Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health
10 best books like Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health (Elena Avila): Up the Down Staircase, The Yellow Wall-Paper, The Meaning of Birds, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, More Ketchup Than Salsa, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, Loving in the War Years
| Author | Bel Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0060973617 |
Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.
Never...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 1558611584 |
‘It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’
Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper'...
| Author | Jaye Robin Brown |
| ISBN | 0062824449 |
Before, Jessica has always struggled with anger issues, but come sophomore year that all changes when Vivi crashes into her life. As their relationship blossoms, Vivi not only helps Jess deal with her pain, she also encourages her to embrace her talent as an artist. And for the first time, it feels like...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
| Author | Qanta A. Ahmed |
| ISBN | 1402210876 |
"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness at the tattered edges...
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
| Author | Peter Tompkins |
| ISBN | 0060915870 |
Exploring the world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest discoveries of scientists, The Secret Life of Plants includes remarkable information about plants as lie detectors and plants as ecological sentinels; it describes their ability to adapt to human wishes, their response...
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
| Author | Bryan Sykes |
| ISBN | 0393020185 |
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come.
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine...
Have you ever thought about making a new life abroad?
It was while holding aloft a not altogether pleasant-smelling mackerel that the decision was made. The March rain hammered on the rotting tin roof high above the market stall, where I had spent the last six months pushing out dubious trays of marine...
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed...
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0896086267 |
Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's...
A universal, deeply moving exploration of grief and empathy
With its spare, poignant text and irresistibly sweet illustrations, The Rabbit Listened is a tender meditation on loss.
When something terrible happens, Taylor doesn't know where to turn. All the animals are sure they...
Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright
From walking a dog to watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Now, more than fifty years after they were written, these poems continue to reflect our everyday experiences. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow...
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
| Author | Colin Kennedy Donovan |
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.
Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
| Author | Anne Hillerman |
| ISBN | 0062270486 |
Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Times bestselling mystery author Tony Hillerman continues the popular series with this fresh new Navajo Country mystery-her debut novel-filled with captivating lore, startling suspense, bold new...
When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want
| Author | Mike Lewis |
| ISBN | 1250124212 |
When Mike Lewis was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job, he eagerly wanted to leave and pursue his dream of becoming a professional squash player. But he had questions: When is the right time to move from work that is comfortable to a career you have only dared to dream of? How have other...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0814757138 |
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 1563410923 |
Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. This is the story of "one small human being's struggle for survival", the author's two-and-one-half pound premature baby boy.While the specifics belong to...
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0822345641 |
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer...
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries,...
500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana
| Author | Elizabeth Martínez |
| ISBN | 0813542243 |
Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to...
El ahogado más hermoso del mundo
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 9580211191 |
Ever since the 1968 publication of this short story by Gabriel García Márquez, a story about how one morning children from a small fishing village discover a body on the beach, many are the readers who have fallen deeply in love with this tale. And many are the writers who have written commentary...
| Author | Michael Ende |
| ISBN | 8420425419 |
Las treinta narraciones de El espejo en el espejo conforman un delicioso laberinto literario en el que resuenan ecos mitológicos, kafkianos y borgianos. Michael Ende ahonda en temas como la búsqueda de la identidad, la desolación de la guerra, el amor, el absurdo de una sociedad entregada al mercantilismo,...
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
| Author | Robin Sharma |
| ISBN | 1443456632 |
Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming...
The Shamanism Bible: The Definitive Guide to Shamanic Thought and Practice
| Author | John Matthews |
| ISBN | 1770854673 |
The ancient healing traditions based on spiritual connections.
New to Firefly's Bible series (Ayurveda Bible, Secret Societies Bible) this guide to shamanism is an evocative and detailed journey from its animistic origins in Europe, North America, Siberia and the Arctic 70,000 years...
The Spirit of Healing: Stories, Wisdom, and Practices from Native America
| Author | Lewis Mehl-Madrona |
| ISBN | 1604074337 |
Essential Training in Native American Healing WisdomA Lakota prophecy tells of a day when Westerners will join Native wisdom-keepers to create a new, integrated vision of healing. Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona believes that day has arrived. With The Spirit of Healing, this physician and lifelong student...
How to Love a Woman: On Intimacy and the Erotic Life of Women
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
For all men and women who thirst to love and be loved by a woman, these words and stories of guidance from Clarissa Pinkola Estés are aqua vitae, the water of life for the soul.
Dr. Estés teaches that in love relationships, each partner challenges, nourishes, and transforms the other. To achieve...
Seeing in the Dark: Myths & Stories to Reclaim the Buried, Knowing Woman
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| ISBN | 1591799694 |
Buried into all of us is what Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est�s refers to as "the one who knows"--the instinctive, intuitive nature. This, she teaches, is the source of creativity and understanding that lies out of sight in darkness, often called the unconscious.
On Seeing in the Dark, we join the...
The United States And Mexico: Between Partnership And Conflict
| Author | Jorge I. Domínguez |
| ISBN | 0415930618 |
By sharing one of the longest land borders in the world, the United States and Mexico will always have a special relationship. In the early twenty-first century, they are as important to one another as ever before with a vital trade partnership and often-tense migration positions. The ideal introduction...
