The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
10 best books like The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments (William Bridges): The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters, Animal Liberation, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
| Author | Marc Bekoff |
| ISBN | 1577315022 |
Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with...
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
| Author | Jonathan Haidt |
| ISBN | 0307377903 |
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual...
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...
Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism. Using popular culture as a point of reference for their critiques, the Ko sisters engage in groundbreaking analysis of the compartmentalized...
| Author | Peter Singer |
| ISBN | 0060011572 |
The Book That Started A Revolution
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
| Author | Melanie Joy |
| ISBN | 1573244619 |
This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote themselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for consumption.
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| Author | Gene Baur |
| ISBN | 0743291581 |
Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily within...
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
| Author | Matthew Scully |
| ISBN | 0312319738 |
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.--Genesis 1:24-26
In this crucial passage from...
| Author | Matt Ball |
| ISBN | 1590561201 |
Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich take the plight of the world's animals seriously and have dedicated their lives to ending their suffering. The Animal Activist's Handbook argues that meaning in life is to be found, quite simply, in turning away from the futile pursuit of "more," and focusing instead on...
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
| Author | Chip Heath |
| ISBN | 0385528752 |
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up? Chip and Dan Heath, the best-selling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a ground-breaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and...
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590304497 |
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom...
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach
| Author | Tobias Leenaert |
| ISBN | 1590565703 |
In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals,...
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid difficult conversation every day. Based on fifteen years of research...
| Author | Mark Rashid |
| ISBN | 1555662498 |
In his third book, Horses Never Lie, Mark Rashid breaks new ground with the idea that you don't have to be dominant to be a leader to your horse. He challenges the longstanding belief that an owner must be the alpha leader to work effectively with horses. Building on the primary concept of his previous books...
A course in the Buddhist practice of the brahma viharas, or -heavenly abodes.- Detailed instructions from the Buddhist tradition in cultivating mindfulness presented by a prominent Insight Meditation teacher.
Compassion, kindness, equanimity, and joy are not only the fruits of the awakened...
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
| Author | Mark Nepo |
| ISBN | 1573241172 |
Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor...
Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals
| Author | Steven M. Wise |
| ISBN | 0738204374 |
Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive,...
Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
This book is about a revolution--a revolution of the heart.
The exploitation of animals is pervasive, entrenched, and horrific. In this book, the authors reject the idea that animal use is morally acceptable if we treat animals “humanely.” They reject the campaigns for “compassionate”...
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
| Author | Francis Weller |
| ISBN | 1583949755 |
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective...
Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal
| Author | Tim Hayes |
| ISBN | 1250033519 |
Riding Home:The Power of Horses to Heal is the first and only book to scientifically and experientially explain why horses have the extraordinary ability to emotionally transform the lives of thousands of men, women and children, whether they are horse lovers, or suffering from deep psychological...
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
| Author | David Livingstone Smith |
| ISBN | 0312532725 |
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today’s headlines
“Brute.” “Cockroach.” “Lice.” “Vermin.” “Dog.” “Beast.” These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans—for...
God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked
Tina Fey’s Bossypants meets David Carr’s The Night of the Gun in Darrell Hammond’s groundbreaking memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked—a raw look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic genius. By turns poignant and hilarious, Hammond takes readers from the set...
| Author | Antonia J. Corrales |
Una obra en la que los sentimientos, la intriga emocional, junto a una crítica social empapada de ironía y humor, conforman una historia que nos evoca grandes obras como 'Memorias de África', 'Tomates verdes fritos', 'Como agua para chocolate', 'Los puentes de Madison'… Una historia, actual,...
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
| Author | Christopher K. Germer |
| ISBN | 1593859759 |
“Buck up.” “Stop feeling sorry for yourself.” “Don’t ruin everything.” When you are anxious, sad, angry, or lonely, do you hear this self-critical voice? What would happen if, instead of fighting difficult emotions, we accepted them? Over his decades of experience as a therapist...
