Now for the first time, a book about traditional Native American healing techniques authored by a Native American practitioner. Drawing strongly from Muskogee tradition, herbal teacher Tis Mal Crow examines common wild plants and in a clear and authoritative style explains how to identify, honor, select, and prepare them for use.

It's time to leave behind the tired nature-versus-nurture debate. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test , Marlene Zuk asks a more fascinating question: How does behaviour evolve, and how is that process similar-and different-in people and animals? Drawing from a wealth of research, including her own on insects, she explores how genes and the environment work together to produce cockatoos that dance to rock music and ants that heal their injured companions. She follows the different paths cats and dogs took to living with humans and asks whether bees are domestic animals. In exploring intelligence, mating behaviour and fighting disease, Zuk turns to smart spiders, silent crickets and crafty crows. She shows how neither our behaviour nor that of other animals is dictated solely by genes, and that animal behaviour can be remarkably similar to human behaviour-and wonderfully complicated in its own right.

Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as its proponents say it should, there would not be the vast variety of interpretive differences that biblicists themselves reach when they actually read and interpret the Bible. Far from challenging the inspiration and authority of Scripture, Smith critiques a particular rendering of it, encouraging evangelicals to seek a more responsible, coherent, and defensible approach to biblical authority.
This important book has generated lively discussion and debate. The paperback edition adds a new chapter responding to the conversation that the cloth edition has sparked.

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to each other through complex circle and waggle dances. For centuries, beekeepers had observed these curious movements in hives, and others had speculated about the possibility of a bee language used to manage the work of the hive. But it took von Frisch to determine that the bees' dances communicated precise information about the distance and direction of food sources. As Tania Munz shows in this exploration of von Frisch's life and research, this important discovery came amid the tense circumstances of the Third Reich.The Dancing Bees draws on previously unexplored archival sources in order to reveal von Frisch's full story, including how the Nazi government in 1940 determined that he was one-quarter Jewish, revoked his teaching privileges, and sought to prevent him from working altogether until circumstances intervened. In the 1940s, bee populations throughout Europe were facing the devastating effects of a plague (just as they are today), and because the bees were essential to the pollination of crops, von Frisch's research was deemed critical to maintaining the food supply of a nation at war. The bees, as von Frisch put it years later, saved his life. Munz not only explores von Frisch's complicated career in the Third Reich, she looks closely at the legacy of his work and the later debates about the significance of the bee language and the science of animal communication. This first in-depth biography of von Frisch paints a complex and nuanced portrait of a scientist at work under Nazi rule. The Dancing Bees will be welcomed by anyone seeking to better understand not only this chapter of the history of science but also the peculiar waggles of our garden visitors.

With this sturdy set of six pre-cut stencils, anyone can draw a variety of wildflowers: Bluebell, Swamp Rose Mallow, Virginia Creeper, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Black-eyed Susan, and Lady's Slipper. They are great for scrapbooks and other print projects -- plus you can use them as attractive patterns for use in embroidery and other crafts.

This sweet pink gingham baby book for girls is 64 pages of keepsake records of a baby's birth and first year. There are prompted pages to fill in, scrapbooking pages for photos and more, small envelopes for the hospital bracelet and a lock of hair from the first haircut, and 2 full pockets for assorted keepsakes. The pages carry quotes, poems, prayers and verse from Scripture - all conveying the beauty and design of bringing forth this new life.

The padded cover has a die-cut photo frame for you to insert your own favorite picture. A magnetic flap keeps the book closed and tidy. The full-color pages are acid-free.

- 64 Full-Color Pages

- Padded Cover

- Magnetic Closure

- Die-Cut Cover Photo Frame

- Acid-Free Paper

- Packaged In Gift Box With Acetate Window

Take sexy to a whole new level with this kinky version of truth or dare. Featuring 50 sticks printed with a racy truth on one side and a dirty dare on the other, this game is provocative but approachable, offering a fun and easy way to explore kink. Couples will be confessing steamy secrets and exploring undiscovered desires in no time. Let the naughty fun begin!

Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. "A Post-May Adolescence" is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, "L'Eau froide." The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely personal way of making films. "A Post-May Adolescence" was first published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on Assayas' body of work, "Olivier Assayas," edited by Kent Jones, also published by the Austrian Film Museum.

Track and analyze your connection with the world around you with this 90-day journal featuring morning and evening practices designed to help you reconnect with your environment and live a more present life. In this highly digital, fast-paced world, maintaining meaningful connections with friends and family can become a problem for even the most mindful of us, and sometimes it becomes necessary to take a step back and reconnect. Connection: A Day and Night Reflection Journal is a conscious tool to help you track and analyze your daily interactions with those around you, giving you space to reflect and plan better ways to establish and maintain meaningful relationships with those in your life. Designed as a 90-day support system, each daily spread includes a morning practice for beginning your day with intention and an evening practice for reflecting on your challenges and achievements. Featuring delicate illustrations and a graceful, contemporary design, this 90-day journal is perfect for those trying to reconnect with themselves, their family, and their friends.

A MAGICAL COURSE IN TAROT is a hands-on connection to the mystery of Tarot. Michele Morgan's method taps directly into the intuitive and psychic energies inherent in everyone, bypassing the traditional - and painstaking - memorisation of the detailed definitions of the 78 cards and moving the reader quickly and directly into reading the cards. The reader is guided to working easily with any and all decks.

This Galison magnet features an artistically stunning design dreamt-up by world-renown architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Its captivating focal point is an exterior pattern of the SC Johnson Administrative building.

Play Cards and Learn About Bears!Anyone who enjoys wildlife and nature will love these cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by Stan Tekiela's famous Bears photography book, this gorgeous deck features full-color photographs of North America's three bear species: black bears, grizzly bears (brown bears), and polar bears. Play card games while learning about bears. The deck is a fun and thoughtful gift.

In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we." Following the tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to surprise them with signals of transcendence and the credibility of the gospel. This book is the fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers of our era."

La apologetica catolica es la parte de la teologia que busca explicar las razones de la fe. Demuestra las razones de la doctrina ante los adversarios y senala los errores para proteger su integridad. A este respecto decia Juan Pablo II: "Es esencial desarrollar en vuestras Iglesias particulares una nueva apologetica para vuestro pueblo, a fin de que comprenda lo que ensena la Iglesia y asi pueda dar razon de su esperanza...En un mundo donde las personas estan sometidas a la continua presion cultural e ideologica de los medios de comunicacion social y a la actitud agresivamente anticatolica de muchas sectas, es esencial que los catolicos conozcan lo que ensena la Iglesia, comprendan esa ensenanza y experimenten su fuerza liberadora. Sin esa comprension faltara la energia espiritual necesaria para la vida cristiana y para la obra de evangelizacion" En este libro recopilo los que considero mis mejores articulos apologeticos publicados a lo largo de 12 anos.

After years as believers, we can come to find the Christian life too complicated, our zeal diminished, and our relationship with Jesus grown cold and predictable. Award-winning author and respected pastor John MacArthur reminds readers that what's been lost can be found again. This practical tool will help Christians restore the fire and conviction of their first love for Christ by helping them better understand his character, his glory, and his love for them. MacArthur counsels all who want more love for Christ to pursue him by making Christ their focus each day, in every activity, in every contact, and in every thought.

Light up your life and your thoughts with the Itty-Bitty Marquee! The perfect way to display -- and draw attention to -- your personalized messages in your home or office. This customizable kit includes: - A high-quality aluminum framed Mini marquee sign (3.62" x 2.78") with unique light feature, including 4 changeable modes: Steady, Twinkle, Slow Fade, and Chasing - 100 PVC tiles featuring an assortment of letters, numbers, characters, and symbols

A deck of playing cards featuring 52 different Krampus images. High-quality printing and lamination. The images are reproduced from vintage, pre-WWI Krampus postcards. In the early Christmas traditions of Europe, the Krampus was St. Nikolaus' dark servant-a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long, slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps At Christmastime, St. Nicholas rewards children who've been good all year-but those who have behaved badly are visited by the Krampus

These high-quality note cards feature six traditional Asian prints. On the back of each card is a an introduction detailing the history or meaning behind each design. Kimono Note Cards are an excellent value--a fraction of the price of other fine art print cards with envelopes. These elegant blank note cards & envelopes are printed with six different patterns and accompanying envelopes On the back of each card is a short description of the front design 6 folded blank note cards--6 x 4 inches (152 x 102 mm) 6 envelopes--6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (160 x 108 mm)