Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Hardcover, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 8,984
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A powerful debut memoir from a published poet and emerging writer.
At
the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts—a good student from a lower-middle-class
family—carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within
a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a
"certifiable" offense, meaning that Dwayne would be treated as an adult under
state law. A bright young kid, weighing only 126 pounds—not enough to fill out a
medium T-shirt—he served his eight-year sentence as part of the adult population
in some of the worst prisons in the state.
A Question of Freedom is a
coming-of-age story, with the unique twist that it takes place in prison.
Utterly alone—and with the growing realization that he really is not going home
any time soon—Dwayne confronts profound questions about violence, freedom,
crime, race, and the justice system. Above all, A Question of Freedom is about a
quest for identity—one that guarantees Dwayne's survival in a hostile
environment and that incorporates an understanding of how his own past led to
the moment of his crime.
Drawn from the journals Betts kept while in prison, the book captures the confused adolescent musings of a boy moving from the simple world of childhood to a complex adult reality, infused with shades of gray…his life story—an African American growing up among the drugs and violence of urban America today—is brutally common. But this familiar outline is also what gives the book its disturbing resonance.-
The Washington Post - Karen Houppert
R . DWAYNE BETTS is graduate student at Warren Wilson College, where he has been awarded the Holden Fellowship. Shortly after his release from prison, The Washington Post published a feature article about him and a book club he founded for at-risk young men called YoungMenRead. He teaches poetry at several public schools in the D.C. metro area, has had his poetry published in many national literary journals, and contributed an essay to the anthology It's All Love.
According to Dr. McDougall, constipation, hemorrhoids, ulcers, IBS, and colitis are a few of the chronic digestive disorders that can be prevented and cured by eating a low-fat, cholesterol-free, plant-based diet. The reasons for this become apparent through a series of "office visits" by two fictitious, middle-aged patients who seek medical intervention in order to regain their health.
Through these "visits" readers learn: • how their digestive system works • to identify the root causes of intestinal discomfort • why "friendly" bacteria are necessary for overall health • how to take control of the healing process • how to avoid surgical procedures & expensive medications
This book covers topics that are often taboo in common
conversation with a candid, often humorous look. Easy to understand, the
information covered will enable everyone to make more informed medical decisions
and wiser dietary choices.
John McDougall, MD, is a medical maverick who
challenges medical and pharmaceutical businesses when they prioritize profits
over patients. For the past 30 years he has countered mainstream misinformation
with the fad-free truth and nutrition and your health.
Dr. McDougall, along with his wife Mary, offers his life-changing approach through national-bestselling books, DVDs, semniars, and the McDougall Live-In Programs in Santa Rosa, CA.
Other books include The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart, The McDougall Plan: 12 Days to Dynamic Health, and The McDougall Program for Women.
This book provides an in-depth look into a belief system which very little has been written and offers a deeper understanding of the profound spiritual life of the First Nation people. Here is a rich tapestry of stories about death, dying and returning to this life from tribes across the U.S. and Canada. Readers will learn about the Cherokee's Orpheus myth, the Hopi story of "A Journey to the Skeleton House," and the Inuit legend of the man who lived the lives of all animals. Also included are first hand accounts of the Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance and the official statement of the Ghost Dance doctrine known as The Messiah Letter. Over thirty black and white photos complement the text.
This very interesting volume is a compilation of reincarnation
beliefs, experiences, movements, and stories among North American Indians,
including near-death experiences, soul travel, and metamorphoses. The accounts
were taken largely from two sources: the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of
American Ethnology publications and The Internet Sacred Text Archive (CH,
May'03, 40-5172). Most range in date from the 19th to the early 20th century.
Many different North American groups are represented, including the Inuit of the
North, the Kwakiutl of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the
Winnebago of the Great Lakes, the Cherokee of the Southeast, and the Sioux of
the Plains. The collection is preceded by a chapter with an overview of North
American Indian religious beliefs. The final two chapters offer a brief
comparison of North American Indian reincarnation beliefs and experiences with
those from Greek and Roman history and from the world's great religions,
pointing to the commonalities among all premodern peoples.
Black-and-white
photos appear throughout, largely taken from Edward Curtis's 20-volume set The
North American Indian (1907-30).
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Cherie Soria, acclaimed raw foods chef and instructor, is the founder and director of Living Light Culinary Arts Institute. She is the author of Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies. Brenda Davis is a registered dietitian, international speaker, and expert in the field of plant-based nutrition and diabetes management. She is the coauthor of The New Becoming Vegetarian, Becoming Vegan, Defeating Diabetes and Dairy-Free and Delicious. Vesanto Melina is a registered dietitian and nutritional consultant on raw, vegan, and vegetarian diets. She is the coauthor of The New Becoming Vegetarian, Becoming Vegan, The Food Allergy Survival Guide and Raising Vegetarian Children.
Keep your brain in shape with these entertaining
brainteasers!
Scientific research shows that your brain needs exercise
just like the rest of your body. Solving simple, short challenges is an
excellent way for everyone to help sharpen the mind, improve memory, and slow
down the brain's aging process.
In Train the Brain, Dr. Gareth
Moore has developed an enjoyable program of logic and reasoning exercises,
simple math tests, and puzzles. Growing progressively more difficult as you work
through the book, from beginner level to advanced, these entertaining exercises
provide mental workouts to keep the brain at optimum health.
Dr. Gareth Moore is the author of a wide range of puzzle and brain-training books for both adults and children. He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in the field of machine intelligence and has created several puzzle and brain-training websites. He is an experienced radio and television presenter and guest expert.
This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham, will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced.
This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every uncomfortable relationship issue, and guides you to a clear understanding of the powerful creative Vortex that has already assembled the relationships that you have desired. Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex, where you will rendezvous with everything and everyone you have been looking for.
Abraham says: “It is our desire to help you to solve the mystery of those seemingly impossible relationships; to sort out the details of joyously sharing your planet with billions of others; to rediscover the beauty of your differences; and, most of all, to reestablish the most important relationship of all: your relationship with the Eternal, Non-Physical Source that is really you.
“It is our desire that you experience an enhanced appreciation of your planet; your body; your family; your friends; your enemies; your government; your systems; your food; your finances; your animals; your work and your play; your purpose; your Source; your Soul; your past, your future, and your present. . . ."
New York Times best-selling authors Esther and Jerry Hicks produce the Leading Edge Abraham-Hicks teachings on the Art of Allowing our natural Well-Being to come forth. Open workshops held in up to 60 cities per year inspire a regular flow of Abraham books, CDs, and DVDs.
Defeating Diabetes offers real hope and real solutions to those with type-2 diabetes. Recent health studies have confirmed that a low-fat, vegan (meat- and dairy-free) diet works best to not only manage but reverse the symptoms of type-2 diabetes.
The authors guide you through the practical steps you need to take to construct a diet and lifestyle that really work. Their no-nonsense approach presents everything you need to know to make wiser dietary and lifestyle choices.
You'll find out how to: take control of your blood sugar levels find out which carbohydrates are actually good for you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight arm yourself with protective dietary fats use nutritional supplements for blood sugar control improve exercise, sex, sleep, and self-care
Included are over 50 easy and delicious recipes using whole foods along with suggestions on how to convert traditional favorites laden with fat and cholesterol into high-fiber, healthful dishes.
These user-friendly and evidence-based recommendations will help
anyone with diabetes become more healthy.
Brenda Davis is past chair of
the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic
Association. She is currently in the Marshall Islands conducting a diabetes
study. Brena is co-author with Vesanto Melina of Becoming Vegetarian and
Becoming Vegan.
Tom Barnard, MD, specializes in disease risk assessment and management. He is adjunct Professor of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph, and clinical adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario.
Here are a few of the ways to invoke the blessings of natural beauty:
- relax in soothing baths infused with fragrant essential oils
- pamper yourself with moisturizers and facials made from herbs
- awaken your senses with stimulating body scrubs and toners
- rejuvenate with simple yoga postures and gentle acupressure
- nourish yourself with energizing nutrients
- maintain a healthful weight through eating the right food and herbs
Feng Shui for Success, Kurt Teske
A beginner's guide to attaining wealth and prosperity through
the practical uses of feng shui.
Feng shui, the Chinese aesthetic
practice of arranging your environment to maximize the flow of energy, has
entered the mainstream of American culture, with more and more Americans
realizing every day that feng shui is no New Age fad, but a proven and practical
way to improve your life.
This compact yet thorough guide to using feng
shui to create prosperity and abundance helps you quickly gain a solid
understanding of the basic principles of feng shui, as well as a fuller
appreciation of the many varieties of success it can help you
achieve.
Unlike many Americanized feng shui books, Feng Shui for Success
doesn't just concentrate on superficial quick fixes that amount to little more
than home-decorating advice—its explanations and exercises help anyone, even
feng shui novices, understand not only how to best practice feng shui to achieve
success, but why it works.
Feng Shui for Success helps readers learn
to:
· evaluate new property, especially property used for business
· deal
with office politics
· analyze the flow of energy in a home or business
·
find out what the critical spaces are to cultivate prosperity
· discover the
impact of a room's layout on the vital energy we use to accomplish our
goals
· understand the feng shui properties and qualities of any environment
you find yourself in
Kurt Teske has been a feng shui practitioner for over a decade. He has also extensively studied the disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine, qi gong, architecture, and design, and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University.
Healthcare is no longer just a public issue; for millions of Americans it is now a crisis on their own doorstep. Cost of medical care today are a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. Although policy makers have weighed in on all sides, in this book, bestselling author Andrew Weil, M.D., identifies the root of the problem. He shows us exactly how we have become embroiled in the present situation and provides a solution that will not only make healthcare affordable, but will also put each one of us on the road to optimum health.
Dr. Weil states that we have a right to good healthcare that is effective, accessible, and affordable. Many Americans would be surprised to know that our national health is far from the best in the world, even though we spend more money on it than any other country. The World Health Organization recently rated America thirty-seventh in health outcomes, on par with Serbia. Tackling head-on the Three Major Myths of American Medicine, Dr. Weil shows how medical schools fail to give future doctors the education they need to care for patients, how insurance companies have destroyed our opportunity to get excellent care, and how pharmaceutical companies have come to rule our lives. The solution involves nothing less than the creation of a completely new culture of health and medicine in this country, one that we can each start building today.
Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of natural health who has devoted the past thirty years to developing, practicing, and teaching others about the principles of integrative medicine. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Weil has dedicated a lifetime to practicing integrative medicine, giving him a unique approach to health acre, encompassing body, mind and spirit.
The story of Pandora is one of the most resonant in Greek mythology. As
Healing Pandora shows, it’s also one of the most relevant. Psychologist
Gail Thomas has used Pandora in her practice for two decades, often with
profound results. Cast in popular accounts as the evil bringer of doom to
humanity in divine retaliation for Prometheus stealing fire, Pandora, in Thomas’
view, is a much more complex character, with enormous healing powers as well as
her better-known destructive capacity. In this revelatory book, Thomas shows
Pandora’s true nature as the dark but all-giving feminine, the archetypal vessel
of culture and city with the power to heal our culture. Pandora’s task is to
help us transform our overwhelmingly material civilization into a culture of
undivided participation and engagement.
Part one discusses Pandora’s
multifaceted persona as both beautiful evil and divine benefactress. Here Thomas
contextualizes Pandora in the cycle of myth and archetype. In part two, the
author proposes a series of healing rituals—“Healing Our Fear of Sacrifice,”
“Healing Our Dis-Ease,” “Healing the Control of Patriarchy,” and others—inspired
by Pandora. Both practical guide and inspiring study, Healing Pandora argues persuasively for manifesting our inner work concretely on the
cultural, not just personal, level.
Gail Thomas, PhD, is an archetypal psychologist and cultural activist, cofounder of the Dallas Institute, and director of its Center for the City. She is co-editor of several books, including Images of the Untouched: Virginity in Psyche, Myth, and Community. A longtime organizer for urban renewal and green design, she lives in Dallas.
The true path of yoga calls for a commitment to social responsibility in
addition to one’s personal practice on the mat—here is a fresh viewpoint from a
psychologist and teacher of yoga and meditation.
Yoga practitioners are
increasingly looking to deepen and expand their practice in the areas of
environmental awareness and social responsibility. Yoga magazines are featuring
articles on subjects from fighting poverty to going green. In response to this
need, this book shows how the yoga tradition offers a greater path to being a
responsible member of the global community.
With simplicity and clarity,
Stone offers these ancient instructions for understanding the broad effects of
our actions, and for avoiding getting caught up in habitual distraction and
emotional reactivity. He gives practical ways to instead cultivate compassion,
insight, and inner contentment, which are the basis for engaging consciously
with others.
Michael Stone is a psychotherapist in private practice and a yoga teacher. He is also a leading lecturer on mindfulness meditation in clinical psychotherapy practice. He is the founder of Centre of Gravity Sangha, a community of yoga and Buddhist practitioners based in Toronto, where he lives with his family.
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are is an account of humankind’s function within the grand celestial battle
between internal and external knowledge. Author Bob Frissell gives a compelling
account of our planetary ascent into higher consciousness, presenting a
big-screen view of the Earth through the experience of the Ascended Masters,
Thoth, Babaji, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.
Pulling in all manner of
conspiracy theories from the Secret Government to the Philadelphia Experiment,
Frissell proposes both a core transdimensional shift based on the Mayan calendar
and a personal Rapture mediated through the connected, affirmed breaths of
rebirthing that his teacher Melchizedek used to travel from the other side of
the universe to here—breathing your own spacecraft (merkaba) out of and
around your aura in order to travel through the astral realms.
The 15th
anniversary edition of this cult classic is revised and expanded with new
illustrations and 50 pages of important new information on the Lucifer
Rebellion, the solar storm, and the final three breaths of the merkaba meditation.
Bob Frissell is a master rebirther and teacher and the author of Something in This Book Is True and You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience. Frissell was trained by Leonard Orr, the rebirthing pioneer, and by Drunvalo Melchizedek, the originator of the merkaba and Unity Breath meditations. He lives in Sonoma, CA.
In Living in the Raw Desserts, you'll find a recipe perfect for any mood or occasion-from birthday parties and after-dinner treats to special celebrations. These sweet confections are outrageously delicious and spectacular to serve. Most are simple to prepare, requiring no special equipment or ingredients.
Rose Lee's scrumptious raw and living food gourmet desserts can be made with organic nuts and fruit, which are rich sources of healthful nutrients. Because the recipes contain no wheat, sugar, or eggs, they can be enjoyed by many people who have food allergies. Cherish the magic of raw desserts! Expand your horizons and provide a visual feast for family and friends that will delight their taste buds.
Tofu Quick & Easy, Louise Hagler
The question most people ask about tofu is "What do I do with it?" This newly revised and updated edition provides over 150 recipes for preparing tofu in everything from party dips to barbecue and luscious desserts. These recipes reflect more current nutritional standards for less fat and salt , and include the expanding variety of tofu available on the market today such as silken, flavored, and freeze-dried. Tofu is one of the most versatile and economical complete protein foods on the planet. The FDA has determined that eating 25 grams of soy protein daily may help reduce the risk of heart disease. These recipes will show you how to add this nutritious food to your favorite dishes.
Vic Glover, a writer and former journalis, was a ombat medic in Vietnam. He has been living on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the past several years and in recent months has been spending time in Thailand helping out with relief efforts from the Tsunami of 2005. $9.95 - Order Online from Quest
Friendship plays a greater role in many of our lives than we ever imagine or acknowledge. Marsha Karzmer's inspirational new book is a celebration of all that friends are for each other. Karzmer draws on her own experiences with love, life, marriage, and children, and how friends have played an important part in her life.
Marsha Karzmer is an independent signing agent, a videographer, and a writer with scissors. She creates her work by cutting phrases, headlines, and words out of magazines, newspapers, or any print media at hand and assembling them into inspiring messages. She was a work-at-home mom for many years. Before that she moved to Hollywood and worked for Hollywood Squares. She came home after several years to marry her college sweetheart, David. Together they have four children. She lives with her family in Youngstown, Ohio.
