NEW RELEASE
Hello friends! Mama Earth Gives Birth, published by R. Haus Institute is now available on Amazon.
This children’s book, written with the assistance of my amazing girls, is one of the NEW EARTH SERIES trilogy that includes “Fire in the Sky,” and “Whisper.” Stay tuned for details, or just watch Amazon, where we will make sure it is available.
Mama Earth Gives Birth (New Earth) Paperback – Large Print, November 30, 2024
IKindle: $9.99
Paperback: $17.99
Why is Mama getting so fat??? In this children's book, soon to be a classic, author and social scientist Dr. Alex Ruuska has created a playful, and by turns, whimsical story about a spunky young girl who goes on a whirlwind tour around the world. She is accompanied by her ever-expanding earth mama, who can't seem to get enough fish tacos, chocolate, or sushi. "Mama Earth Gives Birth" boldly explores climate change, large scale earth changes, geography, and cuisine through the eyes of an insatiable sentient earth mama and her curious puckish daughter. Inspired by ancestral stories of the Indigenous Paiute and Shoshone of California, the Great Basin, and Colorado Plateau, this book offers every reader the chance to get to know the earth as a sentient being.
"Mama Earth Gives Birth" is part of a series of children's stories that explores important earth changes and potential meanings for children in this time. Other books to be included in this series include: "Fire in the Sky," and "Whisper."
"Mama Earth Gives Birth" is produced by R. Haus Institute, LLC, an educational and healing institute providing the highest quality books, ethnographies, blogs, podcasts, videos, online classes, workshops, and life coaching by weaving together ancient and contemporary knowledge to promote the integration of science and spirituality, purposeful living, and planetary stewardship.
The author also has written a book for adults about ancient Indigenous earth births, entitled, "When the Earth Was New: Memory, Materiality, and Numic Ritual, available through the University of Utah Press, to be released in Spring 2025. This book will be available in hardcover, paperback, eBook, and audiobook formats. When The Earth Was New explores the value of oral traditions and challenges entrenched beliefs about ethnogenesis in the Great Basin.
Additionally, I am offering a limited release of a unique virtual course to accompany When the Earth Was New, in Spring 2025.
When the Earth Was New, University of Nevada
Preorders, publication date Spring 2025
E-BOOKS
Preorders, release date June 2025
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