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Concrete steps toward forging a strong partnership and clear stream of communication with your horse.

True bonding is the key to happiness, in both human and horse. We are both social creatures who are instinctually drawn toward getting involved with each other, and finding ways to not only create deep trust in another (your horse) but also experiencing it (yourself), creates this kind of bond. In these pages, Anne Krüger-Degener, founder of a systematic approach to communication called HarmoniLogie®, provides a practical guide to how you can build or repair these bonds. Part of this formula is a solid foundation of understanding built from a sense of empathy, benevolence, and compassion. The other part is a clear and unambiguous exchange of information, and this requires more than just love for your horse. It needs a training system ensures a smooth exchange of information between you.

Krüger-Degener knows that horses and humans often “talk past each other.” She helps readers learn to observe horses like a biologist, “listening” with all their senses, and reading not only what is there, but also what is not there. When in doubt of what a horse may be telling us, she guides us toward slower, friendlier, quieter questions, ensuring that we prioritize compromise over dominance in the relationship.

Inspirational case studies of students and horses are shared as readers are taught how to:

• Analyze spatial changes when working with horses.
• Work with activation and defense zones.
• Recognize geometric patterns in communication.
• Resist the urge to speak “gibberish” to horses.
• Translate the bonds built on the ground to the work you do under saddle.
• Build intervals into training that accommodates natural performance curves.
• And much more.

With sensible advice that still puts the horse first, above all, Krüger-Degener’s fundamental keys to making your horse happy are integral pieces to modern-day training and competing, ensuring progress not only as performers, whatever your sport, but as partners in life.

Create stunning modern quilts and quilted projects from jelly rolls, layer cakes and other pre-cuts fabric bundles. Featuring 25 small and large projects, each made from pre-cut bundles of fabric, including full sized bed quilts, bags and table runners. Be inspired by fabulous contemporary quilt designs using the most exciting fabric lines, and use up the leftovers to make quick and easy small quilted projects.

250+ Tips that Cover Autism's 20 Biggest Challenges!

Lifehacks for a Simpler Life with Autism covers—with humor and sensitivity—the twenty biggest challenges for people with autism. Written in collaboration with autistic individuals, it illustrates what autistics can do themselves to tackle these challenges, and also how others can help. Though the book is primarily written for adults with autism, it is also an excellent guide for their friends, neighbors, partners, parents and employers. By reading about the challenges and the accompanying tips, people without autism can also gain a better insight into what autistics struggle with, where these challenges come from, and how they can help and support them.

As mentioned, the selection of the twenty challenges and all tips in this book are the result of meetings of people with autism, more specifically ambassadors of “Strongmakers in Autism.” This is an organization that strives for full inclusion of autistic individuals. At the back of the book the ambassadors introduce themselves.

Topics include:

• Setting boundaries and daring to say no
• Planning and organizing
• Making choices and decisions
• Dealing with unpredictable events
• And much more!

What knowledge is indispensable for the landscape architect? The answers to this question are as diverse as landscape architecture itself.
In this book 50 landscape architects from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia each give five responses. These include practitioners and teachers, young start-ups as well as internationally established firms.

The publication illustrates the complex and dynamic nature of the discipline, and presents a diverse cross-section of the core expertise of this field. At the same time, it allows the reader to trace the individual attitudes into which geographical conditions, social contexts and political circumstances flow.
Each of the 250 statements is presented on a double page and illustrated by a picture.

• The most important facts in brief: 250 statements from 50 landscape architects
• With contributions by James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, Catherine Mosbach and Peter Walker among others

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 37 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 25th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Karlsruhe (Germany) 2017:
- Plenary Talks
- Microsymposia
- Poster Session

Supplement Series of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie publishes Abstracts of international conferences on the interdisciplinary field of crystallography.

An inspiring journal reveals what happens when a couple takes on a plant-based diet for three months.

Claudia Nicole brings you into her home and reveals in this memoir how she and her husband attempt a plant-based diet. Through her compelling personal journey, she shows how learning how to eat healthy can be confusing and challenging, yet rewarding. She shares 45 easy-to-follow recipes throughout this book, and builds an inspiring blueprint for keeping life simple while staying healthy. An advocate of keeping a journal, she provides journaling tips for those following a new diet.

26 Days is also a witty narrative that is not just the author's own story, but also features personal stories and wisdom of others, from Anthony Bourdain, CNN's host of Parts Unknown; Martin Lindstrom, a leading consultant to major corporations on marketing strategies; and Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., the scientist behind the documentary, Forks Over Knives and author of The China Study, also a compelling argument for a plant-based diet.

In 1995, after hearing Madeleine Albright say on national television that she felt sacrificing 500,000 children to punish Saddam Hussein was “worth it,” Quaker pacifist Joseph Olejak became a political activist. As a form of civil disobedience, he refused to pay income tax, since his tax dollars would go to fund a war he opposed. This was the beginning of a twenty-year journey towards peace–initially by non-compliance with the military industrial complex. Sentenced to 26 weekends in the country jail for failure to pay income taxes, Olejak kept a journal and wrote about his experiences, as well as his growing awareness of peace, justice, and the U.S. prison system. 

This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more here.

When Jonathan McCalister led the Katy Tigers to the Texas State championship, everything was perfect. He had a full scholarship to play Division I football, a beautiful girlfriend, and a loving family. Nothing could go wrong—or so he thought.

But while driving to a celebratory dinner, Jonathan is involved in a horrific accident that not only changes his life but alters the lives of everyone in his family. Now confined to a wheelchair and alienated from the people he loves the most, Jonathan is forced to bear the guilt of causing the accident and to live his life with little to look forward to.

Many years later, Jonathan meets Samantha Reid, a fellow college student hired by his mother to be his personal assistant. What starts off as a forced pairing, blossoms into a fulfilling friendship and eventually a beautiful romance. But what neither realizes is that their relationship will tear open old wounds and force them to reevaluate everything in their lives—including their love for each other.

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 38 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 26th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Essen (Germany) 2018:
- Plenary Talks
- Microsymposia
- Poster Session

Supplement Series of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie publishes Abstracts of international conferences on the interdisciplinary field of crystallography.

'A very special book that I enjoyed enormously' Cees Nooteboom

A dazzling ode to life, literature and Paris, the French capital that even in emptiness and desolation will always be magnificent.

Soon after Henk Pröpper moves from Amsterdam to Paris, both the world and his heart almost come to a full stop. He undergoes major surgery and awakes in an empty city in lockdown. Paris is transformed into an abandoned stage. To quicken his recovery, Pröpper begins walking. He combs his immediate surroundings, he hunts for the past, discovering countless commemorative plaques and monuments that honour well- and lesser-known Parisians and keep their histories alive. Pröpper also reflects on his own life and the literature that has shaped him. In this way, he walks in the footsteps of literary heroes such as Victor Hugo, of Balzac and of Camus.

'One of the most moving and most invigorating autobiographies ever written. This is a finely polished gem worthy of admiration' Knack

'A concise masterpiece that summarises a life in the time of the pandemic in the personal, euphoric and precarious shades of one year. Without one's realising, it covers just about everything: thoughts, emotions, literature, films, loves, feelings, memories, annoyances and doubts' Vrij Nederland

'Philosophical, reflective, and with the pleasantly slow heartbeat of a writer who carries the reader through the city, European literature and history' het Parool

Translated by Emma Rault.
Epilogue translated by Sherry Macdonald.

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 39 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 27th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Leipzig (Germany) 2019:
- Plenary Talks
- Microsymposia
- Poster Session

Supplement Series of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie publishes Abstracts of international conferences on the interdisciplinary field of crystallography.

The Pope. The Holy Eucharist. The Blessed Virgin Mary. The Seven Sacraments.

Catholicism is filled with great mysteries, so you've probably been confused about this 2,000-year-old religion at one time or another. In 29 Things To Know About Catholicism, the Catholic Church is beliefs are explored in easy-to-understand terms for the devout Catholic and the curious non-Catholic alike.

This quick go-to guide helps answer these questions:

• Was the Catholic Church the first Christian church?
• Do Catholics worship Mary and pray to saints?
• How do I know what to do in Mass with all its Latin chants and prayers, kneeling, holy water, confession, and communion?
• Does the communion bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ?
• Can the priest—a human–forgive sins?

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 41 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 29th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Hamburg (Germany) 2021:
- Plenary Talks
- Microsymposia
- Poster Session

Supplement Series of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie publishes Abstracts of international conferences on the interdisciplinary field of crystallography.

Jenny and Sam—and their baby Phoebe—have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter's cot. Could the house be haunted?

When their friends Lauren and Ben come round for a housewarming dinner, they drink wine, relive their pasts, and argue about the existence of ghosts. They decide to stay up until 2:22, to discover the truth. Over one adrenaline-filled night—as the foxes scream outside—secrets will emerge and ghosts may appear…

Spine-chilling, funny and scary, Danny Robins' play 2:22 premiered at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End in August 2021, directed by Matthew Dunster, and starring Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood. It provides rich opportunities for any drama group wanting to make things go bump in the night—and their audiences scream.

People and places come and go, but the after-party never stops when it's 2AM Eternal.

Your host, Eric Kostiuk Williams, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community, from basements to the backstage to back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022, short comics stories, and hand-written notes from the author, the organizers, the performers, and the crowd, 2AM Eternal makes a scene – until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown, before the manic, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face, wall-to-wall living.

People and places come and go, but the after-party never stops when it's 2AM Eternal.

Your host, Eric Kostiuk Williams, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community, from basements to the backstage to back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022, short comics stories, and hand-written notes from the author, the organizers, the performers, and the crowd, 2AM Eternal makes a scene – until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown, before the manic, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face, wall-to-wall living.

The book explains, in an easy way, the diffi cult to grasp concepts behind 2D exotic material properties for physicists, materials scientists, and engineers. This is a new class of phenomena highlighted in 2D materials with strong implications on physics. Physics, also for complex phenomena, is explained in easy terms that are ideal for newcomers to the fi eld and advanced students alike. Theory and specifi c examples of materials and their intriguing properties are discussed focusing on the structure property relationships that govern materials science. Applications for each phenomenon are evoked and a roadmapping is performed.

Arts of Life’s debut publication celebrates 25 years of community building and art making. The organization supports a growing cohort of 80+ artists across the metro Chicago area. This book details the nonprofit’s first quarter century as an artist collective and working gallery and highlights a select group of artists that exemplify Arts of Life’s core values.

Featured artists include: Veronica Cuculich, Marcus Imani Kennedy, Renata Berdes, Alex Scott, Noel Herrera, Maria Vanik, David Krueger + Ben Marcus,  Mike Marino, Stefan Harhaj, Brian Reed, Hubert Posey, Chris Austin, Jean Wilson, Ted Gram Boarini, Christina Zion, Chris Viau, Isamu Guy Conners, Lawrence M, Kelly Stone, Nik Heusman, Tim Stone, Susan Pasowicz + Allison Wade, Ariée, Raina Carter 

Contributors include: Amber Renaye, Andreana Donahue, Anne Cauley, Annie Soler, Cindy Shanker, Cody Tumblin, Damon McLeese, Dana Bassett, Debra Kerr, Denise Fisher, Eric Rushman, Gareth Thomas Kaye, Heather Hubbs, Hilary Marshall, Jess Bond,  Joshua With, Karim Shuquem, Kate Sierzputowski, Leonardo Kaplan, Lisa Slominski, Matt Morris, Megan Foy, Nick Schutzenhofer, Payton Harris-Woodard, Scott Speh, Tim Ortiz

This work provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek and Slavonic. Despite the fact that 3 Baruch is one of the major early Jewish apocalypses, it has been relatively neglected in modern scholarship, probably since 3 Baruch is one of the most difficult works to comprehend and classify. Its content differs significantly from that of other writings of the same genre, as the book preserves syncretistic ideas and tendencies which are combined in unique ways. The worldview, the message, and the very textual structure of 3 Baruch are enigmatic in many respects. The present study demonstrates that the textual history of 3 Baruch, implicit meanings and structural links in its text, as well as conceptions behind the text, are partly reconstructable. Moreover, 3 Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the history of the motifs found in early Jewish lore, at times providing missing links between different stages of their development, and preserves important evidence on the roots of Jewish mysticism, proto-Gnostic and proto-Christian traditions. The study contains the introduction, synoptic translation, textual notes, and detailed commentaries.

Recite your poem to your aunt.
I threw myself to the ground.
Where were you in the night?
In a school among the pines.
What was the meaning of the dream?

Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The 10 poem-sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices — Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras — in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently political. Now only time is wild, and only time — embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences — can tell.

‘Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields language expertly, even beautifully.’—The New York Times

‘Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture.’— The Village Voice

Recite your poem to your aunt.
I threw myself to the ground.
Where were you in the night?
In a school among the pines.
What was the meaning of the dream?

Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The 10 poem-sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices — Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras — in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently political. Now only time is wild, and only time — embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences — can tell.

‘Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields language expertly, even beautifully.’—The New York Times

‘Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture.’— The Village Voice