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Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen מאת Eihei Dogen Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating with...

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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things מאת William McDonough A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary boo...

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The Poetry of Rilke: Bilingual Edition מאת Rainer Maria Rilke For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke’s major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive volume o...

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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land מאת Amy Irvine "Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one."—Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review   Trespass is the story of one woma...

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Yoga Mala מאת Sri K. Pattabhi Jois The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the living master of this increasingly popular disciplineThere is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West a quarter of a centur...

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Positively 4th Street - : The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina מאת David Hajdu When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a youth idol with an acid wit and a barbwire throat; and Greenwich Village, where he first made his mark, was unquestionably the center of youth...

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Hard laughter - A NOVEL Anne Lamott

Hard laughter - A NOVEL מאת Anne Lamott

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What to Eat מאת Marion Nestle Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle’s What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as “radiant with maxims to live by” in The New York Times Book Review and “accessible, reliab...

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Solo Faces: A Novel מאת James Salter This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessible mountains in the world. James Salter captures the adventure of Gary, a roofer of churches, who feels restrained by conventions and flat ground. Unable to find...

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Drinking the Rain: A Memoir מאת Alix Kates Shulman At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman left a city life dense with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to stay alone in a small cabin on an island off the Maine coast. Living without plumbing, electricity, or a telephone, she discovered in herself a new independence and a growing sens...

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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World מאת Larry Zuckerman The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until ...

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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris מאת A. J. Liebling New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir....

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Elements of Garden Design מאת Joe Eck Elements of Garden Design does what few gardening books do--it addresses the process of conceiving a whole garden, as opposed to a single element like color or a particular class of plant. Joe Eck explores the idea of a garden, and offers a practical approach to translating concepts such as "...

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West with the Night מאת Beryl Markham West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. Regarded by many as one of the best adventure books ever!...

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A Private History of Awe מאת Scott Russell Sanders An original and searching memoir from “one of America’s finest essayists” (Phillip Lopate) When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—“the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and ever...

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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land מאת Amy Irvine Trespass is the story of one woman’s struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah’s red-rock country after her father’s suicide, only to find out just how much...

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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art מאת Lewis Hyde Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have." In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first r...

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary מאת Edwin F. Bryant A landmark new translation and edition Written almost two millennia ago, Patañjali’s work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understa...

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The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley מאת Elizabeth Romer The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in March, harvesting and threshing corn in July...

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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center מאת William Langewiesche Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-TimesWithin days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock acce...

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Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light מאת Mort Rosenblum A delectable journey into the world of chocolate--from manufacturing to marketing, French boutiques to American multinationals--by the award-winning author of Olives.Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. I...

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The Essential Canon of Classical Music מאת David Dubal The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices can seem ...

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Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria מאת Mark Rotella Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots ...

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The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic מאת Ramesh Menon The great Indian epic rendered in modern proseIndia's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed by...

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How to Cook a Wolf מאת M. F. K. Fisher Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K. Fisher knew that the last thing hungry people needed were hint...

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The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being מאת Nena Baker We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation, that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being u...

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Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite מאת John Thorne Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, passionate, and accessible food writers at work today. In Mouth Wide Ope...

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Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France מאת Kermit Lynch Kermit Lynch’s recounting of his experiences on the wine route and in the wine cellars of France takes the reader through the Loire, Bordeaux, the Languedoc, Provence, Northern and Southern Rhone, and the Cote d’Or....

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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) מאת Donald Hall In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall’s prose about sports, concentrating on baseball b...

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Letters on Cézanne מאת Rainer Maria Rilke Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching artFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense ...

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The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma: A Bilingual Edition מאת Bodhidharma A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual ...

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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York מאת William Grimes New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen. In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York’s dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyst...

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The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being מאת Nena Baker We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being under...

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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream מאת Andres Duany A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to...

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The Gastronomical Me מאת M. F. K. Fisher In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinkin...

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The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation מאת George Thompson A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training  The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture...

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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds מאת Scott Weidensaul Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 mil...

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The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition מאת Rainer Maria Rilke Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as...

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Reflections of a Wine Merchant מאת Neal I. Rosenthal A leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of controversy, hype, and change in the world of wine In the late 1970s, Neal I....