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Reduce stress, release pain, and create bodily harmony with this introduction to qigong and tai chi. Includes practical information, insights, and widely practiced sequences and forms that lead to improved health.

St. Martin's Griffin, 2005. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. By Michael Tse. First edition. OUT OF PRINT. Condition very good, near fine; some sun bleaching on spine, pages very clean. Qigong (pronounced "chee-gong") is a popular form of traditional Chinese exercise that uses the body's vital energy to make you stronger and healthier and live longer. In this book, world-renowned Qigong Master Michael Tse introduces a new series of easy Qigong movements. These movements, because of their simplified form, enables you to focus energy on a particular part of the body for healing and relaxation. This fully illustrated guide to better health is suitable for people new to Qigong as well as more experienced students.

The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and cosmology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences. Quadrivium is the first volume to bring together these four subjects in many hundreds of years. Composed of six successful titles in the Wooden Books series-Sacred Geometry, Sacred Number, Harmonograph, The Elements of Music, Platonic & Archimedean Solids, and A Little Book of Coincidence-it makes ancient wisdom and its astonishing interconnectedness accessible to us today. Beautifully produced in six different colors of ink, Quadrivium will appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, music, astronomy, and how the universe works.

In paperback for the first time, this compact volume presents quantum mechanics for the general reader. It offers a lucid description of the intellectual challenges and disagreements in the study of the behavior of atomic and sub-atomic particles--a field that has completely changed our view of the physical world, but that is still the subject of unresolved debate about its own fundamental interpretation. The work is accessible to those with no background in higher mathematics, but will also interest readers who have a more specialized knowledge of scientific topics. The author has spent most of his working life as a theoretical elementary particle physicist and from 1968 to 1979 was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge. In 1979 he resigned to train for the ministry of the Church of England, and he is now an ordained priest. Here he describes a theory that has been spectacularly successful in predicting the behavior of objects the size of atoms and smaller but that has… Read More

By Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan. Condition very good, moderate wear on jacket. When a molecularly biologist-turned-monk and Buddhist-turned-astrophysicist met, they began discussing the many remarkable connections between the teachings of Buddhism and the findings of recent science. The stimulating journey of discovery the author's traveled in their discussions is re-created beautifully in this book, written in the style of a lively dialogue between friends.

Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years.The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, seductive queens, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe--these determined women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill. This second volume of Alison Weir's critically acclaimed history of the queens of medieval England now moves into a period of even higher drama, from 1154 to 1291: years of chivalry and courtly love, dynastic ambition, conflict between church and throne, baronial wars, and the ruthless interplay between the rival monarchs of Britain and France. We see events such as the murder of… Read More

Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice.Jacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks. Part I deconstructs the ways mainstream yoga perpetuates queer- and transphobia and other systemic oppressions, exploring the intersections of yoga, capitalism, cultural appropriation, and sexual violence. Ballard also addresses the trauma--complex, vicarious, historical, and collective--perpetuated against queer communities. In response, he offers tools for self-compassion, tonglen, lovingkindness, and grounding, and helps readers explore questions like: - What is trauma? How is it a product of injustice--and how can healing it create justice? - The world won't stop being homo- and transphobic, so how do I encounter that in a way that does the least harm? - How do we love what is uniquely trans about us? - What are affinity… Read More

A vibrant, deluxe illustrated tarot deck and guidebook set, centering and celebrating LGBTQ+ identity, created by queer and trans artist team Ash + Chess.AN INCLUSIVE, AFFIRMING DECK: Queer Tarot is a bright, bold interpretation of the tarot that offers inspiration, affirmation, and LGBTQ+ representation. Created by queer and trans artists Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham of Ash + Chess, this reimagining of the classic figures in the Major and Minor Arcana showcases a wide range of gender expressions and sexual orientations, and incorporates queer history and iconography throughout.DELUXE SET: This set includes 78 full-color illustrated tarot cards (3 X 5 inches), shrink wrapped in an interior travel case; a 168-page, full-color illustrated flexibind book (4 3/4 X 6 inches); and a keepsake magnetic closure box with metallic foil accents. Cards and travel case are embedded in an interior flocked tray.FULLY ILLUSTRATED TAROT GUIDEBOOK: The flexibind guidebook provides an illustrated introduction to the… Read More

Used/Nonfiction. Very Good Condition. Minimal wear on the cover sleeve. Just a few dog eared pages. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has become a powerful moral force throughout the world. Now she has authorized Derek Gill to tell, for the first time, the inspiring story of her life, from her birth in Switzerland- a two-and-a-half pound triplet not expected to live- to the achievement of international acclaim as the world's authority on the care of the dying.

Hardcover. New. Sara-Larus Tolley is an account of the Federal Recognition process from an insider's perspective.

Soft cover. Good. A handbook for people with life-threatening illnesses. paperback fair

Soft cover. Solutions to the most common parenting problems from the author of the best selling Gesell Institute series on child development. paperback fine+

Used/ Mystery. This book is in very good condition, cover is clean, pages are crisp. A disillusioned lawyer falls for a client who is seeking a divorce, but when her millionaire husband turns up dead, he has to find the truth about the woman he loves--in a courtroom drama with a startling ending. Reprint.

The colorful, 78-card deck is based on the bestseller Universal Waite Tarot deck. Quick and Easy Tarot has both the divinatory meanings and reversed meanings printed right on the cards, so there is no need to consult a book. The illustrations of this unique deck are based on the iconic artwork of Pamela Colman Smith, which has been re-colored by Mary Hanson-Roberts with soothing colors, and fresh, new details. With insightful divinatory meanings provided by tarot expert Ellen Lytle, Quick and Easy Tarot is the perfect deck for learning and reading tarot cards.Others decks with artwork by Mary Hanson-Roberts include: Hanson-Roberts Tarot and Whimsical Tarot.

"A classic, breathtaking adventure brimful of dangerous magic and clever politics."―Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine ThroneLoyalties are tested and nations clash in the second novel of a fresh epic fantasy series bursting with adventure, intrigue, ambition, and deadly magic.Ryxander, the Warden of Gloamingard, has failed. Unsealed by her blood, the Door hidden within the black tower has opened. Now, for the first time since the age of the Graces, demons walk the world. As tensions grow between nations, all eyes--and daggers--are set on Morgrain, which has fallen under the Demon of Discord's control. When an artifact with the power to wipe out all life in a domain is stolen, Ryx will do whatever it takes to save her home from destruction. But success may demand a larger sacrifice from Ryx than she could have imagined.

Islam/Sufism "Islam's founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse. This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib), The Qur®an: A Verse Translation offers readers the fir rendering in English to echo, in accessible and fluent verse, the sonorous beauty of the Arabic original as well as the complex nuances of its meaning"--