Category: Book Reviews

Healing This Wounded Earth With Compassion, Spirit and the Power of Hope:  How we may all become catalysts for a happier and more peaceful world By Eleanor Stoneham O Books, 2011 292 ps., $24.95 In a time when global ecological, social, and political catastrophes can seem overwhelming and almost hopeless, Eleanor Stoneham, Ph.D., shows how [...]

Harvest to Heat (The Taunton Press, 2010) is a beautifully photographed collection of recipes by top chefs in the country that highlight the unique contributions of artisans and farmers, and their high-quality products. Firmly rooted in the farm to table movement, the slow food featured here is definitely worth the wait. There are wonderful stories [...]

The selections highlighted by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin in Rumi’s Little Book of Love: 150 Poems That Speak to the Heart (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2009) show much more than love between two people – the term “Beloved” is how Rumi refers to God. But this quest for ecstatic divine love apparently can be [...]

I will tell you upfront that in Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years On Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), author and veteran journalist Mark Hertsgaard does offer hope and solutions as well as pictures of how cities, regions, and countries will (and will not) fare even ten years down the road in the face [...]

Fast Food & the Lean, Mean Teen:  Seven Ways to Make Healthier (and Skinnier) Choices at the Drive-Thru The typical teen’s hectic schedule often makes fast-food meals a tempting—or necessary—option. However, say Ellen Shanley and Colleen Thompson in their new book, Fueling the Teen Machine, you don’t have to write off nutrition when you place [...]

I picked up Ezra Bayda’s Beyond Happiness (Shambhala Publications, 2010) with a challenge in mind: Would reading this snap me out of a low mood? I was feeling extremely challenged. I had pulled a muscle in my back; there were noisy workmen in the building whose presence had made even going up and down the [...]

Being with Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate Our World Author Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and a professor of anthropology. She has studied monkeys in Kenya and great apes in various captive settings. In her book, Being with Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the [...]

Science Was Wrong: Startling Truths About Cures, Theories, and Inventions “They” Declared Impossible (Paperback) by Stanton T. Friedman, M.Sc. and Kathleen Marden Scientific ufologists Stanton T. Friedman, M.Sc.  (www.stantonfriedman.com) and Kathleen Marden www.kathleen-marden.com)  have written another blockbuster. Stanton’s impressive background as a University of Chicago educated nuclear physicist who was employed for 14 years working [...]

Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff’s new release, Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life That You Deserve (Harlequin, March 2010) sends an important message: The Queen has gone mainstream! This in itself is a cause for celebration. It was five years ago that I reviewed The [...]

The latest release from A.R.E. Press, Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah: A Resource for Soulful Living by John Van Auken, is the first of its kind in addressing wisdom from the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce as it relates to the spiritual teachings of the Kabbalah. Van Auken combines his love of Kabbalah with his [...]

The Little Manual of Success: 9 Essential Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires Vikas Malkani 0 Books 147 pp, $14.95 Review by Christine Gertz Vikas Malkani, the founder of SoulCentre and the author of the Little Manual of Happiness and the Yoga of Love, has written an advice book for people who would like to attain monetary [...]

Walking The Faery Pathway by Harmonia Saille O Books www.o-books.net Review by Kate Russell The subject of faeries is one that has fascinated and inspired us for eons. But such an ethereal topic can be hard to research. There are lots of images, but little writing on the subject, and this is where Harmonia Saille [...]