by Rabindranath Tagore, Paperback
Hidden inside an ancient palanquin on a hot lonely afternoon, a young boy sets off on an imaginary adventure. He encounters gangs of bandits, arrives at palaces where kings bathe in sandalwood-scented water, and the hunter accompanying him gets rid if the tiger lurking in the forest with a bang! of his gun. The boy, gifted with a vivid imagination and a sensitive mind, grew up to become one of India's great poets and thinkers. In Boyhood Days, Rabindranath Tagore recounts his growing up years with gentle wit and humor. He describes life in nineteenth-century Kolkata when the only light in the evening came from castor-oil lamps; when hackney carriages raced through the city's streets and women traveled in palanquins to the Ganga for their bath. He writes about his early love for music and poetry, the myriad influences that shaped his thinking and about the other members of his large, gifted family. Boyhood Days brings to life an era long past and traces the journey of an icon from childhood to the time he takes his first steps into the world of literature. $9.00 - Order Online from Quest
Rabindranath Tagore: My Life In My Words
by Uma Das Gupta, Hardcover
Rabindranth Tagore made no distinction between his art and his life. We cannot know and understand one without the other, and with this beautifully judged anthology Uma Das Gupta gives us immediate access to both. It tells a story of courage, sensitivity, generosity, imagination and energy in which Bengalis and Indians can take special pride but which can make us all, in the end, proud to be human. Few of us can live as fully and nobly as Tagore, but reading his life in his own words can inspire us to try. $25.00
by Jill Fullerton-Smith, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book that separates fact from fiction in the ever-changing world of food and health, with a foreword by Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Not a week passes without one food-related issue or another making the headlines. We worry about additives, preservatives, eating disorders, hygiene, heart disease, cancer, and calories (just to name a few), so it's little wonder that we are utterly confused! In an attempt to make sense of the bewildering and often contradictory information on what to eat and why, the Discovery Health Channel® will debut The Truth About Food in September 2007. This major five-part series is hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the bestselling author of YOU: The Owner’s Manual. This companion book to the series synthesizes years of research and groundbreaking experiments by leading research centers, hospitals, and doctors, carried out especially for the series. This is the first book to finally assemble some of the most important findings and then put them through rigorous testing.
FIND OUT IF:
Can calcium help you absorb fewer calories? Are there foods that increase male fertility?Are tomatoes are nature’s sunscreen?
The Truth About Food is arranged into six main sections:
1) How to Stay Young and Beautiful
2) How to Be Sexy and Fertile
3) How to Look Good and Stay Slim
4) How to Perform at Your Peak
5) How to Stay Healthy
6) How to Raise Healthy Kids
User-friendly and engaging, The Truth About Food features over 60 illustrations, clear explanations of scientific terms, helpful tips, chapter summaries, and much more. This isthe one food book you won’t want to be without!
Biography
Jill Fullerton-Smith is an award-winning filmmaker and producer of BBC science programming, including the series The Truth About Food, on which this book is based. After ten years with the BBC in London, she now runs their specialist factual programming department in Scotland.
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D., is vice chairman of surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Integrated Medical Center at Columbia University Medical Center and professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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by James Lovelock, Paperback
The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from "flipping" into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of Silent Spring, this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future.
About the Author:
James Lovelock is the originator of Gaia Theory, on which he has written several books. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He has received honorary Doctorates in Science from seven universities in England, Sweden, and the United States. He was made a C.B.E. in 1990, and in 2003 a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen. He lives in Cornwall, Britain.
The Washington Post - Tim Flannery
Minor technical blemishes fail to tarnish this luminous, challenging and timely work. Because it is so full of vital and interesting facts, The Revenge of Gaia is essential reading for anyone interested in climate change. And whatever your politics, it's sure to offend.
The Fasting Path
by Stephen Harrod Buhner, Hardcover
A centuries-old tradition, fasting has long been recognized for its ability to increase one's sensitivity to the nonmaterial world, to enhance one's personal experience of the sacredness of the self and the universe, and to help one regain a sense of orientation and purpose.
In order to be truly transformed, you must first empty yourself. Use The Fasting Path as your guide to help you fully experience the deep and intricate relationship of the mind, the body, and the spirit world. $22.95
Gaia Speaks: Sacred Earth Wisdom
by Pepper Lewis, Paperback
This book has been written with you in mind and has been specifically dedicated to you. I am the nonphysical sentience of this planet - simply put, I am the planet Earth. I am the body and the soul of the planet you currently inhabit. My sentience guides and enlivens all that surrounds the planet as well as all that is upon and within her. Today, two priorities guide my sentience. The first is to erase the perception of separation that seems to threaten the planet. The second priority is to awaken and expand the collective consciousness. It is my hope that you will find my message meaningful and that you will continue to develop an appreciation for who and what you are.
-Gaia
$19.95
by Pepper Lewis, Paperback
This book is like a mystery that will unfold as you read it. More than a collection of pages, you will find that it is one part textbook and one part oracle. You might even wonder if it is biographical or autobiographical in nature, as the coincidental references to your own life will seem almost uncanny. How can that be? Gaia is a living/learning/teaching library of everything that is, was, or might be related to the Earth. Because you are Gaian, you are also a part of the great living library that is Gaia; you are a library within Gaia, one whose contents are a collection of ever-unfloding experiences. You are a lifetimes-old master storyteller, unraveling each tantalizing chapter. That is why you cannot help but find yourself within these pages.
Your purposes are made of multidimensional similes and metaphors designed to stimulate, encourage, create and resolve. As Gaia tells it, you have at least seven purposes or reasons for being. You instinctively know one or more of these, but others may remain hidden for many years or throughout entire lives. Given this expanded view of what you are and why you are here, you can begin to see how this book might be of use to you. $19.95