Ian Baker

A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise

The Heart of the World

Clive Whichelow

Mike Haskins

See the funny side of ageing with this collection of amusing observations, silly suggestions and humorous illustrations – the perfect gift for any birthday girl or boy with more than a few candles on their cake So you’re a little bit older. So what? Just because you’re getting on a bit doesn’t mean you have to start acting ancient. The universe is over 13 billion years old, and you’re probably nowhere near that yet – well, not quite anyway. Frankly, it’s never too early to start enjoying your second childhood, to stop taking life so seriously and to start acting a bit silly again. This book will be your go-to guide for inspiration and merriment while clocking up birthdays like they’re going out of fashion. Across these pages, you’ll find all kinds of wild recommendations and questionable advice, including: Things it’s never too late to do Grown-up and less grown-up ways to behave at work How to keep up with modern technology Ways you can blend in with younger people Things you can have tantrums about as you get older So forget the creaking joints or fleeing follicles and embrace the opportunities for mischief and mirth – after all, growing old doesn’t mean growing up!

Hilarious Life Advice for the Young at Heart

Growing Old Doesn't Mean Growing Up

Sunil Agarwal

Has the pandemic flattened the curve of your smile? Get laughing again with 100 cartoons lampooning a world gone mad. Need some light relief from the Grim Reaper's march? Bored with bizarre presidential briefings? Don't know if you should be wearing a mask or a frown? Leading cartoonists Sunil Agarwal and Ian Baker have been poking fun at human foolishness for years with insightful and satirical observations in Reader's Digest, National Lampoon, and The Times of India. Now they're here to share their wit and wisdom so you can inject a shot of reality-checks into coronavirus chaos. Lockdown Cartoons: The Cartoon Book for Surviving Quarantine, Boredom and Isolation contains 100 snappily drawn gags that will help you view recent world events with a sacrilegious comic perspective. If confinement feels more like a punishment for your brain than a life-saving necessity, just turn to any page for an instant relief package. Take a break from global disruption for a healthy dose of the absurd. With a foreword written by The Onion founder Scott Dikkers, Lockdown Cartoons is an irreverent, thought-provoking jab at our current quarantine conditions. If you like cheeky humor, wicked satire, and a humorous take on a crazy era, then you'll love Sunil Agarwal & Ian Baker's sharp-eyed sendup. Buy Lockdown Cartoons for pandemic relief today!

The Cartoon Book for Surviving Quarantine, Boredom and Isolation

Lockdown Cartoons

These 101 Trump Cartoons will make you laugh and cry about our Orangutan-in-Chief. This incisive satire takes the many revealing things that Trump has said and done, and creates a character both grotesquely absurd and all too depressingly real. This book might not enlighten you, but you'll surely end up with a few more jokes in your arsenal the next time the President has a tantrum.Cartoon writer Sunil Agarwal is read by 4 million readers in The Times of India every day. Artist Ian Baker's work has appeared in Private Eye, Penthouse (USA), Reader's Digest (UK and USA), and National Lampoon (USA).

101 Trump Cartoons

This collection of chillingly true cartoons will help laugh off insufferable bosses. You'll be reminded of the time(s) when your boss captured you for an 18-hour meeting, but this time you'll be laughing out loud! Wave a big adieu to office - this book has got it under control. From the creators of Lockdown Cartoons, and Make America Great Again - 101 Trump Cartoons.

50 Signs of a Crazy Boss, in Cartoons

Crazy Bosses

What is the Kama Sutra? Is it a spiritual text written by a visionary man of wisdom in India almost two millennia ago? Or is it the world's first mucky book? Well, it's the former - it's a spiritual text written by a visionary man of wisdom in India almost two millennia ago. Though shocking for its time, the Kama Sutra has gone on to become the world's most respected guide book on all matters sexual, and is now on top of the wardrobes or under the beds of over sixty percent of the world's teenage boys. It is a common and misconceived belief among the younger generations that sex is something not only void in the minds of our senior citizens, but is most likely physically impossible for those who are at or beyond retirement age. The glorious truth may come as a bit of a shock to the youth of today - it may even conjure up images in their minds best left 'till after lunch! The world's oldies are sexually active. New and exciting research has uncovered startling new evidence that oldies are still 'at it', and still 'do it' whenever they don't have a bad back. Can it be true? Are our most senior citizens getting their wrinkly legs over? If you are an older person, take heart - there's a lot of dusty action out there. Sex in the twilight years, though similar in mechanics to the couplings of youth, is in fact vastly different. This book exposes the secret world of grey love and covers every aspect of senior congress - from geriatric anatomy and attraction, through to mating rituals, sex positions, post-sex heart condition medication and proper service and care of pace makers.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Too Tired to Ask

The Codgers' Kama Sutra

Romio Shrestha

Boldly reinterpreting an age old Tibetan artistic tradition, this enormous album offers gorgeously detailed representations of celestial spheres, known as mandalas. Merely gazing upon them is meant to inspire heightened states of intention and clarity. In CELESTIAL GALLERY master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks have rendered postmodern interpretations of these enlightened Buddha realms. Made from hand ground malachite, lapis, marigolds, and more, and painted at times with three cat tail hairs, these multifaceted scenes of otherworldly deities are produced with hauntingly powerful detail. Depictions of White Tara. Caven Tara, the Medicine Buddha, and many other celestials invite and inspite meditation and reflection.

Celestial Gallery

Francis Kingdon Ward

Kenneth N. E. Cox

Kenneth R. Storm

First published in 1926, this is the fascinating account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward's most important epedition. Kenneth Cox, Kenneth Storm, Jr., and Ian Baker have spent the last fifteen years retracing Ward's route.

Retracing the Epic Journey of 1924-25 in South-East Tibet

Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges

The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the greatest of all hidden lands lies at the heart of the forbidding Tsangpo Gorge, deep in the Himalayas and veiled by a colossal waterfall. Nineteenth-century accounts of this fabled waterfall inspired a series of ill-fated European expeditions that ended prematurely in 1925 when the intrepid British plant collector Frank Kingdon-Ward penetrated all but a five-mile section of the Tsangpo’s innermost gorge and declared that the falls were no more than a “religious myth” and a “romance of geography.” The heart of the Tsangpo Gorge remained a blank spot on the map of world exploration until world-class climber and Buddhist scholar Ian Baker delved into the legends. Whatever cryptic Tibetan scrolls or past explorers had said about the Tsangpo’s innermost gorge, Baker determined, could be verified only by exploring the uncharted five-mile gap. After several years of encountering sheer cliffs, maelstroms of impassable white water, and dense leech-infested jungles, on the last of a series of extraordinary expeditions, Baker and his National Geographic–sponsored team reached the depths of the Tsangpo Gorge. They made news worldwide by finding there a 108-foot-high waterfall, the legendary grail of Western explorers and Tibetan seekers alike. The Heart of the World is one of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in recent memory—an extraordinary journey to one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on earth and a pilgrimage to the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist faith.

This book introduces materials and how advances in materials result in advances in technology and our daily lives. Each chapter covers a particular material, how the material was discovered or invented, when it was first used, how this material has impacted the world, what makes the material important, how it is used today, and future applications. The list of materials covered in this book includes stone, wood, natural fibers, metals, clay, lead, iron, steel, silicon, glass, rubber, composites, polyethylene, rare earth magnet, and alloys.

Fifty Materials That Make the World

Deepak Chopra

Boldly reinterpreting the age-old Tibetan and Nepalese art form known as Thangka, Celestial Gallery offers beautifully detailed representations of mandalas, or celestial spheres. Simply gazing upon the mandalas is meant to inspire in the viewer a heightened state of intention and clarity. Master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks have created postmodern versions of these enlightened Buddha realms from hand-ground malachite, lapis, marigolds, and other rare substances. Painted at times with a mere three hairs from the tail of a cat, these multifaceted scenes of otherworldly deities are rich with hauntingly powerful detail. Depictions of White Tara, Green Tara, the Medicine Buddha, and many other celestial beings invite and inspire meditation and reflection.

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