David Whyte

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‼️Signed by author‼️ Explores the relationship between work and identity, suggesting that work can be a journey of self-discovery and a source of meaning, rather than just a means to an end. 


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

Our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth is in the thing we most often want to get away from: our work. It's where people spend the majority of their time, and it's where many spend much of it wishing they were somewhere else, doing something else. And it's where people often spend their time not being present, and not being themselves. Whyte points out that as human beings we are the one part of creation that can refuse to be itself. Our bodies can be present in our work, but our hearts, minds and imaginations can be placed firmly in neutral or engaged elsewhere.

Crossing the Unknown Sea

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Joan Grant

A young African boy named Miobi is frightened of the creatures that lurk outside his village. But after meeting a magical hare, he decides to tackle his fears head-on. When he climbs a mountain to defeat the monster that is terrorizing a distant village, he discovers that facing fears directly is the best way to overcome them.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Monster That Grew Small

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An organic farming & gardening book. Discusses wind and water power, solar energy, and energy from wood and from farm wastes and explains how to harness these power sources for home use.

How to Make Nature’s Energy Sources Work for You

Producing Your Own Power:

Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon. Fighting for life, starving, hiding from his pursuers--the Hudson's Bay Company and the British Navy--he follows the Columbia River inland toward a fate he never anticipated. In a trapping brigade, Skye falls in with legendary mountain men such as Jim Bridger and Tom "Broken Hand" Fitzpatrick and in the fabled Rocky Mountains finds another unexpected turn in his life when he meets the Crow maiden, Many Quill Woman, who will become his wife.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Rendezvous: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye’s West)

Elvira Woodruff

🐦‍⬛✨🧙🏼‍♀️ Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff’s thrilling novel set in 1700s London tells of a young boy who must make some painful choices as he attempts to save the life a prisoner he’s befriended. 11-year-old Forrest lives at the Tower of London prison, where his father tends the Tower ravens and guards inmates. Forrest’s only friends are his pet raven, his father’s prisoners (who all end up dead), and Ned, the young rat catcher. Soon Forrest’s father gets a new prisoner: Maddie, the beautiful daughter of a Scottish spy. Immediately Forrest and Maddie become friends. But when she is slated for execution, Forrest must make some painful choices: Should he commit treason to help her escape, or obey the law and let his innocent friend be hung?

Escape from the Tower of London

The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.

The Ravenmaster's Secret

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Book overview: Digging a well; making paint from scratch; making a ladder; keeping sheep; building a smokehouse; coping with a whole pig; old-fashioned stenciling; simple wooden toys; fireplace cookery; keeping geese, guinea hens, and peacocks.


The Forgotton Arts: Book Two

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🐏🐖🐓🐇🪿 Assesses the problems, benefits, and work involved in raising rabbits, chickens, turkeys, goats, sheep, hogs, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, and pigeons for home consumption.

The Homesteader’s Handbook to Raising Small Livestock

🚀✈️ 📄 🖊️ 🔦🚽Step-by-Step Explanations: Devices are broken down into their basic components, with each part’s function explained in detail. - Illustrations and Diagrams: Features detailed illustrations and cross-sectional diagrams to visually explain how different parts interact and function.

How Things Work Volume 2 

Contents: Combat Skills (Special Forces — Securing the Landing Zones; Strike from the Seal River Raiding); Unarmed Combat Course (Defense Against Wristholds, Holds from the rear Parts 1 and 2); Weapons and Equipment Guide (Scoring with Scorpion; Enter the Dragon; Mixing it with the M16); Survival (Stone Age Survival No 1 (The Search for Water), and Survival No. 2 (Purifying Water)); Fighting Fit (Spetsnaz No. 1 (Selection), No. 2 (Weapons of the ;Wolf’), and No. 3 (In Action)); Combat Reports (Vietnam Long Binh Patrol Parts 1 and 2; Mozambique: Rhodesian Raid on SANLA Base; and Falkland Islands: Mount Longdon

What it Takes to Fight & Win

Combat & Survival

Paul Rezendes

Bill McKibben

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“Master Tracker Paul Rezendes has followed bobcat through impenetrable swamps, and howled with coyotes in a moonlit field. Here, he weaves vivid accounts of lessons learned in the wild with the story of his extraordinary life progression from gang member to Zen woodsman. Leaving his past behind, he sought a truer path-and learned about compassion from a curious 750-pound bull moose, and discovered the inseparability of life and death through a wrenching encounter between a coyote and a deer. These stories transport readers from the slopes of Maine’s Mount Katahdin to Cape Cod’s sun-drenched blueberry tangles to the brink of a fox’s forest lair. With this book, he shows us how to live in the natural world, moving soundlessly, watching where we put our feet, gauging the wind, and entering a new state of awareness. A dramatic, deeply spiritual book, The Wild Within is one of those rare books with the power to change the way we see ourselves-and make the natural world come alive.

Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings

Explores nature as a tool for learning about the spiritual self, offering a Zen-based narrative of the author's wilderness adventures while presenting exercises for turning off the conscious mind and achieving enlightenment. 15,000 first printing.

The Wild Within

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Christopher Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Children of Húrin* is a heroic romance and cautionary tale by J.R.R. Tolkien that follows the tragic fate of Húrin’s family after defying the evil Morgoth. The story centers on Húrin’s son, Túrin Turambar, and his sister, Niënor, as they battle fate and the curse placed upon their family. The novel is considered one of Tolkien’s darkest works, exploring the paradox of human ambition and the dangers of pride.

A fantasy adventure saga set in the early days of Middle-Earth features humans and elves, dwarves and dragons, orcs and dark sorcerers clashing in an epic battle between good and evil.

The Children of Húrin

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Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from diverse theoretical orientations show how to tailor brief interventions to each child's needs. Individual, family, and group treatment models are described and clinical guidelines are provided. Chapters demonstrate ways to rapidly build alliances with children, adolescents, and their caregivers; plan treatment for frequently encountered clinical problems; and get the most out of play materials and techniques. New to This Edition *Incorporates the latest research and clinical developments. *Chapters on additional approaches: Theraplay, combined art and play therapy, Gestalt play therapy, animal-assisted play therapy, child-parent relationship therapy, Floortime, and more. *Chapters on additional clinical problems: grief, sexual behavior problems, and autism spectrum disorder.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Short-Term Play Therapy for Children 

Published in 1960, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness is Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing's first book and a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness. Laing argues that psychosis is not a medical condition, but rather a result of the "divided self". This tension exists between two personas: the authentic, private identity and the false, "sane" self presented to the world. 

The Divided Self 

R. D. Laing

A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century’s most influential psychiatrists that goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing case for the “madness of morality.” R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will “excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected.

Politics of Experience

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Sigmund Freud

A fascinating case study that reads like a detective novel, pulling readers deep into the twisted world and dark mental corners of one of Sigmund Freud’s most intriguing psychological patients. An intelligent but troubled eighteen-year-old girl to whom Freud gives the pseudonym “Dora” is at the center of this captivating case study. Freud’s analysis focuses on Dora, however she is surrounded by an emotionally disturbed cast of characters that thicken the psychological intrigue. As Dora falls into the paralysis of psychological hysteria, Freud uses all of his analytical genius and literary skill to explore Dora’s inner life and explain the cause of her neuroses.

An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

An appealing and intelligent eighteen-year-old girl to whom Freud gives the pseudonym "Dora" is the subject of a case history that has all the intrigue and unexpected twists of a first-rate detective novel. Freud pursues the secrets of Dora's psyche by using as clues her nervous mannerisms, her own reports on the peculiarities of her family, and the content of her dreams. The personalities involved in Dora's disturbed emotional life were, in their own ways, as complex as she: an obsessive mother, an adulterous father, her father's mistress, Frau K., and Frau K.'s husband, who had made amorous advances toward Dora. Faced with the odd behavior of her family and friends, and unable to confront her own forbidden sexual desires, Dora falls into the destructive pattern of a powerful hysteria. in this influential and provocative case history, Freud uses all his analytic genius and literary skill to reveal Dora's inner life and explain the motives behind her fixation on her father's mistress. -- from back cover.

Dora

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Peter Gay

In Civilization and its Discontents, Freud explores the tension between the individual’s desire for and striving toward happiness, and the requirements of civilization, which often stand in the way of the things that will lead to the individual’s happiness, chief among them, sex and the use of violence for selfish means. Complicating this tension, according to Freud, is the fact that human beings need civilization in order to avoid living in a chaotic world and to maintain personal security. Freud argues that man’s natural inclinations are hostile and aggressive, but that their equal need for self-preservation compels them to attempt to sublimate these inclinations. Considering this human bind allows Freud to also discuss the roles of religion and art within civilization, the types of love we are capable of, and the nature of Thanatos. At its core, the book invites a debate about basic human nature—are we capable of transcending aggression?

During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought.

Civilization and Its Discontents

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This book is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of technical terminology. And Freud put himself on the line: numerous acts of willful forgetting or “inexplicable” mistakes are recounted from his personal experience. none of such actions can be called truly accidental, or uncaused: that is the real lesson of the Psychopathology.

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 

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•Life Against Death is a book by the American classicist Norman O. Brown, in which the author offers a radical analysis and critique of the work of Sigmund Freud. 

•Love’s Body is Norman O. Brown’s meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. “Love’s Body” is a continuation of the explorations begun in Brown’s famous “Life Against Death.”

Life Against Death & Love’s Body (bundle)

Coleman Barks

❤️‍🔥💌💒🌹🥰 A collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks. Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise renderings that will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.

Poems of Ecstasy and Longing



Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds--erotic, divine, friendship--and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the "wholeness" one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover's loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship--these poems cover all "the magnificent regions of the heart." In Coleman Barks's delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lovers inside and out.

Rumi: the Book of Love

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Theodore Zeldin

🧐🗿🛖🏛️ In this book Theodore Zeldin investigates the feelings of human beings across time. From Vikings and Aztecs to comtemporary hypochondriacs, he looks at all the dilemmas of ordinary life. A provocative work that explores the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through diverse cultures and time. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An Intimate History of Humanity

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Scott Cunningham

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🔮💎🪄 🧙🏼 Practice an ancient magic that is both natural and powerful—the elemental Earth magic of crystals, stones, and metals. This comprehensive and clear guidebook by Scott Cunningham has introduced over 200,000 readers to the secrets of over 100 gems and metals. Learn how to find and cleanse stones and use them in divinations, spells, and tarot card readings. Discover how to determine the energies and stories contained within each stone, and the symbolic meanings of a stone’s color and shape. Also included in this classic guide: A 16-page, full-color insert, new with this edition Birthstone and jewelry magic lore Tables listing both planetary and elementary rulers of stones, magical intentions, and magical substitutions.


Learn all about the magical properties of crystals, gems and metals! Cunningham reveals the secrets of over 100 different gems and metals, describing what they look like and explaining their long-hidden magical powers.

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem and Metal Magic

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Arthur Ransome

🚣🏼🏔️🏴‍☠️🎣🏕️Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. Ransome is not only a great storyteller, writing from first-hand experience, but each story celebrates eternally valuable qualities of practical knowledge, independence, and initiative. The twelve books are for children or grownups—anyone captivated by a world of sailing, adventure, and imagination. Swallows and Amazons, the book that started it all in 1930, introduces the Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat Island, the able-bodied catboat “Swallow,” and the two intrepid Amazons, plucky Nancy and Peggy Blackett. 

A summer of adventure with the Swallows and Amazons. The Walker and Blackett children survive a shipwreck, discover a secret valley and cave, and go on a thrilling mountain hike.

On summer holiday, the Swallows (John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker) and the Amazons (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) meet up on Wild Cat Island. Unfortunately, though, the Amazons have a problem: their Great Aunt Maria has come to visit and she demands that the Amazon pirates act like "young ladies." Things get worse when the Swallows discover a very high hill that just begs to be climbed...

How the Amazons escape the Great Aunt, arrange a rendezvous, and mount an expedition to sleep under the stars on the summit makes a very exciting and satisfying story.

Friendship, resourcefulness, and sailing, too: Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. More than just great stories, each one celebrates independence and initiative with a colorful, large cast of characters. Swallowdale (originally published in 1931) is the second title in the Swallows and Amazons series, books for children or grownups, anyone captivated by a world of adventure and imagination.

Swallowdale

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✨👧🏼🧒🏽🛝📝✨Ninety-four of the author’s poems for and about children.

Poems of Childhood

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🏠📚✂️🎓✏️ This is the complete unabridged and authorized edition of the works of turn-of-the-century British educator Charlotte Mason, with a forward by Dr. John Thorley of The Charlotte Mason College. This six-volume set includes over 2400 pages on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as a pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte Mason’s practical methods are as revolutionary today as when they were first written. These books were out of print for over 80 years until Dean & Karen Andreola brought them to America in while returning from a mission s trip in the spring of 1987. A Charlotte Mason educational revival soon followed. Charlotte Mason s writings reflect a lifetime of experience teaching children and training teachers. Her topics are meaty. Her ideas radiate brilliantly in the thoughts of those who take the time to ponder them. With each idea comes a practical how-to “for bringing up children within the educational life.” The power of attention, moral character, the discipline of habit, safeguarding a child s curiosity, is a tiny peek at the topics presented. Although Miss Mason began writing in the 1880s, her principles still apply. Today’s homeschool parents are seeing first-hand how wonderfully they work. After ten years of intense study and application of Miss Mason s principles with her own children, Karen Andreola wrote A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning. Now today’s parents can see what a Charlotte Mason education looks like in a contemporary setting while gleaning from its many benefits.

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Crossing the Unknown Sea

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The Monster That Grew Small

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Elvira Woodruff

The Ravenmaster's Secret

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The Forgotton Arts: Book Two

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Short-Term Play Therapy for Children

R.D. Laing

The Divided Self

R.D. Laing

Politics of Experience

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Dora

Sigmund Freud; Peter Gay

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Norman O. Brown

Life Against Death & Love’s Body (bundle)

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Rumi: the Book of Love

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An Intimate History of Humanity

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Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem and Metal Magic

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