Forest bathing is the art of spending intentional time in nature and is practiced throughout the world to increase health and restore well-being. More and more people are turning to forest bathing as an evidence-based way to unplug, relieve stress and anxiety, and spark creativity.Through simple invitations to slow down, walk in silence, cultivate tree energy, and connect with the sun and forest, this book enables you to incorporate the inspiring benefits of time s...

“This is poetry that goes for the jugular. Allen’s poetry is marked by its potent, dynamic syntax, and also by his storyteller’s sensibility. Skillfully crafted in their shifting perspectives, there is a great verve and sense of surprise in his lines. He has a fantastic ability to swoop int vivid detail while keeping the poem sweeping onwards. This is tough, sometimes brutal poetry, but still singing; a rich and rough music, just right for our times.” —Alan Gillis, Poet & Editor of The Edi...

Of Good Courage is an award-winning, powerful, sweeping story of Trong Van Cao, a man born into poverty in war-ravaged Vietnam. Bullied for his small stature and eventually left homeless, Trong faced unimaginable challenges. Yet a still small voice within him--a quiet, guiding hand of God--led him on a miraculous escape, alone in a boat on the South China Sea during Operation Frequent Wind. This whisper of grace would follow him throughout his life.After being sent to the ...

In February ’64, a new sound filled the airwaves. Four young Englishmen arrived on American shores. They were the British Wave's spearhead, sparking the most prolific and diverse era in music history before or since. Thinking all they needed were guitars, drums, and a few voices that could carry a tune, thousands of thirteen-year-olds jumped on the bandwagon as the fever spread like wildfire across America. It would be a time like no other. Who imagined that the price of passage into rock ...

Total College Success provides the information you need to make a sound judgment on selecting and pursuing a degree program. Unlike other books that give you a cookie-cutter, "one size fits all" approach to these subjects, the approach of this book is to educate you about the various aspects of choosing a college major, selecting a school, financing your education, and planning and pursuing your education. You will be able to effectively research schools, ask the right questions, develop y...

Sauces Reconsidered: Après Escoffier replaces the traditional French hierarchy of sauces with a modern version based on the sauces’ physical properties. While itis not a traditional cookbook, it does include many recipes. Cooks need not slavishly follow them, however, as the recipes illustrate their underlying functions, helping cooks to successfully create their own sauces based on their newfound understanding of sauces’ intrinsic properties. Gary Allen explores what makes a sauce the typ...

Growing-up as a teenager, on a large, working-class estate in Northern Ireland immediately after ‘the troubles,’ brings out the best, and the worst, of the young (anti) heroes.

What do beer, cheese, yogurt, bacon, sauerkraut, miso and jam have in common? They are all preserved foods, and come from a culinary need as old as human civilization itself: the problem of alternating food scarcity and seasonal overabundance. Can It! celebrates the miracle of preservation, which has done so much to create the diversity of cuisines found around the world.Today our preserved foods are often frozen, refrigerated, pasteurized, irradiated, vacuum-packed or pum...

• We know from murals that the ancient Egyptians made sausages from the blood of sacrificial cattle• The word ‘sausage’ is derived from the Latin salsus, ‘salted’• The German Currywurst is so beloved that there is a museum dedicated to it in Berlin• The popular pizza topping pepperoni is not Italian at all, but an American invention• Mexican green chorizo is coloured with herbs, jalapeño chillies and tomatillos• The Chinese have made sausage...

The Resource Guide for Food Writers represents the first comprehensive listing of resources for food writers and culinary enthusiasts. A feast for all who love food, it is both a research tool for finding out facts about food and a guide to food writing. Author Gary Allen presents an impressive menu of relevant resources, ranging from specialty libraries and booksellers to periodicals, organizations, and web sites. Allen goes on to provide genuine guidance on how writers can utilize those ...

You can’t make pesto alla Genovese without basil or a Mojito without mint. You can use peppermint to settle an upset stomach, ease arthritis pain with stinging nettles, and heal burns and wounds with aloe vera. And then there is cannabis, perhaps the most notorious herb of all. Despite the fact that herbs are often little more than weeds, cultures around the globe have found hundreds of uses for them, employing them in everything from ancient medicines to savoury dishes. While muc...

This book is a primer for anyone who wishes to understand the basic workings of the global network of Insiders that is determined to wield power over all of mankind in the coming New World Order. The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. This book may have the effect of changing your life. After reading this book, you will never look at national and world events in the same way again. None Dare Call It Conspiracy will be a very controve...