From MindBodyGreen’s Senior Sustainability Editor and the co-author of The Spirit Almanac comes a definitive guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, rich with new research on how time in nature is essential to our wellbeing.For centuries, humankind was connected to nature. Yet we’ve evolved to feel safer inside on our devices, in spite of the fact that most of us feel our most calm, creative, and captivated outdoors. Most of us have become disconnected from the earth we love: we spend just 12 hours outside a week and 77 hours in front of screens.In this timely, much-needed book, Emma Loewe reminds us of what we are losing and provides a framework for reconnecting with the outdoors for the sake of our health and the planet’s. Drawing on new research from environmental psychology, biology, and ecology on nature’s healing benefits as well as wisdom on the unquantifiable, spiritual power of the outdoors, she provides self-care rituals to put them into practice and wisdom for protecting
While he was compiling the Biographical Dictionary , Loewe encountered a number of problems that required research; he included the answers but not the necessary support for them. He does so here, an
Discover the coolest places to eat in Rome from trattorias that have been in the same family for decades to restaurants, pizzerias, bars, cafes, gelatorias and delis. Author Peter Loewe also details t
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeological evidence. There are also chapters on the Neolithic background, language, intellectual history, relations with Central Asia, and the debts of both the Qin and Han empires to these earlier time-periods. Although written by specialists, this Cambridge history aims to explain and describe pre-imperial China to an audience that will include scholars and students, as well as general readers without specialized knowledge of Chinese history. It can be consulted as a work of reference, or read continuously, alone or as part of The Cambridge History
First published in 1974.This volume illustrates the growth of two attitudes towards government in China during the first century B.C., the one progressive, realist and forward looking, the other conse
China’s early emperors must pay their respects to their predecessors in the correct form; the conduct of government and commercial practice depended on a generally accepted system of weights and measu
A scholar of Chinese with credentials at Cambridge, Harvard, and Chicago, Loewe unveils a massive and comprehensive reference on China's formative first empires. He profiles, sometimes in several page
Lowe (emeritus, Chinese studies, Cambridge U., UK) devotes this study to a theme that caught his attention about a half century ago when he made the observation that "...a blanket assumption `Chinese
