Books

Teenage drama student tired of playing middle-aged grownups? Find stage pieces tailored to the real-world in this amazing new collection.Monologues for Teens II is the latest installment in The Young Actor Series and the long-awaited follow-up to the award-winningMonologues for Teens. Full voting member of the National Television Academy and longtime NBC Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, producing, and teaching for decades. Now he’s here to share a curated collection of the best comedy...

Soil Fertility & Agricultural Ecology — The Albrecht Papers, Volume 4Modern agriculture often treats soil as a medium.Dr. William A. Albrecht proved it is a living system.In Soil Fertility & Agricultural Ecology, Albrecht expands his groundbreaking work to show how soil fertility, ecological balance, and biological systems govern the success of entire farming operations. This volume explores how soil is not just chemistry, but a dynamic ecosystem where minerals, microbes, plants, and animals interact to determine productivity and resilience.Through decades...

The Graziers Guide to Healthy Livestock & Profitable Pastures (2nd Edition)Great livestock start with great grass.In this practical and experience-driven guide, graziers will learn how managed grazing, pasture health, and livestock management work together to build profitable, resilient farm systems. Drawing from real-world experience, this book shows how thoughtful grazing practices can improve soil, increase forage production, and strengthen animal performance.Focused on rotational grazing systems and regenerative pasture management, this updated edition provides clear insight into how timing, stocking density,...

What would you do if a tree started talking to you?When nine-year-old Beau Johnson learns that his Navy family is moving from California to Florida, his perfect world suddenly feels anything but perfect. Leaving behind his friends, his neighborhood, and everything familiar is harder than he ever imagined.Then Beau meets Knot.Hidden among the trees in his new community, Knot is no ordinary tree. Wise, funny, and surprisingly insightful, he becomes Beau's closest confidant during a season of change and uncertainty....

You can feel it the moment you walk in.The air is tight. The stakes are high. The room is reading you before you speak. And somewhere along the way, you learned to survive by being “professional,” which often means quieter, smaller, and easier to manage.The Flame Game is for the leader who is done playing small to keep the peace.Paula Fontana delivers a clear framework for mastering high-stakes environments without burning out, losing your voice, or negotiating your identity. This...

In this book, eco-agriculture is explained — from the tiniest molecular building blocks to managing the soil — in terminology that not only makes the subject easy to learn, but vibrantly alive. Eco-Farm truly delivers a complete education in soils, crops, and weed and insect control. This should be the first book read by everyone beginning in eco-agriculture . . . and the most shop-worn book on the shelf of the most experienced.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then how are we doing with this formidable power? What if we could build a better world for all through the everyday words we speak?Coarse, incendiary language and name-calling are becoming increasingly common. Bullying, violence, and anxiety continue to rise, leaving many people wondering how one person can make a meaningful difference.Dare 2B Fair: 33 Steps to Build a Better World With Our Words, an English/Spanish bilingual book, offers pathways for transforming...

This expanded edition of Beck's classic The Garden-Ville Method includes even more practical and inspirational philosophy and techniques on soil building, planting and growing, pest control and more. Told in a modest and often humorous style, Lessons in Nature combines empirical observation with a healthy dose of common sense. Through his observations and experience, Malcolm Beck will help readers discover nature while growing delicious food, all without damaging the environment. This book can provide the beginner with all the information...

With the recent republication of Dr. Maynard Murray's Sea Energy Agriculture, readers rediscovered the forgotten legacy of an eco-ag pioneer. Murray's idea -- that ocean water contains a concentrated, perfect balance of trace minerals in bioavailable form -- seems almost as revolutionary today as when he introduced it three decades ago. In this fascinating book, Charles Walters examines Murray's career and the amazing successes that growers have experienced with his methods, as well as further developments in this technology by...

Weeds — Control Without Poisons demonstrates the necessity in agriculture today for a more holistic, eco-centered perspective. The author explains what 50 years of deadly chemicals have already done to our soil and our bodies, demonstrating that this process does not work in any long-term commonsense agricultural system and offering alternatives to chemicals. Charles Walters explores the workings of soil ecosystems and provides specifics on a host of weeds — why they grow, what soil conditions spur them on or...