Open Your Heart with Geocaching: Mastering Life Through Love of Exploration (Open Your Heart) (Open Your Heart)
Paul Cezanne (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists) 
Presents a biography of Paul C?zanne
C?zanne: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library) 
Customer Review: Great pictures
A brief pictography with readable paragraphs on the great artist, Cezanne.
Bald Ego No. 2 (Bald Ego) 
This second issue of Bald Ego unloads fresh food for thought onto the periodical table with a fertile editorial mix of the raw and the cooked, pure and impure, sacred and profane, unvarnished truth and shiny fiction–not to mention edible metaphors. Co-editors Max Blagg and Glenn O’Brien have once again assembled a potent catalogue of talented artists and writers to create a document that clearly reflects some of the anxieties and ecstasies of our age–perhaps in the hope that the balance will once again shift to the side of ecstasy. Contributors to this issue include Larry Clark, Lynne Tillman, Andre Martelor, Mary Gaitskill, Burk Uzzle, Richard Hell, Nick Tosches, Sean Mortensen, Cecily Brown, Justen Ladda, and many others, each responding in their own singular fashion to the beauty and madness of the 21st century.
Open Your Heart with Geocaching: Mastering Life Through Love of Exploration (Open Your Heart) (Open Your Heart)
Geocaching, or treasure hunt hiking, will help you get fit and open new worlds, as well your mind and your heart.
Customer Review: The adventure of traveling off the beaten path
“Open your heart” not only introduces geocaching but it also asks the reader to consider that geocaching will refresh their view on life. Wandering down trails you have traveled before becomes all new again when you know there is a hidden treasure - the cache. The author captures the short history of geocaching, personal stories and explores the way this relatively new activity opens people up to the wonder of the world around them.
On a personal level, my girl scout troop is going on a hike in the woods with a whole new purpose besides being “tortured, and forced to exercise”. They are excited to be going out there now. As they say in the Mastercard world: Priceless.
Customer Review: From this book, it is easy to see how people are devoted to geocaching
Geocaching is an interesting hobby and it is easy to see why people could become devoted to it. It is a sport where people will place a “treasure” at a location, note the location in GPS coordinates and then post the coordinates on a website devoted to geocaching. Practitioners check the site and then use GPS receivers to search for the “treasure.” There are ego points for the cleverness of the hide and being First-To-Find (FTF) and there are guidelines for what locations are suitable for caching and what one can do when the “treasure” is found. A more extreme form of the sport involved placing the cache in a location that requires advanced techniques for access such as climbing a mountain, scuba diving or using a helicopter.
Cezanne describes the sport, points out some of the more obvious and realistic rules and interviews several people about the attraction they feel for geocaching. Since they are so rugged, old ammunition boxes are commonly used to store the cache. Clearly, carrying and then hiding an old ammunition box near a sensitive site such as a bridge will get the attention of law enforcement and should not be done.
While I will most likely never engage in this sport, it is easy to understand why there are people devoted to it and who consider it an uplifting experience. The explanations of the hows and joys of geocaching are well done, it offers the challenge of treasure hunting, the opportunity to interact with people of similar interests and a chance to commune with nature in a positive way.
