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Mao: The Real Story Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir September 21, 2012 0 By Alexander V. Pantsov Steven I Levine This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China. Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of... Read more Read reviews Write review	146	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness September 21, 2012 1 By Seth S. Horowitz The surprising truth about how the things our ears hear affect what's between them. Every day, we are surrounded by millions of sounds - ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more attention-grabbing sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process what... Read more Read reviews Write review	151	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir September 21, 2012 0 By Janet Wallach A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time. No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal to more than... Read more Read reviews Write review	184	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Primal Blueprint Quick and Easy Meals: Delicious, Primal-approved meals you can make in under 30 minutes (Primal Blueprint Series) Hot Health » Food & Nutrition September 20, 2012 0 By Mark Sisson Low carb styles of eating--whether touted as Primal, paleo, Atkins or the evolutionary diet--have proven to be the most effective for health and weight management. Unfortunately, many adherents find that regularly preparing healthy, natural meals the traditional ways can often take more time than they would like to spend. Following the immensely successful Primal Blueprint and Primal Blueprint Cookbook,... Read more Read reviews Write review	178	Editor rating 4.7 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness September 19, 2012 0 By Daniel Bor Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. ... Read more Read reviews Write review	137	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment September 15, 2012 0 By Brene Brown Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to dare greatly: to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of... Read more Read reviews Write review	130	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment September 15, 2012 0 Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author (Return to Love, Healing the Soul of America), a world-renowned teacher, and one of the most important New Age thinkers of our time. In The Law of Divine Compensation, she reveals the spiritual principles that help us overcome financial stress and unleash the divine power of abundance. A guru to anyone interested in... Read more Read reviews Write review	256	Editor rating 4.3 User rating 0.0 (0)
Vagina: A New Biography Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir September 13, 2012 0 By Naomi Wolf An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina—and consequently, how we understand women—from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth. When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a deeply personal journey to tease out... Read more Read reviews Write review	128	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness September 11, 2012 0 By Nicholas J. Gonzalez MD In 1998, Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. received National Cancer Institute approval for a clinical trial to evaluate his nutritional-enzyme approach in the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer. Though Dr. Gonzalez hoped the venture would initiate cooperation between conventional scientists and serious alternative researchers, problems plagued the study from its inception. The design discouraged patient participation; oncologists discouraged patients from... Read more Read reviews Write review	353	Editor rating 4.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Like a Waking Dream: The Autobiography of Geshe Lhundub Sopa Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion September 05, 2012 0 By Geshe Lhundub Sopa From the time he was a child, Geshe Sopa knew he would be a Buddhist lama. He was not picked like other lamas to inherit the estate of a deceased master as a reincarnate tulku. Born the only child of older farmers, he was allowed to become a monk only through personal persistence. He diligently worked his way up... Read more Read reviews Write review	104	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Time Keeper Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature September 05, 2012 0 By Mitch Albom From the author who's inspired millions worldwide with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most imaginative novel yet, The Time Keeper--a compelling fable about the first man on earth to count the hours. The man who became Father Time. In Mitch Albom's newest work of fiction,... Read more Read reviews Write review	193	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment September 05, 2012 0 By Anne Lamott New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life. Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow,... Read more Read reviews Write review	133	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir September 05, 2012 0 By William Souder Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist... Read more Read reviews Write review	118	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
A Hologram for the King Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature September 05, 2012 0 By Dave Eggers In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and... Read more Read reviews Write review	160	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Mortality Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir September 03, 2012 0 By Christopher Hitchens On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of... Read more Read reviews Write review	120	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted Hot Our World » Conscious Business September 01, 2012 0 By Mike Lofgren The ultimate Republican insider’s caustic exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington todayThere was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for... Read more Read reviews Write review	122	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption Hot Our World » Conscious Business August 29, 2012 1 By Rachel Botsman Roo Rogers WHAT’S MINE IS YOURS is about Collaborative Consumption, a new, emerging economy made possible by online social networks and fueled by increasing cost consciousness and environmental necessity. Collaborative Consumption occurs when people participate in organized sharing, bartering, trading, renting, swapping, and collectives to get the same pleasures of ownership with reduced personal cost and burden, and lower environmental impact.... Read more Read reviews Write review	203	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.7 (1)
The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It Our World » Ecology & Sustainability August 29, 2012 0 By Fred Guterl The sixth "mass extinction event" in the history of planet Earth is currently under way, with over two hundred species dying off every day. The cause of this seismic event is also the source of the single biggest threat to human life: our own inventions. But for all our talk about sea levels and biotechnology,... Read more Read reviews Write review	89	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Net of Being Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature August 27, 2012 0 By Alex Grey How Alex Grey’s visionary art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness • Includes over 200 reproductions of Grey’s artwork • Contains spectacular photos of Grey’s collaboration with the cult band TOOL plus his worldwide live-painting performances • Offers Grey’s reflections on how art evolves consciousness with a new symbology of the Networked Self... Read more Read reviews Write review	257	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women Our World » Ecology & Sustainability August 26, 2012 0 By Hanna Rosin A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men:... Read more Read reviews Write review	80	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Green Petroleum: How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable Hot Our World » Ecology & Sustainability August 26, 2012 0 By M.R. Islam M.M. Khan A.B. Chhetri Can "green petroleum" reverse global warming and bring down high gasoline prices? Written in non-technical language for the layperson, this book investigates and details how the oil and gas industry can "go green" with new processes and technologies, thus bringing the world's most important industry closer to environmental and economic sustainability. Read more Read reviews Write review	117	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The End of Your Life Book Club Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir August 26, 2012 0 By Will Schwalbe “What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of hepatitis. Months later she was diagnosed with a... Read more Read reviews Write review	137	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The American Spirit: Celebrating the Virtues and Values that Make Us Great Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment August 26, 2012 0 By Edwin Feulner Brian Tracy The United States is an exceptional place to call home thanks to the character of the American people. With conviction and urgency, Ed Feulner and Brian Tracy affirm our core tenets―from patriotism and optimism to faith and generosity―and challenge all of us to live out the timeless principles of citizenship. Packed with engaging stories, insightful profiles, and... Read more Read reviews Write review	67	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Hallucinations Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness August 24, 2012 0 By Oliver Sacks Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny,... Read more Read reviews Write review	131	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
For The Sender: Four Letters. Twelve Songs. One Story. "Includes CD" Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir August 24, 2012 0 By Alex Woodard Sometimes a letter is like a prayer; it's more for the sender than the receiver. Singer-songwriter Alex Woodard was letting go of his best friend, a Labrador named Kona, and most of his dreams when he received a letter that would change the course of his life. What began as a song about that letter evolved into a... Read more Read reviews Write review	124	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis Hot Our World » Conscious Business August 24, 2012 0 By Daniel Cariat IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms. As he did in his hard-hitting and widely read New York Times Magazine article "Dr. Drug... Read more Read reviews Write review	113	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit August 23, 2012 0 By Kathy Freston If you’ve ever dieted, you’ve undoubtedly worked very hard to achieve results--only to experience the disappointment of having the pounds creep back on. But now wellness expert Kathy Freston lets readers in on her secret: losing weight doesn’t have to be difficult, and it can last. With this book she shares the powerful concept of The Lean--a radically effective... Read more Read reviews Write review	168	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir August 22, 2012 0 By Joyce Morgan Conrad Walters When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500... Read more Read reviews Write review	141	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide for Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment August 21, 2012 0 By Carrie Wilkerson Carrie Wilkerson offers the opportunity to live life on your terms. Want to start your workday with e-mail and coffee on the back patio? Want the flexibility of joining your fourth grader on an all-day field trip? Are you ready to take that vacation you've been planning for years? Then you have... Read more Read reviews Write review	80	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment August 18, 2012 0 By Susan Cain At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from... Read more Read reviews Write review	116	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)