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May 2012
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The Eat-Clean Diet
Vegetarian Cookbook
Lose Weight - Get Healthy - One Mouthwatering Meal At a Time

Tosca Reno
with Kierstin Buchner


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Meet the latest addition to New York Times best-selling author Tosca Reno’s phenomenally successful Eat-Clean Diet series. With The Eat-Clean Diet Vegetarian Cookbook, Tosca shows that you don’t need meat to Eat Clean!

Whether you follow a strict plant-based diet or you've just started participating in the "Meatless Mondays" movement, this collection has got you covered with:

  • 150 brand-new delicious and doable recipes that will keep you looking and feeling your best!
  • Protein-rich meatless meals for all tastes and occasions - including family-friendly classics, globally inspired delights and irrestible desserts
  • Helpful icons to make it easy to get the exact recipe you want - gluten free, vegan, kid-friendly and more!
  • Plenty of tips, techniques and advice for everyone from seasoned vegetarians to those who are new to the lifestyle

Presented in the inspiring format you’ve come to expect from Tosca, this book is a must for Eat-Clean Diet followers, vegetarians, and anyone who wants to lose weight, save money, help the planet or just prepare and eat delicious food! has something to satisfy all your meat-free and Eat-Clean needs.

ISBN 978-1-55210-10-3 * Robert Kennedy Publishing, 2012 * 287 pages * $24.95

 

On the way to finding and creating vibrant, successful relationships, too many of us end up tangled in the same old patterns, tripped up by relationship habits that get in our way whether we “know better” or not.

In Rewire Your Brain for Love, neuropsychologist and psychotherapist Marsha Lucas, PhD, helps you untangle those relationship snarls, bringing together the latest neuroscience with a practice consistently heralded by top academic institutions for its effectiveness in changing the brain: the practice of mindfulness meditation.

Dr. Lucas’s clear, unintimidating, often laugh-out-loud style invites you to explore how the brain functions in relationships, helping you understand how your current relationship wiring developed and showing you how you can rewire your relationship brain through mindfulness meditation.

A down-to-earth therapist and self-described neuroscience geek, Dr. Lucas has written a chapter-by-chapter guide with compassion, wisdom, and humor. In Rewire Your Brain for Love, she takes you on a journey through seven high-voltage relationship benefits — everything from keeping your fear from running the show to cultivating healthy, balanced empathy — and offers specific mindfulness practices to help bring those benefits into your life.

With a few minutes of practice a day, you can change the way you interact with everyone around you . . . especially those closest to you. You can transform your brain from an enemy to an ally in all matters of the heart, creating more loving communication, building emotional resilience, and reducing overreactivity — not to mention enjoying better sex.

You don’t have to become a monk, or a vegetarian, or spend hours contemplating your navel—you just need to update the relationship wiring of your brain. The simple practice of mindfulness can help get you there, with Dr. Lucas showing you how.

ISBN 978-1-4019-3161-2 * Hay House Inc., 2012 * 201 pages * $19.95

Rewire Your Brain for Love
Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness

Marsha Lucas, PhD


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The Science of Yoga
The Risks and the Rewards

William J. Broad


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In this remarkable book about yoga, William Broad, a lifelong practitioner, shows us that uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype.Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what’s real and shows what’s illusory, describes what’s uplifting and beneficial and what’s flaky and dangerous — and why. Broad illuminates how yoga can lift moods and inspire creativity. He exposes moves that can cripple and kill. As science often does, this groundbreaking book also reveals mysteries. It presents a fascinating body of evidence that raises questions about whether humans have latent capabilities for entering states of suspended animation and unremitting sexual bliss.The Science of Yoga takes us on a riveting tour of unknown yoga that goes from old archivesin Calcutta to the world capitals of medical research, from storied ashrams to spotless laboratories, from sweaty yoga studios with master teachers to the cozy offices of yoga healers. Broad unveils a burgeoning global industry that attracts not only curious scientists but true believers and charismatic hustlers. In the end, he shatters myths, lays out unexpected benefits, and offers a compelling vision of how the ancient practice can be improved.

ISBN 978-1-4516-4142-4 * Simon & Schuster, 2012 * 298 pages * $29.95

Good communication is essential to any healthy relationship, whether it’s between spouses, family members, friends, or co-workers, and mindfulness — the practice of nonjudgmental awareness — can help us communicate more effectively and meaningfully with others in our personal and professional lives. Here, Susan Chapman, a psychotherapist and long-time Buddhist practitioner, explains how the practice of mindfulness awareness can change the way we speak and listen, enhance our relationships, and help us achieve our goals.

Chapman highlights five key elements of mindful communication — silence, mirroring, encouraging, discerning, and responding — that make it possible for us to listen more deeply to others and to develop greater clarity and confidence about how to respond. Other topics include

  • identifying your communication patterns and habits;
  • uncovering the hidden fears that often sabotage communication;
  • staying open in the midst of difficult conversations so that we can respond wisely and skillfully;
  • and learning how mindful communication can help us to become more truthful, compassionate, and flexible in our relationships.

ISBN 978-1-59030-914-4 * Shambhala, 2012 * 207 pages * $17.95

The Five Keys to Mindful Communication
Using Deep Listening and Mindful Speech to Strengthen Relationships, Heal Conflicts & Accomplish Your Goals

Susan Gillis Chapman


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Six Essentials To Achieve Lasting Recovery

Sterling T. Shumway, PhD
Thomas G. Kimball, PhD


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Anyone who has recovered from addiction to drugs or alcohol knows that getting sober is only the beginning. Working the Steps, patching life back together, and living sober are where the real work lies. While the Twelve Steps provide a program of lifelong recovery, recovery experts Sterling Shumway and Thomas Kimball have identified six essential values, or principles, that reinforce the Steps and that are key to achieving lasting recovery:

  • Hope: A reawakening after despair; to live with greater confidence
  • Healthy Coping Skills: Managing the pain and stress of life
  • Sense of Achievement and Accomplishment: Moving beyond the limits of addiction toward personal goals
  • Capacity for Meaningful Relationships: The positive support and connection with family and peers
  • Unique Identity Development: The emergence of a unique positive identity
  • Reclamation of Agency: The internal knowledge that you have choices in your behavior

Using their research, personal stories, and guided journals and exercises, Shumway and Kimball thoroughly unlock these complex principles for recovering addicts and their families, and provide practical steps for applying them to a long-term recovery program.

  ISBN: 978-1-61649-205-2 * Hazelden, 2012 * 147 pages * $16.50

Stop Eating Your Heart Out speaks to anyone's challenges with food, weight, and emotional eating, and then offers a multitude of effective self-help tools. As the author discloses her very personal struggle with food and out-of-control eating, she is telling the story of millions of others who use food to self-soothe. The book's focus, however, is on recovery. In her wisdom as a licensed professional clinical counselor, the author enumerates methods that have worked for her and her clients over the past twenty years. Tools for recovery include Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Inner Child work, 12 Step recovery, journaling, creative visualization, meditation, gratitude, conscious living, and so much more. Compulsive overeating is conquerable. If you, or anyone you love, want freedom from emotional eating, this book is for you.

ISBN 978-1-57324-545-6 * Conari Press, 2011 * 234 pages * $18.95

 

Stop Eating Your Heart Out
The 21-Day Program to Free Yourself from Emotional Eating

Meryl Hershey Beck


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Transformation Through Intimacy
Revised Edition
The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy

Robert Augustus Masters, PhD


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Intimate relationship has long been viewed and lived as a lesser alternative to spiritual life. More recently, the need to integrate our spiritual and intimate lives, rather than maintaining separate spheres and relationships on autopilot, has become increasingly apparent. Given the high rates of infidelity and divorce, it would seem that the possibilities of freedom through intimacy have not been explored in much depth. Too often we pull away when relationships become difficult, missing out on the rewards of connecting more profoundly.

The passage from immature to mature monogamy is not only a journey of ripening intimacy with a partner, but also a journey into and through zones of ourselves that may be very difficult to accept and integrate with the rest of our being. Transformation Through Intimacy explores intimate relationships through a four-stage lens: me-centered, we-centered codependent, we-centered coindependent, and being-centered. Bringing his many years of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual practitioner to the subject, Masters shows readers not only how to navigate the thickets of reactivity, conflict, shame, anger, fear, and doubt, but how to understand them in a new light so that a deeper level of relating to oneself and one’s partner becomes possible, opening new levels of trust, commitment, and love.

ISBN 978-1-58394-366-3 * North Atlantic Books, 2012 * 287 pages * $21.50


We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions. An antidote to pessimism by tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist, Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler.

Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast. The authors document how four forces—exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion—are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.

Examining human need by category—water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom—Diamandis and Kotler introduce dozens of innovators making great strides in each area: Larry Page, Steven Hawking, Dean Kamen, Daniel Kahneman, Elon Musk, Bill Joy, Stewart Brand, Jeff Skoll, Ray Kurzweil, Ratan Tata, Craig Venter, among many, many others.

ISBN 978-1-4516-1421-3 * Free Press, 2012 * 386 pages * $29.99

Abundance
The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis
and Steven Kotler


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Discover Your Soul Template
14 Steps for Awakening Integrated Intelligence

Marcus T. Anthony, PhD

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Like an enlightened spiritual teacher, you, too, can tap in to the infinite wisdom of the cosmos to create a life of deep meaning and purpose. The key is integrated intelligence--your innate capacity, often experienced as “intuition,” to instantly draw upon knowledge beyond the confines of the five senses, from past, present, and future. Integrated intelligence enables not only a connection to the wisdom of the universe but also access to your soul template, revealing your self-limiting behaviors, karmic issues from past lives, and soul aptitudes--the abilities at which you excel. With knowledge of your soul template, you can successfully create the life you were meant to live in alignment with your soul’s purpose.

Providing 14 easy-to-use spiritual tools to activate your integrated intelligence, Marcus Anthony shows you how to tap in to the wisdom of your soul template, distinguish the voice of ego from the voice of your inner sage, and strengthen your intuition to profound levels, thereby developing a trusted inner source of guidance. Explaining how the mind is not a shallow pond but an ocean of competing voices and energies, he reveals why the Law of Attraction doesn’t work for most people: any vision you attempt to manifest must be aligned with your soul template or the competing voices will act against it. Revealing how to bring the mind into presence to get “the secret” to work for you, Anthony shows how to use integrated intelligence to identify and live your true calling and create the life you want while fulfilling the deeper needs of your spirit.

ISBN 978-1-59477-426-3 * Inner Traditions, 2012 * 294 pages * $18.95

We all know that meditation helps to lower stress and can even prevent disease. It has no negative side effects and no cost, and requires only a few minutes a day. So why is it so challenging to begin and sustain? Tobin Blake offers innovative ways to start meditating and to invigorate an existing practice. He begins with the basics — how to sit, how long to practice, and how to use various techniques, such as zazen, mantra, and visualization — and then covers topics such as dealing with thoughts, restlessness, and overcoming the deeper obstacles to meditation. Written with our modern challenges in mind, including electronic distractions, stress, and the constant sense of overwhelm, Everyday Meditation will help you:

* make your mind an ally
* undo restlessness and anxiety
* build spiritual relationships
* heal your body
* overcome depression and anxiety
* find balance, meaning, and life purpose

ISBN 978-1-60868-060-3 * New World Library, 2012 * 269 pages * $16.95

 

Everyday Meditation
100 Daily Meditations for Health, Stress Relief, and Everyday Joy

Tobin Blake


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Do Nothing & Do Everything
An Illustrated New Taoism

Qiguang Zhao


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The power of the Tao has accompanied the author through his journey as pupil during the Chinese Cultural Revolution to professor at an American liberal arts college. In Do Nothing and Do Everything he applies the ideas of Wu Wei (do nothing) and Wu Bu Wei (do everything) to modern life. Do Nothing and Do Everything is supplemented by observations of American and Chinese life. Rich and humorous illustrations convey the subtle ideas that go beyond language and are re-created in the same style as the ones the author draws impromptu on the blackboard in his classes. This introduction to ancient Taoism is conveyed in a lighthearted and humorous manner. This illustrated new Taoism will answer the widespread thirst for an alternative approach to life, and a longing for health, tranquility, and spiritual liberation.

ISBN 978-1-55778-889-4 * Paragon House, 2010 * 249 pages * $23.95

In The Blood Sugar Solution, Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that the secret solution to losing weight and preventing not just diabetes but also heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer is balanced insulin levels. Dr. Hyman describes the seven keys to achieving wellness-nutrition, hormones, inflammation, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and a calm mind-and explains his revolutionary six-week healthy-living program. With advice on diet, green living, supplements and medication, exercise, and personalizing the plan for optimal results, the book also teaches readers how to maintain lifelong health. Groundbreaking and timely, The Blood Sugar Solution is the fastest way to lose weight, prevent disease, and feel better than ever.

ISBN 978-0-316-12737-0 * Little, Brown & Company, 2012 * 423 pages * $29.99

The Blood Sugar Solution
The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!

Mark Hyman, MD


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The Revolutionary Trauma Release Exercises DVD
Transcend Your Toughest Times

David Berceli, PhD


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Life is stressful, anxiety provoking, and frequently traumatic. The result is that many of us are hurting, and often we are unaware of how deep our hurt runs. The painful experiences we go through aren’t simply “over and done with” once we pass through them, however. They each leave their mark, etched deep into both the psyche and the body, affecting how well we function from this point onwards.

In this DVD, Dr. Berceli leads us through The Revolutionary Trauma Release Exercises step-by-step, showing us exactly how to perform the exercises to restore our musculature to a more natural state. The DVD also includes an introduction to the exercises by Dr. Berceli, together with a group discussion and an in-depth interview. The DVD is a perfect compliment to the book, The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process.

ISBN 978-1-897238-42-4 * Namaste Publishing * 105 minutes * $35.00

The Romance Angels are a group of cherubic angels who are focused upon all things love related. Anyone can call upon these beings, and they’re able to help unlimited numbers of people simultaneously.

This beautifully illustrated card deck by Doreen Virtue will allow you to receive angelic guidance about your romantic status, as well as conduct accurate and trustworthy readings for your friends and clients. The Romance Angels Oracle Cards can offer you more clarity about soul-mate relationships, healing from the past, and attracting more love into your life. Whether you’re seeking answers for yourself or someone else, these cards can yield valuable insights. The Romance Angels are happy to guide you to a lifetime of love!

ISBN 978-1-4019-2476-8 * Hay House, 2012 * 44 card deck & guidebook * $15.95

The Romance Angels Oracle Cards

Doreen Virtue


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The Fool's Wisdom Oracle Cards

Sonia Choquette


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The Fool’s Wisdom Oracle Cards are designed to accelerate personal empowerment and spiritual growth. The “Fool” is the universal archetype of our witness self, the eternally objective Divine voice who resides within all of us. He observes and comments on our lives as we journey through the human experience, pointing out what we sometimes refuse to acknowledge. He helps us recognize the folly of living from the ego’s limitations when we’re meant to live as holy and Divine creative beings.

You can seek the Fool’s wisdom on any subject at any time. Use these oracle cards to attain personal growth; deeper insights; and clarity into any situation, relationship, decision, interaction, or question you may have. The accompanying guidebook will help you interpret the cards’ meanings and spark your own intuition.

Consult the Fool’s wisdom daily and it will shed light on all the blind spots and shadows that keep you from expressing your highest truth. Each of the Fools carves a pathway to a more authentic life. Through these oracle cards, you’ll come to embrace and deeply value your own inner Fool—your Divine witness and wise self.

ISBN 978-1-4019-2812-4 * Hay House Inc., 2012 * 52 card deck & guidebook * $19.95

Flip Flippen is a personable Texan whose philosophy has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people--from business leaders like Jack Welch and Mark McCormack (founder of IMG), to sports figures like Terry Bradshaw and NASCAR drivers, to the 150,000 people who trained with his company, The Flippen Group, in 2005. His approach is deceptively simple:

What if, instead of focusing on the things you already do well, you knew how to honestly identify your weaknesses...those habitual behaviors that continually get in your way and prevent you from ever really succeeding in the way you know you could. It's these weaknesses, your "personal constraints," that are really holding you back from success. If you could correct these behaviors, you'd see a dramatic surge in productivity and a real improvement in all aspects of your life. That's the key to Flip Flippen's program: he teaches hundreds of thousands of people each year how to identify their personal obstacles and take the necessary steps to overcome them.

The vast majority of Flip's trainees are in midlife. These are people who find themselves asking, "How can I accomplish more in my life, both personally and professionally?" and "How can I get better/go further/be happier in the time I have left?" His Personal Constraint Theory helps them zero in on their primary self-sabotaging behavior and actually turn it into their greatest asset.

ISBN 978-0-446-58132-5 * Springboard Press, 2007 * 255 pages * $16.99

The Flip Side
Break Free of the Behaviors
That Hold You Back

Flip Flippen


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Throw Out Fifty Things
Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life

Gail Blanke


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"Our lives are so filled with junk from the past-from dried up tubes of glue to old grudges-that it's a wonder we can get up in the morning," exclaims motivator, best-selling author, columnist, and life coach Gail Blanke.

"If you want to grow, you gotta let go," is Blanke's mantra; and that means eliminating all the clutter-physical and emotional-that holds you back, weighs you down, or just makes you feel bad about yourself.

In Throw Out Fifty Things she takes us through each room of the house-from the attic to the garage-and even to the far reaches of our minds. Through poignant and humorous stories, she inspires us to get rid of the "life plaque" we've allowed to build-up there.

  • That junk drawer (you know that drawer) in the kitchen? Empty it!
  • Those old regrets? Throw 'em out!
  • That make-up from your "old" look? Toss it!
  • That relationship that depresses you? Dump it!

Once you've hit fifty-you'll be surprised how easy it is to get there-and once you've thrown out that too-tight belt and too-small view of yourself, you'll be ready to step out into the clearing and into the next, and greatest, segment of your life.

ISBN 978-0-446-50578-9 * Grand Central Life & Style, 2009 * 270 pages * $16.99

Add layoffs, foreclosures, and skyrocketing health-care costs to the inevitable crises of every life, and you have today’s landscape. Amid these challenges, even those who thought they had solid coping skills feel that their center cannot hold as things fall apart. In her first book in many years, bestselling author Daphne Rose Kingma takes us on a path of emotional and spiritual healing, with particular attention to the complex and frequently overwhelming circumstances of our lives right now. The perfect combination of empathic friend, sage counselor, savvy problem solver, and even gallows humorist, Kingma looks straight into the predicaments so many of us face. She then offers ten deceptively simple yet profoundly effective strategies for coping on practical, emotional, and spiritual levels.

The devastating events cannot be changed, but after reading this book, you will be, having recovered a sense of equanimity, spirit, and strength. Whether you’re struggling with money issues, job loss, relationship problems, an unexpected health crisis, or all of the above, this book will light your path and heal your heart.

ISBN 978-1-57731-698-5 * New World Library, 2010 * 214 pages * $18.50

The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart
An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook

Daphne Rose Kingma


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