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Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Monica Sharma draws on more than twenty years of working for the United Nations to present a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates systems of change where everyone can engage--not just analysts and policy makers. Demonstrating that we all can be architects of a new humanity, Sharma demystifies policy-making, planning, and implementation so that everyone can play an informed and strategic part in eradicating the world's...
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A quick and easy, neuroscience-based mindfulness program to help readers calm the chaos and rewire their brain in just five minutes a day. Written by a neuropsychologist, Quick Calm is a collection of five-minute meditations for kick-starting a mindfulness practice, making it a habit, and finding lasting relief for stress and difficult emotions"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals. In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these debates, Henry Bergh launched a shocking campaign to grant rights...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fresh look at the Buddhist principle of metta, or loving-kindness. Dharma teacher Kevin Griffin demonstrates that metta is not just a meditation practice-it's a radical, selfless way of life based in universal love for all beings. In Living Kindness, Kevin Griffin guides us through the stories of the Pali Canon of Buddhism to deepen our understanding of the "brahmaviharas," or practices of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Appealing to the...
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Success in work, love, and life depends on developing habits that activate the powerful prefrontal cortex when we need it most. Unfortunately, under stress, the human brain tends to revert to emotional habits we forged in toddlerhood: blame, denial, avoidance, reacting to a jerk like a jerk, and turning our connections into cold shoulders, or worse. In Soar Above, renowned relationship expert Dr. Steven Stosny offers a ground-breaking formula for...
Author
Publisher
Vegan Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ren Hurst finds her way to horses as a teenager, following a turbulent and painful childhood. They are her saving grace, her first experience of pure joy and freedom. She soon becomes a passionate horsewoman, intent on riding her way to the top. Her ascent takes an unexpected turn when compassion becomes the key component to success after she discovers an entirely new paradigm regarding equine understanding and practices. This understanding leads...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Alex Cox is the genuine article: a radical independent filmmaker who is also a good writer, an insightful commentator on contemporary cinema, and an expert critic of the power of Hollywood. Enfant terrible he may be, but Alex Cox is a pioneer and promoter of new forms of filmmaking for the cultural revolutionaries of the twenty-first century." "X Films has as its center the filmmaking autobiography of a fine director - the journey through all his...
91) For all mankind
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's challenge of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Twenty years later, Al Reinert constructed a documentary that imparts the unforgettable story of the twenty-four astronauts who participated in the Apollo mission to land on the moon told in their words and their voices, using...
Publisher
Riverdale Avenue Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional "violence against women" framework, the book is multi-gendered,...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A few years ago, Dr. Claire Nicogossian began noticing a trend in her therapy room: Mothers are struggling with the challenging and unexpected emotions that surface during their journey through motherhood. In the confines of a safe, judgment-free space, they share about the heavy guilt they carry from losing control and yelling at their children; the crippling fear that they are failing their families; and the exhaustion of juggling work, home, and...
Author
Series
Routledge studies in religion volume 34
Publisher
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migraine since the Middle Ages. Touching on classical theories...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Echoes, Walter Brueggemann -- one of our most influential biblical scholars -- responds to eight "truth claims" made by the radical right in US politics. In his book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (Random House 2020), Kurt Andersen enunciates eight "truth claims" made by the political right that champion aggressive self-sufficiency and self-security at the expense of the community. In the process, any hint of "the...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Gay, Inc. investigates the massive expansion of the non-profit system since the mid-1960s, and the impact this expansion has had on queer social movements. Based on ethnography and oral histories as well as archival research, it looks at how people at four LGBT non-profits in the Midwest grapple with the contradictions between the radical imaginary of queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Beam argues that the institutional...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This work combines historical summary, personal experience, description of tantric methods, and explanations of the ultimate nature of phenomena, based on the Tibetan practice of Chöd, or "Cutting Through." Anam Thubten offers straightforward teachings on this swift tantric method to cut through ego-clinging in many forms. For those who feel caught in endless deliberation and overanalysis, this book offers teachings on directly cutting through our...
Author
Publisher
Acrobat Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An intense story of an uneven conflict where Sardar Timur Barlas, an almighty, powerful and influential landlord in a remote town in Pakistan goes against Zara Bibi & her husband Shams - his lowly, poor and helpless servants. While trying to protect her master's interest, Zara Bibi opens up gates of hell for her only son Gul when she discovered him holding Timur's young daughter Farah in an unholy embrace in presence of a crowd she had gathered....
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