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Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family (Macsci) Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 28, 2012 0 By Shelley Emling A new portrait of the two time Nobel winner—drawing on family letters newly released by Marie Curie’s granddaughter Marie Curie discovered the mysterious element radium, became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, and remains the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in different science fields.... Read more Read reviews Write review	236	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice May 28, 2012 0 By Kevin Bleyer The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. Until now. Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it. But first, some... Read more Read reviews Write review	140	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
By Faith, Not By Sight: The Inspirational Story of a Blind Prodigy, a Life-Threatening Illness, and an Unexpected Gift Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 28, 2012 0 By Scott MacIntyre A moving story of hope, faith, persistence and the power of dreams. A piano prodigy, a nineteen-year-old college grad, a Marshall scholar, and an American Idol finalist. This guy had it made. He could sing. He could ski blind. What couldn't he do? Even if you saw him in concert,... Read more Read reviews Write review	140	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature May 28, 2012 0 By Kristen Iversen Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at... Read more Read reviews Write review	143	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Cost of Hope: A Memoir Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 28, 2012 0 By Amanda Bennett From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life. When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence Bryan Foley while on assignment in China,... Read more Read reviews Write review	210	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Seriously, Just Go to Sleep Hot Inspiration » Children & Youth May 26, 2012 0 By Adam Mansbach "Now there's a version, complete with more of the gorgeous, yet weirdly subversive illustrations. The best part? It's still funny. The rhythms, the plodding rhymes, the illustrations, the clever play on the overused trope of the world at bedtime -- they all work together to take Seriously, Just Go to Sleep beyond parody and into the realm where good... Read more Read reviews Write review	241	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.7 (1)
The Mystery Experience: A Revolutionary Approach to Spiritual Awakening Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion May 25, 2012 0 By Tim Freke What is the Mystery Experience? It's nothing less than life itself--literally, the journey of your life. Join author and “stand-up philosopher” Tim Freke--who appears on the BBC and the History Channel--on a magical mystery tour of spiritual rebirth, with stops at quantum physics, Tao, Walt Whitman, Greek mythology, Carl Jung, and more. All you need to bring along is... Read more Read reviews Write review	260	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion May 25, 2012 0 By Kody Brown Meri Brown Janelle Brown Christine Brown Robyn Brown The stars of the hit show Sister Wives present an uncensored, unedited look at life in their plural marriage. The Brown family, open polygamists, are the stars of the popular reality program Sister Wives, a hit for TLC not only because of the unusual subject matter, but also because of the honesty and frankness of the entire... Read more Read reviews Write review	293	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Emotional Chaos to Clarity: How to Live More Skillfully, Make Better Decisions, and Find Purpose in Life Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 25, 2012 0 By Phillip Moffitt This inspiring and prescriptive book leads us from the emotional chaos of the reactive mind to the clarity of the responsive mind As Founder of the Life Balance Institute, Phillip Moffitt has observed that most people lack clarity about their life's direction and the ability to cope with its inevitable challenges. Now, in Emotional Chaos to Clarity, he... Read more Read reviews Write review	284	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.0 (1)
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 25, 2012 0 By Elaine Fox Are you optimistic or pessimistic? Glass half-full or half-empty? Do you look on the bright side or turn towards the dark? These are easy questions for most of us to answer, because our personality types are hard-wired into our brains. As pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Elaine Fox has discovered, our outlook on life reflects our primal... Read more Read reviews Write review	335	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.3 (1)
The Lotus Quest: In Search of the Sacred Flower Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 20, 2012 0 By Mark Griffiths A captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers Bewitched by a lotus which flowered from three-thousandyear- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book. The Lotus Quest takes Griffiths from the headquarters... Read more Read reviews Write review	71	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action Hot Inspiration » Children & Youth May 18, 2012 0 In Vegan Is Love, author-illustrator Ruby Roth introduces young readers to veganism as a lifestyle of compassion and action. Broadening the scope of her popular first book That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals, Roth illustrates how our daily choices ripple out locally and globally, conveying what we can do to protect animals, the environment, and people across the world.... Read more Read reviews Write review	103	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness May 18, 2012 0 By Andrea Wulf The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the earth and the sun... Read more Read reviews Write review	182	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.3 (1)
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 17, 2012 0 By Meg Jay Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of adulthood.Drawing from a decade... Read more Read reviews Write review	289	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion May 17, 2012 0 By Lama Ole Nydahl Buddha & Love, published in over half a dozen languages, explores all aspects of love and partnership from a Buddhist perspective. Covering a broad spectrum of topics such as sexuality, infidelity, parenting, and divorce. Lama Ole Nydahl, a Buddhist Lama in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, explains how a Buddhist approach to relationships can help us to... Read more Read reviews Write review	100	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent Hot Our World » Conscious Business May 17, 2012 0 By Edward Luce "Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking."-Sir Ernest Rutherford, winner of the Nobel Prize in Nuclear PhysicsTime to Start Thinking is a book destined to spark debate among liberals and conservatives alike. Drawing on his decades of exceptional journalism and his connections within Washington and around the world, Luce advances a carefully constructed... Read more Read reviews Write review	164	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 14, 2012 0 By Rodger Steitmatter For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many as fifty—years. In short, they loved and supported... Read more Read reviews Write review	62	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice May 14, 2012 0 By E.J. Donne Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-read book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation’s political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr. argues that Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t agree on who we’ve been, or what it is, philosophically and... Read more Read reviews Write review	192	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Home Inspiration » Art & Literature May 08, 2012 0 By Toni Morrison America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself... Read more Read reviews Write review	87	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice May 07, 2012 0 By Nancy Gibbs Michael Duffy The inside story of the world's most exclusive fraternity; how presidents from Hoover through Obama worked with--and sometimes, against--each other when they were in and out of power. Read more Read reviews Write review	116	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 06, 2012 0 By George Pratt Peter Lambrou John David Mann We are meant to be happy. Instinctively, we all know this, somewhere deep inside. We all know what it's like to feel a burst of delight. Every one of us has at some point in our lives experienced a sense of ecstatic joy, of euphoria at the sheer sensation of being alive. Have you ever wondered... Read more Read reviews Write review	318	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 06, 2012 0 By Charles Duhigg A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying... Read more Read reviews Write review	147	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit May 04, 2012 0 By Ira Byock MD A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life. It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans... Read more Read reviews Write review	217	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More are ... of Local Agriculture and Community Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit May 01, 2012 0 By Jeremy N. Smith An in-depth look at local, community-based agriculture. Fifteen people—plus a class of first graders—tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community...and how they can change yours, too. Growing a Garden Cityincludes: Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range of individuals, including farmers... Read more Read reviews Write review	111	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 01, 2012 0 By Anne Lamott Sam Lamott In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and... Read more Read reviews Write review	81	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 01, 2012 0 By Brendon Burchard From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Millionaire Messenger, an electrifying and inspiring book that provides the keys to motivating yourself to satisfy your highest, most essential creative and intellectual needs. In the hyper-connected, hyper-digitized world in which we are living, the time has come to revise Abraham Maslow’s classic “hierarchy of needs”—a... Read more Read reviews Write review	219	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
Everyday Enlightenment: The Essential Guide to Finding Happiness in the Modern World Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion April 30, 2012 0 By Gyalwang Drukpa An engaging and practical guide to finding hapiness today, written by one of the most influential Buddhist leaders in the world. “I love the modern world; we have so many opportunities to be generous and inspire each other,” writes His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa in Everyday Enlightenment. And in this simple, powerful book based... Read more Read reviews Write review	88	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir April 28, 2012 0 By Mary Johnson An unforgettable spiritual autobiography about a search for meaning that begins alongside one of the great religious icons of our time and ends with a return to the secular world At seventeen, Mary Johnson saw Mother Teresa’s face on the cover of Time and experienced her calling. Eighteen months later, she entered a convent in the South Bronx to... Read more Read reviews Write review	237	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir April 28, 2012 0 By Dan Rather This memoir by Dan Rather -- one of the most pre-eminent journalists of our time -- is told in a straightforward and conversational manner so that you hear his distinctive voice on every page. Rather, -- who has won every prestigious journalism award in his distinguished career -- discusses all the big stories from his decades of reporting. This... Read more Read reviews Write review	170	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment April 26, 2012 0 By Debbie Ford New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford offers her most personal, powerful, and practical work to date—a proven process for overcoming insecurity and fear and unlocking the courage that resides within. Every day we are confronted with hundreds of choices that either make us feel confident and strong or rob us of the things we desire the... Read more Read reviews Write review	298	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.5 (2)