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In What Is Macrobiotics? one of the world's leading authorities proposes a working definition for the 21st century. Use the principles and guidelines presented in this book as the foundation for your practice of the macrobiotic way of health and happiness, and as a guide for developing your own dynamic and ever-changing definition. Edward Esko is the founder of the International Macrobiotic Institute (IMI) and former director of education at the Kushi Institute.

In this volume the author of Contemporary Macrobiotics makes the case for a peaceful universe. Using traditional Eastern cosmology, he reviews and critiques mainstream concepts like the big bang and thermonuclear sun, while offering a fresh vision of the cosmos.

In Macrobiotic Nutrition, macrobiotic author and educator Edward Esko shares insights and inspiration on selecting, cooking, and eating healthy plant-based foods. He reveals secrets of nutrition that are beyond the scope of modern understanding, and invites listeners to use these principles to create an optimum diet for health and well being.

Are you interested in the ideas and thoughts that Wicca followers promulgate? Do you feel a connection with nature on a deep, spiritual level? Do you feel peace and wonder when you step outside and walk among the plants and trees? Do you feel that all living things hold value on physical, emotional and spiritual level? If you’re looking to find a religion or spiritual practice that worships nature without specific rules or conforming restrictions, consider listening to learn about the religion of Wicca.

A beautiful woman, a powerful Mexican rancher, and an exotic new breed of cattle come to John Slaughter’s San Bernardino Valley ranch, along with the prospect of making a small fortune. While Slaughter’s men are out keeping the peace in Tombstone, an act of betrayal turns up the heat under his own roof, and a killer is stalking Slaughter’s wealthy Mexican guest. Indians suddenly savagely attack Slaughter’s ranch, but it is only the first shot in a bigger, blazing Arizona bloodbath.

When a lovely lady steps off a dusty stagecoach in Hangtree, the hardest heart skips a beat - and Sam Heller falls hard for her. What Hangtree doesn't know, however, is that Julia Pepperday isn't who she pretends to be. She is the daughter of the late Black Ear Skinner, a notorious outlaw who wanted his only child to have all the advantages in life and sent her back east. Black Ear Skinner's apple hasn't fallen far from the tree though. Julia has turned her back on the fancy boarding school and set her sights on Hangtree, because that's where Sam Heller has built a hard-earned fortune.

In Broken Bridle, Wyoming, Jeremiah Purdy, the town's tinhorn sheriff is a college kid who wants to become governor some day. But outlaw Darius Pike couldn't care less about anyone else's ambitions. With Pike holding Broken Bridle in a bloody grip of terror, Purdy sends a desperate cry for help - to Shawn O'Brien, town tamer. Shawn's mission: ride to Wyoming and pry Broken Bridle loose from Pike's reign of fear. 

In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp. Less infamous but equally inhumane was a Yankee prison camp run by General Thomas Wainwright. In the war’s aftermath, a survivor of Wainwright’s cruelty summons Joe Buckhorn to New Orleans, and asks the gunslinger to kill the general — not simply for revenge, but to stop another atrocity.

Western Missouri. Former army scout Jack Gregory returns from battle to a homestead in ruins. A wanted man with no place to go, he chooses an even deadlier career - as a scout for General George Armstrong Custer. Under a new name, Jack serves bravely in the Seventh Cavalry. But when Custer’s disastrous leadership ends in devastating slaughter, Jack sets off to forge his own destiny. Winning a small ranch in a card game, he hopes to settle down and live a peaceful life. 

From the window of a Copenhagen almshouse, an elderly woman gazes out upon a sunlit rampart where children play, laugh, and run barefoot through the grass. As she watches them, her own life unfolds in memory: youthful hope, first love, the slow passing of years, and the quiet sorrow of loss. The joy of childhood continues, unaware, while her own story has reached its stillness.