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Books to Live By
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Protest Kitchen
Carol J. Adams, Virginia Messina
Protest Kitchen is a provocative and empowering guide to the food and lifestyle choices anyone can make for positive change. Our food choices not only affect our personal health and the environment, but are also tied to issues of justice, misogyny, national security, and human rights. This is the first book to explore how a more plant-based diet challenges regressive politics and fuels the resistance. Featuring over 50 vegan recipes (all accessible to “aspiring vegans”) along with practical daily actions. Read more... |
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More Ghost Chronicles
Maureen Wood, and Ron Kolek, Foreword by Jeff Belanger
Ron Kolek, a skeptical ghost hunter with his down-to-earth scientific approach, and Maureen Wood with her psychic insight take readers on another journey into the realm of the unknown, the unexplained, and the unbelievable. They investigate an ancient evil known as the Puckwudgie, hunt for the true identity of Button Wood’s spirit, investigate Daniel Lady Farm in Gettysburg, widely considered one of the most haunted locations in America, and they include follow-ups to investigations compiled in the original Ghost Chronicles. Read more... |
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Storytelling Alchemy
Renée Damoiselle
We all have stories we tell ourselves, personal narratives that define who we are. These stories take root in our subconscious and limit us, like a shadow holding us back from our full potential. But words and storytelling also have the power to free ourselves from these shadows and to profoundly transform our lives. Storytelling Alchemy provides tools and exercises designed to help you change your relationship to your personal stories in a way that is empowering and life changing. Read more... |
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Control the Conversation
James O. Pyle, and Maryann Karinch
In Control the Conversation, authors Pyle and Karinch guide you to crafting a response to a question, not just an answer. A response should be multi-dimensional, including relevant and compelling information that goes beyond a mere answer. The authors help both build and apply the skill set by teaching you how to manage four areas of disclosure: people, places, things, and events in time; along with techniques that will help you take control and steer every exchange in your favor. Read more... |
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Serve Up, Coach Down
Nathan Jamail
Nathan Jamail shows leaders in the middle just how powerful they are and he answers fundamental questions like: why do leaders who care about their teams still struggle to gain their boss’s approval; why do those same leaders have difficulty getting their teams to step it up? Achieving performance requires leaders in the middle to serve up to the boss, serve out to peers and serve down to their teams – the result will be greater productivity in a team-driven environment. Read more... |
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Radical Generosity
M. J. Ryan
Gratitude and generosity go hand in hand—the more we appreciate our lives, the more we want to give back. In Radical Generosity M.J. Ryan, author of bestselling Attitudes of Gratitude explores generosity: what creates it, what blocks it, and what it brings to our lives. In a series of short essays, Ryan encourages us readers to stop living from what she calls "the ledger sheet mentality" of obligatory gifting and to begin giving from an abundant and loving heart. Read more... |
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The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
This gift-sized collection offers powerful, profound advice on how to live a peaceful and fulfilling life amidst all the conflicts of the modern world. In this distillation of his life and teachings, the Dalai Lama paints a compelling portrait of his early life, reflecting on the personal and political struggles that have helped to shape his understanding of our world. This is the first paperback edition. Read more... |
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Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Love
Kahlil Gibran, Edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz
Kahlil Gibran’s aphorisms, stories, and poetry remain among some of those best known to Western readers. His views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted "greeting card" sayings to a wide realm of human emotions and relationships— passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers, neighbors, and enemies. In this book of over 90 selections from Gibran’s writing Neil Douglas-Klotz captures love and life in all of their complexities and nuances, and all their splendor and joy. Read more... |
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Conversation Marketing
Kevin Lund
In Conversation Marketing, Kevin Lund helps businesses to connect their brands, not just with the minds of their consumers, but to their hearts. Slick slogans and catchy ads may still work in some instances, but today’s discerning consumers demand more. They want information and a reason to connect with a brand before they act – they want a conversation. Kevin Lund provides powerful tools and strategies to help brands become publishers, increase sales, and establish a lifelong conversation with their customers. Read more... |
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Son of Chicken Qabalah
Lon Milo DuQuette
This simultaneously funny and serious book provides the easiest, fastest way for readers to painlessly attune themselves to the mysteries of the Hebrew alphabet and immerse themselves in the fundamentals of practical Qabalah. It is a road map from the Godhead to your head—a clear and lucid guide to an extremely complex, mystical topic. By performing the exercises and rituals in the book, the reader can complete the self-initiatory process comprising the three main degrees of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford's Practical Qabalah course. Read more... |
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How to Be Spiritual Without Being Religious
D. Patrick Miller
This is a book for the millions of people who seek a rich and authentic interior life but find formal religious affiliation unappealing. It is a nondogmatic guide for finding one’s own path, for embracing a vision of a "practical faith" that enhances a life of happiness and peace. Miller’s concise approach arises out of what he calls "the spirituality of ordinary life,” which explores fundamental questions like "Who am I?" "What is the best way to be of use." Read more..., |
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Top Secret Alien Abductions
Nick Redfern
For decades, people have reported close encounters with extraterrestrials, often described as “Grays.” Recently, another aspect to the alien abduction controversy has immerged known as "Military Abductions" or "MILABS." According to numerous abductees, after being kidnapped by aliens they are kidnapped again . . . by the government. It is the secret agenda of this highly classified governmental organization to figure out what the “Grays” are really up to by interrogating those who have come face-to-face with the UFO phenomenon. Read more... |
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The Big Book of Runes and Rune Magic
Edred Thorsson
Edred Thorsson's presentation of this powerful system provides a valuable tool for self-development and spiritual transformation.
This book introduces the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark along with their definitions and mystical properties, reveals hidden lore and esoteric dimensions of the runes, and includes sections on rune magic and divination, rune poems, and runic numerology, as well as instructions on making your own runes. Read more... |
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Leadership Skills that Inspire Incredible Results
Fred Halstead
Here Fred Halstead gives readers the same advice, guidance, and techniques he offers his clients. He outlines the skills needed to be an effective leader and provides the techniques used by real-world examples to learn how to: hone others’ critical thinking through insightful powerful questions, inspire their followers, fearlessly delegate with mindful purpose, and create a culture of accountability. Improving these skills will create greater success for leaders, their teams, and their entire organization. Read more... |
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An Invitation to Celtic Wisdom
Carl McColman
Drawing on myth, folklore, poetry, and the tales of Celtic gods and heroes, this little book is an invitation to readers to explore the spiritual tradition of the Celtic peoples—a tradition rooted in hospitality and one that is of growing importance in these increasingly fractured and troubled times. Divided into three parts, McColman covers the mysteries of the Celtic spiritual path; features profiles on Patrick, Brendan, and Bridget; and explores hospitality, spiritual direction storytelling, spiritual power, and the Grail. Read more... |
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The Book of Rumi
Rumi, Translated by Maryam Mafi, Foreword by Narguess Farzad
The Book of Rumi features fresh prose translations of 105 short stories, which form the core of the six-volume Masnavi. In each story, Rumi transforms the seemingly mundane events of daily life into profound teaching moments. Rumi’s voice alternates between playful and authoritative. Maryam Mafi’s translations delicately reflect the nuances of his voice while retaining the positive tone of his writings, as well as the sense of suspense and drama that mark the essence of the Masnavi. Read more... |
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A Book of Pagan Prayer
Ceisiwr Serith
A unique collection of nearly 500 prayers written to fulfill the needs of contemporary pagans and others from a variety of traditions, this is an essential devotional. After an informative introduction on why to pray, Ceisiwr Serith explores how to pray through words, posture, dance, and music. He explains how to prepare for and compose prayers, how to address the deities, and how to conclude a prayer. Gathered from many traditions—including Celtic, Germanic, Egyptian, Greek, and Zoroastrian—there are prayers for all occasions, purposes, and seasons. Read more... |
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Coming Apart
Daphne Rose Kingma, Foreword by Katherine Woodward Thomas
Originally published in 1987, and continuously in print since then, Coming Apart has been an important resource for hundreds of thousands of readers experiencing the pain and stress of a break-up. This new edition features a foreword by Katherine Woodward Thomas author of Conscious Uncoupling. Daphne Rose Kingma, the undisputed expert on matters of the heart, explores the critical facets of relationship breakdowns: the myths, the lifespan of love, getting through the ending, and creating a personal workbook for finding resolution. Read more... |
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Fortune Telling with Playing Cards
Jonathan Dee
This user-friendly guide will show you how to turn an ordinary deck of cards into a fun and simple tool for telling the future. Learn the past, present, and future with a regular deck of playing cards—no trivia, no special talents, no psychic ability. If you can read this, you can learn fortune telling with a regular deck of cards. The author explains the meaning of each of the 52 cards in the deck, plus the Joker, presents several layouts for general readings, and answers specific questions. Read more... |
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