The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

10 best books like The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger (Leonard Scheff): The Silent Dead, A Matter of Heart, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment, Everyday Zen: Love and Work, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, Everything is Figureoutable: How One Simple Belief Can Help Us Overcome Any Obstacle and Create Unstoppable Success, Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough, This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol: Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life, Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions, Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up

The Silent Dead

Author	Tetsuya Honda
ISBN	1250061598

When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this...

A Matter of Heart

Author	Amy Fellner Dominy
ISBN	0385744439

Readers will happily sink into this emotionally grounded, contemporary young adult novel about the sudden end of one girl's Olympic swimming dreams and the struggles she endures before realizing there are many things that define who we are.

Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win...

You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	1590306759

In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the essence of Buddhist thought and practice, emphasizing the power of mindfulness to transform our lives. “Mindfulness is not an evasion or an escape,” he explains. “It means being here, present,...

Everyday Zen: Love and Work

Author	Charlotte Joko Beck
ISBN	0060607343

DOES A DOG HAVE BUDDHA NATURE?

Maybe - for Zen is Nothing Special. Skimming thru this little miracle of a book again this morning for the umpteen zillionth time, I read:

"My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit...

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	1573229377

It was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing, obsessive desire, and anger. All are difficult, but in one instant of anger—one of the most powerful emotions—lives can...

Everything is Figureoutable: How One Simple Belief Can Help Us Overcome Any Obstacle and Create Unstoppable Success

Author	Marie Forleo
ISBN	0241341035

Do you ever have trouble finishing what you start? Do amazing ideas come to you all the time but after the initial excitement wanes you struggle to follow through? If you're creative and ambitious, the answer is likely yes.

The problem isn't you. It's not that you're not hardworking, intelligent...

Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough

Author	Brené Brown
ISBN	1604078510

We Are Enough: Engaging with the World from a Place of Worthiness

Course objectives:

Summarize the differences and similarities between the experience of shame for men and women
• Define guilt vs. shame—why one is a useful force for growth, while the other keeps us small
•...

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol: Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Author

Annie Grace

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery. They fear drinking less will be boring, involving deprivation, difficulty and significant lifestyle changes.

This...

Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions

Author	Pema Chödrön
ISBN	1590304349

Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying children—and before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Pema...

Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up

Author	Patricia Ryan Madson
ISBN	1400081882

In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of the art of improvisation explains how to adopt the attitudes and techniques used by generations of musicians and actors.

Let’s face it: Life is something we all make up as we go along. No matter...

Stick with It: The Science of Lasting Changes

Author	Sean Young
ISBN	0062692895

An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior shows everyone how to make real, lasting change in their lives in this exciting work of popular psychology that goes beyond The Power of Habit with science and practical strategies that can alter their problem behaviors—forever.

Whether...

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation

Author

Stuart Gibbs

The world’s youngest and smartest genius is forced to use her unbelievable code-breaking skills to outsmart Einstein.

Charlie Thorne is a genius.
Charlie Thorne is a thief.
Charlie Thorne isn’t old enough to drive.

And now it’s up to her to save the world…

Decades...

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work--Anywhere!

Author

Bento C. Leal III

I'm trying to read more, therefore I've been listening to more audiobooks so that I can multi-task. This one is just a little over 2 hours long, but 25 minutes in I found that no ideas of substance had been developed. I found it comical that the 'Praise for....' section with quotes from other authors was...

I Hate Dragons

Author

Brandon Sanderson

Having someone throw this at me (Trish) and run off, I had to read it.

At first glance, it's very self-conscious and writing conscious and self-referential and for all these things... it's a mess. But it's supposed to be a mess. I can see that.

He fiddled around with it between projects,...

Snapshots

Author	Shobhaa Dé
ISBN	0140246142

You women performed so in character, so predictably, it was pathetic.

The perverse pleasure one gets from trouncing one-star material assuages a little the readerly rage burning inside you for having wasted your time. Granted, it's not very cathartic but it unburdens the heart and makes...

Intercepts

Author

T.J. Payne

A fresh new take on the haunted house genre.
"Gruesome, gripping, and terrifyingly real."

Joe's teenage daughter is suddenly experiencing terrifying hallucinations. She sees a woman in a hospital gown in her bedroom, screaming and clawing the skin from her own face.

Either...

Stop Being Reasonable

Author

Eleanor Gordon-Smith

What if you’re not who you think you are?

What if you don’t really know the people closest to you?

And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be…wrong?

In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits...

Who Am I Without You?: Fifty-Two Ways to Rebuild Self-Esteem After a Breakup

Author

Christina G. Hibbert

If a breakup or divorce has drained your confidence and shattered your self-esteem, this book is for you. Written by a clinical psychologist and expert in women’s health, Who Am I Without You? will help you work through your heartache, rediscover your self-worth, and learn to live and love again.
 Breakups...