An entertaining how-to-do-it book filled with practical advice on mastering more than 70 of life's most essential skills, ranging from the time-saving to the potentially life-saving. 40 line drawings.

Little Know-how Book, The Everything You Need: to Know to Get By in Life from Changing a Tire to Figuring a Tip to Tying Your S hoes

Scher, Bob

Reference

Harmony

An entertaining, affordable, and truly practical guide to more than 70 of life's most fundamental skills. "Breezy, humorous, chatty...amid the friendly instructions there are unexpected moments of Taoist simplicity."--Parabola Illustrations.

The Little Know-How Book: Everything You Need to Know to Get By in Life from Changing a Tire to Figuring a Tip to Tying Your Shoes

Crown

Poetry. Drawings by Peter Szasz. As many have noted, limericks seem to be programmed in our genes. And interestingly, nonbawdy or "clean" limericks, or as Bob Scher calls them, limes, predate the bawdy ones. Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, and W.S. Gilbert all employed perfect or nearperfect limes in their works. However, a lime capable of standing on its own requires a twist or a neat turn in the last line, which is true of none of the above. Nor was it necessary since in these cases the verses are all part of longer works, some consisting entirely of limes. These are limes in form, but not in essence.

There's a Hole in Your Sky: Limericks You Can Tell to Anyone

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Browser Books Publishing

Poetry. AS IF THE SKY WERE OPEN is a delightful collection of new and selected poems. Chapter Headings include: The Reality of Words, Love of Many Kinds, Emptiness, and Higher Matters. "Like the door in one of the poems, they open simultaneously inward and outward on the immediacy and momentousness of living and loving, changing and dying, sight and insight"--Albert Gelpi.

As if the Sky Were Open: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Photographs by Jane English. The distilled wisdom of over a dozen years of corporate consulting and a twenty-year meditation practice, LIGHTNING: THE NATURE OF LEADERSHIP combines powerful words with evocative nature photography to reminds us of the larger context in which we live our professional lives. Scher shows us how our actions in our work lives are intimately connected with the larger world we live in, and how natural laws apply to such seemingly mundane activities as meetings, phone calls, and the daily decisions each of us are called to make. The book is a gift to keep nearby for inspiration and guidance, and as a constant reminder of the bigger picture.

Lightning: The Nature of Leadership (Codhill Press)

Religion & Spirituality

Codhill Press