Events

« Sunday July 25, 2010 »
Sun
Start: 3:00 pm
Photographer David Grant Noble presents a slideshow and signs In the Places of the Spirits(SAR Press, $$30 paper & 60.00 cloth), a collection of photography interwoven with personal reflections and historical and anthropological information that represents the culmination of Noble's forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer.  It features images of the land, people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the first time."Explorer, writer, and photographer extraordinaire David Grant Noble leads us on an archaeological odyssey through the Southwestern landscape.  The spirituality of the places and the Native American inhabitants, both contemporary and ancient, are splendidly captured by Noble's elegant prose and vivid photographs.  In the Places of the Spirits is a very personal chronicle by one of the Southwest's most sensitive and insightful observers."
Start: 5:30 pm
5:30pm Sunday, July 25International Teacher of Toltec Wisdom don Jose Ruiz: The Fifth AgreementA New York Times bestseller for over seven years, The Four Agreements provides the foundation for breaking thousands of agreements that create needless suffering. International bestselling author and teacher don Miguel Ruiz has a new book, written in collaboration with his son don Jose Ruiz, who will discuss the new lesson at Bookworks. Incorporating a new agreement, "Be skeptical, but learn to listen," The Fifth Agreement (Amber Allen, $19.95) prepares us to return to our innate wisdom, and live our lives based on truth.Don Jose Ruiz was born in Mexico City, Mexico and was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. When he was 21 he came to live in the U.S. with his father, don Miguel Ruiz. In his early twenties, don Jose lost his eyesight, and through surrender and faith in concert with modern medicine, Jose recovered his vision.