Happy childhood summers by the sea at Pigeon Cove rebellion against Victorian parents Bohemian life in the Roaring Twenties ill-fated marriage a mental hospital stay child rearing in dire poverty These are some of the memories that Lois Henderson Bayliss reflects on through the pages of her Journal, while confiding thoughts about her love life, her family, and some prominent inhabitants of 1930s Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In Biker Chicz of North America, Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq have compiled in-depth profiles of twenty-two fascinating women who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Sam Cottle grew up in a fishing family and, thanks to the inspiration of his grandfather, ';Cap,' who nearly single-handedly created the port of Point Judith in southern Rhode Island, he became a successful captain in his own right.
Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield.
The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly ';Riveting' Sunday Telegraph ';Behind every great interview is a great booker Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan Sam McAlister is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew, described as ';a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion'.
A tender account - by turns cultural exploration and memoir of a young womans firsthand experience of change and continuity in one of the worlds most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and horse culture.
In this lovely meditation on ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging - Joan Stamm shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavor converge and indeed become thoroughly intertwined.
Sumi Loundons Blue Jean Buddha was hailed by the New York Times Review of Books as a bellwether anthology--mapping the spiritual trails followed by a generation of American Buddhist youths.
In an age when the Dalai Lama's image has been used to sell computers, rock stars have used tantra to enhance their image, and for many, Nirvana calls to mind a a favorite band, what does Buddhism mean to twenty-somethings?