books about: ourselves     books:     Ourselves      Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness Jon Kabat-zinn Hyperion, 2006 Hopeful handbook for healing through meditation At 600-plus pages, this deeply philosophical book may challenge some readers. But Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an accomplished scientist, thinker and author, imparts his wisdom in short, easily digestible chapters. He says you can have a more peaceful, contented life if you are ...             Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian Touchstone, 2005 EXCELLENT Resource for Females of ALL AGES I was delighted to find that "Our Bodies Ourselves" is being kept current. Fortunately for me I had a great Women and Health course taught by Cheryl Travis (check her research out too) at the Univ of TN back in the early 80's. It was undoubtedly one of the best ...             Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform ... Sharon Begley Ballantine Books, 2007 Very insightful! Sharon Begley's "Train Your Mind Change Your Brain" does a fine job of exploring the science of neuroplasticity which upends long thought beliefs that the brain becomes hardwired early in life and can't be changed other than through physical techniques like medication, ...             Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 Disinformation Means Misleading Information--Misplaced, Irrelevant, Fragmented or Superficial "In watching American television, one is reminded of George Bernard Shaw's remark on his first seeing the glittering neon signs of Broadway and 42nd Street at night. It must be beautiful, he said, if you cannot read." John Ackermann Neil Postman in his book,'Amusing ...             Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology John J. Macionis, Nijole V. Benokraitis Prentice Hall, 2006 the absolutely perfect text for an intro to soc class I used this text for an intro to sociology class at a major university. I love that it is different from the run-of-the-mill intro textbook; instead of 20+ chapters of terms, definitions, etc., this book contains whole or excerpted readings, many of which are classic ...             Taxing Ourselves, 4th Edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes Joel Slemrod, Jon Bakija The MIT Press, 2008 As Albert Einstein may or may not have said, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." Indeed, to follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the two by discussing the key issues clearly and ...             The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger Daniel Gardner Dutton Adult, 2008 And the odds are . . .? Dan Gardner's concerned about how we handle fear. In North America, of course, a single event, the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon generated a new level of fear in the population. So unexpected and abrupt was use of commercial aircraft in ...             Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent Meredith Small Anchor, 1999 Every American Parent Should Have to Read This I have found this book to be so interesting and useful that I recommend it to all of my friends. One friend credits it with helping her decide that she does want to have children! Small does not make judgements in her book about parenting choices. She is a scientist ...             Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle ... Naomi, Ph.D. Aldort Book Publishers Network, 2006 Essential reading for all parents For any parent who wants to break the controlling style of discipline that creates so many problems and weakens relationships. Naomi suggests such a refreshingly simple way of keeping a loving connection with children through communication. Highly recommended.             Development Across the Life Span (4th Edition) Robert S. Feldman Prentice Hall, 2005 Concise with current views on life development psychology. I used this book in our Life Development Psychology. In the course of my study, everything I needed to know is in the book. Feldman is very thorough and organized. I have read other books on this subject in our library but by far this is a superior book. This book ...             Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World (Religion and ... Ed Mcgaa HarperOne, 1990 A true classic I read this book while spending the summer backpacking around the Rocky Mountains. Anything that you carry around in a backpack for that long has to be worth the weight and this one definitely was. Thanks Eagle Man! :)             Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew South End Press, 2008 amazing new book on radical sustainability! Wow! I just got this amazing new book written by members of Austin's Rhizome Collective. It's full of highly practical, affordable, and simple designs that can be used by anyone to achieve sustainability in their home, neighborhood or community. There are a number ...             Literature and Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers (5th Edition) Gloria Mason Henderson, William Day, ... Longman, 2005 Literature and Ourselves, 4/e, is a thematically organized anthology that treats literature as a continually expanding commentary on our infinitely varied lives, helping readers make the connection between literature and their own unique life stories. Each of the six themes - Family, Men and Women, Grief and Loss, Freedom and Responsibility, ...             Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships Larry Crabb Thomas Nelson, 2005 Review of Crabb's "Connecting" As a counselor and pscyhologist Dr. Crabb spent decades analyzing people's problems from a scientific perspective. Solutions he offered were based upon scientific and psychological terms. In "Connecting," Dr. Crabb looks at people's problems from a spiritual ...             Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious Timothy D. Wilson Belknap Press, 2004 Great reding and very informative The idea that there is so a huge amount in our brain/personality/etc. which we are not conscious of, is extremely interesting. It also have many practical implication. While giving very deep material and various research stuff, it is very readable. A great ...          products you might be interested in search for books cross-cultural, do-it-ourselves, extraordinary, parent-child, relationships, spirituality      toavi.com    web we recommend Disinformation Means Misleading Information--Misplaced, Irrelevant, Fragmented or Superficial randomly chosen book: The Purpose Driven® Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Purpose Driven® ...