by the American writer Gertrude Stein. Her subjects…
often provide a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons.The Food-Lover's Garden
Par Angelo M. Pellegrini. 1970