Lantern Books

EVEN VEGANS DIE empowers vegans and their loved ones to make the best decisions regarding their own health, their advocacy for animals and their legacy. By addressing issues of disease shaming and body shaming, the authors present a manifesto for building a more compassionate, diverse and effective vegan community.

Affectionately known as Lady Ruth at the Jivamukti Yoga School in New York City where she teaches, Ruth Lauer-Manenti has presented "dharma "talks on daily life from a yogic perspective for many years (collected in "An Offering of Leaves" and "Sweeping the Dust" both published by Lantern Books).

Painted with intense colour and bold inkwork, SALT is a graphic novel about two snail/slug men who liberate a monkey from a vivisection lab, saving her life and facing the consequences of those actions. The monkey character is based upon a real experiment in which the head of one monkey was switched onto the body of another.

HIDDEN is an unflinching book of photography about our conflict with non-human animals around the globe. Through the lenses of thirty award-winning photojournalists, HIDDEN shines a light on the invisible animals in our lives: those with whom we have a close relationship and yet fail to see.

THE VEGANIC GROWER'S HANDBOOK seeks to give the new, amateur and professional gardening enthusiast all the tools and techniques to be successful in vegan-organic methods. Mirroring the gardening year, this manual delineates garden planning to seed-growing in the early season, to garden preparation and transplanting when the weather warms.

As consumers become increasingly aware of the animal agriculture industry's cruelty and environmental devastation, clever industry marketers are adapting with alternative “humane” and “sustainable” labelling and marketing campaigns.

For many years at the Jivamukti Yoga School in New York City and throughout the world, popular and highly regarded yoga instructor, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, (affectionately known as Lady Ruth) has been offering her students dharma talks.- stories from her life that accompany her classes and represent the yogic commitments to ahimsa (non-violence), compassion and service.

In this book, a companion to An Offering of Leaves, much-loved Jivamukti Yoga teacher ,Ruth Lauer-Manenti, ('Lady Ruth') offers over forty more of the 'dharma talks' that she gives at the beginning of each yoga class.