Allows consumers make links between what they eat and the effect on the ecosystem and fishers globally. Stimulates dialogues among environmentalists, fishing industry, consumers.

Fishing for elephants explains the creative processes of art and life with a conversational, humorous, and informative voice. While it is geared towards artists, it is not a how to paint something to look like something book. It's a how to think for yourself, move forward, get out of your comfort zone, get out of your own way, define your voice, refine your voice, focus on those characteristics of creating that are authentic to you and try new directions kind of book for all levels. Designed to help you discover new artistic directions and open the neural pathways to creative problem-solving, Fishing for elephants is presented in two halves. The first contains everything you need to know about the process of creativity; what keeps you from it, what it is, how to use it and how to get unstuck. It's flipping all your light switches on kind of stuff. The truth is anyone can be more creative with just a few easy steps. The second half, VoiceFinding, is the first half put into action for artists who want to get to their core authentic self, or just want to push out a little. There are more than 150 examples and unconventional exercises designed to break this process into bite-sized chunks so your genius skill-set will expand exponentially. It's year-long class in a workbook format, with areas to answer creative challenges, set goals, write artist's statements, sketch out ideas, apply processes like free association, mind maps, reportage, mixed-media, and continuous line drawing in new and thought-challenging ways. Written by nationally recognized, award-winning artist and creative coach, Larry Moore.

Vibrantly imaginative and starkly honest, Closer takes the reader into realms that most of us are hesitant to traverse. Al shows us it is worth taking the journey into spiritual doubt, to face images of death and to bear the loss of our own bearings. His poetry carries us deeply into places where we can touch love along with her inescapable companions-- grief, gratitude, suffering and redemption. With his gifted capacity to bring meaning into paradox, Al gives us poetry that moves into darkness lightly and opens the way into the mysteries of the myriad losses and renewals we experience in this life. Amplified by the beautiful illustrations of John Francis, this poetry rises like a thin wind over an oceans ever shifting tides. Praise for Closer There is a line that I love in this collection: I cant turn blood into ink. That is exactly what Al does in his poems: he turns the blood he has shed and feels in his veins and translates it all into words, poems, ink; he turns the sea into ink, dreams into ink, children, grandchildren, hope, loss, mountains, grief, peonies, birds - all into ink and that is his art. Suzie Ryan Editor, Desert Call This is a collection of reflections on the most difficult journey the search for meaning in life for a sensitive human being- a journey looking for and being looked for. The beauty of language is picked with care and the love of a true poet moulding the poems into a thing of elegance and of haunting reverberations. There are yearnings, memories and glances into moments of deep pain and moments of pure beauty intermingling, even in the same sentence. These poems expose the deepest emotions and allow a glimpse into the soul. Margaret Scollan Spiritual Director, County Sligo, Ireland There is a beautiful use of language in these poems such that the words take on a power of their own an event, a punctuation, can change your life. There is a common thread here: a glimpse into the mystical, moving far away to find something close by and getting tragically lost or tantalisingly, nearly found. Liam Scollan Homeopathic Physician and Founder of Mentorprise These poems each stand as an individual personality in their own wisdom and strength. I would even describe one or two as Monoliths. I found I could not rush through them and indeed, had to put them down and let certain phrases just circulate and dialogue with my own experiences in this fractured world. Als work is very journeyed on a human level and he is a very articulate and personable travel guide as he maps out the terrain anecdotally and otherwise. The familiarity and honesty around human 'being' including its suffering and spiritual salvation strike at the 'deep heart's core' of me... Hard to define...not always easy or pleasant, definitely not...but always sure-footed, rich and finely tuned. Clare Lynch Author of Life Through the Long Window

In this combination of diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery, journalist Julia Hotz helps us discover lasting and life-changing medicine in our own communities. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?” Instead of solely pharmaceutical prescriptions, they offer ‘social prescriptions’—referrals to community activities and resources, like photography classes, gardening groups, and volunteering gigs. The results speak for themselves. Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. As health care’s de facto cycle of “diagnose-treat-repeat” reaches a breaking point, social prescribing has also proven to reduce patient wait times, lower hospitalization rates, save money, and reverse health worker burnout. And as a general sense of unwellness plagues more of us, social prescriptions can help us feel healthier than we’ve felt in years. As Hotz tours the globe to investigate the spread of social prescribing to over thirty countries, she meets people personifying its revolutionary potential: an aspiring novelist whose art workshop helps her cope with trauma symptoms and rediscover her joy; a policy researcher whose swimming course helps her taper off antidepressants and feel excited to wake up in the morning; an army vet whose phone conversations help him form his only true friendship; and dozens more. The success stories she finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.

Gorgeously repackaged in a new edition of a fan favorite tale, New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell breathes life into the gunslinging Old West in this tale of a brave, adventurous woman and the dangerous outlaw that captures her heart. In one night Leanne Summers has lost her home, her every possession, and learned that everything she’s ever believed is a lie. So when she witnesses a bank robbery in progress, she doesn’t think of the consequences. She steals a gun, barges in—and finds herself being held captive within minutes. The moment Hunter Walsh locks eyes on Leanne, he knows he should leave her behind. The desire he feels for her is a distraction he doesn’t need. But abandoning a brave, impulsive woman is turning out to be much harder than it should be. For even the most ruthless outlaw can’t ignore an irresistible temptation . . . “The superbly talented Howell never disappoints.” —RT Book Reviews “The laughter mingles with the tears in any story from the talented pen of Hannah Howell. If you haven’t read her before, start now!” —Affair de Coeur

Puzzling anecdotes from the real world of nature are dramatized in a short, easy-to-read format and used to encourage critical-thinking skills. Various applications can be employed to guide students through the problem-solving experience, from discussion to creative writing to library research skills. A teacher's key, background information, and solutions are given for each puzzle.

When an African prince returns from university he sires a child with a sea goddess inspiring his father to make him care for not only the bi-elemental child, but the other child born of no one’s womb in their village—a nomad boy, however the medicine man takes advantage of the villager’s trepidation with the exotic children and plots to restore the shaman as leader by initiating a war between those in the villages and the beings in the sea.