Category Archives: Travel Guides
Nature Tonic: A Year in My Mindful Life
`Nature Tonic` is a beautiful mindful workbook to cherish. It encourages us to connect with nature and grow our own meditative awareness every day. Exploring meaningful ways we can all experience and appreciate the natural world, this precious guide helps us to notice and note nature’s enchanting wonders, focus on the seasons, and experience simply
The Surprising Lives of Animals: How They Can Laugh, Play and Misbehave!
This vividly illustrated book, aimed at children aged 6 and older, shines a light on the animal kingdom like never before. Perfect for young animal lovers, `The Surprising Lives of Animals` is a captivating reading experience that will amaze children and deepen their understanding of the world around them.Did you know that some animals giggle
Mindful Travelling: Journeying the World, Discovering Yourself
Travelling can be frustrating as well as wonderful, and the perfect opportunity to practice mindfulness in technicolor! `Mindful Travelling` explores why broadening our horizons is good for the heart and soul! Sarah Samuel shines light on why travelling offers the glorious opportunity to learn more about who we really are’“outside of our daily routine and
Bobby on the Beat: Memoirs of a London Policeman in the 1960s
Bob Dixon spent years `on the Beat` as a police constable in the Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1960s, witnessing all manner of incidents, from the serious to the ludicrous. Spending the majority of his time in London`s infamous East End dealing with drunks, fatalities on the road, domestic disputes and even suicides, as
The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming: Reflections for Zen Seekers
The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming explores how swimming in rivers, lakes, and seas is the very epitome of conscious living. Zen-seeker Tessa Wardley reconnects the physical and spiritual cycles of life to the changing seasons and flow of wild waters worldwide and leads the reader on to a mindful journey through the natural world.
The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain
The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub – The Tan Hill Inn – located in the bleak landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Having seen an article in the newspaper about the pub`s search for a new
The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything
From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the attempt to understand and condense the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the
The Eleven-Plus Book: Genuine Exam Questions From Yesteryear
Is the nation really dumbing down? Are exams really easier than they were in the good old days? Now`s the chance to find out, with this nostalgic collection of exam questions from the 1940s and 50s. The perfect book to contrast the schooling of yesteryear with modern-day practices and settle the age-old debate about which
The Joy of Mindful Writing: Notes to Inspire Creative Awareness
Embrace the process of writing and the rich potential of conscious creativity and mindfulness with this enlightening insight into mindful writing. Exploring how writing mindfully can create deeper connections with your words, your characters, and yourself, this carefully crafted manual invites you to embrace the writing process as much as the completed work; plotting out
My Wild Life: The Story of a Most Unlikely Animal Rescuer
The true, heart-warming story of how a reluctant City trader left a life of champagne and bonuses to follow his dream of rescuing animals and setting up a wildlife sanctuary. Simon Cowell always wanted to be a vet. Instead, he ended up as a wealthy commodities trader. But with a love of nature and animals,
Mindful Thoughts for Gardeners: Sowing Seeds of Awareness
Embracing gardening as a spiritually enriching activity lovingly reconnects us to nature everyday-this beautifully illustrated little book reminds us how to do it. Rooting each blossoming thought in deep ecology and conscious living, we unearth the power inherent in mindfully lifting the soil; it lifts our souls as well. Mindful Thoughts for Gardeners sows a
The English Village: History and Traditions
A charming guide to the story of the English village, celebrating this beloved heart of the countryside. The village remains a quintessential and much-loved treasure that is often representative of England. This rural idyll has inspired generations of great poets, novelists and artists including the likes of Constable, Hardy and Wordsworth. The English Village champions
Ten Tales from Tibet: Cultivating Compassion
`Ten Tales from Tibet` offers ten gentle, yet powerful, lessons exploring compassion, the very essence of Buddhism. A collection of poetic re-tellings distilled from ancient oral tradition, the stories have been specially chosen by Lama Lhakpa Yeshe because they demonstrate a beautiful wisdom in a simple, yet profound way, and teach us how to nurture
13 Journeys Through Space and Time: Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through thirteen of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain over the last 200 years. With a foreword by ESA astronaut Tim Peake. Started at the Royal Institution (RI) in 1825 by Michael Faraday, the Christmas Lectures have
Creative Flow: A Year in My Mindful Life
Creative Flow is a mindful workbook to treasure, encouraging the use of focused creativity to cultivate beautiful awareness every day. Exploring meaningful ways we can appreciate each of life`s precious moments, this enchanting guide helps us to notice and note, embrace play, and focus again on breathing and simply being. Author Jocelyn de Kwant invites
Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint
“A seriously eye opening, inspiring and thought-provoking book!” Nathan Outlaw”This is not a cook book but a true source of knowledge and inspiration.” Zero Waste Europe”I`ve always said that it`s in a chef`s DNA to utilize what would otherwise be thrown away. We are hardwired to take the uncoveted and make it delicious. But Doug
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It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen`s life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne`s self-imposed exile is nearing its end. When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police
In Dust and Ashes
In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina`s mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina`s father Jonas is convicted of her murder.In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind
In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
National Geographic Traveller`s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn`t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking
