Art Is a Way of Knowing

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0688168442

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....

Author	Thomas Moore
ISBN	0060928247

Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but a necessity for one's personal and collective survival. With his lens focused on specific aspects...

Author	Alice Koller
ISBN	0553354825

"I walk: desk to couch, couch to table, table to fireside chair, chair to stove, stove to refrigerator, and there I lean, crying... Why am I here? There's no place else to be. What am I doing here? I don't really know. What am I trying to do here? To find some way to live."This is the true story of a courageous...

Author	Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN	0374525625

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes...

Author	June Jordan
ISBN	1556592280

“Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”—Alice Walker

“Always urgent, inspiring, and demanding, Jordan’s work has left its indelible mark everywhere from Essence to The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and from theater...

Author	Joe Fig
ISBN	1568988524

"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work."
Chuck Close

Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is...

Author	Clarissa Pinkola Estés
ISBN	0712672133

Dr. Estés asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of The Dangerous Old Woman for the...

Author	Brian Weiss
ISBN	8490707189

La historia real de un psiquiatra, su joven paciente y la terapia de regresión que cambió sus vidas para siempre.

Un punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica.

El doctor Brian Weiss, jefe de psiquiatría del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, relata en éste, si primer libro,una...