 Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
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By Andrew Solomon
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Check out Andrew Solomon's new book Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, featuring Crazy Wisdom husband-and-wife owners Bill Zirinsky and Ruth Schekter. This fascinating book explores parenting children who present special challenges: kids with autism, Down syndrome, schizophrenia and severe disability, as well as prodigies, dwarfs, children who commit criminal acts, children conceived in rape, and transgender children. (A four-page section appears in the Disability chapter on Bill and Ruth's experience parenting their two children, Sam and Juliana, who both passed away at a young age from a rare degenerative, neurometabolic disorder.) Winner of the National Book Award for Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon was recently interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and Far from the Tree received a glowing review in a recent cover story in the New York Times Book Review. Pick up a copy of this book and transform your understanding of what it means to love. Check out farfromthetree.com for more information about this powerful book--including photos of Sam and Juliana, and a short audio excerpt of Bill and Ruth's interview with Andrew Solomon. Crazy Wisdom Book Event
Sunday, March 10th at 4:30 pm.
An Evening with Andrew Solomon  Sit a Bit: Five-Minute Meditations for Greater Health, Harmony, and Happiness
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By Victor M. Parachin
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There are an abundance of myths and misconceptions about meditation, the most common ones being that meditation is complex, esoteric and time demanding. The reality is that meditation is easily accessible, anyone can do it and it is rewarding to all. In this book you will find 5-minute meditations and methods that can truly transform your life. You can do them right in your own home, at work, even on a train, bus or subway while on your daily commute. All it takes is 5 minutes â€" and an open mind. With them you will lower stress, increase peace, deepen concentration and live a life of health, harmony and happiness.
Also answered in this book:
What is meditation?
Why do people meditate?
Why does meditation reduce stress?
Does meditation conflict with my Christian beliefs?
How is meditation different from relaxation?
Do I have to sit on the floor with my legs crossed?
Should I meditate with my eyes open or closed?
Which meditation is right for me?
 Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun
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By Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Joshua Glenn, Heather Kasunick
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Unbored is the guide and activity book every modern kid needs. Vibrantly designed, lavishly illustrated, brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but also designed to get kids engaged with the wider world. With contributions from a diverse crowd of experts, the book provides kids with information to round out their world view and inspire them to learn more. From how-tos on using the library or writing your representative to a graphic history of video games, the book isn't shy about teaching. Yet the bulk of the 350-page mega-resource presents hands-on activities that further the mission in a fun way, featuring the best of the old as well as the best of the new: classic science experiments, crafts and upcycling, board game hacking, code-cracking, geocaching, skateboard repair, yarn-bombing, stop-action movie-making-plus tons of sidebars and extras, including trivia, best-of lists, and Q&As with leading thinkers whose culture-changing ideas are made accessible to kids for the first time. Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things, and change the world. And it encourages parents to participate. Unbored is exciting to read, easy to use, and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humor. Kids will just think it's awesome.Contributors include Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE magazine; Colin Beavan, the No Impact Man; Douglas Rushkoff, renowned media theorist; Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG; John Edgar Park, a CG supervisor at DisneyToon Studios; and Jean Railla, founder of GetCrafty.com and Etsy consultant.
 Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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By Richard Fortey
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From one of the world's leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life's history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved; the history of life on earth is far older-and odder-than many of us realize.
Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. These are not "living fossils" but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone.
Written in buoyant, sparkling prose, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is a marvelously captivating exploration of the world's old-timers combining the very best of science writing with an explorer's sense of adventure and wonder. |
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