Living in San Francisco and working as maitre'd at the Green Gulch Zen Centre, the author decided to move to Japan to continue his training. Each of the vignettes or episodes of this book contributes to an account of his...

Describes marine life and its environs in the shallow waters off of La Jolla Cove, the entrance area to the San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park Ecological Reserve. This reserve is the only one of its kind in San Diego.

Paul Malone visits 43 picturesque landmarks of New Orleansi famed Garden District to capture the grandeur of these mansions.

The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia.

This miniature volume offers a tour of one of the world's great art collections in the Prado Museum. Among the artists featured here are Velasquez, Goya, Murillo, Ribera, El Greco, Botticelli, Titian, Van Eyck and Raphael....