Category: Books

It's summertime and self-help obsessed celebs are looking for good beach reads. Stars like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Oprah, Nicole Kidman, Fergie, and Meg Ryan have all been spotted reading the self-help tome by Denise Coates to attract their desires. The only question is: What more could these stars want?

Maybe stars are more like us than we realize. When we're feeling stuck in some area of our lives, many of us look for answers by perusing the self-help section of our local Barnes and Nobles. With the latest trend of celebrities buying and even endorsing self-improvement literature, regular folks who read about how to spice up their love lives or manifest more money may just spot a famous face pouring through the same self improvement books as them.

What if we all lived our lives as if anything was possible? As if everything was possible? This is the one of the key messages in Linda Thompson's recently published novel, "I Am My Own Dragon."

We all have a dragon that burns deep inside, because we all have the power to make anything we want to happen, happen.

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Salaam Press publishes "Illegal Citizens: Queer Lives in the Muslim World" by Afdhere Jama. The book follows 33 people in 22 countries.

Following thirty-three people in twenty-two countries, Afdhere Jama paints a complicated picture in Illegal Citizens; Queer Lives in the Muslim World. "I set out to tell the stories of people suffering everywhere," says Jama, who is the editor of Huriyah, a queer Muslim magazine. "Instead, I was confronted with diverse lives including happy ones - sometimes in places I never imagined."

"The Raw Food Diet Myth" by Ruthann Russo is an exploration of the philosophy behind the raw and living foods movement.

The purpose of the book The Raw Food Diet Myth is to introduce interested readers to the philosophy of raw and living foods by pulling together all of the components, including diet, into one place. The book provides readers with information to make a conscious decision about whether they will want toincorporate any of the raw and living food philosophy into their own philosophy of living.

"The Backward-Flowing Method: The Secret of Life and Death," by JJ Semple offers startling revelations on the yet-to-be appreciated powers of meditation.

Curious about the hidden powers of the body? Interested in recent discoveries on meditation? Want to know more about improving concentration, reducing stress, increasing productivity? Did you know that Transcendental Meditation (TM) has improved test scores in schools across the country? That schools are beginning to buy into the benefits of meditation? And that's only the beginning. The Backward-Flowing Method: The Secret of Life and Death covers many hitherto secret topics on meditation science.

For those disappointed with the results of lengthy, expensive, traditional therapies, quantum psychology offers a different path.

It seems like everyone these days in is some sort of therapy, whether it is for stress associated with a troubled economy, family problems, or traumatic experiences such as child abuse and "battle fatigue." Now a new book offers a different solution to the problems we all must deal with in our lives.

When a middle-aged man decides to take a vacation to the desert, he just plans to get away from it all for a while. Little does he know he will come to terms with his spirituality. An age-less Indian named Tom has wisdom to impart the teaching he needs.

Jerry wishes he could leave all his troubles behind and make sense of it. Determined just to relax after a failed relationship, he heads west little expecting the spiritual adventure he will embark upon in Dr. Jerry Burgener's new novel Desert Journey.

Never before has a story of this magnitude been told. Filled with subterfuge involving the U.S. Government Intelligence, this brand new book tells the true story of how one man unwittingly got involved as a psychic spy in the 1960s.

Finally, after several decades of secrecy, an unusual and compelling true story of deception and subterfuge is finally told. This book is an in-depth look at one man's harrowing experience with the United States Government as a "psychic spy." Now, 40 years later, Philip Chabot finally tells his story with his new book, Operation Blue Light: My Secret Life Among Psychic Spies.

Some meteorologists are claiming that the global warming we've been experiencing is part of a natural recurring cycle that began around 1900 and we're soon going to enter a phase of "global cooling." Wait until Al Gore hears about this!

New findings released in the "peer reviewed" book Global Warming - Global Cooling, Natural Cause Found, meteorologist and climate researcher David Dilley utilizes nearly a half million years of data linking long term gravitational cycles of the moon as the cause for the present global warming, rises in carbon dioxide levels, and for 2200 global warming cycles during the past half million years.

There is a philosophical thread that runs through any discussion in the world of karate. The thread is respect - respect for oneself, respect for others, respect for the art and respect for those who have gone before, the great Masters.

Master Meitatsu Yagi is a much-honoured name in the karate world. He is the eldest son and successor to Grand Master Meitoku Yagi. He has been training and teaching for nearly sixty years. He is the chairman of the International Meibukan Gojyu-Ryu Karate-Do Association, which has its headquarters in Okinawa, Japan, the birthplace of karate. He has seen much over the years - the global growth of Karate-Do, the increasing acceptance of karate as a self defense activity that builds not only the body, but also the heart, the soul and the mind.