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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong Hot Our World » Conscious Business July 15, 2012 0 By Edward Conard In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into assuming mortgages they couldn’t afford. It blames average Americans for borrowing recklessly and spending too much.... Read more Read reviews Write review	128	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Journey of Love Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature July 14, 2012 0 By Richard Cohn Rassouli The marriage of words and images creates a multidimensional experience for the reader, both physical and emotional. As you connect with the visual three dimensional form, you simultaneously align with the feelings that will carry you to a place of being one with the letters and words. A place where there is no separation between poet, artist and you.... Read more Read reviews Write review	143	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment July 12, 2012 0 By Beth Terry A practical guide to ridding your life--and the planet--of plastic!Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. Now she wants to teach... Read more Read reviews Write review	88	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment July 10, 2012 0 By Martin Prechtel Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the... Read more Read reviews Write review	124	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit July 09, 2012 0 By Scott Jurek Steve Friedman For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile traverse over the old Gold Rush trails of the California Sierra Nevada. He won that race seven years in a row, setting... Read more Read reviews Write review	235	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion July 02, 2012 0 By Osho In this comprehensive and practical guide, the secrets of the ancient science of Tantra become available to a contemporary audience for the first time. Confined to small, hidden mystery schools for centuries, and often misunderstood and misinterpreted today. Tantra is not just a collection of techniques to enhance sexual experience. As Osho shows in these pages, it is a... Read more Read reviews Write review	73	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir June 30, 2012 0 By Agnes Kamara-Umunna Emily Holland When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way... Read more Read reviews Write review	115	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Wings Within Hot Inspiration » Children & Youth June 30, 2012 0 By Franklin Hill Life in the cove is always changing and Myrtle wants to change, too. She is tired of being a plain old sea turtle, and longs to have big beautiful butterfly wings, so she can fly like her best friend Anew. Convinced that her shell is just like a cocoon, Myrtle begins thinking butterfly thoughts and even tries wiggling like... Read more Read reviews Write review	136	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Age of Miracles: A Novel Hot Inspiration » Children & Youth June 29, 2012 0 By Karen Thompson Walker With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.“It still amazes me how little we really... Read more Read reviews Write review	134	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment June 29, 2012 0 By Daniel Smith Anxiety once paralyzed Daniel Smith over a roast beef sandwich, convincing him that a choice between ketchup and barbeque sauce was as dire as that between life and death. It has caused him to chew his cuticles until they bled, wear sweat pads in his armpits, and confess his sexual problems to his psychotherapist mother. It has dogged his... Read more Read reviews Write review	114	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit June 25, 2012 0 By Gretchen Reynolds A cutting-edge prescription for exercise by the New York Times “Phys Ed” columnist At one point or another, nearly every person who works out wonders: Am I doing this right? Which class is best? Do I work out enough? Answering those questions and more, The First 20 Minutes helps both weekend warriors dedicated to their performance and... Read more Read reviews Write review	183	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness June 25, 2012 0 By Andrew Newberg Mark Robert Waldman Introducing a new strategy that changes the brain to enhance any conversation In their groundbreaking research, prominent neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, M.D., working with Mark Robert Waldman, has discovered a valuable strategy called Compassionate Communication. In twelve clear steps it allows us to create a special bond with whomever we are speaking, a bond that aligns our brains to... Read more Read reviews Write review	222	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
A Calm Brain: Unlocking Your Natural Relaxation System Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit June 23, 2012 0 By Gayatri Devi M.D. When you are calm, your mind and body are in a state of focused awareness. You are in your “zone,” performing at your peak. Now, Dr. Gayatri Devi shows in A Calm Brain how you can cultivate this optimal mental and physical state by tapping into your body’s hard-wired natural relaxation system. Our ancestors used the fight-or-flight... Read more Read reviews Write review	223	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.7 (1)
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment June 18, 2012 0 By John Coates A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals the biology of boom and bust and how risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior or stress and depressionThe laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have more than a little to do with male hormones. In a series of... Read more Read reviews Write review	111	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment June 18, 2012 0 By Bernd Heinrich From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycleWhen a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal... Read more Read reviews Write review	103	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment June 18, 2012 0 By Kelly McGonigal Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct... Read more Read reviews Write review	173	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit June 18, 2012 0 By Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Kathryn Bowers In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition... Read more Read reviews Write review	236	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.7 (1)
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion June 15, 2012 0 By Yamamoto Tsunetomo Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure, a series of texts written by an eighteenth-century samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It is a window into the samurai mind, illuminating the concept of bushido (the Way of the Warrior), which dictated how samurai were expected to behave, conduct themselves, live, and die. While Hagakure was for... Read more Read reviews Write review	110	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion June 14, 2012 0 By Hillary S. Webb Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indigenous Andean concept of yanantin or "complementary opposites." One of the most well-known and defining characteristics of indigenous Andean thought, yanantin is an adherence to a philosophical model based on the belief that the polarities of existence... Read more Read reviews Write review	210	Editor rating 4.3 User rating 0.0 (0)
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution Hot Meta-Reality » Alternative History June 10, 2012 0 By Rebecca Stott Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had... Read more Read reviews Write review	284	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment June 10, 2012 0 By Phil Stutz Barry Michels A groundbreaking book about personal growth that presents a uniquely effective set of five tools that bring about dynamic change—as seen on The Dr. Oz Show The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin. The traditional therapeutic model sets its sights on the past, but Phil Stutz... Read more Read reviews Write review	324	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
In Pursuit of Giants: One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice June 10, 2012 0 By Matt Rigney No Description Available Read more Read reviews Write review	108	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future Hot Our World » Conscious Business June 06, 2012 0 By Joseph E. Stiglitz A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist. The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is... Read more Read reviews Write review	252	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death Hot Meta-Reality » Alternative History June 01, 2012 0 By jill Lepore Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why... Read more Read reviews Write review	263	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Pukka Life Hot Health » Body, Mind & Spirit June 01, 2012 0 By Sebastian Pole A Pukka Life is about living in a truly authentic way, guided by the wisdom of Ayurveda, to achieve perfect health and happiness. Ayurveda is a complete system of knowledge that deals with physical health, mental balance, spiritual well-being, relationships and environmental issues. In all the essential aspects of contemporary life, from the food you eat to the work... Read more Read reviews Write review	176	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir June 01, 2012 0 By Elisabeth Tova Bailey In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris --a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and... Read more Read reviews Write review	212	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Falling into Grace Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion May 30, 2012 0 By Adyashanti In the same way that we fall into the arms of a loved one or drop our heads on the pillow before sleep, we can let go into the beauty and truth of who and what we really are. Falling into Grace presents Adyashanti's response to anyone looking for a way out of suffering and into the freedom of... Read more Read reviews Write review	111	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Real Change-Makers: Why Government Is Not the Problem or the Solution Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice May 28, 2012 0 By David Warfield Brown The Real Change-Makers: Why Government Is Not the Problem or the Solution is based on a straightforward premise: it is everyday Americans who have always been the real change-makers and whose efforts are now more necessary than ever given the financial squeeze that local, state, and federal governments confront. In this provocative and... Read more Read reviews Write review	166	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 28, 2012 0 By Tim Ryan In one of the most optimistic books to come out of Washington during these trying times, Congressman Tim Ryan presents us with an inspiring and hopeful view of our country’s future—and a roadmap for how to get there. Across America, people are feeling squeezed, exhausted, and running faster and faster... Read more Read reviews Write review	154	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Bliss Experiment: 28 Days to Personal Transformation Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 28, 2012 0 By Sean Meshorer A cross between The Power of Now and The Happiness Project, The Bliss Experiment reveals how to tap into the innate state of inner joy that resides in all of us: the state of bliss. We all have the capacity for bliss—no matter our age, background, ethnicity, gender, or religion. External circumstances, whether positive or negative, happy... Read more Read reviews Write review	205	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)