Walking On The Sun

On a winter day in 2013, Tom Haines stood in front of his basement furnace and wondered about the source of the natural gas that fueled his insulated life. During the next four years, Haines, an award-winning journalist and experienced wanderer, walked hundreds of miles through landscapes of fuel - oil, gas, and coal, and water, wind, and sun - on a crucial exploration of how we live on Earth in the face of a growing climate crisis. Can we get from the fossil fuels of today to the renewables of tomorrow? The story Haines tells in Walking to the Sun is full not only of human encounters - with roustabouts working on an oil rig, farmers tilling fields beneath wind turbines, and many others - but also of the meditative range that arrives with solitude far from home. Walking to the Sun overcomes the dislocation of our industrial times to look closely at the world around us and to consider what might come next.

Rolf Länge was Schwabisch, born in southern Germany on 27th April 1939. He trained as a master in patisserie in Germany and moved to Oxford, England as a young man to work, married and had two daughters, Karin and Juliette. He was an adventurer, raconteur, teller of rude jokes, iconoclast, humanist, student of European studies, accordionist, yachtmaster and pilot, a lover and a warrior. Over forty-five years he divorced, remarried, taught English in Greece, qualified for university entrance through Open University European Studies, and made wine on the Rhine. He explored America and shot the rapids of the Rio Grande in New Mexico, sailed the Mediterranean and lived on his catamaran for ten years with his wife Carol. They sailed to Spain and bought a house in the Alpujarra mountains of Andalucia. He loved trees and planted pomegranate, almond, fig, palm, orange, grapefruit, lemon, quince, lime, avocado, apple, cherry, pear, nispero, chirimoya and olive. Rolf had a boundless zest for life. His passion was flying and he was in process of renewing his pilot’s licence when he died suddenly in his beloved village of Darrical, Andalucia, on 1st March 2016. He always said that when his time came, he would just fly his plane into a mountain. He found his mountain that night. Rolf was deeply moved by the plight of homeless people. Proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Oxford Community Soup Kitchen run by Ma Smith in Oxford, England, where he played his accordion for the people Christmas 2015.

`Walking Around the Sun’ is a journey of time and space, of heart and mind and a journey that crosses the boundaries between all things loved. Hughes has captured all the moments we let slip by and presented them to us in the form of this beloved diary - where Earth is home and beauty surrounds the every waking hour. We are invited to be travelers with the author as she explores the shifting seasons and tends to the wild places in us all.

Walking on the Son is an inspirational book, written by a writer passionate about protecting those who feel hopeless, finding aid and protection for those who are emotionally and physically abused and sharing the message that there is always hope when all appears lost. While the beating of the mind leaves no visible scars and victims may never forget, those who have suffered at the hands of others can rely on the power within to overcome and to forgive.

Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.

In Alan Huck?s image-text book, '?I walk toward the sun which is always going down?', an unnamed narrator wanders a city in the American Southwest, where their observations and encounters become catalysts for rumination on a wide range of subjects. Shifting between photographs of the city?s peripheries and an interior monologue written in first-person, fragmentary prose, this hybrid essay draws on the ambulatory works of writers such as W.G. Sebald and Annie Dillard, both of whom are incorporated into the network of literary and cultural references interwoven throughout the book?s text. Part metafiction about the working process of a photographer and part cross-disciplinary exploration of one?s relationship to a particular place, the author utilizes the essential indeterminacy of both photography and written language to craft an exercise in attention that moves seamlessly between the two mediums.

The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the most complete chart information on every artist and song to hit Billboard’s Top 40 pop singles chart all the way back to 1955. Inside, you’ll find all of the biggest-selling, most-played hits for the past six decades. Each alphabetized artist entry includes biographical info, the date their single reached the Top 40, the song’s highest position, and the number of weeks on the charts, as well as the original record label and catalog number. Other sections—such as “Record Holders,” “Top Artists by Decade,” and “#1 Singles 1955-2009”—make The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits the handiest and most indispensable music reference for record collectors, trivia enthusiasts, industry professionals and pop music fans alike. Did you know? • Beyoncé’s 2003 hit “Crazy in Love” spent 24 weeks in the Top 40 and eight of them in the #1 spot. • Billy Idol has had a total of nine Top 40 hits over his career, the last being “Cradle of Love” in 1990. • Of Madonna’s twelve #1 hits, her 1994 single “Take a Bow” held the spot the longest, for seven weeks—one week longer than her 1984 smash “Like a Virgin.” • Marvin Gaye’s song “Sexual Healing” spent 15 weeks at #3 in 1982, while the same song was #1 on the R&B chart for 10 weeks. • Male vocal group Boyz II Men had three of the biggest chart hits of all time during the 1990s. • The Grateful Dead finally enjoyed a Top 10 single in 1987 after 20 years of touring. • Janet Jackson has scored an impressive 39 Top 40 hits—one more than her megastar brother Michael!