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In 1955, a recent immigrant to Canada embarked on a journey to India that would ultimately revolutionize the interpretation of yoga in he West. Her pilgrimage is vividly captured in Radha: Diary of a Woman's Search, an account of Swami Sivananda Radha's journey of personal transformation.
This book intelligently and intimately illustrates the challenges and victories of taking the first steps on the spiritual path. From the banks of the Ganges and the streets of Rishikesh, this engaging pilgrimage will take you inside the heart and mind of one of the foremost yoginis of our time.
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Beautiful diary notes of a sincere sadhaka.......2007-05-07
Swami Sivananda is my guru's guru's guru. Swami Radha is a peer of my guru's guru.
It is so wonderful to read of women yogis - those who can and do tread the Dharmic path successfully.
This is a wonderful read that transmits more than the words in print.
Beautifully written.......2007-01-11
An intimate and detailed narrative. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in Radha's life and in yoga in general.
yoga woman.......2007-01-09
Uplifting journal like account from a white womans perspective.
great read on the yogic path.
Historic spiritual autobiography.......2006-11-04
This is a great snapshot of the internal world of a spiritual transformation. Swami Radhananda gives a gripping account of a few months studying meditation in India. She is very frank with her mistakes and experiences. If you liked Autobiography of a Yogi, you will enjoy this book.
Inspiring.......2004-02-05
An uplifting, inspiring, enthralling diary. Recommended by Mas Vidal in Yoga Journal, I bought the book, and read the entire thing in one sitting. You will be left with an uplifted, peaceful spirit. I only wish I could have met Radha while she was still alive.
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The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.
Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator — they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it’s all gone wrong — Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won’t be time for anyone to invent space flight, and the human race will be turned into ice-pops.
Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale’s dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin whose bestselling
Theology of Species made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures?
Can the God of Evolution come to humanity’s aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place?
From the Hardcover edition.
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Pratchett meant for thoughtful people that Like thinking.......2007-01-07
Pratchett writes books for different levels of readers. There are the more youth oriented books like the johnny maxwell trilogy, the bromeliad trilogy, and the recent tiffany aching based stories.
Riding the middle line is pratchett's regualr canon, which is pretty much most of his discworld stories. This is where most people discover and enjoy their pratchett. But it is by no means the limit of where terry enjoys taking his penchant for telling a story often strewn with his narrators delivering frequent wry and thoughtful insights and humourous footnotes.
Now for those who can mentally chew the stronger stuff found in the deeper reaches of human thought, philosophy and science, we have the science of discworld books, which presently stands as a trilogy. These are meant most for people who happily devour that sort of knowledge but who would still appreciate a pratchett hand in delivering it to the reader.
When it comes to the latter category, those people who choose to peruse the science of discworld books need to understand that expecting the reading level or story-only narratives found in pratchett's other works is going to me inherently disappointing. It's pitiful to see those giving the science of discworld books negative ratings because they view them through the usual filters they might use to read his general fare.
If you understand pratchett's way of telling a story and like to pick up some steven hawking too, then you should give the science of discworld series your attention. They will make you laugh and think in ways that are delicious to an intellectual. But if you just enjoy a fun romp without too deep a delving beyond the immediate story, stay away from them unless you become a hardcore pratchett addict.
Enjoy!
The Evolution of Evolution.......2006-08-13
Terry Pratchett is always a joy to read and it is pretty obvious why he is one of the best selling, if not the best selling British author of all time. To say that Mr. Pratchett is funny is like saying that ice cream is cold. If you have read any of his books you will know that Terry Pratchett is not only funny he is hilarious. I think that I have a good sense of humour, but for me laughing out loud while reading a book is something that does not usually happen.
The author has the knack of taking everyday happenings, postal strikes, newspaper publishing, government policies, the police force, I could go on and on and coming up with a solution for all their problems. He makes the reader thinks to himself, well, why doesn't it work like that in real life?
In this book the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for the state that Roundworld has got itself into. After all they created the damn thing in the first place. The problem is things are happening that shouldn't be happening, and things aren't happening that should be happening, if you see what I mean.
History is slowly winding down and if the wizards don't put their finger . . . hand . . . wand in the mix, the human race are going to end up like the dinosaurs and we all know what happened to them.
Just another hilarious episode from the daddy of them all. Laugh, I nearly took the dog for a walk.
Duller than Thud!.......2005-12-04
The science chapters get longer and duller and will cure most insomnias. The Diskworld story chapters get shorter and thinner and don't add up to even an Ok short Watch story. I appreciate what this series of books is trying to do, but please Mr. Pratchett, let it go. I've been a Diskworld fan for years and I'm sad to say that I've watched the humor dry out from book to book. Thud! was boring, mostly unfunny, and barely insightful in a politically-correct-why-can't-we-all-just-get-along way, but this one is worse. Even hard-core Pratchett junkies should take a pass on it.
Even adulterated Pratchett is worth reading.......2005-09-24
Parts are similar to Gould's essays on the history of the development of evolutionary theory, parts are similar to scientific/philosophical works like Godel/Escher/Bach, and parts are a poor Discworld novel. All in all, readable, but nothing classic. I might force my kids to read this when they get old enough.
just an excellent read.......2005-09-22
a very interesting read, good science combined with a great story!
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Global Change and Mountain Regions:: An Overview of Current Knowledge (Advances in Global Change Research)
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Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global environmental change threatens the integrity of these systems and their ability to provide the goods and services upon which humanity has come to depend. This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than 60 contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions.
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Mountain Timberlines: Ecology, Patchiness, and Dynamics (ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH)
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This book is published as part of the broad area of research on the changing global climate and its impact on the environment. The upper timberline is the most conspicuous vegetation limit in high-mountain areas of all continents and islands, except for the Antarctic. The dynamics of timberline establishment and maintenance could well be affected by global warming in a number of ways. From a global viewpoint, the present timberline is far from being caused only by the current climate, but instead reflects also history of climate and local site conditions. Thus, the main objective of the book is to explain mountain timberlines as space- and time-related phenomena.
After an introduction into the complexities of the subject, the history and present state of timberline research are outlined. Chapters on the tree species at timberline and on the relationship of timberline elevation to macroclimate, climate character and the mass-elevation effect follow. The main chapter deals with the physiognomic and ecological differentiation of upper timberlines, in particular with the timberline controlling physical and biological factors, their interactions and their influence on the spatial structures and temporal dynamics in the timberline ecotone. Also, the influences of trees and tree stands on site conditions are considered. This is the base for understanding the response of timberlines to climatically driven changes, which are considered in the last chapters.
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Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future (ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH)
Henry F. Ed. Diaz
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The world's mountain systems, including the people in them, have gained international attention in the last few decades. The United Nations' International Year of Mountains-2002 can be regarded as the culmination of a long process involving research, development of research networks, a greater awareness by various sectors of society of the critical importance of mountain regions for a sustainable future, and recognition of that fact by policy makers.
This volume reviews recent climatic trends in high elevation regions of the world, assessing the reliability of various environmental indicators that can be used for monitoring climatic change, and assessing whether physical impacts of climatic change in high elevation areas are becoming evident, and to discuss a range of monitoring strategies needed to observe and to understand the nature of such changes.
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Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites
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This book provides a unique, in-depth view of past, present and potential future climatic change in mountain regions, and in particular on the mechanisms which are responsible for this change. Other books which focus on environmental change in mountains focus more generally on the impacts of this change on mountain systems, rather than on the regional features of climatic change itself. The book enters into a high level of detail concerning results of international investigations which involve specialists from numerous climate-related disciplines. The book can be used in an academic and research context, for advanced graduate and doctoral students, as well as researchers working in various domains of relevance to climatic change issues. The book also has relevance in the context of future activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in terms of providing up-to-date knowledge of fundamental mechanisms and consequences of climatic change in mountain regions.
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Environmental Change in Mountains and Uplands (Key Issues in Environmental Change)
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This book provides a detailed account of the fragile and marginal physical and socio-economic systems which make up the world's mountain regions. Discussing the direct and indirect impacts of human interference with ecosystems, it then turns to the social and economic consequences of such environmental change--both for the mountain environment itself and for the populations who depend on mountain resources for their economic sustenance.
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Global Change in the Mountains
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This volume contains data and analyses of the role and significance of global change for mountain regions and peoples. In nine major sections containing 78 extended abstracts, the book documents scientific findings concerning the role of mountains in the Earth system, especially in regard to the climate, functioning of ecosystems, and transport of materials and water, as well as the role of mountains in providing homes and jobs. The book's nine main sections cover the mountain regions of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This volume is a product of a project of the European Union's (EU) European Network for Research in Global Change, known as ENRICH, and a key contribution to understanding the integration of earth system and human system perspectives that underpin the philosophy of the Fifth EU Research and Technological Development Framework Programme. Includes bibliographic references, a list of acronyms, and index. This volume is the Proceedings of the European Conference on Environmental and Societal Change in Mountain Regions held in Oxford, UK, 18-20 December 1997.
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Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge (Advances in Global Change Research)
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This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. Paradoxically, water resources have been identified both as too plentiful, producing major disasters, and increasingly vulnerable to shortages. Addressing both of these aspects requires attention to physical hydrological processes as well as human activities that affect water supply and demand. Mountains regions are the sources of many great water systems and often have long traditions of effective water management and therefore provide special insights into general problems of water use, including upstream-downstream and transboundry relations as well as natural hazard management. This volume will address critical contemporary and global issues through the lens of global change processes and with a focus on mountain regions to bring state of the art science from numerous disciplines to examine important environmental and policy questions related to water resources
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From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet. Only through distribution of meteoclimatic and atmospheric composition monitoring points in mountain regions, coupled with modelling simulations, will we be able to thoroughly analyze complex pollutant transport mechanisms and better understand imminent global changes. The Himalayan-Karakoram range. For its elevation and geographic location, represents one of the ideal places for studying long-range pollutant transport systems on a regional scale and for monitoring changes index by mechanisms that act on global scale through monsoon circulation.
The Ev-K2-CNR committee with this book reached its objective of creating a unique opportunity for dialogue between major environmental scientists and experts, highlighting the close relationship between diverse themes with a common underlying thread: in-depth comprehension of the environmental phenomena which are determining the health of our planet.
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The recent tectonic history of the Dominion Range is a key component in the debate over the age and significance of the Sirius Group glacial sediments. Outcrops at Oliver Bluffs along the Beardmore Glacier contain fossil wood (Nothofagus), mollusks, fish and insects that have been biostratigraphically dated by close association with late Pliocene (
<3.8 Ma) marine diatoms, implying a significantly warmer climate at that time. The sediments are inferred to have been deposited adjacent to a tidewater glacier at the head of an ancestral Beardmore Fjord and subsequently uplifted to their present elevation of ~1800 m. Evidence for post depositional uplift at the Dominion Range includes the presence of glacial-marine sediments and normal faults which displace Sirius Group deposits up to 300 m. New surficial mapping of lateral moraines and fault scarps, combined with ^3He surface exposure dating, place limits on the age and uplift rates of these key Sirius Group sediments. A series of Beardmore lateral moraines with exposure ages that range from
<20 ka to >2 Ma are separated by only 130 m elevation, indicating little change in elevation during the interval and that Plio-Pleistocene tectonic activity in the Dominion Range has been minimal. Surface exposure ages indicate the Koski fault scarp formed prior to 2 Ma and that erosion rates of the semi-lithified Sirius tills exposed in the scarp are only ca. 2.5 m/Ma, consistent with pervasive cold, arid climatic conditions. Surface exposure ages of moraine boulders overlying Sirius till, and offset by the faults, are between 1.9 and 5.1 Ma, assuming no erosion and constant elevation. Models of cosmogenic ^3He accumulation in the moraine boulders, that place the Sirius Group near sea level 3.8 Ma, show that the biostratigraphic age and the cosmogenic nuclide concentrations can be reconciled only with long (>4 Myr) exposure prior to deposition of the Nothofagus bearing units. This scenario is incompatible with the observed stratigraphy and climatic conditions necessary to support Nothofagus, and indicates these key Sirius group sediments are much older than 3.8 Ma. The conspicuous faults and grabens in the Dominion Range are interpreted as sackungen features attributed to gravitational failure resulting from oversteepening of the range flanks by glacial erosion by the Beardmore and Mill outlet glaciers rather than the result of tectonic uplift.
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This study uses the database from national glacier inventories in the European Alps and the Southern Alps of New Zealand (hereinafter called the New Zealand Alps), which contain for the time of the mid-1970s a total of 5154 and 3132 perennial surface ice bodies, covering 2909 km^2 and 1139 km^2 respectively, and applies to the mid-1970s. Only 1763 (35%) for the European Alps and 702 (22%) for the New Zealand Alps, of these are ice bodies larger than 0.2 km^2, covering 2533 km^2 (88%) and 979 km^2 (86%) of the total surface area, respectively containing useful information on surface area, total length, and maximum and minimum altitude. A parameterisation scheme using these four variables to estimate specific mean mass balance and glacier volumes in the mid-1970s and in the '1850 extent' applied to the samples with surface areas greater than 0.2 km^2, yielded a total volume of 126 km^3 for the European Alps and 67 km^3 for the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The calculated area change since the '1850 extent' is -49% for the New Zealand Alps and -35% for the European Alps, with a corresponding volume loss of -61% and -48%, respectively. From cumulative measured length change data an average mass balance for the investigated period could be determined at -0.33 m water equivalent (we) per year for the European Alps and -1.25 m we for the 'wet' and -0.54 m we per year for the 'dry' glaciers of the New Zealand Alps. However, there is some uncertainty in several unknown factors, such as the values used in the parameterisation scheme of mass balance gradients, which, in New Zealand vary between 5 and 25 mm m^-^1.
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