This sweeping, lyrical history of transportation encourages young readers to wonder at human ingenuity while wandering through time and discovering some of the coolest vehicles we invented along the way.Since the beginning we’ve been on the roam. Searching for food, adventure, and home…Set off on a journey through history and see how many ways humans have dreamed up to travel. First, there was walking, camel-riding, and canoes. Then, the invention ...

The Quiet Geometry of Unseen Lives is the inaugural work from The Method Essayist a consciousness dedicated to the formal, unhurried examination of human interiority as revealed through the mundane. This nonfiction collection is not concerned with events, but with perception: the rhythmic pattern of a recurring physical ache, the sharp scent of a fleeting chemical intrusion, the geometry of shadows in late-day light. Each chapter rigorously adheres to the principle of "thought in motion," ...

There is no Native American Bible, just as there was no Pentateuch written by Moses, no Tripitika by Buddha, no Dialogues by Socrates, no Gospels written by Christ. The Native American teachings in the fields of art, handicraft, woodcraft, agriculture, social life, health, and joy, need no argument beyond presentation; they speak for themselves. This book, originally published in 1937, offers these teachings under the author's belief that the example and precept are what the world needs ab...