There are hundreds of meditation books out there. Many written by monks, and some written by hippies and spiritual gurus. But how many of these books are written by an ordinary dude? Someone who is just like you: someone who has a day job, whose preferred outfit is jeans and a t-shirt, and enjoys knocking back a few beers on Friday night?I'm as ordinary as they come. The only difference...I've been meditating for over 13 years. And I want to show you how you can meditate too—in a s...

"[Continuity with Change] seeks to document and demonstrate that middle positions between Change and Continuity are possible and desirable." — Canadian Architect"[Continuity with Change] is well produced with a large number of good photographs, maps, and drawings … obviously designed for a wide audience of planners and others active in heritage conservation." — The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology"[Continuity with Change] deserves a spot in ...

Discover the calm, content dude inside youWith An Ordinary Dude’s Mindfulness Book Series.Not all mindful people are saints—you can be mindful and enjoy a beer. You can be mindful and sleep till noon. You can be mindful and watch football all day.Mindfulness doesn't remake your personality.But it does improve your relationships, health and ability to experience happiness, peace and joy.In my 16 years of meditation pra...

Dream of traveling the world?Imagine the freedom. The adventure.The new experiences that will forever change your life. But first...how do you get abroad?Backpack Abroad Now! can teach you how to plan your adventure, one step at a time, and save enough money for your dream trip—even if you’re making 9 bucks an hour working at Mcdonalds. I saved up for an epic 11-month backpacking journey, while earning less than $17,000 a year, and have bee...

Ordinary can be extraordinary.And habits can help you become your best YOU—the sexiest, healthiest, wealthiest YOU possible.No more failed diets.No more missed nights at the gym.No more feelings of disappointment and hopelessness.This fun, practical guide teaches you simple tactics to eat healthier, exercise weekly, quit smoking, save money, break a smartphone addiction, and rise above common habits dudes struggle wi...

Beer drinkin' dudes can be enlightened, too.While many enlightenment books suggest that a life of purity, angelic behavior, and a clean diet are required for inner peace—the truth isn’t so black and white.I was once like many seekers. On a spiritual quest to cast out my own feelings of emptiness and inadequacy. The big questions bothered me: Who am I? How can I find the inner peace I so desperately crave? What is the purpos...

Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial. The author looks to the future and suggests ways in which we can reorganize our lives and our cities. The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur to anyone who lived before 1800. Over the past 200 years there have been dramatic changes to o...

Canada is the second-largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and spanning six time zones. From coast to coast lie vast forests, breathtaking mountains, flat, open plains, and thousands of lakes and rivers. It is also the world's second-most sparsely populated country. The Canadian psyche is deeply influenced by the size of the territory and the extremes of its climate. Canada's short history, and its relatively peaceful development, affects the way t...

Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down sixteen of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy—past, present and future.No country is more blessed with fresh water than Canada. From the mouth of the Fraser River in BC, to the Bow in Alberta, the Red in Manitoba, the Gatineau, the Saint J...

It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the c...

An "easy-to-follow and comprehensive" step-by-step guide for US citizens who want to emigrate to Canada ( Publishers Weekly ).More and more Americans are thinking of moving to Canada to find a job, attend colleges and universities, peace of mind—even retirement—and whatever their motivations, they will have to navigate the Canadian immigration, citizenship, and naturalization processes.So whether you're thinking ab...

From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal occupancy, exploration and mapping by Europeans, exploitation by fur traders and Canadian lumbermen and American entrepreneurs, the rise of global mining giants, unionism, pollution...