John Archer

For twenty-five years John Archer has been obsessed by water. His fascination has led him to remote temples where water is worshipped as a living deity, to hot volcanic springs and icy waterfalls, to limpid pools hidden deep in the forest. John has drunk the water dinosaurs drank in the Jurassic swamps, sucked dew from the grasstree flowers at dawn, sipped the sulphurous healing waters of Sukayu in the mountains of northern Japan, and bathed in the legendary Golden Lotus tank at Madurai. He has recorded the legends of water, studied its rituals, and worshipped it with reverence in holy places. He has listened to the rhythms of the waves on the shore, to the sound patterns of lakes, small streams and majestic rivers. And now he distils his extraordinary discoveries in The Wisdom of Water, exploring the many beautiful and mystical aspects of water, and why water has always been and remains precious beyond imagining. John Archer is an author of twenty books, including six on water preservation. His most recent book is Twenty Thirst Century.

The Wisdom of Water

Willard W. Hartup

Richard Ernest Tremblay

"Offering the first comprehensive analysis of this topic in over 30 years, this book is sure to fuel discussion and debate among researchers, practitioners, and students in developmental psychology, child clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, criminology, and related disciplines. In the classroom, it is a unique and valuable text for graduate-level courses."--BOOK JACKET.

Developmental Origins of Aggression

Traces the evolution of the modern American dream house from seventeenth-century England to the present.

From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000

Architecture and Suburbia

Richard Burt

Enclosure—the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture—has long been considered a critical stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This book is the first, however, to treat in detail the literary and cultural implications of enclosure in early modern England. Bringing together the work of both senior and younger scholars who represent a wide range of critical orientations, Enclosure Acts focuses not only on the historical fact of land enclosure, but also on the symbolic containment of sexuality in Elizabethan and Jacobean literary works. The first type of enclosure frequently has been treated by materialists and new historicists; feminists and theorists concerned with issues of gender have tended to concentrate on the second. The fourteen essays collected here explore the relationships between these two ways of perceiving enclosure in the context of cultural studies. Individual chapters examine the creation of territorial and social boundaries as well as the consequences of enclosure acts.

Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England

Enclosure Acts

Christine Kowal Post

Fifteen-year-old Peter Wilson is more or less your typical teenager. He's smart, shy around the ladies, and always looking for adventure. But there's something a little different about Peter that sets him apart from his peers. And when he puts on a special pair of specs, his experiences are anything but common. Using his Dream Trekker X-5000 goggles, Peter can be anyone he wants to be, go anywhere he pleases, and interact with anyone (or anything) he desires. He is limited only by his own imagination-and by one other fact. All of the magnificent things Peter experiences occur only in the world of dreams. And in these lucid, realistic dreams, he is an active participant, not a mere observer. Peter Wilson's Dream Theater: The Dream Master follows Peter's epic first-century quest to rescue a kidnapped maiden. Pitted against fearless Vikings, dragons, demons, and the undead-all in one night-Peter even faces a few hefty challenges the next morning. Rich with history, lore, and all things alarming, this novel is sure to set readers' minds spinning and leave them wondering where Peter's dreams will take him next...and how they'll impact his waking hours.

John Archer

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