Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing severance of man from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.

A portrait of human devastation in the wake of the Bosnian Wars, "Like Eating a Stone" is a collection of heartbreaking stories as told by the survivors searching for family members and their remains. Illustrations throughout.

Seeking an antidote to widespread anxiety over food ethics, cultural obesity and more, Rachel Stone calls us to reclaim the joy of eating with gratitude. As we learn to see our daily bread as a gift from above, we find our highest religious and cultural ideals (from the sacramental life to sustainable living) taking shape on a common tabletop....

A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture - the preparation of meals and the production of space.

* The health guide that no family should be missing * Now even more up-to-date: the revised and commented edition * 40 colour pictures and line drawings, headband The Nature Doctor - proven a million times The valuable advice of "The Nature Doctor", first published in 1952, has proven its worth a million of times over the decades and is convincing thanks to its simple language that can be understood by everyone. Now the classic work of naturopathy is available in the new, 74th edition: updated, beautifully designed, with over 140 comments. The successful 860-page book "The Nature Doctor" is considered one of the standard works of modern naturopathy. It was first published in 1952 and has since been translated into 12 languages and more than two million copies were sold. Revised and commented edition. The Nature Doctor - for the whole family, for every medicine chest From A like abdominal disorder to Z like zinc - "The Nature Doctor" is a comprehensive compendium and a colourful summary of valuable experience in Swiss natural and folk medicine. In the first 400 pages of his classic Alfred Vogel deals with specific health issues for healthy and sick days. Which plant helps with which complaints? Which nutrition supports which organ best? From head to toe, the book contains a wealth of tips and advice on how which health problem can be treated naturally. Furthermore, the book is dedicated to specific plants, naturopathic methods, diets and cures. The focus is on the following: * Plant portraits * Wild fruits * A small selection from the world of homeopathy * Some substances of biochemistry * Seasonings * Different cures and their application * Nutritional topics

My name is Li Mu, and I'm a Yin Painter. When I was eighteen, I received the first person who came to draw a Yin. She was a beautiful young woman at the prime of her youth, and originally, I thought that my first Yin Painting was so perfect. [

For foodies, wordsmiths, and anyone who loves to eat, an illustrated guide to authentic American fare, from the beloved Roadfood team In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. In The Lexicon of Real American Food, renowned foodies Jane and Michael Stern record the lingo of American food as it is spoken—and enjoyed—across the nation. With their signature wit and exuberance, they define how America really eats—to the delight of food lovers and word aficionados everywhere. Fun to read and easy to browse, with spot illustrations and select recipes, this book will also become a valuable reference to document regional specialties and signature American fare. Since the first edition in their Roadfood series in 1978, the Sterns have reported on more than 100,000 meals at America’s tables and cafe counters alongside people of every stripe; and in doing so they have gained an unequalled sense of real American food. Thus, the food described in these pages is democratic, not elitist—from hoppel-poppel to puffy tacos, The Sterns see the nation’s diet like its language: endlessly, endearingly exuberant. Their Lexicon of Real American Food inspires a new and joyful appreciation of our country’s irrepressible foodways.

As aging atheist and semi-retired geologist Frank Stone becomes depressed over the possibility that his exciting career of studying volcanoes is rapidly coming to an end, the opportunity to pursue one last project unexpectedly enters his university office. The bearer of this welcome news is Richard Stewart, the universitys seismologist. Stewart is a staunch Mormon, married and with several children. Stone is childless by choice, and is married to a lovely and widely published author of travel adventures. In spite of their fundamentally opposed views of the roles of science versus faith in lifes journey, the two professors join forces to correctly forecast and then monitor an eruption that feeds lava into the Grand Canyon, and thereby dams the Colorado River. Follow this fiery rocky tale as professional collaboration eventually leads to personal bonding. And learn the history of a score of real lava-flow dams that have clogged the Grand Canyon mere moments ago, in geologic time.

Applause! Applause! And wasn't it easy! Even non-musical teachers will love using this simple musical play. Children will bring stories to life through drama, music, art, language, and gross motor activities. Each book contains a CD (print books) or audio files (eBooks) and a resource guide loaded with songs, music, and step-by-step directions for classroom use or performance. The CD and audio files contain both songs with lyrics, and piano accompaniment only. This play is loaded with wonderful music and catchy lyrics that children will want to sing again and again!

Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage vegetarianism and most Buddhists do not practice it. Using research based on ethnographic evidence and interviews, this book discusses this issue by presenting an investigation of vegetarianism and animal ethics within a Buddhist cultural domain. Focusing on Sri Lanka, a place of great historical significance to Buddhism, the book looks at how lay Buddhists and the clergy came to understand the role of vegetarianism and animal ethics in Buddhism. It analyses whether the Buddha preached a view that encouraged vegetarianism, and how this squares with his pacifism towards animals. The book goes on to question how Buddhist food practices intersect with other secular activities such as traditional medicine, as well as discussing the wider implications of Buddhist animal pacifism including vegetarian political movements and animal rights groups. Shedding light on a subject that, until now, has only been tangentially treated by scholars, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to those working in the fields of Buddhist Studies, Religion and Philosophy, as well as South Asian Studies.