FEATURED The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting agreements that rob people of joy and make needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform anyone’s life to a new encounter of freedom, right happiness, and like. These agreements are deceptively simple: Be impeccable with your word (speak with integrity; say only what you mean); Don’t take anything personally (nothing others do is because of you); Don’t make assumptions (find the courage to question questions and express what you really want); Everlastingly do your best (and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret). Peter Coyote’s resonant reading emphasizes the power in these remarkable tenets.Sit at the foot of a native elder and take note as fantastic wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effectiv
FEATURED Aggravate Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Aggravate Potter is an run of the mill boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon’s household, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who’s parents have been killed in a ‘car crash’. He is bullied by them and his stout, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to reckon about. That is until an owl turns up with a epistle addressed to Aggravate and all hell breaks baggy! He is literally rescued by a world where nothing is as it seems and magic lessons are the order of the day. Read and find out how Aggravate discovers his right heritage at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, the reason behind his parents mysterious death, who is out to kill him, and how he uncovers the most incredible surprise of all time, the fabled Philosopher’s Stone! All this and muggles too. Now, what are they?The incredible popularity of Aggravate Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone means that now even Mug
FEATURED The Righteous Mind: Why Excellent People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly on the spot perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are incorrect. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own investigate findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he clarifies why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that
FEATURED Santa Biblia/Holy Bible, NVI/NIV, Nueva Translation Internacional/New International Translation (Spanish and English Edition)
One message. Two different languages. For the first time in history, the Nueva Translation Internacional and the New International Translation come together in one volume, to offer the reader the possibility of having the two translations together. The Bilingual Bible NVI/NIV does more than give you two vastly respected Bible translations – it introduces you to the analytical and comparative study of these translations. Some of its features includes: * Frankly from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek text * Parallel design * Footnotes * Concordance to the NVI * Table of Weights and Measures
FEATURED Biblia Completa: La Palabra de Dios Hablada (Translation Reina-Valera) (Spanish Edition)
Complete Spanish Bible on 59 CD packaged in black vinyl zippered case Biblia Completa Disco Compacto “La Palabra de Dios Hablada” Translation Reina-Valera Revision de 1960 Narracion por Samuel Montoya
FEATURED Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Clarify Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn’t
More than seventy percent of Americans believe in paranormal activity. But even with a family-ghost tale lurking in his own background, seasoned journalist Steve Volk has been like most of those millions of Americans— reticent to talk about his encounter in polite companionship. If so many of us have similar tales to tell, why are we so reluctant to take them sincerely? Paranormal claims don’t traditionally sit well with reporters, but Volk chose to focus his gimlet-eyed tenacity on a new beat: the world of psychics, UFOs, and things that go bump in the night. It’s a rollicking ride as Volk introduces us to all sorts of fringe-dwellers, many of them reluctant to admit to their paranormal experiences: a NASA astronaut-turned-mystic, a world-legendary psychologist who taught us about dying and then chose death may not exist at all, and courageous scientists attempting to verify what mystics have been reporting for millennia. Volk investigates what happens in the brains of people undergo
FEATURED The Tongue: A Creative Force
Words are the most powerful things in the universe! The words you speak will either place you over in life or hold you in bondage. Many peope have been held captive in their circumstances by their own words. The absence of God’s Word in your life will rob you of faith in His ability. Recieve from God! Place yourself in a position to recieve God’s best for you by speaking His Word. God’s creative power is still just as it was in the beginning of time when he stood there and said, “Light-be,” and light was. His Word spoken from your mouth and conceived in your heart become a spiritual force releasing His ability within you. Creative power in you! Man was made in the image of God and His likeness. Learn to speak His faith-filled words to your situation and see your life transformed. Allow God’s creative power to flow from you. “I have told my people they can have what they say, but my people are saying what they have.”
FEATURED Life of Pi
Martel’s novel tells the tale of Pi–small for Piscine–an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi’s father decides to go the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the fantastic zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. LIFE OF PI brings together many themes including religion, zoology, dread, and sheer tenacity. This is a amusing, wise, and vastly original look at what it means to be human.Yann Martel’s imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading encounter, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-ancient Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting “religions the way a dog attracts fleas.” Plotting a go to Canada, his father packs up the family and
FEATURED Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Brilliant and charmingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to clarify why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. T
FEATURED A Death in the Delta: The Tale of Emmett Till
In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till—a fourteen-year-ancient black Chicago youth—was pulled from Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a consequence fastened around his neck with barbed wire, Till, an eighth-grader, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The nation was horrified by Till’s death. When the all-white, all-male jury hastily acquitted the two white defendants, the outcry reached a hyperactive pitch—spurring a fury that would prove critical in the mobilization of black resistance to white racism in the Deep South.In this sensitive investigation, historian Stephen J. Whitfield probes Till’s death; its ideological roots; the potent myths concerning race, sexuality, and violence; and the incident’s lasting things on American national life. As he recreates the trial, its participants, and the social structure of the Delta, Whitfield examines how white rural Mississippians really tried “two of their
