When a child goes missing in a misty mountain town, a woman uncovers secrets that lead her into the forest where she untangles the truth from local legend and pieces together her own fragmented memories of childhood tragedy.
Letting Glow taught us how to tune into the Higher Realms. In Book Two, we'll go even higher.
This book steers a course between the shoals of scientism and supernaturalism to explore the human condition in and through the mysteries of consciousness.
Whimsy, mystery, spirituality and the holy ordinariness of daily life mingle together in this delightful collection of short stories.
A brief practical guide for answering basic Quaker questions.
An intimate, transformational journey is interwoven with the archetypal journey of every woman on the spiritual path to undo the internalized patriarchy.
A collection of five volumes of some 1,000 very stories that express an eternal truth through an image conveyed in a title, and provide the reader with a literary experience. Each volume covers a decade, starting with the 1960s and ending with the 2000s.
Discover leadership secrets and technology strategies being pioneered by today's most innovative business executives and renowned brands across the globe.
Anthony Peake re-assesses the plays and novels of J.B. Priestley.
It's time to reclaim control over your own life!
The Lives Around Us is a series of short meditations for individuals or groups. It can serve as a Lent book or at any time of the year. Its purpose is to tap into the present public interest in nature connection and encourage this to be formed in concert with Bible reading and regular (daily or weekly) prayer. Each chapter begins with descriptive reflection on a specific creature (animal, plant, fungus, mineral) followed by one or two thoughts about what we can do for them practically. There is a Bible reading and then a section that encourages prayer and sometimes a prayerful activity.
A comprehensive coverage of what the mind is, understanding it, and how to master it.
A sobering look at the ongoing crisis in civic learning and the fatal attraction of information technology.
Love, sex, and relationship wisdom from the polyamory movement are offered in this practical guide to spiritual enlightenment.
An adrenalin-charged trip through some of the cultural flashpoints of the past few decades, Pop Grenade celebrates the power of music as a force for change. Based on first-hand, personal reportage from raves, riots and rebellions, it explores how music has been used as a weapon in struggles for liberation and attempts to create temporary paradises. From Berlin's anarchic techno scene after the fall of the Wall to outlaw sound systems in wartime Bosnia, from Moscow during the crackdown on Pussy Riot to New York in the militant early years of hip-hop, it tells the extraordinary stories of some of the world's most audacious musical freedom fighters, disco visionaries and rock'n'roll rebels with a cause.
An amber bead. A gold and glass drinking horn. A ring engraved with Thor's hammer - all artifacts from a Germanic tribe that carved a space for itself through brutality and violence on a windswept land . Brimhild weaves peace and conveys culture to the kingdom, until the secret of her birth threatens to tear apart the fragile political stability. This is her story - the tale of Grendel's Mother. She is no monster as portrayed in the Old English epic, Beowulf. We learn her side of the story and that of her defamed child. We see the many passages of her life: the brine-baby who floated mysteriously to shore; the hall-queen presiding over the triumphant building of the golden hall Heorot and victim of sexual and political betrayal; the exiled mere-wife, who ekes out a marginal life by an uncanny bog as a healer and contends with the menacing Beowulf; and the seer, who prophesizes what will occur to her adopted people. We learn how the invasion by brutal men is not a fairy tale, but a disaster doomed to cycle relentlessly through human history. Only the surviving women can sing poignant laments, preserve a glittering culture, and provide hope for the future.
Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinises the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter is presented as a dish in a nine-course meal, drawing on examples from published cookbooks and the work of artists such as Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Annette Messager, Martha Rosler, Barbara T. Smith, Bobby Baker and Mika Rottenberg. A recipe is an instruction, the imperative tone of the expert, but this constraint can offer its own kind of potential. A recipe need not be a domestic trap but might instead offer escape something to fantasise about or aspire to. It can hold a promise of transformation both actual and metaphorical. It can be a proposal for action, or envision a possible future.
Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, just as the poor are blamed for the economic crisis, Malthusian conceptions about food and ecology are being used to hold the working class responsible for climate change and global hunger. Challenging existing dogmas about overconsumption and personal responsibility, it shows that what we need to stop climate change is system change.
This book can help the sufferer of mild to moderate depression overcome the biggest hurdles to emotional health - negative belief and poor self-worth. Between them, these two processes generate the debilitating idea that there is no hope for a brighter future or the sort of life that others might call ';normal'. And yet with the structured programme presented here, the reader can: discover and eliminate subtle subconscious processes that lock depression in place; find their true self that may have been ';locked away' for years; discover whether it's conscious change or subconscious acceptance that's needed; find out how being active instead of reactive is the way forward. The seven-step programme was created by the author over many years of working directly with sufferers, successfully helping them to find their way back to emotional health. It's not just a quick fix that soon fades away, but a permanent solution that will actually reshape your life and attitude to self. In short, it's the blueprint that will help you set yourself free!
In the sixty years following the publication of Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, new paths have appeared, and older ones emerged out of the shadow of repression and illegality, to express with a new and more confident voice their beliefs and practice, and share, with a steadily growing audience, their knowledge, their certainties, their questions and their vision. This book is a celebration of some of the many paths that Witchcraft/Wicca has taken and of the journeys that people have embarked upon.
During a regression to find out the reason for the unusual emotional attachment that shed had since the age of sixteen to Sir Edward Elgar - both his music and the man himself - Ann Merivale was knocked for six at finding herself in the life of Helen Weaver, his first fiancee. One year on, following a meeting held at Plas Gwyn, in the very room that had been Elgars study from 1904-11, a series of letters between Edward Elgar and Helen Weaver started writing themselves in her head. Gradually, and on the advice of colleagues, she decided that this imaginary correspondence should form the middle section of a book devoted to her personal experiences. The first part is autobiographical, showing how she came to her present beliefs and the third part (also somewhat autobiographical) draws conclusions re healing. It has the dual aim of introducing spiritual subjects to musical people who are unfamiliar with them, and introducing Elgar to spiritually minded people who know little or nothing about him.
This book explores small town austere Britain. The text argues for a return to both dialectical thinking and politicized community research, in light of the current austere landscape, in order to intellectually militate against centre-right think tanks. It also urges for a kind of epistemological anarchism, which refuses to view the small towns which are the subject of the book through existing common sense paradigms, particularly those of state and capital, but also those of cosy localism.
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