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Savor: mindful eating, mindful life
Par Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung, Nhất Hạnh. 2010
Zen Buddhist master Nhat Hanh and Harvard nutritionist Cheung offer a diet and meditation guide that encourages one to obtain…
a healthy weight. Describe a ten-week plan for gradual changes using the concept of mindfulness. 2010You are here: discovering the magic of the present moment
Par Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn, Nhất Hạnh. 2009
Zen Buddhist monk, author of The Art of Power (DB 66111), asserts that mindfulness--fully experiencing the here and now--can transform…
our lives. Offers meditation practices that he says cultivate awareness, heal emotional pain, and lead to happiness and peace. Originally published in French. 2009Writing down the bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala library)
Par Natalie Goldberg. 2010
Author, lecturer, and Zen practitioner encourages people to use writing to comprehend the value of their lives. Offers suggestions for…
creating a mindset and selecting locations that are conducive to writing. Discusses necessary materials and covers points of grammar. Expanded edition of 1986 publication. 2005Journey to the Ice Age: discovering an ancient world
Par Peter L. Storck. 2004
Archaeologist's autobiographical account of fieldwork in Ontario that revealed early human settlements near the Great Lakes. Senior curator of the…
Royal Ontario Museum discusses his thirty-year career, including his study of stone-knapping techniques and painstaking work uncovering and correlating artifacts, and describes the challenges Paleo-Indians faced 11,500 years ago. 2004Every bone tells a story: Hominin discoveries, deductions, and debates
Par Jill Rubalcaba, Peter Robertshaw. 2010
Discusses the scientific knowledge derived from four human ancestors: Africa's Turkana Boy, Portugal's Lapedo Child, Washington state's Kennewick Man, and…
an Italian glacier's Iceman. Covers these fossil skeleton discoveries and examines both deductions based on advanced laboratory-technology findings and ongoing archaeological debates. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2010American archeology uncovers the Dutch colonies (American archaeology)
Par Lois Miner Huey. 2010
Discusses archaeological finds at sites in New York and Delaware colonized by the Dutch between 1609 and 1664. Explains what…
scientists have learned from the garbage of ordinary settlers who lived in forts, towns, and farms. For grades 4-7. 2010If stones could speak: unlocking the secrets of Stonehenge
Par Marc Aronson, National Geographic Kids. 2010
Traces the history of archaeological excavation at 4,500-year-old Stonehenge in England. Discusses a Madagascar scientist's belief that the circle of…
stones was a memorial to the dead, rather than a temple, and British archaeologists' subsequent work to substantiate that opinion. For grades 5-8. 2010The lost tombs of Thebes: life in paradise
Par Zahi Hawass, Zahi A Hawass, Sandro Vannini. 2009
Egyptologist examines noblemen's tombs--including advisers to the pharaohs, an army commander, an architect, and palace officials--from the New Kingdom (approximately…
1550 to 1100 BCE). Discusses the excavation of these newly discovered tombs and details of daily existence and religious beliefs derived from their murals. 2009Las profecías mayas (Best seller (Debolsillo (Firm)))
Par Maurice Cotterell, Gilbert Cotterell. 2010
An author and a scientist explore the Mesoamerican civilization of the Maya. They analyze Mayan history, cosmology, and astronomy, with…
an emphasis on concepts of time and the predictions that the world will end in 2012. Translated from English. Spanish language. 2009Before Columbus: the Americas of 1491
Par Charles C. Mann. 2009
Portrays Native American societies in North, Central, and South America--their governments, agriculture, trade, and engineering feats. Discusses the age of…
the "New World," the military success of Europeans against larger armies, and whether the Americas were really a wilderness. Based on 1491 (DB 61198). For grades 5-8. 2009Boy on the lion throne: the childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama
Par Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Thomas J. Csordas. 2009
Follows the early years of Lhamo Thondup (born 1935), who was recognized as the fourteenth Dalai Lama at age two.…
Discusses his transition from simple mountain boy to spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Explains the politics and events that led to his exile. For grades 4-7. 2008Three stones make a wall: the story of archaeology
Par Eric H. Cline, Glynnis Fawkes. 2017
Eric Cline is an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience. Though archaeology began as an amateur pursuit,…
over the last century, it has become a cutting-edge science. In his newest book, Cline shares stories of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries, as well as addressing the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? And Who gets to keep what is found?Texas Gulf Coast stories (American chronicles : a History Press series)
Par C. Herndon Williams. 2010
The middle Texas coast, known locally as the Coastal Bend, is an area filled with fascinating stories. From as early…
as the days of Cabeza de Vaca and La Salle, the Coastal Bend has been a site of early exploration, bloody conflicts, legendary shipwrecks and even a buried treasure or two. However, much of the true history has remained unknown, misunderstood and even hidden. For years, local historian C. Herndon Williams has shared his fascinating discoveries of the area's early stories through his weekly column, "Coastal Bend Chronicle". Now he has selected some of his favorites in Texas Gulf Coast Stories. Join Williams as he explores the days of early settlement and European contact, Karankawa and Tonkawa legends and the Coastal Bend's tallest of tall talesFrom the marbled halls of the Library of Congress to the depths of Fort Knox, the secret wartime journey, in…
1941, of America's priceless founding documents, including original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address, is expertly toldInterconnected: embracing life in Our Global Society
Par Ogyen Trinley Karmapa, O-rgyan-ʼphrin-las-rdo-rje. 2017
Plucked from a humble nomad family to become the leader of one of Tibet's oldest Buddist lineages, the young Seventeenth…
Karmapa draws on timeless values to create an urgent ethic for today's global community. The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, draws on years of intensive Buddist training and a passionate commitment to social issues to teach us how we can move from a merely intellectual understanding to a fully lived experience of connection to become more effective agents of social and ethical changeThe life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (Arkana Books)
Par Anonymous, Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka. 1992
The beloved story of the Tibetan people and one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all…
world literature. This biography, a true folk tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels: a personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, a profoundly detailed guide book in the search for consciousness. It presents the quest for spiritual perfection, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint. But it is also a powerful and graphic folk tale, full of magic, disaster, feuds, deceptions, and humorAn introduction to the study of Southwestern archaeology (The Lamar Series in Western History Ser.)
Par Alfred Vincent Kidder, Douglas W. Schwartz. 2000
Kidder's study, a classic of New World archaeology, remains unsurpassed as a summary of Pueblo archaeology. It provides an excellent…
guide to historic and prehistoric sites of the Southwest, as they were known at the time, as well as a preliminary account of Kidder's excavation at Pecos. Kidder was pioneering in approaches to the study of potteryHow to practice: the way to a meaningful life
Par Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins, Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho. 2002
How to Practice offers the Dalai Lama's own sage and practical insight in a constant and daily companion in the…
quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom toward one common desire: the need for happiness and a meaningful life. UnratedTurning the mind into an ally
Par Sakyong Mipham. 2004
Riddle of the bones: politics, science, race, and the story of Kennewick Man
Par Roger Downey. 2000
The discovery of Kennewick Man, who was buried on the banks of the Columbia River over 9,000 years ago, set…
off a free for all that lasted for years. Disputes arose among scientists, Native Americans, and the federal government with bruising results