Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an alternative consideration of the ‘thingness’ of maps.Rather than asking how maps map onto reality, it explores the possibilities of a speculative-realist map theory by bringing ca...

An honest autobiography of a courageous woman and social worker, who took an interest in the unpopular cause of helping incarcerated Jewish men re-enter society and made it her lifes passion. From that passion was born Beit TShuvah, a once tiny halfway house that has grown exponentially into a renowned treatment organization. Her voyage is remarkable and an inspiration to all people. This is the personal story of the obstacles she surmounted and the successes she encountered. This book als...

A major new Jewish contribution to 12-Step spirituality.Claim the spiritual freedom that waits beyond the suffering and slavery of addiction."One of the important similarities between AA and Jewish spirituality is the statement in Step 12, 'to practice these principles in all our affairs....' There is no dichotomy of sacred versus secular. Jewish spirituality applies to how we eat, sleep, work, socialize and recreate. There is nothing that is external to the...

In this enticing follow-up to their first book, Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift, host and producer of The Splendid Table public radio show, celebrate Saturday and Sunday—those two days of the week when the pressure is off, time becomes your ally, and you get to slow down and dig into cooking in a different way.In The Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends featuring 100 recipes, Lynne and Sally take you on escapades for a deeply pleasurable experience. They wan...

Lynne Rossetto Kasper invites you into her kitchen with the second issue of her new quarterly e-book, Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper: Weekend Menus and Work Night Encores. This latest issue is The Big Summer Party, a weekend menu that can break out any way you'd like — from a blow-out Sunday gathering on the deck to a collection of fast and simple work-night suppers of one or two dishes each.To Lynne, recipes are akin to the fingers of your hand; they can stand on th...

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of public radio’s The Splendid Table®, invites you into her kitchen with the third installment of her e-book series, Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper. This latest issue, Italian Holidays, is a full-fledged Italian-inspired menu that can get you from Thanksgiving to the New Year. In Italian Holidays, Lynne explains the Italian way of eating (slowly and happily). It includes a collection of antipasti, pasta, thre...

Lynne Rossetto Kasper invites you into her kitchen with this first issue of her new quarterly e-book, Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper: Weekend Menus and Work Night Encores. Lynne is the guru of all things food to the listeners worldwide of her award-winning public radio show, The Splendid Table® from American Public Media. Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a combination in-depth cooking lesson and diary of a curious and highly opinionated eate...

A groundbreaking exploration of the Ascendant, where astrology, psychology, and art come together to reveal the language of the self.The Ascendant is not just a point in your birth chart, it’s the way your soul takes form. It reveals how you meet the world, how your inner essence takes shape, and how life itself moves through you. Understanding your Ascendant means rediscovering the path between who you are and who you are becoming, the bridge between your inner sk...

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, author of The Splendid Table and host of PRI's award winning radio program of the same name, is a master at transporting her readers and listeners into the fascinating world of the Italian countryside. In Stories from The Italian Country Table, Lynne brings to life her adventures in rural Italy.Stories from The Italian Country Table illustrates how, in Italy, eating well and coming together around the table are inseparable from the ...

Li, her mother, and her brother journey from China to America to join their father in San Francisco. But they are detained at the Angel Island immigration center, where Chinese Americans are subject to harsh treatment and questioning. Will Li be able to answer the detailed questions about her former home, and why she wants to come to America? Or will she fail the tests and be deported?

The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts.With 42 chapters from leading scholars, this book provides an intellectual infrastructure to navigate core theories, critical concepts, phenomenologies and ecologies of mapping, while also providing insight...