Update your address book: Mandala Publishing and Earth Aware Editions can now be found at 800 A Street, San Rafael, CA 94901. We’re still adjusting to our new office space, but there is one thing we can all agree on: Spring cleaning came early this year. We’re growing fast—fast enough that we’ve outgrown our offices at 10 Paul Drive. The move is a work in progress that requires constant adaptation, a process we’re all familiar with from the care and attention we lavish on each of our books. If you take a jaunt through our new digs, you’ll overhear warehouse managers stoked about rolling shelves similar to those you’d find in a large library, voices excitedly pointing out skylights above, and most importantly, collaborations happening left and right as editorial, production, design, marketing, and sales settle into their new spaces. Excitement extends into every corner of our office. So, while we unpack the boxes we frantically taped shut, take advantage of our high spirits and snag 30% off ALL our titles at www.mandalaeartheditions.com from 2/8/14 to 2/14/14 with the Promo Code: 2014DIGS
ForeWord Reviews has announced the 2012 Book of the Year Awards list of finalists. Representing more than 700 publishers, the finalists were selected from 1,300 entries in 62 categories. These books are examples of independent publishing at its finest. The following two titles from Earth Aware Editions and Mandala Publishing are finalists for the 2012 Book of the Year Awards:
By God's Grace (Mandala Publishing), Mind & Spirit category By Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Preface: Rabbi David Rosen, Foreword: His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The Dalai Lama Hardcover, Price: $50.00
By God’s Grace is an absorbing portrait of the extraordinary life of a renowned Indian spiritual leader, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati. Practical wisdom, a connection to the Divine, and global action have made him one of India's most renowned and beloved spiritual teachers. Elaborately illustrated, the book traces his journey from childhood in the jungles of India to the company of world leaders, from Himalayan villages to the podiums of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and other venues of global change. His projects are unprecedented, including a cleanup of the 1,560-mile-long Ganges River and a six-million-word encyclopedia of Hinduism. American-born author Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Ph.D., moved to India in 1996. She was officially ordained by Pujya Swamiji into the tradition of sanyas and lives at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh, where she serves Pujya Swamiji's humanitarian projects, teaches meditation, gives discourses, and counsels individuals and families. She lives in Rishikesh, India. A Day in the World (Earth Aware Editions), Photography category By Jeppe Wikström, Foreword: Richard Branson, Introduction: Desmond Tutu Hardcover, Price: $50.00
One day, millions of perspectives. On May 15, 2012, people from around the globe picked up their cameras to record their lives—A Day in the World is the result. Professionals and amateur shutterbugs alike are featured in this beautiful edition, the most comprehensive photographic documentation of daily life ever made. Including tribal areas and urban sprawl, intimate portraits and riotous events, the book was the brainchild of the movement Aday.org (a branch of the foundation Expressions of Humankind), a unique project that celebrates the power of photography to encourage cultural understanding. The foundation's council includes Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson, and a host of other luminaries and advocates. Author Jeppe Wikström is one of Scandinavia's best-known and most-published photographers, with some 20 book titles to his credit. Wikström is one of the founders of the nonprofit Expressions of Humankind, which works to promote human understanding through photography, and created the A Day in the World project. ForeWord’s Book of the Year Awards program was created to highlight the year’s most distinguished books from independent publishers. Award winners are chosen by librarians and booksellers who are on the front lines, working every day with patrons and customers.
Relationships that Work: The Power of Conscious Living
by David B. Wolf
Applying the strategies of conscious living described in these pages will connect you with the courage, inspiration, and wisdom to create profound change in yourself and your environment.
The Little Book of Changesis a fresh interpretation of the I Ching, one of the oldest books in the world, recognized by both Confucians and Taoists as a fundamental work.
Behind the Dolphin Smile: One Man's Campaign to Protect the World's Dolphins
by Richard O'Barry
Share and rejoice in O'Barry's adventures, fromFlipper to The Cove, and discover how the one-time pride of the billion-dollar captivity industry became the tireless dolphin advocate we know and love today.
Minding Your Business: Profits that Restore the Planet
by Horst Rechelbacher Foreword by Paul Hawken
Rechelbacher contends that the biggest business opportunities for the next century will come from practicing environmentally sound, sustainable business that is in harmony with the rhythms of the natural world.
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami
by Radhanath Swami
The Journey Home is an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse into the heart of mystic traditions and the challenges that all souls must face on the road to inner harmony and a union with the Divine.
Myths of the Asanas: The Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition
by Alanna Kaivalya & Arjen van der Kooij
Behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient story about a god, a sage, or sacred animal, much like Aesop's fables or European folktales. Myths of the Asanas is the first book to compile and re-tell these ancient stories.
Rumi's Tales from the Silk Road: A Pilgrimage to Paradise
by Kamla K. Kapur
Inspired by Rumi, Kamla K. Kapur's Pilgrimage to Paradise is a reworking of the translations of thirty of his stories - tales of wit, wisdom, and faith.
Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness
by Sharon Gannon
Drawing upon her studies of Vedic traditions, Sharon Gannon explores how the physical and spiritual practice of Yoga is historically and structurally tied to a vegetarian lifestyle.
Kamla K. Kapur brings her poet's eye and ear to the retelling of these classic stories, re-creating and dramatizing them to illuminate their relevance to modern times.
Light on Death reveals a complementary Eastern view on navigating the end of life: the spiritual art of dying, in which death is seen as the last and most powerful rite of passage.
by Sophie Shrestha Illustrations by Romio Shrestha
In Search of the Thunder Dragon brings to life the beauty and traditions of Bhutan in the ancient story of the Thunder Dragons that play hide-and-seek in the clouds during big winter storms.
The Birth of Kirtan: The Life & Teachings of Chaitanya
by Ranchor Prime Foreword by Shiva Rea
The Birth of Kirtan: The Life and Teachings of Chaitanyais the biography of a mystic saint who pioneered devotional yoga (Bhakti) in sixteenth-century India and started the practice of sacred chanting (kirtan) that has now spread around the world.
by Karen Wilson-Timmons Illustrations byMarie Therese Dubois
In this acclaimed retelling of a story from India's ancient Bhagavata Purana, children emerge victorious over a serpent that haunts the landscape of childhood.
The institute's fifty acres are home to more than one hundred rare animals, from ligers (a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress) that stretch nearly twelve feet long to cheetahs capable of running seventy miles per hour, safeguarding them from the poachers, habitat destruction, and population fragmentation that threaten their existence. Despite their place atop the food chain, big cats teeter on the brink of extinction. Where more than 100,000 tigers lived in Asia at the start of the twentieth century, fewer than 4,000 exist today.
Featuring exclusive new portraits from preeminent nature photographers Tim Flach and Barry Bland, Fierce Beauty provides readers with an intimate, unobstructed encounter with the beauty, power and grace of nature's big cat masterpieces.
The text includes contributions form such distinguished conservationists as zoologist Jim Fowler; David Barron, founder of the International Conservation Caucus Foundation; and Stephen J. O'Brien, Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute, among others. Together, these fascinating and complementary perspectives form a compelling case in support of the critical service rendered by private wildlife facilities in caring for and preserving nature's many endangered big cats.
The Yamuna flows through many of India’s most significant attractions, including the capital New Delhi, with a population of almost fourteen million; Vrindavan, an international pilgrimage site visited by tens of millions annually; and the Taj Mahal, a World Heritage site and one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Over fifty million people rely on the Yamuna for their daily needs, using the water for religious observances, agricultural needs, and bathing, washing, and cooking. In addition to benefiting the human population, the Yamuna has supported a vast ecosystem of wildlife, such as fish, turtles, crocodiles, river dolphins, and aquatic plants.
Aside from agricultural, ecological, and domestic uses, the Yamuna River has long been regarded as a cultural icon and defining symbol of India. Ancient scriptures, traditional and contemporary art, music, festivals, and even the Indian National Anthem, demonstrate the reverence in which the river is held.
Basic Facts
The Yamuna River is the largest tributary of the Ganges River, with a catchment area (345,848 sq km / 133,533 sq m) that constitutes 40 percent of the total Ganga River Basin.
The river is 1,376 km (855 miles) long and passes through seven Indian states.
The Yamuna is water source for 57 million people.
97 percent of the river’s water is directed away from the riverbed not far from its source. The balance dries up within a few kilometers. None of the original river water flows beyond that point north of Delhi.
Whatever little water reaches New Delhi does so through various canals entering the riverbed. A Central Pollution Control Board of India report in 2006 stated that there is “almost no fresh water in the river” beyond New Delhi. The report declared that for 580 km (360 m) south of Delhi, the river is “critically polluted.” A subsequent report in 2009 states that, “There is no doubt that the river is a cesspool for Delhi’s waste.”
The levels of pollution in the water flowing through and out of Delhi are so high that even bathing in the water is dangerous. The water from the river is also replenishing groundwater in the area, resulting in highly polluted well water, which threatens the health of millions of people.
Many accounts of severe illness and death have been attributed to the toxic state of the river’s water quality downstream of New Delhi.
You can help by joining the Yamuna Network's efforts. Follow them on Facebook and learn more at their website, www.yamunanetwork.com.
The Yamuna Network is a nonprofit coalition of like-minded organizations and individuals whose sole purpose is to stop Yamuna River's waters from being diverted and prevent industrial and municipal waste from entering her waters, restoring the river to her past glory.
Practical wisdom, a connection to the divine, and global action - these are the traits of Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati that have made him one of India's most renowned and beloved spirutal teachers.
By God's Grace celebrates his lifetime of devotional service to humanity, the environment, and the Supreme. The book traces Pujya Swami's journey from childhood in the jungles of India to the company of world leaders, from Himalayan villages to the podiums of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and other venues of global change. His projects are unprecedented, including a cleanup of the 1,560-mile long Ganges River and a six-million-word encyclopedia of Hinduism. Swamiji's teachings are profoundly simple, frequently wrapped in humor, and applicable to all.
The prodigal variety of stories ranges from evocations at the mountainous summit of the world, from cacophonous urban battlefields to silent forest retreats - an impassioned life, a one-man civilization drawn in bold strokes and bright colors. Here is a journey of the enlightened life to be cherished again and again.
Because we have many staff members who are vegetarian, we often host meat-free celebrations at the office and get asked to share recipes with those who are seeking vegetarian options for special occasions. While the recipes from our cookbook, Vegeterranean, are Italian, there are many wonderful ideas we thought would make a superb and unique vegetarian Thanksgiving menu. Of course, you could create these recipes any day of the year, and there are many more found inside the 296-page book, but these are just a sampling of our favorites.
Prima Colazione - Breakfast Torta di Mais
The corn provides a healthy boost of energy (perfect for new moms). Aside from the health benefits, the subtle sweetness and the appealing texture of corn blend deliciously, especially when complemented by tea or a cappuccino.
Antipasti - Starters Gazpacho
Primi - First Courses Risotto allo Zafferano
Vegetable Stock (from ingredient list above and below): 4 cups
8 cups water 2 basil leaves 1 carrot, peeled and halved lengthwise 1 potato, peeled and quartered 1 onion, quartered 1 zucchini, quartered 1 celery stalk, halved 1 garlic clove, gently smashed 1 sprig parsley Salt to taste
Combine all the ingredients in a large pot and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for 45 minutes. Strain through a fine sieve, cool, and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Secondi - Second Courses Pizza e Minestra
Dolci - Dessert Torta di Ciocolato e Noci
Feel free to pin these recipes on Pinterest or share with family and friends. Leave us a comment if you attempt one of the recipes from Vegeterranean: Italian Vegetarian Cooking. We'd love to hear how they turned out for you.
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