Peter Coyote
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Publisher
Four Way Books
Language
English
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Peter Coyote's first collection of poetry takes us on a whirlwind tour of an eclectic and exciting life as an actor and Zen Buddhist priest, meandering from love affairs to marriage to divorce to the Sixties to psychedelic spirituality and beyond. Written over several decades, these poems read as a collage, each piece distinct and contributing to a cohesive lyric narrative.
Author
Publisher
Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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• Shares a series of mindfulness techniques and improv exercises with masks to suppress the ego, calm the mind, and allow spontaneous playfulness and spaciousness to arise from your deepest nature
• Draws on Buddhist philosophy to describe how and why the exercises work
• Woven throughout with a lighthearted parable of an overweight and out-of-work Lone Ranger and Tonto who meet Buddha and experience spiritual awakening
Sharing...
• Draws on Buddhist philosophy to describe how and why the exercises work
• Woven throughout with a lighthearted parable of an overweight and out-of-work Lone Ranger and Tonto who meet Buddha and experience spiritual awakening
Sharing...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteen–year ride through the heart of the counterculture—a journey that took him from the quiet rooms of privilege as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the riotous life of political street theater and the self–imposed poverty of the West Coast communal movement known as The Diggers. With this innovative collective of artist–anarchists who had assumed...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"The rainman gave me two cures
And he said, 'Just jump right in.'
The one was Texas Medicine
And the other was railroad gin.
And like a fool I mixed them
And they strangled up my mind
Now people just get uglier
And I have no sense of time."
––Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"
The guiding metaphor in Peter Coyote's new spiritual biography is drawn from a line in an early Bob Dylan...
And he said, 'Just jump right in.'
The one was Texas Medicine
And the other was railroad gin.
And like a fool I mixed them
And they strangled up my mind
Now people just get uglier
And I have no sense of time."
––Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"
The guiding metaphor in Peter Coyote's new spiritual biography is drawn from a line in an early Bob Dylan...
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English
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SAVING ATLANTIS follows one of the most consequential issues of our time: the dramatic decline of global coral reef ecosystems and the impact on human populations that depend on them. Produced by a team of award-winning filmmakers and researchers, the film follows those who are fighting to uncover the causes of coral decline and find solutions before it's too late. It is an emotional exploration of some of our planet's greatest natural wonders at...
Author
Publisher
Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A quietly uplifting, practical view of Buddhism."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
• Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life
• Shares the author's secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, the Eightfold Path, and other fundamental Buddhist ideas
During the nearly 3,000 years since the Buddha...
• Shows how Zen offers a creative problem-solving mechanism and moral guide ideal for the stresses and problems of daily life
• Shares the author's secular, vernacular interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, the Eightfold Path, and other fundamental Buddhist ideas
During the nearly 3,000 years since the Buddha...
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Series
Ken Burns volume 1
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English
Description
In the first episode of Ken Burns's THE DUST BOWL, feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America's history as survivors recall the terror of the dust storms, the desperation of hungry families and how they managed to find hope even as the earth and heavens seemed to turn against them.
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English
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This mutli-award winning film exposes the little-known environmental and health costs of the dirty oil that would flow through the proposed Keystone Pipeline. Canada is the number one foreign supplier of oil to the United States. Most of the oil imported comes from the Tar Sands of Northern Alberta, the second largest known oil reserve in the world outside of Saudi Arabia. But this is not a traditional oil field. The oil must be extracted and processed...
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Ken Burns volume 2
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English
Description
In the second episode of Ken Burns's DUST BOWL, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in California and government conservation efforts - and a break in the drought in 1939 - eventually stabilize the soil and bring the farms back to life, but with dangers of another Dust Bowl facing future generations.
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English
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Coyote explores the practice of meditation to catch a glimpse of who we truly are. His mask workshops provide for the possibility of the disappearance of your everyday self along with self-criticism, self-consciousness, and a sense of shame... allowing for absolute freedom.
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Country Music A Film by Ken Burns volume 4
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English
Description
In Memphis, the confluence of blues and hillbilly music at Sun Studios gives birth to "rockabilly," the precursor of rock and roll. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash are at the forefront. Nashville has become Music City USA.
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Series
Country Music A Film by Ken Burns volume 2
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English
Description
During the Great Depression and World War II, country music thrives and reaches bigger audiences. Gene Autry sets off a craze for singing cowboys, Bob Wills adapts jazz's Big Band sound to create Texas Swing, and Roy Acuff becomes a star.
14) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 06-Things Fall Apart (January 1968-July 196
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Ken Burns volume 6
Language
English
Description
On the Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch attacks on cities and military bases throughout the South, suffering devastating losses but casting doubt on Johnson's promise that there is "light at the end of the tunnel."
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Ken Burns volume 4
Language
English
Description
North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the South. As an antiwar movement builds back home, soldiers and Marines discover that the war they are fighting in Vietnam is nothing like their fathers' war.
16) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 08-The History of the World (April 1969-May)
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Ken Burns volume 8
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English
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With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinkable massacre committed by American soldiers, the public debates the rectitude of the war.
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Ken Burns volume 1
Language
English
Description
Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two. Communists in the North aim to reunify the country, while America supports Diem's untested regime in the South.
18) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 10-The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward)
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Ken Burns volume 10
Language
English
Description
While the Watergate scandal rivets Americans' attention, the Vietnamese continue in a civil war. When North Vietnamese troops pour into the South, Saigon collapses. For the next 40 years, all sides search for healing and reconciliation.
19) The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: 07-The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-Ma
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Ken Burns volume 7
Language
English
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Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions and moral choices. After police battle with demonstrators in the streets of Chicago, Richard Nixon wins the presidency. In Vietnam the war goes on.
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Country Music A Film by Ken Burns volume 3
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English
Description
Country music adapts to the cultural changes of post-war society. Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs transform string band music into Bluegrass. Out of the bars comes a new sound and songs about drinking, cheating, and heartbreak: Honky Tonk.