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Detroit: An American Autopsy Our World » Activism & Social Justice April 11, 2013 0 By Charlie LeDuff New York Times Bestseller A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness... Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski” Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family’s, and his own. Detroit is where his mother’s flower shop was... Read more Read reviews Write review	99	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness April 10, 2013 0 By David Quammen A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012" A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In... Read more Read reviews Write review	69	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo (Religion, Culture, and Public Life) Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness April 09, 2013 0 By Mark C. Taylor Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that... Read more Read reviews Write review	99	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment April 09, 2013 0 By Douglas Hofstadter Emmanuel Sander Analogy is the core of all thinking.This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prizewinning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered... Read more Read reviews Write review	76	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman Health » Body, Mind & Spirit April 08, 2013 0 Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read?Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is... Read more Read reviews Write review	57	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Power of Consistency: Prosperity Mindset Training for Sales and Business Professionals Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment April 06, 2013 0 By Weldon Long How to achieve wealth, happiness, and peace of mind through personal responsibility The Power of Consistencyis based on the fundamental premise that private declarations dictate future actions. In other words, we tend to take actions with the thoughts and beliefs we consistently have, and the cumulative results of those actions eventually create the quality and circumstances of... Read more Read reviews Write review	40	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting Health » Food & Nutrition April 06, 2013 0 By Michael Mosley Mimi Spencer The official US edition of the international bestseller—containing US measurements and a month's worth of meals in color. Is it possible to eat normally, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a result? Simple answer: yes. You just limit your calorie intake for two nonconsecutive days each week—500 calories for women,... Read more Read reviews Write review	61	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Untold History of the United States Our World » Activism & Social Justice April 05, 2013 0 By Oliver Stone Peter Kuznick The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history. “At last the world knows America as the savior of the world!”—Woodrow Wilson The notion of American exceptionalism,... Read more Read reviews Write review	59	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country Our World » Conscious Business April 05, 2013 0 By Peter Schiff You might be thinking everything’s okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over. You’d be wrong. In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a... Read more Read reviews Write review	61	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Our World » Activism & Social Justice April 04, 2013 0 By Tony Wagner IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company... Read more Read reviews Write review	51	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Happiness Choice: The Five Decisions That Will Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment April 01, 2013 0 By Marilyn Tam Discover the path to a happy life, from a woman who overcame the odds and achieved a joyful life Author Marilyn Tam takes what she learned from being an unwanted, neglected, and abused child in Hong Kong to become an international business success and humanitarian who is happy, healthy, and at peace with herself. In The Happiness... Read more Read reviews Write review	65	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment April 01, 2013 1 By Daniel H. Pink #1 New York Times Business Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller #1 Washington Post bestseller From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising--and surprisingly useful--new book that explores the power of selling in our lives. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in... Read more Read reviews Write review	76	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment March 28, 2013 0 By John Hunter In John Hunter’s classroom, students fearlessly tackle global problems and discover surprising solutions by playing his groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids—from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well funded and underresourced—take on the roles of politicians, tribal leaders, diplomats, bankers, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits,... Read more Read reviews Write review	102	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment March 24, 2013 0 By Robert Holden “Love is your destiny. It is the purpose of your life. It is the key to your happiness and to the evolution of the world.” Loveability is a meditation on love. It addresses the most important... Read more Read reviews Write review	60	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Being Different Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment March 23, 2013 0 By Rajiv Malhotra In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that... Read more Read reviews Write review	70	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Travels with Puff: A Gentle Game of Life and Death Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment March 22, 2013 0 "A few years ago, someone asked me by way of their T-shirt, Got Freedom? Here's, a bit delayed and by way of two small seaplanes and a continent ten thousand horizons wide, my answer."--Richard Bach In the tradition of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, and Richard Bach's own bestseller,... Read more Read reviews Write review	156	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.3 (1)
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease Health » Food & Nutrition March 21, 2013 0 By Robert H. Lustig New York Times Bestseller Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we... Read more Read reviews Write review	97	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy Inspiration » Biography & Memoir March 21, 2013 0 By Susan Spencer-Wendel Bret Witter Susan Spencer-Wendel’s Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as... Read more Read reviews Write review	80	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity (BK Currents) Our World » Conscious Business March 21, 2013 0 By Bernard Lietaer Jacqui Dunne As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. Solutions are already in place where terrible problems once... Read more Read reviews Write review	91	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Our World » Ecology & Sustainability March 18, 2013 0 A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track to produce a whopping 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime,... Read more Read reviews Write review	65	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round Health » Food & Nutrition March 18, 2013 0 By Marisa McClellan Popular food blogger Marisa McClellan takes you through all manner of food in jars, storing away the tastes of all seasons for later. Basics like jams and jellies are accompanied by pickles, chutneys, conserves, whole fruit, tomato sauces, salsas, marmalades, nut butters, seasonings, and more. Small batches make them easy projects for a canning novice to tackle, and the... Read more Read reviews Write review	85	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Antigonick Inspiration » Art & Literature March 16, 2013 0 By Anne Carson An illustrated new translation of Sophokles’ Antigone. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text. Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is... Read more Read reviews Write review	76	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook: More than 175 Ultra-Tasty Recipes for Total Health and Weight Loss Health » Food & Nutrition March 16, 2013 0 By Mark Hyman In THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION COOKBOOK, Dr. Mark Hyman shares recipes that support the BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION lifestyle. In 1900, only two percent of meals in America were eaten outside the home; now it is over fifty percent. Dr. Hyman calls for readers to take back their health by taking back their kitchens. The major culprit of diabetes, obesity... Read more Read reviews Write review	58	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness March 16, 2013 0 By Charles Fennyhough Leading psychologist Charles Fernyhough blends the most current science with literature and personal stories in Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts. A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing fixed, unchanging memories, they have found that we create recollections anew each time we... Read more Read reviews Write review	84	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food--With 1,000 Photos Health » Food & Nutrition March 15, 2013 0 By Mark Brittman The next best thing to having Mark Bittman in the kitchen with you Mark Bittman's highly acclaimed, bestselling book How to Cook Everything is an indispensable guide for any modern cook. With How to Cook Everything The Basicshe reveals how truly easy it is to learn fundamental techniques and recipes. From dicing vegetables and roasting meat, to cooking... Read more Read reviews Write review	86	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Do Not Go Quietly: A Guide to Living Consciously and Aging Wisely for People Who Weren't Born Yesterday Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment March 12, 2013 0 By George Cappannelli Sedena Cappannelli Do Not Go Quietly is an extraordinary and important book for all Gen Xers (40 to 45), baby boomers (46 to 64), and elders (65 and older). It is also valuable for those under 40 who want to better understand and assist their parents, older friends, and relatives. Discover how to... Read more Read reviews Write review	180	Editor rating 4.7 User rating 0.0 (0)
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer Health » Food & Nutrition March 10, 2013 0 By Thomas Seyfried The book addresses controversies related to the origins of cancer and provides solutions to cancer management and prevention. It expands upon Otto Warburg's well-known theory that all cancer is a disease of energy metabolism. However, Warburg did not link his theory to the "hallmarks of cancer" and thus his theory was discredited. This book aims to provide... Read more Read reviews Write review	74	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Primal Connection: Follow Your Genetic Blueprint to Health and Happiness Featured Health » Body, Mind & Spirit March 10, 2013 0 By Mark Sisson Are You Hyperconnected ... and Disconnected? The frenetic pace of modern life distracts us from a painful truth: we are disconnected. Disconnected from our DNA recipe, forged through the selection pressure of human evolution, to enjoy health, happiness, and peace of mind. Horns, office chatter, and whirring machines batter our ears with incessant noise. Artificial light and digital stimulation... Read more Read reviews Write review	72	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal Health » Food & Nutrition March 10, 2013 0 By Melanie Warner In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma a fascinating and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food. If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed our children? Former... Read more Read reviews Write review	91	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness March 08, 2013 0 By Sam Parnia Josh Young Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process—a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. Innovative techniques have proven to be effective in revitalizing both the body and mind, but they are only employed in approximately half... Read more Read reviews Write review	117	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)