You Know You're a Republican or Democrat If...
By Frank Benjamin
Paperback: $7.95
A bi-partisan laugh at what makes a Republican a Republican and a Democrat a
Democrat. Whichever party you call your own, you'll laugh out loud and feel that
your side comes out just a little bit better...
Tales of a Female Nomad
By Rita Golden Gelman
Random House Paperback: $14.00
In a small cemetery deep in the jungle of Borneo, two men climb into a freshly
dug hole and retrieve the bones of a long-dead grandmother. An American guest
joins the procession from the cemetery to the elaborately decorated village square
for a traditional ceremony that will properly send Grandma off on her journey
to the next world. In years past, a man from a neighboring tribe was sacrificed
whenever this ceremony was performed. Today, in a new era, the neighboring tribe
has been invited to participate in the festivities, and the only victim is a cow.
A few years earlier the American guest, Rita Golden Gelman, a children's book
author and the mother of two grown children, was living in a comfortable suburban
home, dining in elegant restaurants, and attending glamorous parties. Rita only
dreamed of traveling to exotic places and experiencing other cultures. When her
marriage failed, she decided to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and,
at the age of forty-eight, took off to see the world. Fifteen years later, she's
still without a permanent home.
Inventing the Axis of Evil
By Bruce Cummings
Hardcover: $22.95
The Bush administration has thus far left little doubt regarding its intentions
for the regimes that compose the so-called Axis of Evil. It has already disposed
of Iraq, while North Korea and Iran ignore U.S. threats at their peril. The same
goes for Syria, the object of an intense propaganda campaign waged in conjunction
with Operation Iraqi Freedom -- when it was reported that contingency plans for
war with Damascus were under review. Yet Americans know very little about these
three "evil" countries beyond what the Pentagon has told them. In Inventing the
Axis of Evil, noted experts on each country set the record straight, confronting
relentless fear-mongering with hard facts. The authors explore each country's
history and internal politics alongside the spotty record of past U.S. interventions,
including the war in Korea and the CIA-sponsored overthrow of Iran's elected prime
minister in 1953. While entertaining no illusions about these despotic regimes,
Inventing the Axis of Evil demonstrates that the whole truth is more complicated.
Essential reading for anyone concerned that the deceit of the war in Iraq will
lead to further misadventures, this is a vital corrective to the saber-rattling
of the Bush administration and an expose of the dubious claims that may well underwrite
America's next war.
A Morning Cup of Yoga
By Jane Goad Trechsel
Hardcover/Spiral: $12.95
This simple routine of stretches is for anyone, from beginner to advanced, who
has felt discouraged about their fitness or doesn't have time for a class. The
"Morning Cup" wakes up your body, gently but effectively, addressing most major
muscle groups. You never even have to get down on the floor!
If I Gave You God's Phone Number
By Mare Cromwell
Hardcover: $23.95
This timely book chronicles one woman's spiritual journey, through interviews
about God and reflections on each conversation. A broad spectrum of individuals
are found here, including Catholics, Jews, a Cherokee Shaman, a Death Row inmate,
an Afghani Sufi Mystic, and Several children. Each responds to the question, "If
I gave you God's phone number, what would you do with it?" Part memoir, part interview,
the book is a fascinating glimpse of the ever-evolving spiritual landscape and
life in America. It is also an engaging testimony of Mare Cromwell's search for
spiritual answers through a very unique approach to seeking truth. It profoundly
changed her life. It may well change yours.
The Fortune Telling Book
By Raymond Buckland
Paperback: $24.95
An occult specialist, Buckland describes how to use the many forms of divination,
and refers readers to other works for details and variations that cannot be covered
in an encyclopedia article. He also includes entries on people such as Aleister
Crowley and Jeane Dixon, general topics such as Hebrew and seer, and events around
which prediction clustered such as the 1966 coal slag avalanche at Aberfan that
buried a school full of children. The cross-referencing is extensive.
The Quantum Doctor
By Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Paperback: $15.95
For Amit Goswami, Ph.D., a leading quantum physicist, medicine is a timely area
of application for the new science based on the primacy of consciousness. This
yields a spectacular ability to integrate conventional science, spirituality,
and healing. If any fields needs integration, says Goswami, it is medicine and
healing.
The Quantum Doctor boldly reinterprets the leading methods of alternative medicine - homeopathy,
Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and Ayurveda - and of conventional medicine
from the viwepoint of quantum physics. He shows that these seemingly different
models can be integrated into a new multi-tiered system based on the new "science
within consciousness."
At the heart of all illnessm and healing is consciousness, Goswami says. The Quantum Doctor gives physicians and patients a whole new way of applying medicine, with a greater
likelihood of healing. Goswami calls it Integral Medicine, and says, "This is
a very new approach. This can be the legitimate basis for a paradigm shift in
medicine."
The Epidemic
By Robert Shaw, M.D.
HarperCollins Paperback: $14.95
Take a good look around you: You can't go into stores or restaurants without
seeing joyless children screaming, sulking, resisting their parents, or pulling
things off shelves. Parents, in turn, nag, complain, and often try desperately
to ignore their unruly, surly offspring.
In today's world, both parents and children are suffering all around us. But
it takes a catastrophic event like the tragedy at Columbine High School or one
of any number of other frightening examples that make headlines weekly to get
us to acknowledge that something terrible is happening to our children. We have
lost touch with what they need from us to grow and thrive, and in the process
we've created enormous numbers of children who are disaffected, alienated, amoral,
emotionally stunted, and even violent. In The Epidemic, esteemed child and family psychiatrist Robert Shaw brings to bear a lifetime
of firsthand experience with and knowledge of this plague, which has become so
much the norm that we often don't even recognize its warning signs.
This bold and timely book tells you how to save your child and yourself from
this epidemic, but its suggestions will not be the ones that today's parents are
used to hearing. While the media is far from innocent, the bulk of the blame lies
with the faddish, both neglectful and overindulgent, child-rearing practices that
experts have promoted for the past three decades. "These children are not an aberration.
They are the natural outcome of the way we have been raising them," Shaw notes.
But there is hope, and Shaw's commonsense approach cuts to the core of the problem
and shows us the cure, covering such important and controversialissues as:
- The myths and realities of bonding and attachment
- How to recognize when nonparental care is working and when it isn't
- Milestones in your child's moral and ethical development
- The difference between self-centeredness and self-esteem
- Why you must stop the media from mugging your child
- Strategies for bringing children back from the edge
The Epidemic is not just a "how-to" book, it is a "what is necessary" book a call for parents
to take responsibility for their children and give them what they truly need in
order to grow, thrive, and love.
The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Create the Material World
By Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Paperback: $15.95
Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence, declares University
of Oregon physicist Goswami, echoing the mystic sages of his native India. He
holds that the universe is self-aware, and that consciousness creates the physical
world. Calling this theory "monistic idealism," he claims it is not only "the
basis of all religions worldwide" but also the correct philosophy for modern science.
Once people give up the assumption that there is an objective reality independent
of consciousness, the paradoxes of quantum physics are explainable, contends Goswami,
writing with his wife and Reed ( Building the Future from Our Past ). He also
applies his hypothesis to the so-called mind-body schism, which he attempts to
heal. Sketching a model of the self, this demanding but rewarding treatise uses
analogies from the "new physics" to throw light on choice, free will, creativity,
the unconscious and paths to spiritual growth.
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