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- Book Review: I Hope You Dance - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Available in different covers that may differ from the image shown on this page. Amazon.com is unable to accept requests for a specific cover. The various covers will be assigned to orders at random. Product Information: Named the CMA song of the year, I Hope You Dance is ...
Views: 2368(2 votes) - Book Review: Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Maria Shriver's warmth, humor, and wisdom are evident on every page of this little book. Inspired by her commencement speech at the College of the Holy Cross, the book contains stories and insights that will be helpful, entertaining, and encouraging to graduates at every ...
Views: 1173(1 vote) - Book Review: The Path to Tranquility: Daily Meditations - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Wouldn't it be nice to have a handy collection of highlights from the Dalai Lama's writings and teachings? Renuka Singh, a student and friend of the Dalai Lama, brings together a sampling of his words for each day of the year in The Path to Tranquility. In her selections you ...
Views: 751(3 votes) - Book Review: The Power of Intention - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review After years of spiritual study and reflection, inspirational speaker and bestselling author Wayne Dyer has emerged a highly esteemed teacher. His current message about tapping into the power of intention may sound like good old positive thinking: just stay focused on what you ...
Views: 1303(4 votes) - Book Review: There Is A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With his usual mix of enthusiasm, optimism, and anecdote, Dr. Wayne Dyer is back again to emphasize that we are in control of our life experiences. Quoting everything from the Bible to The Tao of Pooh, he returns continually to his central point: with truth and self-awareness, ...
Views: 858(4 votes) - Book Review: You Can Heal Your Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you haven't seen Hay House's Lifestyles series of gorgeous gift books, there is no better way to acquaint yourself than with publisher/author Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life. A bestseller for many years, You Can Heal Your Life has been republished with bright, beautiful ...
Views: 1142(5 votes) - Book Review: You Can Heal Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you haven't seen Hay House's Lifestyles series of gorgeous gift books, there is no better way to acquaint yourself than with publisher/author Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life. A bestseller for many years, You Can Heal Your Life has been republished with bright, ...
Views: 877(4 votes) - Book Review: 101 Grrreat Quickies - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Remember when your mother taught you to never deface a book? Well, forget her advice and rip (literally!) into Laura Corn's 101 Grrreat Quickies. The author of 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex is working her magic again. As she puts it, "You make love. Sometimes slow and ...
Views: 2968 - Book Review: 52 Ways to Celebrate Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: 52 Fun Things to Do on the Plane is from a card deck series designed to inspire creativity and offer an alternative to the idiot box (see 52 Great Books to Read and 52 Special Traditions for Family and Friends). This particular deck, small enough to tuck into a purse or ...
Views: 1358 - Book Review: A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Sarah Ban Breathnach wanted to offer men the same reflective book that she offered women in Simple Abundance. Yet, she also knew that she needed a man to help her represent an authentic male experience, a book that mined beneath the "Men Are from Mars" stereotypes and "Iron ...
Views: 960 - Book Review: A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review The award-winning PostSecret project's most profound and stunning postcards to date For the past three years Frank Warren has invited people of all backgrounds and nationalities to send him creatively decorated postcards bearing secrets they have never before revealed. He ...
Views: 787 - Book Review: Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: As the story goes, author Kent M. Keith was a sophomore at Harvard University in the 1960s when he first wrote "The Paradoxical Commandments," a manifesto about doing good in a crazy, ungrateful world. These commandments are the basis of his repackaged and expanded book ...
Views: 1976 - Book Review: Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review As stated in the preface to this concise primer, any weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person living in 17th-century England was exposed to in a lifetime. In acknowledgement of the modern world's information glut, leadership ...
Views: 3386 - Book Review: Bad Childhood---Good Life: How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite of an Unhappy Childhood - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With her characteristically pointed advice and take-no-prisoners attitude, Dr. Laura's book Bad Childhood – Good Life tackles one of the most basic questions of therapy: How can a person effectively move past the injuries of a bad childhood? Her answer will be familiar to her ...
Views: 2522 - Book Review: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Joel Osteen reaches one of the largest audiences in the U.S. and across the globe--more than 42,000 people attend his church every week, and millions more tune in by television to hear his words of inspiration and wisdom. His first book, Your Best Life Now, has sold over 4 ...
Views: 915 - Book Review: Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Bill Phillips had been publishing bodybuilding magazines and marketing nutritional supplements for years when he had a weird revelation at a trade show: many of the most loyal and enthusiastic readers he had were totally out of shape. From that uncomfortable realization came ...
Views: 776 - Book Review: Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No-To Take Control of Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review In order to call themselves good Christians, many people have drawn overly flexible boundaries (unwilling to say no, always accommodating others' needs) or overly rigid boundaries (to the point of being righteous and judgmental). Psychologists and inspirational speakers Cloud ...
Views: 1659 - Book Review: Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Being a workaholic doesn't just mean being a hard worker, says Robinson, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of North Carolina who has been studying people's work habits for years. It means you've got a progressively worsening addiction like any other, in which ...
Views: 1551 - Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Admittedly, we sometimes become oversentimental about motherhood. But in a climate of rampant cynicism and family disintegration, stories about maternal love, courage, devotion, and triumph can be immensely comforting and inspiring. Contributors such as Dave Barry, Barbara ...
Views: 2178 - Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Soul - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review It's like homemade chicken soup that warms the chill and heals the ill. This collection of 101 stories is based on the belief that true testimonies of goodness and loving transformations can nourish us to the bone and heal the cynicism in our hearts. Indeed, most every story ...
Views: 803 - Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul anthologizes 80 stories of heartwarming writerly success. As is the trademark of the Chicken Soup series, these are feel-good stories about unforgettable relatives, encouraging teachers, serendipitous encounters, memorable experiences, ...
Views: 1150 - Book Review: Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Comfortable with Uncertainty reads like a perfect companion guide to the traditional 108-day Buddhist retreat. In a day-by-day format, author Pema Chödrön dives into the soothing wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism, reminding us that groundlessness is the only ground we have to stand ...
Views: 900 - Book Review: Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Clearly, one of the most complicated and devastating experiences of life, next to the death of a loved one, is the death of a relationship. Daphne Rose Kingma offers a process and a way of examining relationships that is not only healing and helpful through the process and ...
Views: 1222 - Book Review: Contemplative Prayer - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This little gem of a book, newly issued with a foreword from the great Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (who knew Merton in the 1960s) beautifully distills Merton's own reading and long experience with contemplation. Written close to the end of Merton's life, this book ...
Views: 784 - Book Review: Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Call it Robert Fulghum by way of John Wayne... In 1953, Zell Miller was as low as he could get. He'd dropped out of college after being made to feel inferior because of his "hillbilly" background and wound up in jail one weekend after getting drunk on moonshine and driving ...
Views: 4087 - Book Review: Creative Visualization: The Complete Book on Tape - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When it comes to creating the life you want, Shakti Gawain literally wrote the book. Now considered a classic, Creative Visualization teaches readers how to use their imaginations to manifest their deepest desires. In a straight-talking narrative, Gawain uses the first part to ...
Views: 779 - Book Review: Dark Nights of the Soul - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: When it comes to spiritual growth, we humans are solar-seeking beings; eager for the bright lights of clarity and the bliss of illumination. Paradoxically, we all need to walk through the shadow of the dark night in order to discover a life worth living, according to ...
Views: 1080 - Book Review: Developing the Leader Within You - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Few of us are natural-born leaders, according to John C. Maxwell, author of Developing the Leader Within You. Fortunately though, "the traits that are the raw material of leadership can be acquired," he promises. "Link them up with desire and nothing can keep you from ...
Views: 2852 - Book Review: Don Aslett's Clutter-Free!: Finally & Forever - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stuff, stuff and more stuff! Facing towering piles of your own accumulated artifacts, all out of storage space, and feeling you can never get organized and out from under it?!? Here's a common sense book about how to organize and do away with the unnecessary stuff in your ...
Views: 1100 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos From T - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "While it's easy to allow little things to take over our lives, there are things we can do to make life around the house less stressful," writes Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chores ...
Views: 1068 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is ...
Views: 1247 - Book Review: Emotional Alchemy : How the Mind Can Heal the Heart - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review According to ancient legends, alchemists use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. In Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman shows readers how they can use this alchemist metaphor to transform emotional confusion (lead) into insightful clarity (gold). And ...
Views: 884 - Book Review: Every Second Counts - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second ...
Views: 2341 - Book Review: Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When Sue Bender proudly announced to a friend that her first book, Plain and Simple had made it to the New York Times bestseller list, her friend immediately shot back, "But what number on the list are you?" Bender was shocked, realizing that nothing we accomplish seems like ...
Views: 1371 - Book Review: Fight Fat After Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you're a woman over 40, you are undergoing physical and emotional changes, declining metabolism, fat deposits at your waistline, decreased energy, mood swings, food cravings--do we need to continue this list? Now pile on chronic, long-term stress (which the author terms ...
Views: 691 - Book Review: Fight Your Fear and Win: Seven Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure--At Work, In Sports, On Stage - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Renowned performance coach Don Greene, Ph.D., leads readers on a strategic, goal-reaching mission in this compact, powerful, and often fascinating handbook. A former Airborne Ranger and Green Beret (among a long list of other impressive credentials), Greene believes fear is ...
Views: 1798 - Book Review: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Put the telescope away; the North Star mentioned here is a human body, not a heavenly one. And like Polaris, which has guided sailors for centuries, the human body's gut feelings and emotions can help guide a wayward soul back to his or her "essential self." In this absorbing ...
Views: 2069 - Book Review: First Things First - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review What are the most important things in your life? Do they get as much care, emphasis, and time as you'd like to give them? Far from the traditional "be-more-efficient" time-management book with shortcut techniques, First Things First shows you how to look at your use of time ...
Views: 1034 - Book Review: Fish! Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Fish! Tales is Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul's follow-up to Fish!--their enormously popular fable that draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! Tales the authors show ...
Views: 3838 - Book Review: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified ...
Views: 2097 - Book Review: Freeing the Soul from Fear - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Robert Sardello is considered a leading philosopher on the soul, having inspired both Thomas Moore's and James Hillman's writings. Once again he departs from common spiritual assumptions in this intelligent and smoothly written handbook, Freeing the Soul from Fear. One of the ...
Views: 1244 - Book Review: From Beginning to End - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Fulghum, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, turns his inspirational ponderings to the rituals that fill and inform our daily lives, from brushing our teeth to the grand rituals responding to birth, life, and death. --This text refers to the Mass ...
Views: 911 - Book Review: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, ...
Views: 734 - Book Review: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of ...
Views: 678 - Book Review: Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Mia Hamm, star of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Cup champion, and five-time National Player of the Year, has a simple take on her talents that also explains her success: "Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't ...
Views: 3481 - Book Review: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip "Dilbert," has written a modern-day parable about a young man and an unlikely mentor. God's Debris starts with a young deliveryman trying to hand over a package to a man with a San Francisco address. But delivering the package ...
Views: 1387 - Book Review: Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change--A Positive Psychology for the West - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Can you remember the childhood feeling of living happily moment to moment, without intrusive aims or fears? Psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott called it the state of "going on being." Bestselling author Mark Epstein sees a similarity with the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, of ...
Views: 790 - Book Review: Golf in the Kingdom - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Esalen Institute founder Michael Murphy's divine meditation on the royal and ancient game defied categorization when it was first published in 1972, and it still does. Instantly hailed as a classic, Golf in the Kingdom is an altogether unique confluence of fiction, ...
Views: 1895 - Book Review: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: World-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall earned her fame by studying chimpanzee feeding habits. But in Harvest for Hope, she scrutinizes human eating behaviors, and the colossal food industries that force-feed some cultures' self-destructive habits for mass ...
Views: 1781 - Book Review: Healing Mind, Healthy Woman: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Manage Stress and Take Control of Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Women are infected with negative self images and stereotypes which can wreak havoc on their ability to stay well and recover from illness. Dr. Domar discusses the connection between psychological suffering, physical illness and healing. Her book contains a section on general ...
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