Embracing an eco-friendly lifestyle can be a daunting prospect for your average urban dweller. The good news is that this handbook is here to address these issues head on, dispel the myths and provide viable solutions.

Simms traces the supermarket disease back to its American roots & charts the moment when the promise of choice turned into something altogether different. He show how supermarkets are draining the life from our town centres, creating a commercial nanny state that knows more about you than you think, profiting from shelves full of global plunder & unpicking the fabric of our communities. Simms ends with suggestions for change & rethinking big business.

Welcome to the red-eyed world of rock & roll, where every riff comes with a spliff. This is a coked-up compendium of your favourite musicians & their favourite drugs.

The cycle of the year celebrated in the sacred landscape of the western isles of Scotland . The story of one woman's journeying through life, through the sacred landscapes of the British Isles and primarily the journey round the cycle of the years during a decade lived on the Island of Lewis.

Writer, researcher and artist, Jill Smith takes the reader on a very special journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, in particular the Isles of Lewis where she lived for many years. Here she found a powerful energy of Goddess in the landscape, which led her to delve into the old tales and legends of the place to uncover the original meanings and significances of the Land.

The original and only authorised edition of the famous 78-card Tarot Deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith under the directions of Arthur Edward Waite, with the traditional Tudor rose that was a feature of the first 1910 deck.

Described are the magical workings and beliefs of a branch of traditional witchcraft carried out by the pagan Fryske (water witches)and surviving into the present day. The construction and use of megaliths and how to tap into the Dragon power latent in the earth are described and the magical uses of different types of rocks and metals.

Like the gypsies, the Trent boat families, or Fryske, had a private Pagan religion of their own. They were often called water-witches by others with a more conventional religious outlook. This book describes, for the first time, the way of life and religion of the Pagan Fryske.

This provides a much needed, up-to-date guide to the study of Shamanism. Focussing mainly on the shamans of Siberia and Central Asia, it includes a historical overview of academic approaches to shamanism, an overview of the various theories, and a discussion of the origins of shamanism. There are detailed explorations into the initiations, costumes, tools, the place of trance and spirit possession. Explore Shamanism also surveys revived and reconstructed shamanisms in the world today.

Thousands of pilgrims are still attracted to Chartres Cathedral. The author believes it is because of a unique combination of earth energies of the ancient site, the marriage of Christian and Islamic architecture, mysticism and the skills of the medieval geometers and craftsmen. This synthesis has resulted in the creation of a sacred space which still has the power to affect us and help us tune into our divine potential. This is an inspiring book for anyone interested in religious architecture.

Many ancient peoples built their sacred sites in dead straight lines. The magical paths involved in astronomy and geomancy, and were used for spirit flight, both by the living and the dead, both recently and long deceased. Danny Sullivan was editor of the renowned Ley Hunter magazine. Here he introduces the complex subject of Ley Lines, giving examples from around the world, including many from the British Islaes where this psychis science has been practiced by wizards for a very long time.

Ecovillage Living is a guide to everything you've always wanted to know about ecovillages, from the tools to make them happen to the people behind them. If you have ever dreamed of natural housing, water treatment systems, solar panels, composting toilets . . . If you have wanted to work close to home, have neighbours whom you know, live in a safe place for your children, or have a more harmonious lifestyle . . . If you're building a community, and want to learn from others' experiences . . . then this is the book for you. It is an unprecedented "how-to, and why" account of ecovillage living, and a vibrant story of people spearheading a lifestyle which is rapidly growing into a new global culture.