... Recounting a true story, this exploration tells of a wandering Mongol shaman who made a dramatic appearance around the Mediterranean centuries before the time of Christ. Highlighting how this nomad came ...
For years, a popular debate has been raging about whether Shakespeare was really the author of the many plays and poems published under his name. Doubters argue that Shakespeare could not have accomplished ...
'How should we respond to our converging crises of violent conflict, political corruption, and global ecological devastation? In this sweeping, big-picture synthesis, Louis G. Herman argues that for us ...
Drawing on both the author's extensive studies of Vedic traditions and her longtime interest in animal rights, 'Yoga and Vegetarianism' shows how the physical and spiritual practice of yoga is historically ...
Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming-even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purse, the ...
There's a rebel within you. It's the part of you that already knows how to break free of fear and unhappiness. This rebel is the voice of your own awakened mind. It's your rebel buddha-the sharp, clear intelligence ...
... new medicine, and reveals how it can unlock the door to a health care system that works forallAmericans. Corporatized medicine only gets to work once disease occurs. Integrative medicine, on the other ...
Using today's most leading-edge therapies and breakthroughs in the science of longevity, C. Norman Shealy, one of the pioneering holistic physicians of our time, shows how we can healthfully age to one ...
... we could stop thewar in Iraq, FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE shows us our naivite. Its deep analysisof the policies and strategies of U.S. foreign policymakers is sobering. Butauthor Rahul Mahajan is not just ...
... against a foreign enemy, but the protection of the American oligarchy from the American democracy.' Dissent has always had a hard time of it, Lapham shows in a bravura short tour of political dissent in ...
... more expansive state. What that consciousness may be like and how it may be achieved is a major concern of this book.Lachman concentrates on the period since the late 1800s, when Madame Blavatsky first ...
... American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country's history, is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. Why has this been so? How ...
... metabolic and appetite-regulating systems and making us fatter. In her groundbreaking book, Dr. Baillie-Hamilton shows readers how to identify, avoid, and manage the negative effects of fattening Chemical ...
In this compelling book, Colin Wilson argues that thousands of years before ancient Egypt and Greece held sway, there was a great civilization whose ships traveled the world from China to Antarctica. Their ...
... and more fragments. However, he claims that twentieth-century findings, including the work of Freud and Jung, as well as findings of modern neuroscience and Near-Death research, has marked a resurgence ...
... means. With a blend of storytelling, landmark research, and provocative ideas on health, Dr. Agus presents an eye-opening picture of the human body and all of the ways it worksand failsshowing us how ...
... argued allegations, Bovard shows how the campaign promises of 2000 have betrayed not only the electorate, but the Constitution itself: from the erosion of civil liberties, massive debt, and the arrogance ...
... religious institutions, which in turn combine to force the same old patterns onto new generations. In this book, Osho shows how to discard these old patterns in favor of a new and nurturing trinity of ...
... or a philosopher. Richard Geldard is not puzzled at all by this: he has written a book which plainly shows the essential Emerson to be a teacher, the Socrates of Massachusetts, a man with a message that ...
... a book with its roots in the earth that can move you to new places, stimulate ideas and encourage change. Less is More will show you how to divest gradually, to live more in the present moment, while still ...
+'This book is endlessly enlightening and entertaining . . . will appeal to all dog owners.+' +--Ann LaFarge,Taconic News How do dogs think? Short of breeding a talking dog (not as impossible as it sounds), ...
The view of most contemporary thinkers is that there is no purpose or value in the universe, or in nature. Following on from the success of Does It Matter? Graham Martin sets out to show this viewpoint ...
... the similarity between the pharaoh's afterlife voyage and shamanic journeyingò Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical traditionTo the Greek philosophers and other peoples of the ancient ...
... and considers how practitioners of yogic medicine and fitness combine the ideas of biology, physiology, and anatomy with those of metaphysics, transcendence, and magical power. The first serious ethnographic ...
On Fear is a collection of KrishnamurtiÆs most profound observations and thoughts on how fear and dependence affect our lives and prevent us from seeeing our true selves. Among the many questions Krishnamurti ...
'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were ...
... long-term effects of global warmingùfrom oil companies, scientists, business lobbies, and environmental groupsùconcerned citizens find it difficult to tell how dire the prognosis really is. Is life on ...
InThe Naked Crowd, acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he insists, ...
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, ôIö arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves ...
... block that serves as a trigger for relapse. A regular advisor on the Dr. Phil show, Dr. Khaleghi has mapped out recovery plans for thousands of patients and their families.á Well-known facilities such ...
One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed ...
... blames liberals, activist judges, homosexuals, independent women, and all secular people for the moral and spiritual emptiness so many Americans experience. Yet, however distorted both the Right's analysis ...
... reform, no matter how worthy, will succeed. It is time, Brimelow convincingly argues, to bust the Teacher Trust.The Worm in the Apple paints an alarming picture of the bureaucratic parasite that has taken ...
... to show that science could not possibly undermine religious belief, while others have tried to reconcile science and faith, and even to show that the tools of science - facts and reason - could support ...
Dr. Judith Reichman, the bestselling author of 'I'm Too Young to Get Old and 'I'm Not in the Mood and the nationally recognized medical correspondent on women's health for the 'Today show, explains exactly how ...
Now in paperback: a distinguished psychiatrist, spiritual counsellor and bestselling author shows how the dark sides of the spiritual life are a vital ingredient in deep, authentic, healthy spirituality. ...