The Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing
10 best books like The Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing (Mary O'Malley): At Home: A Short History of Private Life, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Goddesses in Everywoman, In Watermelon Sugar, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism, The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0767919386 |
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew...
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
| Author | James McBride |
| ISBN | 1573225789 |
Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve...
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
| Author | R.D. Laing |
| ISBN | 0140135375 |
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person with that of a person who "cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted" and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid "losing his self". Laing explains...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0060572841 |
A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author.
Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen's career soared in the early 1980s...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0099437597 |
393. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar is an American post-apocalyptic novel by Richard Brautigan written in 1964 and published in 1968. Set in the aftermath of a fallen civilization, it focuses on a commune organized around a central gathering house which is named...
| Author | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| ISBN | 0446519138 |
With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays - one for every day of your year - written for women who wish to live by their own lights.
In the past a woman's spirituality has been seperated...
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
| Author | Linda Bacon |
| ISBN | 1933771585 |
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda...
| Author | Sue Bender |
| ISBN | 0062512900 |
A short book with small dimensions and wide margins, and peppered with simple ink drawings of dishes and animals. 165 pages of emptiness; that is the theme of the book. Sue says it right away in the preface, the printed words inside an inked empty bowl-like shape:
"This story is about a bowl.
A...
Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
| Author | Molly Worthen |
| ISBN | 0199896461 |
Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but are wary of religious enthusiasm. They are deeply skeptical of secular reason, but eager to find...
The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment
| Author | Deepak Chopra |
| ISBN | 1400097851 |
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenon that touched millions of lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, received thousands of letters from parents who expressed the desire to convey the principles they had learned to their children, along with questions about how to do so.
The Seven...
Spirit-Centered Relationships: Experiencing Greater Love and Harmony Through the Power of Presencing
This book shows you a new way to experience more love in your life. If you use the three simple tools described in the book, your relationships will undergo a spiritual transformation. Specifically, you will feel a deeper sense of your own spiritual center, while at the same time seeing the spiritual...
| Author | David Batchelor |
| ISBN | 1861890745 |
Chromophobia - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - has lurked within Western culture since ancient times. This is apparent in the many attempts to purge colour from art, literature and architecture, either by making it the property of some "foreign" body - the oriental, the feminine,...
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
| Author | Christopher Lasch |
| ISBN | 0393302636 |
Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully...
| Author | Lois Weinthal |
| ISBN | 1616890304 |
Interior design, as a relatively young discipline within the academic world of design, has historically been interpreted as an extension of other fine arts. Narratives exist, but they all too often treat interior design as a function of architecture or display rather than experience. An independent...
The Body: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Chris Shilling |
| ISBN | 0198739036 |
The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception...
The Moomins and the Great Flood
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 9515015502 |
The Moomins and the Great Flood is the first book about the Moomins, originally published in 1945. It´s the story about Moominmamma and Moomintroll´s search for the missing Moominpappa and how they found their way to the Moominvalley..
Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health
| Author | Denise Minger |
| ISBN | 0984755128 |
Warning: Shock and outrage will grip you as you dive into this one-of-a-kind expose. Shoddy science, sketchy politics and shady special interests have shaped American Dietary recommendations and destroyed our nation s health over recent decades. The phrase Death by Food Pyramid isn t shock-value...
Plugging In...: Connecting To Your Universal Gifts
| Author | Jeanne Marie Provost |
| ISBN | 1732609209 |
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