A world-class team of hypertension and nutrition experts present the DASH diet, a medication-free way to lower high blood pressure in just two weeks, scientifically proven to work and selected by the American Heart Association as one of the ten most important scientific finds of the year. 12 charts, menu plans, recipes.
Catholic religious of an earlier era once talked of the need for "custody of the thoughts" as an essential act of the faithful life. Author Thomas Moore refreshes that sentiment in his bestselling "Care of the Soul", reminding his many appreciative readers of the sustenance to be gained from a contemplative approach to life. By this he means not ...
Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own ...
Every human journey is filled with emotional tunnels. Moore's extensive career as a psychologist and theologian has taught him that honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and opportunities to delve into the soul's deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life's meaning.
In his groundbreaking book "Care of the Soul," Moore teaches readers ways to cultivate depth, genuineness, and soulfulness in their everyday lives. Now, in "A Life's Work," Moore turns to an aspect that looms large in each person's self-regard--his or her work.
Shows readers how "soul intimacy" can be cultivated through letter writing, conversations, sexuality, jealousy, boredom, and endings, and how the soul is enriched through the tribulations of life.
Thomas Moore advocates an engaged enchantment with specific aspects of daily life such as clothing, food, furniture, work, architecture, ecology, language, and politics. He describes the renaissance these can undergo when there is genuine engagement with beauty, craft, nature, and art in both private and public life. Moore claims that the ...
Miller/O'Neill Beginning Algebra is an insightful text written by instructors who have first-hand experience with students of developmental mathematics. The authors have placed an emphasis on graphing, by including special sections called, "Connections to Graphing" at the end of Chapters 1-5, before the formal presentation of Graphing appears in ...
The Science of Sound is widely recognized as the leading textbook in the field. It provides an excellent introduction to acoustics for students without college physics or a strong background in mathematics. In the Third Edition, Richard Moore and Paul Wheeler join Tom Rossing in updating The Science of Sound to include a wide range of important ...
The author of the best-selling The Book of Runes explains what runic chips can reveal about one's emotional, psychological, and physical state and how they can point the way to recovery from personal crises.
Wendy Maltz's anthologies are designed to inspire couples toward healthy sexuality and intimacy, showing that the sexual impulse, which psychology often fails to prescribe or even describe, can be aroused by conveying personal experience through great writing. Intimate Kisses is a new anthology of poetry that continues this celebration of ...
In this provocative and highly original new work, the bestselling author of "Care of the Soul" and "Soul Matters" at last restores sex to its rightful place in the human psyche. Syndicated radio features.
"Six Ideas That Shaped Physics" is the 21st century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed "Six Ideas" to teach students: to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations; to solve realistic problems; to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics; and to organize the ...
As a companion volume to THE CARE OF THE SOUL, this book will help readers to open themselves to the possibility of spiritual adventure. Not bound by tradition, Moore encourages readers to forge their own spiritual paths.
A companion volume to the national bestseller Care of the Soul, this new book by Thomas Moore explores how relationships of all kinds--and with all their difficulties--deepen our lives and help fulfill the needs of the soul.
For millennia seekers of truth have found God in a handful of sacred texts. Now God's Breath gathers together selections from seven of the world's major wisdom traditions. The title comes from a Zen saying, "To understand God is to listen. Listen to Jesus and Muhammad and Buddha, but don't get caught up in the names. Listen beyond them; listen ...
"Six Ideas That Shaped Physics" is the 21st century's alternative to traditional, encyclopedic textbooks. Thomas Moore designed "Six Ideas" to teach students: to apply basic physical principles to realistic situations, to solve realistic problems, to resolve contradictions between their preconceptions and the laws of physics, and to organize the ...
"Drawing on resources as diverse as Sufism, Benedictine Monasticism, the Gurdjieff Work, and the string theory of modern physics, Cynthia Bourgeault has crafted her own unique vision of the Wisdom way in this very accessible book, nicely balanced between concept and practice." - Gerald May, senior fellow, Shalem Institute, and author, Addiction ...
In his latest work, Thomas Moore examines the Gospels. He uses a new approach based on a fresh reading of the original Greek texts, newly discovered gospels and employs psychology and archetypal studies. In this book, Moore shows that Jesus' teachings are challenging in a way that is far different from the moralism often associated with him. ...
Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.
"The Planets Within" asks us to return to antiquity with new eyes. It centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age - Renaissance Italy, where a group of 'inner Columbuses' charted territories that still give us today a much-needed sense of who we are and where we have come from, and the right routes to take toward ...
In the first half of this book, editors Thomas Moore and Ray Riegert tell the amazing story of the sutras. The writing flows quickly from event to event, with chapters describing the journey of Christian monks who brought the sutras to China, the creation of a monastery at Da Qin at the request of the Chinese Emperor, the mysterious hiding of the ...
The Good Knight's three little dragon friends are sick in bed. He brings them some slimy, grimy soup from the wizard to make them feel better. But the dragons won't touch it. What is a Good Knight to do? Full color.
Told in blissfully simple language, the thoughts and messages in "Saying Yes to Life (Even the Hard Parts)" provide inspiration for each day. These nuggets of wisdom range from a page-long reflection to a simple aphorism and stress the importance of drawing meaning from life's paradoxes -- opening to the unwanted, recognizing the happiness in ...
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