Our Favorite Books
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Incarnations of Immortality Series
by Piers Anthony |
| A seven book fantasy series revolving around seven fictional "positions" in Purgatory (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Good and Evil) and the humans who hold them during a certain time in the history of Earth. (Note: the link will take you to "On a Pale Horse", the first book in the series.) |
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The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business : Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques that Really Work
by Tom Antion |
| Effective, affordable, low-risk online marketing techniques for small business owners. Most small businesses are not taking advantage of the powerful and inexpensive Internet-based marketing tools and techniques that are available to them. These tools and techniques can mean the difference between a viable business and closing up shop. But most of what small business owners hear or read about the Internet applies to large businesses with greater resources than their own, or comes from unreliable or shady sources. The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business gives the small business owner or aspiring entrepreneur the real-world tools and tactics to market their small business around the world with little investment and even less risk. Full of practical ideas on reaching new customers and increasing sales, this book will make a real difference in the success rate of small businesses and start-ups everywhere. |
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach |
| A light-hearted, inspirational account of an encounter with a modern-day messiah. Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light mid-western towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves. |
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach |
| Jonathan is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull's right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery. Flight is the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. |
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Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex
by Robin Baker |
| In this highly unorthodox study, "sperm warfare" is the competition among sperm from two or more men competing inside a woman to fertilize the egg. In this theory, biological imperatives shaped by evolution dictate sexual behavior. Male sexual behavior is driven by each man's need to prevent his female sexual partner from exposing his sperm to competition; or, failing that, to give his sperm the best chance of winning. |
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Northern Lights Series #1: The Captain's Bride
by Lisa Tawn Bergren |
| Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life in with their closest friends, including: Kaatje Jansen, a woman seeking a new beginning for the sake of her marriage and for the child growing within her; Elsa's sister Tora, a sly young vixen who knows exactly what she wants--and exactly how to get it; and Karl Martensen, a man torn between his friendship for Peder and a forbidden, secret love for Elsa, a man tormented by emotions that threaten to ruin them all. |
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Northern Lights Series #2: Deep Harbor
by Lisa Tawn Bergren |
| The melodramatic lives of three very different immigrant sisters living in the West in the 1880s are documented by Bergren in this historical romance. Action alternates among the women as they struggle not only to exist but to grow closer to God as well. Tora Anders has given up her child to pursue wealth and power as a roadhouse manager for the handsome Trent Storm. Elsa is enjoying an adventurous marriage to a sea captain when an encounter with a pirate threatens to destroy her happiness, and Kaatji raises Tora's daughter along with her own. |
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Northern Lights Series #3: Midnight Sun
by Lisa Tawn Bergren |
| The powerful conclusion of the epic, best-selling Northern Lights family saga. In Midnight Sun, the greatly anticipated conclusion to Lisa Tawn Bergren's Northern Lights series, the journey ends and the future begins for four friends in the wilds of Alaska. From the fierce Alaskan wilderness to the gaiety of San Francisco society...from the familiar peaks of Bergen, Norway to the dark, churning waters of Cape Horn...witness the glorious finale of this epic family saga as four long-time friends journey out of the shadow of their darkest days into the bright sun awaiting them in the land of the Midnight Sun. |
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The One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson |
| A practical business guide for managers wanting to get the most from their employees. Introduces a wide range of timely strategies to promote employee morale and job satisfaction and, in turn, heighten profitability and productivity. |
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Lady of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| This three-part fantasy, set in Roman-occupied Britain, creates the link between The Forest House and The Mists of Avalon and should satisfy fans of both those books. Spanning almost 400 years, it tells the stories of the high priestesses and ladies of Avalon. Recommended for fantasy collections. |
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The Forest House
by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| The setting of this historical/fantasy novel is Roman Briton. Eilan, a Druid girl who has been raised in the cult of the Goddess with the priestesses wielding the power, has fallen in love with a young Roman named Gaius. He is a half-Briton whose mother was of the Druid tribes and whose father is a powerful officer in the Roman legions. The clash between these two cultures and the eventual hope of unification through Eilan and Gaius's son is one of the book's many story lines. Bradley does a masterful job of creating the flavor of the period and the two diverse cultures, as well as strong female characters. With its elements of love story, intense emotions, and mysticism. |
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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon's Camelot politics and intrigue take place at a time when Christianity is taking over the island-nation of Britain; Christianity vs. Faery, and God vs. Goddess are dominant themes. |
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The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses: What to Do When Your Child Is Labeled a Problem by the Schools
by John Breeding |
| The book addresses at length the specific phenomenon of labeling huge numbers of our children with diagnoses such as ADHD and giving these children drugs such as Ritalin. It is very much oriented toward parents' or other adults who need support with this issue. The book holds a great deal of information that is generally useful to adult allies of young people in any situation. |
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson |
| Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and riotously funny pilgrimage from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the chaotic tumult of Istanbul, with stops along the way in Europe's most diverting and historic locales. |
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Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson |
| Before his return to the U.S. after a 20-year residence in England, journalist Bryson embarked on a farewell tour (traveling only on public transportation and hiking whenever possible) of his adopted homeland. His witty and detailed observations of life in a variety of towns and villages will delight Anglophiles. |
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card |
| Earth is under attack by aliens. The survival of the human species depends on a military genius who can defeat them. Ender Wiggin... Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius among geniuses. In simulated war games he excels. But simulations are one thing. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? (Ender's Game is the first book of seven in the Ender Wiggins Saga.) |
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The Tales of Alvin Maker Series
by Orson Scott Card |
| A series of five books set in an alternate frontier America: a world where folk magic really works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. In the first book, Seventh Son, you meet Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son. Alvin is a Maker and is destined to create a positive new future for America. But to do so he must defeat an ancient enemy, the Unmaker, whose dark magic and deadly plots constantly threaten Alvin's existence. The series continues with Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman and Heartfire. (Note: the link will take you to the first book in the series.) |
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The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
by Allen Carr |
| A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr's innovative Easyway method -- which he discovered after his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit nearly drove him to despair -- has helped millions kick smoking without feeling anxious and deprived. That's because he helps smokers discover the psychological reasons behind their dependency, explains in detail how to handle the withdrawal symptoms, shows them how to avoid situations when temptation might become too strong, and enables them to stay smoke-free. |
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Fire From Within
by Carlos Castaneda |
| Carlos Castaneda continues his tutelage under don Juan, the Yaqui Indian sorcerer. He understands what don Juan and his cohorts were really doing to him: "They were not teaching me sorcery, but how to master three aspects of an ancient knowledge they possessed: awareness, stalking, and intent." This work deals with the mastery of awareness and with the realization of a new cycle of seers, "warriors of total freedom, ... such masters of awareness, stalking, and intent that they are not caught by death, like the rest of mortal men, but choose the moment and the way of their departure from this world. (Especially look at chapter 2: Petty Tyrants) |
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Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
by Richard A. Clarke |
| From the first thrilling chapter, which takes readers into the White House center of operations on September 11, through his final negative assessment of George W. Bush's post-9/11 war on terror, Clarke, the U.S.'s former terrorism czar, offers a complex and illuminating look into the successes and failures of the nation's security apparatus. Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who has advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors. |
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The Richest Man in Babylon
by George S. Clason |
| The inspiring multi-million-copy bestselling classic. The simple secrets for achieving personal wealth. Read by millions, this timeless book holds the key to success-in the secrets of the ancients. Based on the famous "Babylonian principles," it's been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning. The simple solution for a strong financial future. This celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of-and a solution to-personal money problems. This is the original classic that reveals the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money.
Simply put: the original money-management favorite is still the best! |
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The Alchemist: A Fable about Following Your Dream
by Paolo Coelho |
| Santiago is an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts. |
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The Pilgrimage
by Paulo Coelho |
| Recounts the spectacular trials of Paulo Coelho as he journeys across Spain to discover personal power, wisdom, and a miraculous sword that seals his initiation into the secret society of the Tradition. With his enigmatic mentor, Petrus, he follows a legendary road traveled by pilgrims of San Tiago since the Middle Ages, encountering mysterious guides and devilish opponents. Coelho's experiences and his mentor's teachings impart the spiritual wisdom that reveals itself as the true purpose of their exciting journey. |
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey |
| Offers a revolutionary program to breaking the patterns of self-defeating behavior that keep us from achieving our goals and reaching our fullest potential. Describes how to replace them with a principle-focused approach to problem-solving. |
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State of Fear
by Michael Crichton |
| State of Fear uses the incorrectly perceived threats of environmental disaster as the underlying impetus for a novel. In Crichton's view, the whole global warming argument is false. His view is that environmentalism has degenerated into a quasi religious system devoid of scientific veracity. Thus, the proponents of the global warming hysteria are pushing faith over fact, many of them have lost their moorings and the inevitable result is a grand conspiracy. |
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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
by Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler |
| "Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness." So popular and so rarely understood, this Nobel Peace Prize winner and man of great inner peace brings to a general audience the key to a happy life. In collaboration with a Western psychiatrist, The Art of Happiness is the first inspirational book for a general audience by the Dalai Lama. Through meditations, stories, and the meeting of Buddhism and psychology, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, or just an ordinary bad mood. He discusses relationships, health, family, and work to show us how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2,500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense, The Art of Happiness crosses the boundaries of all traditions to help readers with the difficulties common to all human beings. |
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The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness
by Robert S. de Ropp |
| This consciousness classic sold more than 200,000 copies in the '60's and '70's and influenced two generations. It is a compelling exploration of the human psyche and of the specific techniques through which man can achieve the highest possible levels of consciousness. This exploration, which involves every aspect of human behavior--the instinctive, motor, emotional, and intellectual--is, in the words of the author, "the only game worth playing"--the Master Game. |
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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
by John W. Dean |
| This title's accusation bears particular weight coming from the man who warned the super-secretive Richard Nixon that there was a cancer on his presidency, and Dean, who was Nixon's White House counsel, makes a strong argument that the secrecy of what he dubs the "Bush-Cheney presidency" is "not merely unjustified and excessive but obsessive," and consequently "frighteningly dangerous." In Dean's estimation, the secrecy with which Bush and Dick Cheney govern is not merely a preferred system of management but an obsessive strategy meant to conceal a deeply troubling agenda of corporate favoritism and a dramatic growth in unchecked power for the executive branch that put at risk the lives of American citizens, civil liberties, and the Constitution. |
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Management Challenges for the 21st Century
by Peter F. Drucker |
| Drucker looks at the profound social and economic changes occurring today and considers how management--not government or free markets--should orient itself to address these new realities. Forward-looking and forward-thinking, combines broad knowledge, wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis, and enlightened common sense. |
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The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
by Wayne W. Dyer |
| Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. However, intention is viewed very differently in this book. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This book explores intention - not as something you do - but as an energy you're a part of. We're all intended here through the invisible power of intention. This is the first book to look at intention as a field of energy that you can access to begin co-creating your life with the power of intention. |
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards |
| Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life--artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers--have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing... should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates." |
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The Hidden Messages in Water
by Masaru Emoto |
| An eye-opening theory showing how water is deeply connected to people's individual and collective consciousness. Drawing from his own research, scientific researcher, healer, and popular lecturer Dr. Masaru Emoto describes the ability of water to absorb, hold, and even retransmit human feelings and emotions. Using high-speed photography, he found that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward it. Music, visual images, words written on paper, and photographs also have an impact on the crystal structure. Emoto theorizes that since water has the ability to receive a wide range of frequencies, it can also reflect the universe in this manner. He found that water from clear springs and water exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns, while polluted water and water exposed to negative thoughts forms incomplete, asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. Emoto believes that since people are 70 percent water, and the Earth is 70 percent water, we can heal our planet and ourselves by consciously expressing love and goodwill. |
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Happiness: A Novel
by Will Ferguson |
| Though it might seem redundant to satirize the self-help industry, Canadian writer Ferguson (Hokkaido Highway Blues) makes a heroic effort in his first novel, combining sitcom-like gags about the publishing industry with the truism that if a self-help book ever actually succeeded in its goals, it would wipe out its own market. The general effect of reading this razor-sharp satire on the self-help industry is to understand that these routes lead us nowhere, except perhaps to a cul-de-sac called Hell. This would be depressing to realize, except that Happiness clubs its readers into submission with the sort of zany, almost otherworldly wit that makes us profoundly glad to be alive. |
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A Course in Miracles
by Foundation of Inner Peace |
| In 1965 Helen Schucman, a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University, responded to an authoritative inner voice who identified himself as Jesus, and who urged her to take down what would become A Course in Miracles from inner dictation. A self-study course in spiritual psychology, A Course in Miracles focuses on the principles of universal love and forgiveness. |
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl |
| The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of these experiences. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. |
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Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century
by Howard Gardner |
| In Frames of Mind (1983), Gardner first set forth his influential theory of Multiple Intelligences, contending that each of us is equipped with eight or more separate types of intelligence (including linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal and intrapersonal varieties). In this update, Harvard education professor Gardner adds to the list a new naturalist intelligence, which involves attunement to the environment, its flora and fauna. He further proposes that there may be a spiritual or existential intelligence (knowledge of transcendental and cosmic matters), but adds that this awaits scientific verification. |
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E-Myth Mastery : The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
by Michael E. Gerber |
| The key messages here are similar to those of his previous books (The E-Myth Revisited, etc.): that "knowing how to do the work of a business has nothing to do with building a business that works"; that entrepreneurs learn their skills through practice, practice, practice; and that anyone willing to adopt that same kind of discipline can be successful too. Those who plow through Gerber's soul-searching that make up the first 66 pages of the book will be rewarded. This volume provides a wealth of practical guidelines, charts, forms (available online) and instructions on how to run, improve and manage a business of any size. For all its flaws, this is a book with a business plan that anyone could implement...and should want to. |
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber |
| Dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, walks you through the steps in the life of a business, and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. |
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Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell |
| Blink is about the first two seconds of looking - the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea. |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell |
| Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point. |
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by Daniel Goleman |
| Our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of abilities that matter immensely in terms of how we do in life. These factors add up to a different way of being smart--one he terms "emotional intelligence." This includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and self-motivation, empathy and social deftness. These are the qualities that mark people who excel in life, whose relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace. Lack of emotional intelligence can sabotage the intellect and ruin careers. |
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The Emperor Wears No Clothes
by Jack Herer |
| Jack Herer has updated his authoritative history of hemp's myriad uses and of the war on this plant, just as it has become high-profile news, with supporters such as Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson. Herer thoroughly documents the petrochemical industry's plot to outlaw this renewable source of paper, energy, food, textiles, and medicine. |
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The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff |
| One of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese, or a venerable philosopher, but is in fact none other than A. A. Milne's effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear Winnie-the-Pooh. While Eeyore frets and Piglet hesitates and Rabbit calculates and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is. And that's the clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists. |
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
by L. Ron Hubbard |
| A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader and man is an endangered species. A battle of epic scale, danger and intrigue with the fate of the Earth and of the universe in the tenuous balance. |
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth Blanchard |
| This humorous story uses simple metaphors and characters to encourage readers to embrace change and to adapt to new situations with an open mind and a motivated spirit. It follows four fictional characters, Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw, as they search for fulfillment in the maze of life. |
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter |
| Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. This book lays out the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed. |
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Rich Kid, Smart Kid: Giving Your Children a Financial Headstart
by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter |
| A step-by-step program for Moms and Dads to explain to their children the basics of our financial economy - the employees, the self-employed, the business owners, and the investors. By providing their children with financial problem-solving skills, parents can help to ensure a profitable future for their loved ones. |
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The Earthsea Cycle
by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Le Guin creates a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. (Note: the link will take you to the first book in the series.) |
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Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman |
| This book became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. Set in Switzerland, spring 1905, when Einstein was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. This imaginary re-creation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time, this novel takes us through the young patent clerk's many dreams depicting compelling conceptions of time. |
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Reilly, Ace of Spies
by Robin Bruce Lockhart |
| Enter into the fascinating, mysterious world of Sidney Reilly, the number one field agent in the British secret service and the man who was the real life model for Ian Flemming's James Bond character. His was the world of passion for power, high intrigue and brutally daring exploits that must have insipred the writers of the "Mission Impossible" television series. |
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Parenting Rule #1: Mom Has Fun!
by Nicole MacKenzie |
| An easy to apply manual on how to raise happy, responsible children who follow instructions while applying Rule #1: Mom Has Fun! This book introduces a brand new learning method that will show you how not to get emotionally hooked, over react, and end up in a power struggle with your child. It shows you how to respond, hold your child accountable, and bring out the child's genius. |
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Maslow on Management
by Abraham H. Maslow |
| Coordinated by Maslow's daughter, Ann Kaplan, this book is an updated version of his Eupsychian Management, a series of his journal notes from the early 1960s. Originally considered to be a seminal work on human behavior in the workplace, it offers Maslow's theories on such issues as how to encourage people to express their creativity, the importance of psychological health, and leadership ideas that are commonly accepted notions in management circles at the end of the twentieth century. |
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The Field : The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
by Lynne McTaggart |
| Describes scientific discoveries that McTaggart believes point to a unifying concept of the universe, one that reconciles mind with matter, classic Newtonian science with quantum physics and, most importantly, science with religion. At issue is the zero point field, the so-called "dead space" of microscopic vibrations in outer space as well as within and between physical objects on earth. These fields, McTaggart asserts, are a "cobweb of energy exchange" that link everything in the universe; they control everything from cellular communication to the workings of the mind, and they could be harnessed for unlimited propulsion fuel, levitation, ESP, spiritual healing and more. Physicists have been aware of the likelihood of this field for years, McTaggart writes, but, constrained by orthodoxy, they have ignored its effects, which she likens to "subtracting out God" from their equations. |
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Golfing in the Zone
by Larry Miller |
| Explores the what, the how, and the why of golf's mystical and practical powers. An inherent part of the game is a set of virtues that mirrors all the qualities desirable in society: integrity, honor, respect, rules, and discipline, to name a few. The amazing techniques in this book will help you merge mental, physical, and spiritual abilities to achieve success on the course as well as greater serenity and understanding in your life. |
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The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
by Dan Millman |
| Introduces The Life Purpose System, a method of life-purpose analysis that is similar to numerology yet more practical, using the time of our birth as the indicator of right livelihood. Millman doesn’t stop at discussing the eleven basic life paths or their several variations, but has much to say about the influence of spiritual laws, from flexibility and balance to discipline and perfection. Issues of relationship and the cycles of life complete this ambitious work. |
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Book That Changes Lives
by Dan Millman |
| During his junior year at the University of California, while training to become a world-champion gymnast, Millman stumbles on a 94-year-old mentor nicknamed Socrates, a powerful, unpredictable, and elusive character. He taught a way to maximize performance using a unique blend of Eastern philosophy and Western fitness to cultivate the true essence of a champion - the "way of the peaceful warrior." Millman's first-person account of his odyssey into realms of light, darkness, mind, body, and spirit has since become an international bestseller about the universal quest for happiness. |
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Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Moore |
| The people of the United States, according to author and filmmaker Michael Moore, have been hoodwinked. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control. But while plenty of liberal scholars, entertainers, and pundits have made similar arguments in book form, Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? stands out for its thoroughly positive perspective. Granted, Moore is angry and has harsh words for George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives concerning the reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron and other companies, and the relationship between the Bushes, the Saudi Arabian government, and Osama bin Laden. But his book is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal opinions (which is most of America, Moore contends, whether they call themselves "liberals" or not) can take back their country from the conservative forces in power. |
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
by Michael Moore |
| Michael Moore, the award-winning provocateur behind Roger & Me and the bestseller Downsize This!, now returns to size up the new century -- and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Mike's Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack. |
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Selling With Integrity: Reinventing Sales Through Collaboration, Respect, and Serving
by Sharon Drew Morgen |
| The sales floor is rarely associated with spiritual values, much less with integrity. Nonetheless, entrepreneur and sales trainer Sharon Drew Morgen believes it is entirely possible for sellers and buyers to experience both--while still meeting their individual mercantile needs. In Selling With Integrity: Reinventing Sales Through Collaboration, Respect, and Serving, she persuasively outlines a revolutionary "Buying Facilitation" approach that remakes a traditional adversarial relationship into one marked by genuine collaboration and honest consideration. |
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Golf in the Kingdom
by Michael Murphy |
| A unique confluence of fiction, philosophy, myth, mysticism, enchantment, and golf instruction. Shivas Irons, a wily Scottish golf professional/shaman, plays a round of golf with Murphy culminating in a wild night of whiskey and wisdom. Shivas demonstrates how the swing reflects the soul, and their golf quite literally takes on a metaphysical glow. The events alter not only Murphy's game, but they also radically alter his mind and inner vision. |
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Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
by Caroline Myss, Ph.D. |
| Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body. Also presents Dr. Myss's breakthrough model of the body's seven centers of spiritual and physical power, in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions - the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life - to demonstrate the seven stages through which everyone must pass in the search for higher consciousness and spiritual maturity. |
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The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit
by Joseph Chilton Pearce |
| Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can transcend our current evolutionary capacities and limitations. This latest research identifies our five neural centers--or brains--and establishes that our fourth and most recently developed brain is located in the head while the fifth is located in the heart. It is the dynamic interaction of this head brain (intellect) and heart brain (intelligence), of biology and spirit, that allows transcendence from one evolutionary place to the next--we are, quite literally, made to transcend. Conversely, it is the breakdown of this interaction through the effects of cultural dictates surrounding us from the time we are children that keeps us where we are, mired in the current crises of violence among people and between people and the planet. But Pearce reminds us that we are not stuck for good. Transcendence is our biological imperative, a state we have been moving toward for millennia. |
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God Wants You to Be Rich: The Theology of Economics
by Paul Zane Pilzer |
| An original, provocative view of how to accumulate wealth and why it is beneficial to all of humankind. A theology of economics, this book explores why God wants each of us to be rich in every way - physically, emotionally, and financially. Arguing that individual wealth is not against Judeo-Christian ethics, a former economic advisor to Presidents Reagan and Bush explains how one individual's success benefits the rest of society, and shows how to achieve it. |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert Pirsig |
| The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life The cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself,' says Pirsig. The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. The book details a cross-country motorcycle trip by a man and his 11-year-old son, as well as his quest for truth. |
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn |
| The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. |
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand |
| First published in 1957, the book's female protagonist, Dagny Taggart, struggles to manage a transcontinental railroad amid the pressures and restrictions of massive bureaucracy. An astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense. It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit. |
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The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure
by James Redfield |
| A parable filled with truths that reads like an adventure-tale. Begins with the disappearance of an ancient Peruvian manuscript containing the nine insights the human race is predicted to grasp as we enter an era of true spiritual awareness. Draws on ancient wisdom to tell you how to make connections among the events that occur in life everyday so that readers can make clearer their perceptions of who they are and the path they are taking. |
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The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness
by Gary R. Renard |
| What would you do if you were sitting quietly in your living room when two mysterious strangers appeared from out of nowhere -- and then told you they were "ascended masters" who had come to reveal some shocking secrets of existence and teach you the miraculous powers of forgiveness? Would you call the cops? Call a psychiatrist? Call out for pizza? When two such teachers appeared before Gary Renard in 1992, he chose to listen to them (and ask a lot of impertinent questions). The result is this startling book: an extraordinary record of 17 mind-bending conversations that took place over nearly a decade, reorienting the author's life and giving the world an uncompromising perspective on A Course in Miracles -- a spiritual teaching destined to change human history. |
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War on Iraq
by Scott Ritter, William Rivers Pitt |
| War on Iraq offers a balanced, non-partisan examination of the current debate in Washington and beyond. In this shocking expose on the impending offensive against Iraq, activist, author, and teacher William Rivers Pitt sits down with former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter to expose the truth behind the hawkish rhetoric of the Bush administration. Ritter--ex-Marine, intelligence specialist, expert on Iraqi military strategy, and Gulf War veteran--dismantles the myths surrounding Saddam Hussein's biological, chemical and nuclear weapons capabilities while revealing the neo-conservative forces pushing the White House toward war. |
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Body and Soul: Profits with Principles
by Anita Roddick |
| The story of the phenomenal success of The Body Shop International. Provocative, funny, and outrageous--Roddick tells her story, and expresses her unconventional views on hype, greed, caring and communion. Tells the story of her personal vision of what business should be, and espouses principles of social and environmental responsibility. |
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The Luminous Life: How to Shine Like the Sun
by Peter Rosen |
| From the author: This book was written to depict heroes as they should be, mentors to emulate. I hope this book gives you the encouragement to stretch and reach for your highest self. May you break down all the prison walls of limitation. May you fly into the light of the Luminous Life. |
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Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (6 volume set)
by Baird T. Spalding |
| Spalding's Far East travels starting in 1894 played a ground-breaking role in introducing to the Western world the knowledge that there are "Masters" assisting and guiding humanity. This monumental classic has bequeathed the wisdom and knowledge of the immortal masters, and influenced and inspired generations of seekers. Volumes 1-5 were published from 1924 through 1955. Volume 6 was published in 1996 after ten dusty cartons of Spalding manuscripts, paper, letters and photographs were discovered. |
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Holographic Universe
by Michael Talbot |
| Two of the world's most eminent thinkers -- University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein's and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain -- believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains now only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near death experiences, "lucid" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings. |
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Mystery of Healing
by Theosophical Research Centre |
| Although written in 1958, this book is still very relevant today. The writers attempt to discuss the conditions which allow exceptional cures to happen or what seems to prevent them. The authors are a group of qualified medical practitioners and psychotherapists, as well as those who have had continued experience with unorthodox methods of diagnosis and treatment. The conclusions arrived at emphasize the interior sources of healing that exist deep within all persons, which can be evoked by many methods. |
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle |
| Tolle's philosophy has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical. He shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now." |
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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
by Mark Twain |
| An eclectic collection of fragments, short stories, and essays - first assembled and published fifty years after Twain's death. Twain presents himself as the Father of History -- reviewing and interpreting events from the Garden of Eden through the Fall and the Flood, translating the papers of Adam and his descendants through the generations. |
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu, with forward by James Clavell |
| Written before Alexander the Great was born, this Chinese treatise on war has become one of the most influential works on the subject. Views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Although it was meant to be a practical guide to warfare in the age of chariots, many corporate and government leaders have successfully applied its lessons to battles in the modern dog-eat-dog world. |
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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
by Neale Donald Walsch |
| Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence - questions about love and faith, life and death, good and evil. Suppose God provided clear, understandable answers. You may ask a question, then put this book down. But watch. Listen. The words to the next song you hear. The information in the next article you read. The story line of the next movie you watch. The chance utterance of the next person you meet. I will speak to you if you will listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there. All ways. |
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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2
by Neale Donald Walsch |
| Resuming the dialogue where Book 1 left off, Book 2 moves from personal issues to more global and political concerns. Included are questions about the nature of time and space and human sexuality, as well as geophysical and geopolitical considerations of worldwide implication. |
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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 3
by Neale Donald Walsch |
| In keeping with the first two books in this trilogy, Book 3 continues to clarify the muddy waters of our spiritual existence, but moves from individual and global issues to "universal truths," which apply to all levels of existence from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. |
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Speak and Grow Rich
by Dottie Walters |
| Dottie Walters has been a proactive promoter of the Speakers Bureau Business and was the founder of Association of Speaker Bureau Owners. Dottie covers every aspect of the speaking business as a proactive thinker, using smart thinking, system thinking, futuristic thinking, and positive thinking. I recommend that you get Speak and Grow Rich, even if Public Speaking is just a spark of an idea in your mind. It will begin to give you the ability to see that with the right topic and the enthusiasm that comes with a definite major purpose, that you can be a confident public speaker too. |
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Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural
by Lyall Watson |
| The author, a biologist, zoologist, and anthropologist, feels that the old distinction between natural and supernatural has become meaningless. Dr. Watson writes about cosmic law and order, man and the cosmos, the physics of life, brain waves, mind over matter, psychokinesis, will power, the aura, eyeless sight, psychometry, alchemy, palmistry, graphology, phrenology, hypnosis, dreams, hallucination, telepathy, intuition, clairvoyance, witchcraft, time, precognition, ghosts, and exobiology. |
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
by Alan Wilson Watts |
| Helps you to realize that life and self are movement, an endlessly changing present that we can not hold on to. Our sense of 'insecurity' is our trying to make things permanent--typically by regretting the past, worrying about the future, but always doing so in a present moment of which we thus are not aware. As Watts uses the term, 'insecurity' does not refer to a psychological state to be overcome, but rather is a reference to the changing nature of everything. |
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