The Jaguar's Quest


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Many secrets are hidden within the darkness of the jungle. Behold this one about a man, a woman, a black jaguar, and an ancient Mayan legend. When Andrea Granger was assigned to go to Honduras, ‘get inside and gather evidence’ against the DEA’s main suspect, she was determined to accomplish her mission with the same efficiency as in her previous assignments. But that was before she met her culprit, Brandon Shaw. He melted her heart and her resolve, and so did Naja, Brandon’s 300 pound black jaguar and closest companion. She quickly discovered there was much more to Brandon Shaw than met the eye, and just as quickly, she found her mission in jeopardy. Instead of arresting him, she became determined to rescue the flawed man of the jungle. But could she successfully extricate him from the web he had tangled himself in? As if that weren’t enough, she found that Brandon Shaw was somehow connected to a thousand year old Mayan legend which threatened to destroy everything. Unprepared, she found herself having to deal with an ancient spirit determined to kill her.




The Book of the Jaguar XJ-S


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The definitive history of Jaguar's E-Type replacement, the XJ-S. More a grand tourer than a sportscar, the controversially styled XJ-S offered a combination of supercar performance and grand tourer luxury. Includes rare photos of the prototypes that didn't make production.




Jaguar's Shadow


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When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend--yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search--and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.




Jaguar


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In 1983, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz ventured into the rain forest of Belize, determined to study the little-known jaguar in its natural habitat and to establish the world's first jaguar preserve. Within two years, he had succeeded. In Jaguar he provides the only first-hand account of a scientist's experience with jaguars in the wild. Originally published in 1986, this edition includes a new preface and epilogue by the author that bring the story up to date with recent events in the region and around the world.




The World of the Jaguar


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Mending The Past & Healing The Future With Soul Retrieval


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“While everyone has a future,” Alberto Villoldo says, “only certain people have a destiny.” This work shows you how to find and manifest yours... and when you do, you’ll find that your life will never be the same. In this fascinating book by psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, he discusses ways in which you can heal yourself and your loved ones by employing practices used by shamans of the Americas—which, until now, have been inaccessible to most of the world. The shamans of old called this powerful process journeying. Within these pages, you’ll discover that you have a four-chambered soul in the same way you have a four-chambered heart. In the first chamber, you’ve stored away the memory of a wound that derailed your des­tiny. In the second, you’ve kept the limiting beliefs and soul contracts that you entered into at the time of your loss. However, in the third chamber, you can recover the grace and trust that will make you whole again; and in the fourth, you’ll be able to remember the call­ing that is your very purpose for being alive. Using several myths and legends from around the world, along with stories from his real-life clients, Villoldo shares how heroes have journeyed over time to recover their lost souls and find their destinies. The practices of soul retrieval and destiny retrieval are also described in rich, practical detail, illustrating how you can become your own shaman and accomplish in a few sessions of journeying what can take years to do in a psychological setting. The book also explains how time is like a river that courses lazily to the sea, and on which most are content to drift along, but that deep under its surface is a stream that leads both back to its source and forward to infin­ity. It describes how ancient “seers” known as the Laika learned to navigate these currents of time—the time lines—thus teaching you how to find and travel along your own time lines to your unique, individual destiny.




Soul Journeying


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This fascinating book by psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., explains the practices for healing outside of ordinary time and space. It shows how to enter the timeless now to heal events that occurred in the past, and to correct the course of destiny. Dr. Villoldo discusses ways in which you can heal yourself and your loved ones by employing intention through practices used by shamans of the Americas—which, until now, have been inaccessible to most of the world. The shamans of old called this journeying. In this book, you’ll discover that in the same way you have a four-chambered heart, you have a four-chambered soul. In the first chamber, you store away the memory of a wound that derailed your destiny. In the second, you keep the limiting beliefs and soul contracts that you entered into at the time of your loss. In the third, you recover the grace and trust that will make you whole again; and in the fourth, you remember the calling and mission that you choose to unfold in this lifetime. "While everyone has a future," Villoldo says, "only certain people have a destiny." This book shows you how to find and manifest yours.




Touching the Jaguar


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“This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.” —Deepak Chopra This all happened while Perkins was a Peace Corps volunteer. Then he became an "economic hit man" (EHM), convincing developing countries to build huge projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and other US-controlled institutions. Although he'd learned in business school that this was the best model for economic development, he came to understand it as a new form of colonialism. When he later returned to the Amazon, he saw the destructive impact of his work. But a much more profound experience emerged: Perkins was inspired by a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe that “touched its jaguar” by uniting with age-old enemies to defend its territory against invading oil and mining companies. For the first time, Perkins details how shamanism converted him from an EHM to a crusader for transforming a failing Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at accelerating rates) into a Life Economy (cleaning up pollution, recycling, and developing green technologies). He discusses the power our perceptions have for molding reality. And he provides a strategy for each of us to change our lives and defend our territory—the earth—against current destructive policies and systems.




Jaguar Rising


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Life changed for Mackenzie Santos more than a decade ago when she woke on a slab in the morgue. If that wasn't bad enough, then she started turning furry. And that was just the beginning of the changes in her life and in the world around her.Since then, Mac's life has been filled with more twists and turns than a roller coaster. Her responsibilities as cop, mother, pride alpha and member of the Tribunal mean she's seen the best and worst in both the human and paranormal worlds. . . and the worst is yet to come. It seems someone plans to celebrate her promotion with a real bang!A monster stalks the streets of Dallas, It has targeted Mac and those close to her. Worse, this "monster" knows her. It spent years studying her, learning her strengths and weaknesses. Worse, it isn't afraid of harming innocents in its quest to get to her.Mac will do whatever it takes to bring down this new threat because failure means more than just death. It means all-out war between humans and paras.




American Jaguar


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In the borderlands between the United States and Mexico, America's largest cat—the jaguar—is fighting to regain its kingdom. Added to the endangered species list in 1997, the jaguar has declined in population mainly due to habitat fragmentation created by roads, farms, mines, and most controversially, the border wall. Such human-made barriers prevent free movement of many wild animals for predation and mating, thereby threatening their reproduction, DNA transfer, and overall survival. Author and wildlife biologist Elizabeth Webb examines the jaguar's predicament and highlights the work of field scientists who are searching for solutions. "Conservation Connection" features throughout the book underscore the importance of protecting this keystone species of the Americas.