Align with the natural cycles of the earth as you explore the 13 essential plants every green witch must know and have in their garden and cupboard for healing, spellwork, and divination.Plants are a sacred offering from Mother Earth. And witches have always known and understood their healing and magickal powers. Plants hold sustenance, medicine, and wisdom. They gift us with the essentials we need to live and thrive. In return, they ask to be used for the highest ...

S.A. Stitz's, Allyson is a fictionalized biography of true events. She is an extraordinary woman and he an unusually gifted man whose story of love, passion and their mystical union far exceeds any other. Sonny Schorr was born with a gift that enables him to experience every sensory feeling and thought to occur in the women with whom he has a physical and mental relationship with. His intimacies with these women empower them to reach spiritual levels of clarity, powerful climatic heights, ...

Why do students feel that mastering academic English is difficult?Is it really so different from other types of English? The authors present academic English as a particular type of English that is not necessarily better, fancier, or harder; rather, it is simply a different kind of English that is usually learned in scholastic settings after general English has been acquired. This easy-to-follow guide shows how learning academic language can be achieved by developi...

Do you think that the qualities of good writing are culture specific or universal?This reflective question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press’s best-selling Teaching Writing, which explores different approaches to teaching writing in second language classrooms. This volume contains a new chapter, Designing Writing Assignments. New references and updated research, as well as lesson plans for teachers at...

Gravel Rides Edinburgh, Fife & the Lothians showcases 15 of the best gravel bike rides around Scotland's capital city and beyond. Covering East, West and Midlothian and crossing the Firth of Forth into the Kingdom of Fife, the rides range from 17 to 89 kilometres, plus a challenging 244-kilometre bonus route.Explore charming fishing villages and the industrial heritage of the Fife coast, follow the 1722 Waggonway – Scotland's oldest railway – in East Lothian, or venture in...

Align with the natural cycles of the earth as you explore the 13 essential plants every green witch must know and have in their garden and cupboard for healing, spellwork, and divination.Plants are a sacred offering from Mother Earth. And witches have always known and understood their healing and magickal powers. Plants hold sustenance, medicine, and wisdom. They gift us with the essentials we need to live and thrive. In return, they ask to be used for the highest ...

Reframing traditional conceptions of ecologyEcologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed separation of the human and nonhuman, human dominance over place, and the concept of progress measured in strictly econ...

The title story, "Ilka on the Hill-Top," revolves around the character Ilka, a young woman who finds solace and peace in nature, particularly on a hilltop overlooking a picturesque landscape. Through Ilka's experiences and reflections, the story delves into themes of introspection, the human connection with the natural world, and the search for inner tranquility.Boyesen's other stories within the collection encompass a range of themes and characters, offering glimpses into human emotions, ...

Curriculum design does not have one best approach.It evolves over time and is shaped by student needs, collaborative input, and past experiences. A well-designed curriculum directly impacts how a teacher teaches and a student learns. Learn the basics of this fundamental skill and walk through the essential steps to take when designing curriculum: needs analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation. Ilka Kostka and Lucy Bunning offer reflective questions and reco...

Icc presents a collection of narratives that explore the interplay between aspiration, simplicity, and the contrasting values of rural and urban life. The work reflects on how ambition shapes perception, particularly when individuals from more structured, material driven environments encounter communities rooted in tradition and natural rhythm. Through its stories, it highlights the tension between artistic ambition and genuine expression, suggesting that true beauty often emerges from aut...

Capturing The Moments Of A Contemplative Life though lacking meter, rhyme, and any preestablished harmony of formal methods we do find in the eroticism of moments extremely passionate expression between lovers, man and nature, and passing friends. Throughout, whether he writes of love, sex, or everyday life we find a sense of longing.The author's ability to capture purely lyrical impulses and voices then allowing them to grow in their own original directions as lyrical expression p...

Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider the...