Category: Book Reviews

Authenticity. It’s a word that gets tossed around quite a bit these days. (In fact, it’s in danger of becoming a bit of a cliché.) Sure, we all think we’re authentic in our words and actions. But are we really? Kathleen McIntire says that, consciously or not, most of us let the expectations of others [...]

“You’ll never walk again.” This was the news Omer Rains heard from doctors when we awoke from a prolonged coma and found the right side of his body completely paralyzed, the result of a stroke and brain aneurysm that nearly killed him at age 61. But the former California State Senator – a politician on [...]

Looking for something with more impact (and sticking power) than the usual doomed-to-fail resolutions? Vickie Milazzo wants you to make 2012 the year you finally buck up and start living the life YOU want to live—recession be damned! 2011 is drawing to a close and, for many recession-wracked American women, it feels like just another [...]

Book review by Michael Greenstein Depending on who you talk to, life has never been worse.  Cancer seems to plague almost every family, financial ruin is at our collective doorsteps, divorce rates remain alarming high and the news is rampant with spiritual leaders that have abused our young and led us astray.  Without much difficulty, [...]

“Why Don’t We Go To Church?” is a book that helps atheist parents and their children deal with religious conflicts. Evolution vs. creation is the focal point of a book written for atheist or agnostic parents and their children. “Why Don’t We Go To Church?” helps young people deal with religious conflicts. It also opens [...]

Quite simply: I am enthralled with Joanna Powell Colbert’s luminous Gaian Tarot (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2011). This earth-centered deck defiantly breaks through “isms” with a resultant multicultural vibe where men and women switch traditional tarot roles, zaftig women radiate sensuality and animal – and plant — allies have much to teach humans. What a fabulous world [...]

by Michael Berman http://www.merciangathering.com/learbooks/home.htm The concepts of heaven and hell are familiar to all of us, whatever our faiths may be, and the idioms that incorporate the words themselves have become so overused that they are now nothing more than clichés. On the other hand, although they appear in a number of mythologies and religions, [...]

The Gratitude Power Workbook: Transform Fear Into Courage, Anger Into Forgiveness, Isolation Into Belonging By Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons ISBN: 978-1-57344-649-5 US Price: $16.95 7 ½ x 6 Trade Paper June 2011 Distributed by Publishers Group West Mary Beth Sammons and Nina Lesowitz have received hundreds of thank-you emails and letters from readers [...]

Is there a biological distinction between races? “No,” argues legal scholar and social critic, Dorothy Roberts, “yet it absolutely exists economically, politically, and socially.” In her new book, “FATAL INVENTION: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century” (The New Press), Roberts argues that race simply does not exist on a [...]

Although life’s hard knocks may have convinced you otherwise, Todd Patkin insists that happiness really is a choice. If you choose to act or react in a more positive way instead of giving in to your urges to grumble and complain, he promises, you truly can influence how content you feel. Unless you’ve been living [...]

Early on in psychoanalyst Dr. Jacqueline Simon Gunn’s In the Therapist’s Chair (Xlibris, 2010), the author states “life is a series of moments, and some of the most important things we do as human beings are subtle and occur in a moment.” And it is truly the therapist’s job to illuminate the reasoning behind why [...]

Beginning in June 2009 through the fall of 2010, Sandi Haber Fifield photographed family-owned farms spanning New England to the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest. The languid photographs in Between Planting and Picking (Charta 2011) of farmers’ tools resting along fencing or a lone pumpkin standing sentinel to rural crossroads bring to mind the [...]