Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
10 best books like Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World (Thich Nhat Hanh): Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, Year of the Griffin, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
| Author | Tara Brach |
| ISBN | 0553380990 |
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become...
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
| Author | Simon Wiesenthal |
| ISBN | 0805210601 |
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying SS man. Haunted by the crimes in which he'd participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--& obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion &...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0575075376 |
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will...
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
| Author | Andrew Solomon |
| ISBN | 0684854678 |
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly...
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
| Author | Douglas S. Massey |
| ISBN | 0674018214 |
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.
American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0575075368 |
Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480036 |
Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow,...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480869 |
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot...
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
| Author | Melvin L. Oliver |
| ISBN | 0415918472 |
Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of private wealth uncovers a revealing story about race in America. An examination of how assets are created, expanded and preserved reveals a deep economic divide between blacks and whites. Charting the changing structure of inequality over...
Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
| Author | Lani Guinier |
| ISBN | 0029131693 |
At last...the public hearing she was denied...These essays reveal keen powers of analysis applied to some of the most obdurate problems that bedevil electoral politics. Anyone who cares about the mechanisms of democracy should be engaged by her tough-minded explorations. It doesn't matter where...
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0385720793 |
For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning...
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
| Author | Andrew Hacker |
| ISBN | 0743238249 |
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic, newly updated to reflect the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker...
Odious Oceans (Horrible Geography)
| Author | Anita Ganeri |
| ISBN | 0590543741 |
I expected that this book will cover a lot more of biology than it did. It was sort of a mixture of biology, chemistry, geography and history.
Some of the images were funnier that other, but overall I was not impressed. I did learn a couple of things, but I am secretly scared that because of the format...
| Author | Bruce H. Lipton |
| ISBN | 0975991477 |
The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information....
| Author | Lodro Rinzler |
| ISBN | 1590309375 |
There's a new thirst for spirituality among young people today-but they're less inclined to adjust their lives around traditional religious forms than they are to look for transformation within their existing lifestyles. And they have a natural affinity for Buddhism. This is a book for them-by one...
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader...
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
| Author | Sonia Nazario |
| ISBN | 0812971787 |
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran...
Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations
| Author | Josh Bartok |
| ISBN | 0861713001 |
Open up Daily Wisdom and find page after page of illuminating words. You'll encounter ancient Buddhist sages and contemporary meditation masters offering encouragement and quiet counsel - some in spacious poetry, others in lucid prose - on love and living wisely, on meditation and mindfulness,...
Prinsessa Rämäpään talvitaika
Rämäpää on pikku tyttö mutta myös prinsessa, jolla on monta kruunua ja taikavoimia. Niitä tarvitaan, sillä hänen pitää usein ratkaista jokin ongelma.
"Rämäpää! Heti pukemaan!" äiti huutaa, vaikka Rämäpää on leikkimässä. Äiti on luvannut pikkuveli Onnille,...
Kisu on aamuvirkku niin kuin melkein kaikki lapset. Kun herää aikaisin, ehtii paljon. Kisu kesyttää delfiinin, tapaa merenneidon ja nenäapinan, leipoo isän kanssa kirjaimia ja leikkii herra X:n kanssa. Kisulle jokainen päivä on ihmeitä täynnä. Ja joka päivä kisu oppii jotain uutta.
Tunnettu...
The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1594487383 |
The Wisdom of Compassion offers rare insights into the Dalai Lama’s life and his efforts to translate compassion into action through deeply engaging, behind-the-scene stories about his interactions with remarkable people from all walks of life.
This is the Dalai Lama at his most human,...
Uuvuksissa - Kirja sinulle, joka tahdot voimasi takaisin
| Author | Liisa Uusitalo-Arola |
Puurrat ja pinnistät. Jatkat tekemistä siinä toivossa, että jossain vaiheessa saisit hellittää. Jos ei jouluna niin kesällä viimeistään. Pusket eteenpäin kuin höyryveturi, kunnes tulee päivä, jolloin huomaat, ettei mistään itsesi kannustamisesta tai motivoinnista enää...
The Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali: A New Translation and Commentary
| Author | Georg Feuerstein |
| ISBN | 0892812621 |
Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary provided here by Georg Feuerstein are outstanding for their accessibility and their insight into the essential meaning of this ancient and complex text....
10WYS: de WYSheidsrevolutie
| Author | Geertje Couwenbergh |
Vergeet succes en zelfs geluk: WIJSHEID is het nieuwe statussymbool van Generatie Y! Maar...wat is wijsheid?
Ons leven is geweldig, maar soms ook pijnlijk. Wat maakt liefde zo lastig? Hoe kunnen we betere keuzes maken? Hoe gaan we om met ziekte, ouderdom en dood? Hoe kunnen we mindblowing...
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
| Author | Matthew Karp |
| ISBN | 0674737253 |
When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation s triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers...
Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also holds the...
Less is Luxe is het nieuwe artjournal van Lou Niestadt over de ontdekkingstocht naar een simpeler leven. Waar genoeg weer genoeg is en minder weer meer. Je leert om stil te staan bij wat je werkelijk wilt en wat je werkelijk nodig hebt en waarin je niet meer in dienst staat van je spullen, je werk en je gezin.
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| Author | Anita Ganeri |
| ISBN | 0439011213 |
Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing...
Groots en meeslepend leven
Bij een groots & meeslepend leven heb je meteen een wild, creatief en avontuurlijk beeld, maar je hoeft er de deur niet voor uit. Je hoeft alleen maar avontuurlijker & creatiever te denken. Dit is een artjournal dat je helpt om alles wat je toch moet doen op een zo creatief mogelijke manier in te...
Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles
| Author | Marianne Williamson |
| ISBN | 0553815466 |
Description:
In this comforting,inspirational companion to the No.1 New York Times bestseller, A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson returns to her spiritual roots, writing on the art of nurturing a thriving soul in a harsh world.
What do your spiritual convictions have to do with traffic...
