"The Empowerment Manual is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to foster vision, trust, accountability and responsibility through shared power and bottom-up leadership. This desperately needed toolkit is key to: understanding group dynamics; facilitating communication and collective decision-making; dealing effectively with difficult people."--P. [4] of cover.

This prequel to the saga of 98-year-old rebel leader Maya Greenwood, begun in Starhawk's first novel "The Fifth Sacred", tells the extraordinary story of Maya's life, recounting her pilgrimage to Nepal to reclaim her connection with nature.

In the violent, desperate world of 2048, eco-catastrophes and societal breakdown have left the country splintered. Yet amidst the ruins stands a green and flourishing city where four things are sacred--air, fire, water, and earth. When the ruthless stewards of the Southlands invade, the people of Califia defeat them using nonviolence and magic. But they'll be back, unless the northerners can liberate the Southlands first. Healer Madrone struggles...