Product Description: The concept of providing for yourself and your family isn't new. Traditional, agrarian societies had a much higher level of independence than we do today, although the work was backbreaking and the lifestyle Spartan. Now, the use of modern materials and technologies combined with a healthy dose of MacGyver-style ingenuity puts an element of self-reliance within anyone's grasp...read more

Product Description: It is 1588 in Eryri, an isolated village deep in the mountains of Wales. For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Sara has had a kinship with animals. Happiest in her hilltop hideout where she can peer down into the village below, Sara knows a strange traveling star has forever changed the way her elders think about their future...read more

Product Description: St. Louis is a funny town. Cartoonwise, that is. Different theories abound, but the Gateway to the West has been unusually starcrossed with some of the most talented and famous cartoonists this country has ever produced. Under the umbrella term of cartooning, these talents are classified as comic-strip artists, political satirists, caricaturists, visual humorists, illustrators, and misunderstood artistic pioneers...read more

Product Description: This authoritative guide to those annoying and embarrassing tricks everyone grows up with (and maybe never outgrow) provides "sage" advice for the young and the young at heart. Arranged in encyclopedic format, each of the more than 50 entries includes a formal definition of the prank, followed by tips for execution and countermeasures...read more

Product Description: A guide to ten beaches around the island, describing setting, special features, amenities, and available activities. Also includes photos, a map, and general and specific cautions.

Product Description: The subject for this study, the Tibetan treasure revealer Gshen-chen Klu-dga, is a crucial figure in the development of Bon as an organised religion after the eleventh century. Here for the first time he is situated in the context of what was happening in Buddhism at the time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Bill McClellan's "On My Won" column appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the 1980's. McClellan is appreciated among his readers for his unassuming manner, his humor and his empathy for people. Although many of his columns focus on court cases and social ills, McClellan often philosophizes about life's misadventures...read more

Product Description: This bibliography, over ten years in the making and numbering over seven hundred items, attempts to provide for the first time a comprehensive listing in chronological sequence of Tibetan-language works belonging to the typical historical genres that have evolved between the 11th century and the present...read more