This collection of haiku and Western-style verse by an American living in Japan brings a special poetic vision to the endless cycle of life, and to its separate rhythmic movements. Readers will find again and again in these pages the sharpened sensibility and clear observation developed by the haiku discipline. One of the aims of this book, according to its author, is to reveal the similarities between haiku and Western-style verse. Its undeniable...

"Presenting ways in which restorative yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers and therapists to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. The book describes how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a more targeted approach to treatment is necessary, as well as its triggers. It also considers the implications of an increasingly diverse and global yoga community,...

Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, and foods eaten on the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark up the Missouri River to the Pacific as they charted the vast territory of the Louisiana Purchase. Includes recipes.

"Covers all the basics of horse riding, from mounting and dismounting to saddle positions, holding the reins, and trotting, cantering, and galloping"--Provided by publisher.

"Take a walk down the aisle -- Western style -- with three tales of unbridled love from a trio of New York Times bestselling authors who know the way to a cowboy's heart"--

"A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America--from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China. The strength of that Silk Road--the trade...