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Soft cover. Condition: Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Front panel and spine edge have surface wear, back panel shows a photograph of Ram Dass meditating and is very clean, pages have tanned, otherwise very clean and well bound 4.25 X 7" 395 pages, published 1978. Ram Dass is a spiritual teacher who has studied and practiced meditation for many years. He shares his understanding and explores the different mediation techniques - mantra, prayer, singing, visualization, even "Just sitting" - and suggests how you can find a method and guidance suitable for you. He offers advice on tools and resources, pitfalls to avoid, and realistic expectations; plus a complete directory for the U.S. and Canada of groups that teach meditation and available retreat facilities. For Ram Dass, meditation can be a profound spiritual journey available to anyone who would like to reduce unhappiness and increase inner peace. Vinxent Piazza (illustrator).…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The Future of You.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This richly illustrated volume evokes the early history of the US postal system with 130 new full-color images of artifacts and historical documents from the Smithsonian's National Postal MuseumTravel back to the postal system's humble origins in colonial America with Routes to a Nation, which traces the development of the post from trans-Atlantic communication through the Revolutionary War and follows its growth as the nation expanded through the 18th and early 19th centuries. The story of the network's early days emerges from the 130 all-new high-quality photographs of letters, covers, seals, newspapers, stamps, and other artifacts, including many rarely seen archival images from the National Postal Museum's collections.From colonists resisting a postal network to the taxation debates of the early republic, the fledgling postal service was often entangled with its era's hot-button political issues. This book illuminates the postal system's role in the larger process of nation-building, as well as its impacts on the lives of the ordinary people who sent, received, and delivered the mail that fostered communication, facilitated trade, and connected communities.Mail carriers who completed the first postal routes across treacherous terrainFolded letters that offer first-hand accounts of 18th century lifeBen Franklin's tumultuous decades as colonial deputy postmaster general, marked by administrative reform and political conflictMail that helped keep the patriot's military informed during the Revolutionary WarPolitics of the post in the early republic: freedom of expression in newspapers, debates in financing expansion, and handling diplomatic channelsRoutes to a Nation explores the personalities, controversies, and planning that shaped the continent-spanning postal system that has grown to provide service to more than 169 million addresses across every state, city, and town in the United States today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 152 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.35 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This richly illustrated volume evokes the early history of the US postal system with 130 new full-color images of artifacts and historical documents from the Smithsonian's National Postal MuseumTravel back to the postal system's humble origins in colonial America with Routes to a Nation, which traces the development of the post from trans-Atlantic communication through the Revolutionary War and follows its growth as the nation expanded through the 18th and early 19th centuries. The story of the network's early days emerges from the 130 all-new high-quality photographs of letters, covers, seals, newspapers, stamps, and other artifacts, including many rarely seen archival images from the National Postal Museum's collections.From colonists resisting a postal network to the taxation debates of the early republic, the fledgling postal service was often entangled with its era's hot-button political issues. This book illuminates the postal system's role in the larger process of nation-building, as well as its impacts on the lives of the ordinary people who sent, received, and delivered the mail that fostered communication, facilitated trade, and connected communities.Mail carriers who completed the first postal routes across treacherous terrainFolded letters that offer first-hand accounts of 18th century lifeBen Franklin's tumultuous decades as colonial deputy postmaster general, marked by administrative reform and political conflictMail that helped keep the patriot's military informed during the Revolutionary WarPolitics of the post in the early republic: freedom of expression in newspapers, debates in financing expansion, and handling diplomatic channelsRoutes to a Nation explores the personalities, controversies, and planning that shaped the continent-spanning postal system that has grown to provide service to more than 169 million addresses across every state, city, and town in the United States today. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…