Living in the Desert

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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. I talk about this in the Introduction to Book of Chance Meetings, but random encounters in roleplaying games have always fascinated me. I started w...

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

Reducere. With World War II raging throughout Europe, the United States knew it needed to produce magnesium-the "miracle metal"-in prodigious quantities. Tho...

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

"You are a girl, you can't be a pilot." Those words resonated in Myriam's head throughout her teenager years while growing up in a small Swiss vill...

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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 ...

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

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

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

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. 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. Dedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in TucsonTucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a cit...

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...

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

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. 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...

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 ...

Reducere. "You are a girl, you can't be a pilot." Those words resonated in Myriam's head throughout her teenager years while growing up in a small Swiss vill...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Learn. Practice. Prepare. Survive. Survival situations can happen when least expected. The best defense is knowledge and confidence in the skills t...

Reducere. DescriptionOutlandish is a sun-soaked starter manual to fueling your own epic. In this guide, the canyoneering wordsmith and adventurer Morgan Sjog...

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

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. St. Antony of the Desert, St. Benedict of Nursia, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux rise above all other figures in Catholic history as guides. To trave...

Reducere. Take one sharp, determined deputy and ask her to solve a mystery that has not been solved in thirty years. Stir in a disgruntled local chauvinist, ...

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

DescriptionWhat corners of planet Earth have you explored? What parts of your inner planet have you gotten to know? Are there parts you haven't vis...

Reducere. When a massive sinkhole opens up and swallows a retired couple from Iowa it seems like a freak occurrence. But it's not the only one. Similar sinkh...

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. The Dead Have No Love for the Living In the Land of Dead Horses tells the story of Texas Ranger Jewel T. Lightfoot's pursuit of and confrontation w...

Reducere. At the end of State Road 170 lies Artemis, population 2500. The townspeople had sought out this remote corner of western Texas in hopes of living l...

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

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...

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. "...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. The psychosomatic pain of heartbreak and mourning shows neurobiological evidence of stress similar to being submitted to torture. With time, the in...

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...

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. 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. 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist2017 International Book Awards Finalist2016 International Pacific Book Award Winner After the untimel...

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

Reducere. In these writings monastic wisdom meets the spiritual questions and hungers of our age. ``Much of our life may be a wandering in the desert lands, ...

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. "Long before Scotland Yard or the FBI, Nature fingerprinted her numerous family, " writes Ellsworth Jaeger in his remarkable book about a little-kn...

Reducere. In her teens, Stephany Borges saw her first flamenco show at Los Flamencos de la Bodega in North Beach, San Francisco. From the first note of the f...

Reducere. What can you learn from a hotshot supe?You might be surprised.Clearly, it takes toughness, strength, and will to lead a hotshot crew. Did you know ...

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'...

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. 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. 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. Rich Beem became an overnight folk hero with his victory at the 2002 PGA Championship, where he dazzled fans with fearless shotmaking and glib one-...

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...

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 ...

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

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...