Tarcher Spring / Summer 2011 Catalog

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A BOOK O F A N G E L S
Reflections on Angels Past and Present,
and True Stories of How They Touch Our Lives
SOPHY BURNHAM
A gorgeous new edition of the New York Times
bestseller that has sold more than a million copies.
“Sophy Burnham is a radiant writer.”
—Julia Cameron, bestselling author of The Artist’s Way
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Praise for A BOOK OF ANGELS
“A golden conjunction of heaven and earth . . . reminding us that there
are angels in every religion.” —The Washington Post
“A kind of timeless tour, led by ordinary people who’ve met angels,
and extraordinary writers who’ve set down ageless thoughts: Milton,
Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare, Blake, Rilke, Dostoevsky, Swedenborg,
and Poe, along with passages from the Bible and the Koran.” —Los Angeles Times
“Like all good books, it exceeds the subject and illuminates the tough,
tiring, and sometimes miraculous business of living, where angels
sometimes help out. . . . The visible and invisible dance with each other
continually, and as far as angels are concerned, now you see them, now
you don’t. A Book of Angels gives us a lovely, sustained glimpse.”
© Mitchell Canoff
SOPHY BURNHAM
is the author of twelve books, eight plays,
and numerous essays and articles that have
been syndicated around the world. Her
books have appeared on the New York Times,
Washington Post, Publishers Weekly and other
bestseller lists, and she has appeared on
such esteemed television shows as Oprah,
Larry King Live, Today, and Good Morning
America. Her works are translated into more
than twenty languages. Burnham currently
divides her time between Washington, D.C.,
and Taos, New Mexico.
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hen Sophy Burnham wrote A Book of Angels, she inspired a phenomenon. An instant bestseller when
it was originally published in 1990, this beautiful
book not only tells the extraordinary true stories of presentday encounters with angels, but also traces the study of angels
throughout history and in different cultures. Burnham writes
about the powerful male angels of the Old Testament, Zoroastrian angels, Buddhist bodhisattvas, Islamic angels, Hindu
Apsaras, the mysterious angels of the Jewish Kabbalah, cherubim, seraphim, guardian angels, the angel of death, and others.
What are angels? What do they look like? Whom do they
choose to visit? Why do they appear sometimes and not others,
and would you recognize one if it appeared before you? With
great feeling, Burnham offers an eloquent report from the place
where earth and heaven meet. A wondrous journey into the
world of angels, this book is a song of praise to life.
APRIL
—Chicago Tribune
TA RC H E R M A STE R M I N D E D ITI O N S
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TH E CON F I D E N C E
SOLU T I O N
Re-Invent Yourself, Explode Your Business,
Skyrocket Your Income
DR. KEITH JOHNSON
The ultimate handbook to gaining the key
ingredient for success in any area of life . . .
from America’s #1 Confidence Coach!
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TA RC H E R M A STE R M I N D E D ITI O N S
If you were more confident, how would your life be different?
T
he Confidence Solution empowers you to become a confident and successful person by recognizing your inner
strengths and talents. Dr. Keith Johnson has helped
thousands of people from all walks of life take life-changing
measures that positively moved them forward and helped them
fulfill their potential, accomplish their goals, and reach their
destiny.
These steps will do the same for you. Now, in a single volume,
learn how to:
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Using his trademark humor, insight, and experience, Dr. Keith
believes that every person can achieve their desires and dreams
through realization of their potential, which can only come
through confidence!
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D R . K E ITH J O H N SO N ,
known as America’s #1 Confidence Coach, has spent the past fifteen years successfully
training more than 120,000 leaders how to maximize their leadership potential
and effectiveness. One of the premier speakers on the subjects of leadership and
confidence building, he has spoken worldwide including in Japan, Singapore,
Malaysia, Africa, India, Spain, and throughout the United States. Dr. Keith is the
founder and CEO of Confidence International, and speaks at many organizations,
entrepreneur groups, churches, and events each year.
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THE K E Y
A True Encounter
WHITLEY STRIEBER
From the bestselling author of Communion comes
the mysterious true story of how an unknown visitor
barged into Strieber’s hotel room late one night—
and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal
development and man’s fate that challenge us to
rethink every assumption about the meaning of life.
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Praise for THE KEY
“What we’re doing here on this planet, in these lives, is part of a
much larger process, the secret outlines of which we can barely
even glimpse. The Key is the latest and perhaps the most accessible installment of the perennial philosophy that wise teachers
have gifted to mankind these past ten thousand years to help us
find our way to the truth. Read it, take time to reflect, consider
its messages, and you’ll find it has worked a kind of magic on
you.” —Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods
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W H ITLE Y S TR I E B E R
is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, among them the landmark work Communion, his account of a close encounter
of the third kind. He is also the author of The Wolfen, The Hunger, and The Coming Global
Superstorm, all of which were made into feature films, most recently Superstorm as The
Day After Tomorrow. His latest novel is The Omega Point. He lives in California.
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t two-thirty in the morning of June 6, 1998, Whitley
Strieber was awakened by somebody knocking on his
hotel room door. A man came in, and everything he
said was life-altering.
This is the unsettling and ultimately enlightening narrative of
what happened that night. Strieber was never really sure who
this strange and knowing visitor was—a “Master of Wisdom”? A
figure from a different realm of consciousness? A preternaturally
intelligent being? He called him the Master of the Key. The one
thing of which Strieber was certain is that both the man and the
encounter were real.
The main concern of the Master of the Key is to save each of
us from self-imprisonment. “Mankind is trapped,” the stranger
tells Strieber. “I want to help you spring the trap.” In a sweeping
exchange between Strieber and the stranger—which takes the
form of a classical student-teacher dialogue in pursuit of inner
understanding—the unknown man presents a lesson in human
potential, esoteric psychology, and man’s fate. He illuminates
why man has been caught in a cycle of repeat violence and
self-destruction—and the slender, but very real, possibility for
release.
In its breadth and intimacy, The Key is on par with contemporary metaphysical traditions, such as A Course in Miracles, or
even with the dialogues of modern wisdom teachers, such as
D. T. Suzuki and Carl Jung.
THE KYBALION
The Definitive Edition
WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON
WRITING AS THREE INITIATES
INTRODUCED AND EDITED BY PHILIP DESLIPPE
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Here is the flagship edition of the most
popular occult work of the past century,
now published with a groundbreaking
historical introduction that establishes
its authentic authorship and a “lost”
bonus work by the original author.
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t is one of the most mysterious and hotly debated occult works ever written—and without question the most
popular and widely influential book of arcane philosophy
of the twentieth century: The Kybalion. Reputedly based on ancient Greek-Egyptian wisdom, The Kybalion has been credited
only to the cryptic “Three Initiates” since its first appearance
in 1908. Debate rages over the identity of the Three Initiates,
the origin of the book’s mysterious title and insights, and the
nature of the Hermetic teachings on which it is thought to be
based.
Now the veil is parted.
The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition presents the first full-scale
analysis of this work of practical occult wisdom. It features the
complete text of The Kybalion and the first-ever publication of
Atkinson’s previously unknown post-Kybalion work: The Seven
Cosmic Laws.
In an engaging introduction to this unique volume, religious
scholar Philip Deslippe surveys the work’s context, history, and
impact (including as a source of spiritual insight to communities ranging from New Thought to Black Nationalism), and
provides a biographical sketch of its elusive author, the New
Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson.
As valuable to new fans as it is to longtime readers who
crave more knowledge about Atkinson and his work, The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition illuminates the remarkable history
of this long-cherished text.
The identity of T H R E E I N I T I AT E S has been the
subject of much secrecy and rumor since The Kybalion first
appeared in 1908. This comprehensive edition definitively establishes the book’s sole author as W I L L I A M WA L K E R
AT K I N S O N (1862-1932). P H I L I P D E S L I P P E —who
introduces and annotates this edition—graduated with honors
with a B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut in 2001,
and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in American Religious
Culture at the University of Iowa. He is conducting research for
the first full-length biography of Atkinson.
GROW THE TREE
YOU GOT
& 46 Other Ideas for Raising
Amazing Adolescents and Teenagers
TOM STURGES
A wise and inspiring guide to parenting
through the extraordinary—and at
times tumultuous—journey that is the
adolescent and teenage years.
W
hen Tom Sturges became a father, he decided
that he wanted to be the greatest father that ever
walked the earth. But things became a bit more
complicated when his older son turned ten, and the chatty kid
he’d known suddenly started locking his bedroom door. Tom
realized he needed to find a way to stay on track—he needed
crib notes. So, if a parenting idea or technique worked well, he
wrote it down. And if he stumbled across something another
parent did that was particularly ingenious or exemplary, he
wrote that down, too. In Grow the Tree You Got, Tom presents
“golden rules” for raising happy, healthy, and compassionate
adults. His mantra? It’s impossible to show our children too
much respect, but it’s worth the effort to try.
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Have faith in your teenager. Provide as much freedom as you
dare. Be generous with your praise and stingy with your criticism. . . . But more important than anything else, help your
children discover who they are supposed to become, and then
help them become that person. Actor, lawyer, dancer, athlete,
musician, or doctor. Redwood, oak, acacia, maple, spruce, or
pine. Grow the tree you got.
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TO M S TU R G E S
is executive vice president and head
of Creative for Universal Music
Publishing Group. Founder of the
Manhattan Beach Unified School
District’s inspiring Every Idea Is a
Good Idea GATE program, he is the
author of Parking Lot Rules and 75 Other
Ideas for Raising Amazing Children. The
son of legendary screenwriter and film
director Preston Sturges, he lives in
Manhattan Beach, California, with his
two sons, ages ten and sixteen.
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THE SOURCE
A Journey to the Heart of Your
Own Personal Power
URSULA JAMES
The true story of two women’s
lives connecting through time, this
book is laced with a unique brand
of magic that will unite readers with
the Source of their own power.
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© Charlie Hopkinson (www.charliehopkinson.com)
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E
ver since she was a little girl, Ursula James has heard a
voice. For years she tried to ignore it, but a personal crisis at the age of forty forced her to finally listen. That,
as well as the actual appearance of the speaker—also named
Ursula—at her bedside one dark and cold night. The woman
who revealed herself to James was Ursula Sontheil, known also
as Mother Shipton, a sixteenth-century prophetess, healer,
and—some say—witch. Legend has it that Mother Shipton
was burned by the king’s men for her heresies, and her spirit
became trapped in a cave in Yorkshire. This cave had an unusual characteristic: Anything taken there was turned to stone
by the action of the lime-suffused waters from a nearby well.
Mother Shipton used this water to create an image of herself
on the wall, and then split the cave open to call the needy. Sick
at heart or in body, people came to her in the cave to offer her
objects in return for her healing powers.
In The Source, Ursula James describes how Mother Shipton
appeared before her with urgent new prophecies for our troubled times—prophecies that include spells for, as Kabbalah
says, Tikkun Olam—the healing of the world. Mother Shipton
asked James to put these messages into writing to share with
others—and record them she did, verbatim, in this book.
The time has come to listen to Sister Moon and to heal
Mother Earth. Shot through with life-altering rituals, rites
and spells, The Source guides readers to the place in their lives
where true magic can finally begin.
U R S U L A JA M E S
is the U.K.’s premier hypnotherapy
practitioner and teacher. A visiting
teaching fellow at Oxford University
Medical School and other medical
schools throughout the United
Kingdom, she lives in London.
LIVING WITH
MIRACLES
A Common-Sense Guide to
A Course in Miracles
D. PATRICK MILLER
The first comprehensive guide to
studying A Course in Miracles, for
readers at all levels of experience.
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D . PAT R I C K M I L L E R is the author of Understanding
A Course in Miracles and A Little Book of Forgiveness. In 2003,
Miller discovered and published the first edition of the bestseller The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard. He lives in
Berkeley, California.
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he channeled writings of A Course in Miracles have
touched millions of lives. And yet ACIM can be surprisingly difficult to navigate. From its often complex
concepts about the nature of the ego, reality, and love; to the
many intense, surprising, personal changes it can bring into
readers’ lives, ACIM presents a challenge for even the most
motivated students.
Now D. Patrick Miller—the leading historical chronicler
of ACIM and a highly respected authority on its teachings—
provides the definitive how-to manual for engaging with
ACIM. His guide distills years of hard-won insights and helps
students navigate the sometimes intense experience.
Living with Miracles is designed to make even the novice
comfortable when approaching ACIM. Miller leads the reader
through the most common emotions, reactions, and questions
that arise when studying ACIM; provides insights and tips
about pacing yourself, as well as when and how to take breaks
from study; and gives advice on working through early misconceptions and difficult later stages. He also provides useful, absorbing historical material, stories from practitioners around
the world who reflect honestly on their experiences, and a resources section with ideas for those looking to continue their
study of this remarkable spiritual teaching.
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“Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book to anyone
who is interested in achieving inner peace, and ultimately, enlightenment.”
—Gary Renard, author of
The Disappearance of the Universe
TRANSCE N D E N C E
Healing and Transformation Through Meditation
NORMAN E. ROSENTHAL , M.D.
In this definitive book on the scientifically
proven health and stress-relieving benefits of
Transcendental Meditation, a renowned psychiatrist
and researcher explores why TM works, what it can
do for you, and how to use it for maximum effect.
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Praise for TRANSCENDENCE
“A uniquely compelling introduction to the art and science of
Transcendental Meditation. Dr. Norman Rosenthal’s book will
propel TM into the mainstream, where it belongs.” —Russell Simmons
“The best-ever book on Transcendental Meditation: accessible
and substantive, engaging and scientific, practical and profound.
A very enjoyable read that can change your life, for good.”
—David Lynch
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N O R M A N E . R O S E NTH A L , M . D . ,
is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School and has maintained
a private practice in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area for the past thirty years.
He conducted research at the National Institute of Mental Health, as a research fellow,
researcher, and senior researcher for more than twenty years.
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orman E. Rosenthal, M.D., a twenty-year researcher
at the National Institute of Mental Health and the
celebrated psychiatrist who pioneered the study and
treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), brings us the
most important work on Transcendental Meditation since the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Science of Being and Art of Living—and
one of our generation’s most significant books on achieving
greater physical and mental health and wellness.
Transcendence demystifies the practice and benefits of Transcendental Meditation for a general audience who may have
heard about the method but do not necessarily know what
it is, how it is learned, or what they stand to gain, physically
and emotionally, from achieving transcendence. Dr. Rosenthal
clearly and practically explains the basic ideas behind Transcendental Meditation: It is a nonreligious practice that involves sitting comfortably for twenty minutes twice a day while using a
silent mantra, or nonverbal sound, to attain a profound state of
aware relaxation.
Alongside exclusive celebrity interviews—where figures like
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Martin Scorsese, Russell Brand,
Laura Dern, Moby, and David Lynch openly discuss their meditation—Dr. Rosenthal draws upon experience from the lives of
his patients and a wealth of clinical research amassed on TM
over the past generation (340 peer-reviewed published articles).
He provides the fullest and most accessible book ever on the
broad range of benefits of this remarkably simple practice, from
relief of anxiety, stress, and depression to new hope for those
experiencing addiction, attention-deficit disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder.
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SEEKIN G T H E
SAC R E D
Transforming Our View of
Ourselves and One Another
STEPHANIE DOWRICK
For readers of Thomas Moore, James Hillman,
and Pema Chödrön—a timely handbook for these
troubled times that shows how to bring depth and
meaning to our lives through cultivating our
connection with something greater than ourselves.
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an changing our view of ourselves and others affect the
world? Bestselling author Stephanie Dowrick’s major
new book is a compelling look at how we can transform
the world by seeing the extraordinary everywhere we look, both
without and within. Through her intimate, beautiful, and encouraging writing, Dowrick shows that it is only in altering our
perception—seeing all of life as sacred—that we will challenge
the usual stories about who we are and what we are capable of
being.
At a time when religion is increasingly seen as a cause of prejudice and division, or as irrelevant to our most pressing concerns,
the eternal truths of a genuinely inclusive spiritual wisdom
have never been more urgently needed or sought. In Seeking the
Sacred, Stephanie Dowrick invites us to go beyond cultural divisions and religious dogma and to discover what makes our lives
sacred, satisfying, and meaningful.
Weaving personal stories—including her own—with an inspired vision of life’s most healing possibilities, she reveals how
the sacred can transform the way we understand and value life,
changing forever how we interact with others and care for ourselves.
Seeking the Sacred is a provocative and accessible read for
those contemplating God, faith, spirituality, and the nature of
belief in twenty-first-century life. This is a book for the spiritually curious as well as those already engaged in the deeper questions. Richly hopeful and uplifting, Seeking the Sacred unravels
some of our most complex contemporary dilemmas and speaks
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Creative Journal Writing
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S TE P H A N I E DOW R I C K
is an internationally bestselling author with many years of
experience in a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches,
including psychosynthesis and object relations. For some years,
she had a psychotherapy practice but more recently has focused
on conducting workshops and spiritual retreats. In June 2005,
Stephanie was ordained as an Interfaith Minister at St. John the
Divine, in New York City. She continues to live in Sydney, where
she has a son and daughter. Her previous books include Choosing
Happiness and Creative Journal Writing.
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THE INTE R N E T I S
A PLAYG R O U N D
Irreverent Correspondences
of an Evil Online Genius
DAVID THORNE
“There is usually a fine line between genius and
insanity, but in this case it has become very blurred.
Some of the funniest and most clever writing I
have read in years.” (Terrance Fielding, WIRED magazine)
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Excerpted from the hilarious e-mail correspondence
that catapulted an Internet troublemaker to celebrity:
From: Jane Gilles
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account
Dear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no
longer outstanding.
Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles
From: David Thorne
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account
June
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rom the notorious Internet troublemaker who brought
the world the explosively popular “Next Time I’ll Spend
the Money on Drugs Instead,” in which he attempted to
pay his chiropractor with a picture he drew of a spider; “Please
Design a Logo for Me. With Pie Charts. For Free,” which has been
described as one of the most passed-on viral e-mails of all time;
and, most recently, the staggeringly popular “Missing Missy,”
which has appeared everywhere from The Guardian to Jezebel to
Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish, comes this profoundly funny
collection of irreverent Internet mischief and comedy.
Featuring all of Thorne’s viral successes, including “Missing
Missy,” The Internet Is a Playground culls together every article
and e-mail from Thorne’s wildly popular website 27bslash6.com,
as well as enough new material, available only in these pages,
to keep you laughing—and, indeed, crying—until Thorne’s next
stroke-of-genius prank. Or hilarious hoax. Or well-publicized
almost-stint in jail (really).
JUNE
Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider
instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.
Regards, David
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DAV I D TH O R N E
is a humorist, satirist, Internet
personality and author. His website,
27bslash6.com, typically receives several
thousand hits a day, he has nearly 50,000
followers on Twitter, and his work has
been featured on the BBC, The Late Show
with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres
Show, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
He now lives in the United States.
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MEDITATION
An In-Depth Guide
IAN GAWLER
AND PAUL BEDSON
Praise for Meditation
TARCHER/PENGUIN
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“A rich and skillfully nuanced introduction to the varied
landscape of meditation practice and its healing and
transformative potential.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There
You Are and Full Catastrophe Living
“An engaging journey into the benefits of developing
a practice of focusing your mind to promote both
mental and physical well-being.”
—Daniel J. Siegel, author of
The Mindful Brain and Parenting from the Inside Out
June
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“Instructive and accessible . . . [shows] what a powerful and transformative effect meditation can have in
every aspect of our lives.”
—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
M
editation is increasingly recommended for relaxation, for enhancing relationships and well-being,
to increase performance in sports and business, for
personal growth, and to assist healing. Introducing mindfulness-based stillness meditation, Ian Gawler and Paul Bedson
explain how to build a daily meditation practice. The authors
also show how meditation can be used to work with our emotions, aid healing, manage pain, or as a spiritual practice.
Meditation is a path we can pursue and refine throughout our lives. Drawing on modern science as well as ancient
Eastern traditions and the authors’ own extensive personal
experience as practitioners and teachers, this guide offers the
techniques and understanding needed to explore meditation
practice deeply. It is also an invaluable resource for meditation
teachers from all backgrounds.
I A N G AW L E R is a pioneer in the therapeutic applica-
tion of meditation. He is the author of the bestselling books
Meditation Pure & Simple, Peace of Mind, and You Can Conquer
Cancer. He is the founder of The Gawler Foundation in Melbourne,
Australia.
PA U L B E D S O N is a counselor, psychotherapist, medita-
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tion instructor, and natural therapist. He has been working in the
field of mind/body medicine for more than twenty years.
THE ART OF
UNCERTAINTY
How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It
DENNIS MERRITT JONES
What if we could learn to accept I don’t
know and embrace the possibility that
the future is full of mystery, excitement,
and unlimited opportunity?
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Inspiration
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DENNIS
M E R R IT T J O N E S
has been involved in the human
potential movement and the field
of spirituality as a minister, teacher,
mentor, and lecturer for more than
twenty-five years. He founded and
led the Center for Spiritual Living
in Simi Valley, California, for many
years. Jones is the author of How
to Speak Science of Mind and The Art
of Being; his workshops, lectures,
and tele-classes are attended by
thousands each year.
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he Art of Uncertainty is an invitation to the reader to
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unknown by staying present in the moment. If the
difficulties of recent years have taught us anything—particularly those who “did everything right” and still saw it all
fall apart—it’s that none of us has as much control over our
lives as we believe. The only thing we can control is our next
thought.
What if we could learn how to be at peace with uncertainty
and embrace the possibility that the future is full of mystery,
excitement, and unlimited opportunity? What if we discovered
that a new paradigm can be more fulfilling, more rewarding,
and more peaceful than what we have known? Living in the
I don’t know and loving it is an art form we can all master, and
The Art of Uncertainty is the perfect guidebook.
IF I HAV E TO
TELL YO U
ONE MOR E T I M E . . .
The Revolutionary Program That Gets Your Kids
To Listen Without Nagging, Reminding, or Yelling
AMY McCREADY
Put an end to painful power struggles
with your children!
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What parents are saying about Amy McCready
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Parenting
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A M Y M c C R E A DY
is the founder of the popular online
parenting course Positive Parenting
Solutions. A sought-after parenting
expert, Amy has appeared on
NBC’s Today, Rachael Ray, MSNBC’s
Dr. Nancy, and elsewhere. A regular
parenting contributor for the “Mom
Blogs,” Amy lives in Raleigh, North
Carolina, with her husband and two
sons.
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AUGUST
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hy is it so difficult sometimes to get kids to listen?
You ask your child to turn off the TV, do her homework, or get ready for school or bedtime. You know
he heard you, but he ignores you. You ask again and still . . . no
response. You’ve tried everything—time-outs, nagging, counting to three—and nothing seems to work.
In If I Have to Tell You One More Time . . ., founder of the popular online parenting course Positive Parenting Solutions Amy
McCready presents a nag- and scream-free program for compassionately, yet effectively, correcting your children’s bad behavior.
In this invaluable book, McCready shows parents how an
understanding of the psychological theory espoused by Alfred
Adler (1870–1937) can put an end to power struggles in their
households. Adlerian psychology focuses on the central idea
that every human being has a basic need to feel powerful—with
children being no exception to the rule. And when this need isn’t
met in positive ways, kids will resort to negative methods, which
often result in some of the most frustrating behavior they exhibit. If I Have to Tell You One More Time . . . provides the knowledge
and tools parents need to address the deeper issues that inspire
their children to misbehave. Read this book and rediscover the
joy of parenting!
BEYOND BLAME
Eliminating the Most Toxic Form of BS
from Your Life
CARL ALASKO,
Ph.D.
This inspiring new book from
the author of Emotional Bullshit
reveals why no one is to blame—
but everyone’s accountable.
August
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© Kira Godbe
TARCHER/PENGUIN
AUGUST
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or many, a rare day goes by in which the need to blame
does not arise—be it to cover one’s own errors or just
to assign an unfortunate event some kind of name
(i.e., “If only X hadn’t said X, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”)
And even for those who are somewhat better at keeping the
impulse in check—it is still there. According to psychologist
Carl Alasko, blame is such an intrinsic part of how we humans
communicate that we rarely take a look at what we’re actually
doing—and how it can affect our relationships.
In this book, Alasko reveals that the need to assign blame
when something bad happens stems from a very deep desire
we all share to “see justice done.” Understandable when a
grave crime has been committed, but it can become a dangerous habit if we begin to operate as though placing blame
were somehow necessary if we want to change something or
someone in our world. Yet this feeling that “someone has to
pay” is seldom productive in initiating positive change. In
Beyond Blame, Alasko teaches readers to recognize the destruction that blame causes in their lives—oftentimes without their
even being aware—and to put an end to it once and for all.
The path to elminating blame is not a quick or easy one but,
as Carl Alasko demonstrates, it is a road that must be traveled
if we hope to achieve true peace in our lives.
has been a practicing psychotherapist
specializing in couples and families
for more than twenty years and is the
author of Emotional Bullshit. For the
past thirteen years, he has written the
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Herald. He lives in Monterey, California.
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