Living in the Desert

Reducere. How can you tell if something is living or nonliving in the desert? Children reading this book explore a stunning desert habitat while learning how...

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized ...

In this latest book in the acclaimed Over and Under series, a spectacular hike reveals the hidden wonders, rich colors, and layers of wildlife livi...

Reducere. 'Moosewood Sandhills' can be thought of as a poetic counterpart to Lilburn's seminal collection of essays, 'Living In The World As If It Were Home'...

Deserts, the Red Land, bracket the narrow strip of alluvial Black Land that borders the Nile. Networks of desert roads ascended to the high desert ...

'You could become the greatest living painter. Your paintings would be treasured for ever.' Those were the words Lilias Trotter heard from John Rus...

Reducere. Trapped tells the story of a young woman, recently graduated from an Eastern college and teaching in a small New Mexico town who follows her boyfri...

Reducere. DescriptionEarth's four desert biomes - hot, semiarid, coastal, and cold - each have their own set of challenges for the living things within them....

Reducere. ""Trespass" might as well be "Desert Solitaire"'s literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one." Jud...

Reducere. Growing trees in an urban desert environment can be challenging, especially if water is a limited resource. In a comprehensive reference manual, se...

Reducere. Life in Baghdad, Iraq, in October 2003 and again in 2006 was like living in a Crock-Pot. It was hot, and the breeze, if you can call it that, was j...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, gu...

Reducere. In the fourth century, thousands of men and women fled into the Egyptian desert seeking to recapture the passion of the earliest Christians through...

DescriptionIs it possible to lead a creative post-urban existence? A wave of creatives is opting out of increasingly regulated and pressured urban ...

Reducere. Set in southwestern New Mexico, the stories in James Terry's stunning debut explore the joys, insecurities, and failures of memorable characters as...

Reducere. Annually, Mount Desert Island attracts over three million visitors to Acadia National Park, where lofty mountains, balsam-scented forests, and Main...

Reducere. Gregory Mayers presents this ancient thought and lifestyle by introducing traditional Wisdom Stories in which characters, actions, and sayings addr...

A British expatriate's memoirs of living in Saudi ArabiaPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Stuart CrockerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Searching for gold in the American West was not for the faint of heart. To reach the fabled gold fields of California, prospectors penetrated the b...

Provenance is set in and around a fictional Warlpiri community at the western edge of the Tanami desert in central Australia. It is the story of an...

DescriptionEmbark on an eye-opening adventure in the land Down Under, and see eight creatures in astounding motion. From the New York Times bestsel...

A searching memoir . . . A subtle, expertly written repudiation of the American dream in favor of something more inclusive and more realistic.--Kir...

Reducere. Two original screenplays wrapped around a short novel: Three chilling, thrilling, and undeniably weird tales of Los Angeles. In AFTERSHOCK, an L.A....

Reducere. Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.The de...

Reducere. In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of t...

Reducere. 'You could become the greatest living painter. Your paintings would be treasured for ever.'Those were the words Lilias Trotter heard from John Rusk...

Reducere. Welcome to Wonder ValleyYou might have passed through there, maybe. Out for a drive with time on your hands you might have noticed the abandoned ho...

New book by a master Iraqi calligrapher, considered to be the greatest living calligrapher, his work has influenced a generation of artists and is ...

Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewi...

Reducere. BUILT TO BURN tells the story of how Tony, a San Francisco blues musician, became Coyote, builder of Burning Man's legendary city in the desert, an...

THE WORLD IS HERE TO EXPLORE AND COLOR INCREDIBLE SCENES AND MINDBENDING FACTS ABOUT NATURE Relax and explore the vast reaches of our planet with n...

Reducere. This exciting reader follows the story of the longest and the most demanding elephant migration on the planet. Living at the furthest corners of th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Tohono O'odham have lived in southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert for millennia. Formerly known as the Papago, the people, acting as a ...

Reducere. Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world fa...

Reducere. Award NameLiterary AwardAward categoryTranslationAn immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IM...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Art of Southwest Landscaping is the second in a series on landscaping in the desert regions of the Southwest. It is dedicated to the...

Reducere. The second volume of A Handbook of Traditional Living continues the project of the first: to resurrect perennial values for a Traditionalist lifest...

Reducere. The second volume of A Handbook of Traditional Living continues the project of the first: to resurrect perennial values for a Traditionalist lifest...

Reducere. FREE Going Off the Grid Quick Start Guide with the purchase of this book Whether you're a prepper, a survivalist, a camping enthusiast, a fugitive,...

Reducere. The first sights of fall arrive--pumpkins, gourds, and colorful leaves--and that means that Sukkot is almost here. Sukkot is the Jewish holiday cel...

More Muslims in Iran have come to faith in Christ in the last thirty years than in the thirteen hundred years that Islam has been in the country. I...

Reducere. Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust--but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of ...

Reducere. An essential guide to everything you need to stay sheltered, fed, healthy, and safe in the backcountry Organized around the six essentials of survi...

Reducere. In the heart of Arizona's Sonora Desert, a little girl in need of her father, a woman in need of forgiveness, and a war hero in need of love come t...

DescriptionGardeners and journalers will delight in this slim and elegant perpetual weekly planner illustrated with floral mandalas built with orig...

Reducere. CD 1: 1. Turbo Lover2. Locked In3. Private Property4. Parental Guidance5. Rock You All Around the World6. Out in the Cold7. Wild Nights, Hot & Craz...

Reducere. True account of a decade-long apprenticeship with Huichol shamans in the Mexican Sierra Madre - Contains an insider's view of the Huichol's shamani...

Reducere. From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental declin...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California deser...

Reducere. A beautiful portrait of the radical devotion of St. Antony and his call to holy living. "It was truly amazing that being alone in such a desert Ant...

Reducere. "...between God and humans there is something called the Spiritus Mundi, a spirit that serves as a repository for all human memory. It is every ide...

Reducere. Saint Isaac of Syria was an ascetic, a mountain solitary, but his writings are universal in scope. They are addressed not just to the desert but to...

Reducere. The powerful sequel to Double Wide, the blockbuster Western Writers of America double Spur award winner for Best First Novel and Best Contemporary ...

Reducere. Animal-loving Lizza thinks nothing can be worse than her dad's taxidermy business, until Dad moves the family into an actual cave. Living inside a ...

DescriptionIn this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional a...

Reducere. You are ``The God Who Sees Me.`` Discover a close relationship with Godno matter the pain or suffering in your life. Witness the depths of God's co...

Reducere. Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it ...

Reducere. You Are a Superhero, Too is written in a parent's voice, and affirms the unique role a neuro-typical child (the main character) plays in the family...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: G. Michael HopfAuthor: A. AmericanNeal managed to survive the initial weeks after an EMP decimated the grid and all critica...

The battle in the land of the giants has been won, and Oganna is safely home in the Hemmed Land, but the peace is meaningless to Ilfedo.As strange ...

Reducere. In the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades tha...

Reducere. In the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades tha...

Reducere. Founded 900 years ago by St. Bruno, the Carthusians are the most completely enclosed religious order in the Catholic Church. Living alone and in si...

Reducere. "A remarkable story beautifully told...Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist."--Chicago TribuneCa...

Reducere. The national monuments of Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, and Montezuma s Castle showcase the treasures of the first people who settled and developed farms...

Reducere. Armenian Aram Haigaz was only 15 when he lost his father, brothers, many relatives and neighbors, all killed or dead of starvation when enemy soldi...

Reducere. Colorado's southwesternmost city has perpetually verged on all that is desirable in the American Southwest for tourism, recreation, and high-desert...

Reducere. Echopraxia is the 2nd book in the Firefall Series. It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of Gone South and PBS Great American Read nominee Swan Song comes "as finely a turned tale of horror as ...

Reducere. The Sacramento Mountains are an oasis of cool pine forests, alpine meadows, and fast-flowing streams. For more than a century, the area has been a ...