This is an in-depth, comprehensive guide for submissives new to the lifestyle and for those just wanting to broadentheir knowledge more. It starts with 'what a submissive is', moves to 'common terms in BDSM', 'contracts', continues on to 'possible punishments', 'what to look for in a Dominant', and ends with a very thorough 'Limits Worksheet' in the back. There are many more topics covered, but you will have to read further to discover them.

In Renewing the Balance, Dirk Dunbar shows how the balance worshipped in ancient Earth wisdom traditions is being integrated into Western culture’s dominantly masculine, rational value system. Filled with hope, revelations regarding cultural evolution, and scholarship of the highest order, Dunbar’s book passionately challenges all of us to recover the archaic reverence for the natural world, to reconsider the limits of growth, progress, and mechanistic thinking, and to join in the newly reclaimed celebration of life that fosters peace and the potential for a sustainable future. Dirk Dunbar’s Renewing the Balance is a crucial and comprehensive account of how traditional cultures maintained a healthy balance that preserved our natural world and how our modern technocratic, economic ideology has produced a culture that is dangerously out of balance. It is at once a diagnosis of our dis-ease and a prescription for healing our collective psyche, polis, and environment. A truly fascinating philosophical adventure. ~Sam Keen Author of 12 books, including The Passionate Life and Hymns to an Unknown God Renewing the Balance brings depth and breadth to our efforts to understand how Western culture evolved as it did and to appreciate the many streams that now flow into our efforts to manifest ecological wisdom in a hypermodern world. ~Charlene Spretnak Author of 9 books, including States of Grace and The Resurgence of the Real

An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.

National traditions serve to throw light upon ancient and modern mythology; and in many instances they are known to preserve traces of their fabulous descent, as will clearly appear in some of the following selections. It is the same with those of all nations, whether of eastern or western origin, Greek, Scythian, or Kamtschatkan. And hence, among every people just emerged out of a state of barbarism, the same causes lead to the production of similar compositions; and a chain of connection is thus established between the fables of different nations, only varied by clime and custom, sufficient to prove, not merely a degree of harmony, but secret interchanges and communications. Content: SIR TARQUIN THE GOBLIN BUILDERS MAB'S CROSS THE PRIOR OF BURSCOUGH THE EAGLE AND CHILD THE BLACK KNIGHT OF ASHTON FAIR ELLEN OF RADCLIFFE THE ABBOT OF WHALLEY SIR EDWARD STANLEY GEORGE MARSH, THE MARTYR DR DEE, THE ASTROLOGER THE SEER THE EARL OF TYRONE HOGHTON TOWER THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES PART THIRD SIEGE OF LATHOM. RAVEN CASTLE THE PHANTOM VOICE THE BAR-GAIST THE HAUNTED MANOR-HOUSE CLITHEROE CASTLE THE LAST OF THE LACIES THE GREY MAN OF THE WOOD; OR, THE SECRET MINE THE FAIRIES' CHAPEL THE LUCK OF MUNCASTER THE PEEL OF FOULDREY A LEGEND OF BEWSEY THE BLESSING THE DULE UPO' DUN. WINDLESHAW ABBEY CLEGG HALL THE MERMAID OF MARTIN MEER GEORGE FOX THE DEMON OF THE WELL THE SANDS THE RING AND THE CLIFF THE DEAD MAN'S HAND THE LOST FARM THE MAID'S STRATAGEM THE SKULL HOUSE RIVINGTON PIKE MOTHER RED-CAP THE DEATH-PAINTER THE CRYSTAL GOBLET