This month’s titles are all about solutions, but the issues being resolved couldn’t be more diverse. Everything–from family conflicts to issues threatening the environment to the personal psychology behind the Zionist struggle–is explored this month. So whether you are concerned with your personal health and well-being or with the many issues we face globally each day, you will find exactly what you are looking for in our newest selection of books.
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Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine
By Kim Chernin
The title of this book invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. Kim Chernin suggests that the Zionist struggle has made Palestinian people, too, guests in their former homeland. Chernin tries to reconcile her desire for a Jewish homeland with the reality of the violence carried out in order to secure it.
Following an in-depth examination of the perspectives of both Jews and Palestinians, Chernin writes of the process by which she learned to hear once-ignored Palestinian voices. Combining her knowledge of Jewish history with her insights as a psychotherapist, Chernin discovers the psychological mechanisms that have kept her and other Jews from fully comprehending the suffering of both parties. She argues that by overcoming the mental blocks that prevent so many from seeing the Palestinian point of view, Jews can learn to feel empathy for them without diminishing their love and support for Israel.
$14.95
Trade Paperback
978-1-55643-820-2
160 pages; 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
On Sale September 1, 2009
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Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet
By Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio
Gaia theory argues that the flora and fauna of the planet operate in a self-regulating web that keeps the world livable. According to the theory, humankind is the most powerful species in this web and also its biggest threat. This provocative book explores ways to minimize and ultimately eliminate this threat with love and intimacy. Controversial Italian author Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio has authored the first global ecology study based on an analysis of human health. Anderlini-D’Onofrio identifies her remedy within the context of Gaia theory, re-envisioning it as a more inclusive philosophy that positively impacts not only relationships, but world ecology under duress.
Gaia and the New Politics of Love is bracing in its range, weaving together issues of human and global health; the relationship of politics, sexuality, and ecology; the changing roles of eroticism and gender in our lives; and polyamory, bisexuality, and the AIDS reappraisal movement.
$16.95
Trade Paperback
978-1-55643-821-9
272 pages; 6 x 9
On Sale September 8, 2009
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Family Constellations: A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
By Joy Manne
Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person’s inability to trust, the family history of betrayal must be uncovered and released. These insights replace resentment with respect, pain with understanding.
Dr. Manné uses the knowledge gained from her own practice as well as her educational experiences with Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations therapy, to clearly describe this technique. Through the use of real-life examples of family constellations, Dr. Manné makes this increasingly popular practice understandable and relatable.
$12.95
Trade Paperback
978-1-55643-832-5
96 pages; 5 x 8
On Sale September 22, 2009
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Green Design: Creative Sustainable Designs for the Twenty-First Century
By Marcus Fairs
Author Marcus Fairs helps readers understand the shift of green design from marginal to mainstream by featuring products and buildings that address immediate concerns about global warming and environmental degradation. Through vast architectural projects to modest one-off pieces of salvaged furniture, the book shows how the design world is responding to the environmental challenges of this century. Fairs demonstrates key developments in sustainable design as seen in lighting, houseware, furniture, textiles, products, interiors, architecture, and transportation.
The book shows how the introduction of eco-friendly materials is changing the products around us and charts the rise of low-energy lighting sources and their impact on lighting design. Emerging trends in green design are also covered, from recycling to ethical sourcing. By presenting existing green innovations as well as visionary projects, Green Design paints a bright future in which technology and ethics merge for the benefit of people and the planet.
$25.00
Trade Paperback,
978-1-55643-836-3
256 pages; 7-3/10 x 9-3/10
On Sale September 22, 2009
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The Martian Codex: More Reflections from Mars
By George J. Haas and William R. Saunders; Foreword by Greg Orme and Randolfo Pozos Ph.D.
Did an extraterrestrial race once visit Earth? George Haas and William Saunders use archaeological discoveries and photographs from NASA and other space programs to document the uncanny similarities between Martian and now-extinct Earth cultures. The Martian Codex begins with the thirty-year history of documenting the famous “Face on Mars” from NASA’s first photographs in 1976 to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE shots in 2007. Detailed analysis shows it as a split-faced structure that precisely resembles masks from a temple in Cerros, Mexico.
Haas and Saunders explore a series of recurring motifs by providing side-by-side views of the Martian geoglyphs with their terrestrial counterparts. The results substantiate a commonality between two worlds in that both depict specific gods and characters from the creation mythology of the Mayan people. This fact-based book represents the most persuasive argument yet that extraterrestrials may indeed have appeared on Earth during an earlier era.
$19.95
Trade Paperback,
978-1-55643-814-1
264 pages; 7 x 9-1/4
On Sale September 22, 2009
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Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, Revised and Expanded: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
By Rob Brezsny
Readers were instantly beguiled by Rob Brezsny’s new approach to the humble horoscope when his “Free Will Astrology” column first appeared in 1996. Instead of the generic, one-size-fits-all style of similar columns, Brezsny used witty parables, tender rants, cultural riffs, pagan wisdom, and lively rituals in his playfully positive readings. He brings that same sensibility—and the same message of a smiling universe—to this self-help book for people who may be skeptical about self-help books. Brezsny persuasively advises readers to go along with the universe’s good intentions, but his rejection of cynicism and a bleak view of human nature isn’t rooted in denial. On the contrary, he makes a case for a cagey optimism that requires a vigorous engagement with the dark forces. He asks us to rethink life as a sublime game created for our amusement and illumination.
$21.00
Trade Paperback
978-1-55643-818-9
400 pages; 8-1/2 x 11
On Sale September 22, 2009
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Healing Pandora: The Restoration of Hope and Abundance
By Gail Thomas
The story of Pandora is one of the most resonant in Greek mythology. As Healing Pandora shows, it’s also one of the most relevant. Psychologist Gail Thomas has used Pandora in her practice for two decades, often with profound results. Typically cast as the evil bringer of doom to humanity, Pandora, in Thomas’ view, is a much more complex character, with enormous healing powers. Thomas shows Pandora’s true nature as the dark but all-giving feminine. Pandora’s task is to help us transform our overwhelmingly material civilization into a culture of undivided participation and engagement.
Part one discusses Pandora’s multifaceted persona as both beautiful evil and divine benefactress. Here Thomas contextualizes Pandora in the cycle of myth and archetype. In part two, the author proposes a series of healing rituals inspired by Pandora. Healing Pandora argues persuasively for manifesting our inner work concretely on the cultural, not just personal, level.
$16.95
Trade Paperback
978-1-55643-839-4
240 pages; 6 x 9
On Sale September 29, 2009
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Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are, 15th Anniversary Edition
By Bob Frissell
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are is an account of humankind’s function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. Author Bob Frissell gives a compelling account of our planetary ascent into higher consciousness, presenting a big-screen view of the Earth through the experience of the Ascended Masters, Thoth, Babaji, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.
Pulling in all manner of conspiracy theories from the Secret Government to the Philadelphia Experiment, Frissell proposes both a core transdimensional shift based on the Mayan calendar and a personal Rapture mediated through the connected, affirmed breaths of rebirthing that his teacher Melchizedek used to travel from the other side of the universe to here.
The 15th anniversary edition of this cult classic is revised and expanded with new illustrations and 50 pages of important new information.
$17.95
Trade Paperback,
978-1-55643-831-8
336 pages; 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
On Sale September 29, 2009
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All it took was one blunt but necessary question: “Why aren’t you eating cheese sticks with us?” As an art teacher at an elementary school, Ruby Roth was faced with explaining why she was not joining her students in their meat and dairy-centered school lunches. Though we might think that children are too young and naïve to understand vegetarianism and veganism and the heavy concepts behind them, Roth was surprised with their openness and receptiveness to her answers. Some committed to starting these new diets the very next day!
