Bestselling author Cynthia Reyes returns with Twigs in My Hair, a book about her lifelong passion for gardens and nature. Gorgeous photographs by Hamlin Grange complement a story that is both profound and hilarious, resulting in a compelling book for gardeners and non-gardeners.   Praise for Twigs in My Hair:  “Her best book yet! Cynthia’s most recent memoir takes us on a journey through the various gardens of her life ... It is a journey full of insights, humour, and struggle, but ultimately, one of growth and the recognition ...

Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. His tales of life as a teamster, cavalryman, town developer, trapper, buffalo hunter, military scout, and cowboy put us squarely in the middle of such storied events as Sheridan's 1868-1869 winter campaign ...

""Die Armee In Der Bewegung"" ist ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1872 von Josef Gallina. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Studie �����ber die Bewegungen und Taktiken der Armee w�����hrend des Krieges. Das Buch beschreibt die verschiedenen Arten von Bewegungen, die von den Armeen durchgef�����hrt werden, einschlie�����lich der Marschbewegungen, der Angriffs- und Verteidigungsbewegungen sowie der R�����ckzugsbewegungen. ...

"I loved the first book and this one still has that unique flavour to it. The story [was] interesting and left me with enough on the table that I want to know how things end." ~Elisa Rolle, Rainbow Awards In the wake of the Hebridean insurrection, which threatened the safety and future of her homeworld, Alex of Terra is focused on isolating the conspirators so no further harm can be done. Her soulmate, Lauren of Earth, prepares to become Alex's Consort and the Co-Ruler of the Terran people, but she is plagued with horrible nightmares from the aftermath ...

This study explored the fundamental formulations that shape perspectives on racial solidarity among one group of African Americans. The perspectives gained in this study aid in understanding the existence, origin, and views toward the concept. In-depth, qualitative interviews were conducted with individuals from two generational cohorts: ages 18 to 30 (post-Civil Rights era) and ages 50 and older (Civil Rights era). This study describes a process by which racial solidarity appears to have diminished among some African Americans. This transition seems to ...

To cooperate or not?. This is the question that participants in Community Development Projects pose to themselves on each venture. It has not an easy answer since cooperation is costly as Alejandro Natal shows in this book. The author describes how communities have to devote time and effort to actually produce collective action, manage it and prevent freeriding and other individual and colective conflicts. The Costs of Cooperation is an interesting concept that the author develops to argue that Community Particpatory Development as it has geen generally thought. ...

Didier Rain has never been so destitute, forlorn, and in dire need of a bath. As he roams the rain-muddied streets of San Francisco, it appears the angels of good fortune have finally forsaken him. Hunted by factions that would seek to do him harm, and suffering an acute case of soul pain, the once dandy rogue sees little promise for sunnier days. But then, miraculously, all the stars of the cosmos move into a seemingly favorable position as a seductive albino soothsayer launches Rain onto the next leg of his life's stormy voyage. Will said voyage ...

“At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius’, in which he defends, with all the argumentative skill he could muster, the nature of man, in opposition to the grace of God whereby the unrighteous is justified and we become Christians. The treatise which contains my reply to him, and in which I defend grace, not indeed as in opposition to nature, but as that which liberates and controls nature, I have entitled On Nature and Grace. In this work sundry short passages, which were quoted by Pelagius as the words of the Roman ...

The Journey into God challenges the adequacy of the biomedical model alone in addressing the symptoms and causes of physical and mental illness. While allowing that the biomedical has its place in the treatment of disease, Dr. Kenneth Bakken argues persuasively that there are untapped resources for health and wholeness in Christian faith and practice. He invites the reader into the way of theosis, the transformation of the person in union with the divine. Opening the mystic heart of Christianity, The Journey into God gives individual Christians and the Christian ...