After introducing the concept of the birthing pool in the 1970s, Michel Odent has continuously expanded his interest in the mysterious connections between humans and water. In Planet Ocean he shows that the evolution of the oceans – particularly
the fluctuations of sea levels – and the evolution of humans are inseparable. The oceans are the givers ......
Conscious Gardening with the Fae and Nature's Elementals
Healer and clairvoyant Zorah Cholmondeley seeks to revolutionize the way we view our gardens and the natural world. Introducing the faery realms, she invites us to witness the tremendous variety and interplay of life-forms connected to the earth. Beyond the fae, she speaks of gnomes, dragons, angels and entities such as the Master Pan, all of whom ......
Sensual, vivid and sometimes shocking, Albany Park is the story of Patrice Chaplin’s youthful years: from a grey wartime childhood to exhilarating and dangerous adventures in Europe and an romantic infatuation that came about in a sun-drenched Catalonian city.
To mark the manufacture of the very last Australian Holdens in 2017, Joel Wakely gathered together dozens of fascinating personal stories about many of the models Holden produced since 1948. Joel tells the whole story of Holden, recounting highlights of 69 years of manufacturing all-Australian vehicles and the final closure of Holden in 2020.
True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs
Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fascinating and complex. In Pretty Evil New York author Elizabeth Kerri Mahon takes you on a journey through a rogue's gallery of some of New York's most notable female criminals. Drawing on newspaper ......
Kennedy, Sorensen and the Making of Profiles in Courage
I’d rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States,& John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his election to the Senate in 1953. Kennedy got his wish four years later, when his book Profiles in Courage was awarded the Pulitzer for biography, even though it wasn’t among the finalists for the prize.
The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40 years Titus Burckhardt worked to document and preserve the artistic and architectural heritage of Fez in particular and Morocco in general. These newly translated lectures, delivered while Burckhardt was ......
