Coming in 2027:

from Rowman & Littlefield / Bloomsbury

Cultivating Natural Intelligence

by Enid Baxter Ryce

A guide for parents on cultivating children’s natural intelligence through play and imagination in the age of screens. Preparing children for success in partnering with technology.

Books Available Now

  • Book cover titled "Grace Flows Through You" with a blue and green watercolor background and white text. Subtitle states "101 Spiritual Verses from Around the World," author is Enid Baxter Ryce.

    Grace Flows Through You: 101 Spiritual Verses from Around the World

    Coming Winter 2026

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    A beautiful demonstration of our shared humanity, this multicultural and multilingual compendium of prayers and spiritual verses offers deep solace in times of uncertainty. Words make worlds, and this collection of timeless invocations has the power to transform yours.

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    Ancient Spells and Incantations: Echoes of Magic Through the Ages and Across Cultures

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    Poetic spells and incantations adapted from grimoires, letters, and trial transcripts unearthed across centuries and cultures — many tucked away in university libraries, painstakingly researched.

  • Book cover titled 'Plant Magic at Home' with illustrations of herbs, flowers, berries, and gardening tools around the edges.

    Plant Magic at Home: A Complete Guide to Harnessing the Power of Nature from Rituals to DIYs

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    Illustrated by Claire Harrup

    "What an absolutely enchanting book. Whimsical, delightful, filled with magical incantations and spells, yet also so very wise and practical...I was charmed from the moment I started reading and spellbound throughout."
    ―Rosemary Gladstar, the "godmother of modern herbalism.”

  • Front cover of 'The Borderlands Tarot,' a bilingual deck and guidebook, featuring an illustration of a wolf howling at the moon with a colorful, watercolor background and floral elements, surrounded by other tarot cards.

    The Borderlands Tarot/ El Tarot de Tierras Fronterizas A Bilingual Deck and Guidebook (Spanish-English)

    Available wherever books are sold.

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    Co-Illustrated with Luis Camara

    “… an invitation to a unique and spiritual artistic journey. This beautiful bilingual deck, inspired by the nature and culture of the U.S.-Mexico border, offers a fresh perspective on traditional tarot.” - People Magazine en Español.

Fort Ord Books and Films

  • A handmade sign with the words "Fort Ord" and "City" written on it, and a handbook titled "Field guide to Fort Ord" by Enid Baxter Ryce below the sign.

    Field Guide to Fort Ord

    Available Now

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    Hand-painted maps, archival photographs, and the only comprehensive documentation of Fort Ord's soldier murals. A companion to the PlanetOrd project; held at the Library of Congress.

  • Military personnel standing in formation outdoors on a dusty ground with a haze or fog in the background.

    A Land for War, Documentary

    Available from Grasshopper Films. In 2009, Ryce entered the abandoned buildings of Fort Ord and found hundreds of murals painted by soldiers. A haunting meditation on the military's mark on the land and its people.

  • Title screen for a film titled 'War and the Weather' with background of a watercolor painting of clouds and water, mentioning film by Enid Baxter Ryce, featuring music by Philip Glass, and listing participants Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, Lauren Buffaloe-Muscadine, Charles Bell, Larry Schick, and Philip Glass.

    War and the Weather, documentary

    Created for Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival. An animated documentary essay film featuring the music of Philip Glass, War and the Weather is an experimental history of Atmospheric Rivers. Premiered at the National Gallery of Art.

  • Screenshot of a Library of Congress research guide titled 'El Otro Lado: Geographies, Boundaries, and Imagination of Space.' The page includes a search bar, breadcrumb navigation, and an introduction explaining borders as geographical and ideological palimpsests, with a list of topics including Indigenous Landscapes, The Engineered West, Extractive Industries in the U.S. West, Deserts Homelands and Colonial Fantasy, and Invention of Mexico and Mexicans.

    El Otro Lado: Georgraphies, Boundaries and Imaginations of Space

    Link here.

    Created for the Library of Congress as part of the Mexicali Biennial, co-edited by Enid Baxter Ryce and William Cowan, phD, written in collaboration with William Cowan, Emmanuel Ortega, and Heather Williams.

Catalogs and Contributed Chapters

  • Promotional poster for MexCali Biennial art event, featuring stylized illustrated vehicles, with background of traffic and billboards, green overlay, text about the event's focus on art actions, exchanges, and since 2006.

    MexiCali Biennial Art, Actions, Exchanges since 2006

    Celebrating 20 years of the binational, interdisciplinary artistic collaboration across the California–Mexico border. Published with MexiCali Biennial and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum with support from the Mellon Foundation and the ACLS.

  • Cover of a book titled 'From the Ground Up: Nourishing Diversity in Hostile Environments' featuring a black and white image of a bearded gnome, a photograph of three women with plants in their hair in a desert landscape, and various artistic illustrations of landscapes and objects.

    From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments

    Available Now!

    Edited by Irene Georgia Tsatsos. Contributions by Olivia Chumacero, Sean C. Lahmeyer, Hillary Mushkin, Enid Baxter Ryce, David Delgado Shorter, PhD, and Irene Georgia Tsatsos for Getty Foundation PST ArtXScience exhibition. An online reader version of this publication is available via this link.

  • A watercolor painting of grass and yellow flowers on beige background with the words 'AGAINST EDEN' faintly written at the top.

    Against Eden

    Commissioned by CalTech, a chapbook illustrating the essay by Banu Subramaniam created for Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science.

  • A girl raking leaves in a yard with the text 'California Video: Artists and Histories' overlaid.

    California Video: Artists and Histories

    Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. This illustrated volume focuses on fifty-eight artists, including Enid Baxter Ryce (nee Blader)