Consider the world that would exist if the best of the New Age theories were true. All the hippy, pseudo-nazi new-ageisms like the ascension, 12-strand DNA, the photon belt and the three days of darkness... imagine that they're all for real, and not just an excuse to fill the shelves of those irritating shops that have crystals and those feather dreamcatcher things in the window and smell of cheap incense. And imagine if those scrappy little pieces of quartz really did have all those properties? The implacable New Age... no matter how much common sense you throw at it, it just keeps coming......

Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and no one ever possessed these inestimable gifts in richer profusion than Franz Schubert. This new edition of Henry Frost's 1892 biography of Franz Schubert has been edited and revised. The original references to pieces by Opus number have been replaced with the more commonly used D numbers. Many illustrations of places and people have been added throughout the text, and a complete catalog of...

"Our agriculture is wrongly based. It is a system largely directed at curing evils which it itself is responsible for. It is the wisdom of the country and the traditional farmers we need now; the wisdom of those who have built up long-lasting agriculture and whose wisdom lies in tradition. They have fashioned it through physical work and close and immediate observation; through the personal intimacy with nature which we have come to associate with the poet. In fact, peasant life is poetic, and it is so precisely because of this intimacy. The music, dance and art of peasants are the creative...

I once heard that if you've seen one case of Alzheimer's, you've seen one case of Alzheimer's. No two are alike. But there are similarities, especially for the caregiver. Being a caregiver is hard, heartbreaking, and ever changing. As your loved one goes through the stages of decline, each change puts you into a new reality of different circumstances. I was reactive, never proactive. I never knew what was coming next. I wish I had this book to read before facing what I went through. This is one true story about my Mom and her battle with Alzheimer's from beginning to the very end. I've also...