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  A Hidden Wholeness

  The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

  by Parker J. Palmer

  In A Hidden Wholeness , Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives—lives that are congruent with our inner truth—in a world filled with the forces of fragmentation. Mapping an inner journey that we take in solitude and in the... (more)
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  Black '47 and Beyond

  The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory

  by Cormac Ó Gráda

  Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó'Gráda's new work,... (more)
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  Ally's World: Book 9

  Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness

  by Karen McCombie

  There's always something going on in Ally's World. Ally's not normally superstitious, but something freaky's happening in Crouch End. Like the milk that turns green, wandering garden gnomes and things that go bump in the night...Are dark forces really at work?
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  Turning the Mind into an Ally

  by Sakyong Mipham

  Sakyong Mipham shows how to cultivate a strong stable mind and no longer live "at the mercy of our moods." His stories and wisdom from American culture, as well as from the great Buddhist teachers, help demystify this essential discipline and place it in the framework of Western culture. Accessible, practical, and clear, it provides readers with the necessary tools for taming the mind.
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  Living on the Edge

  by Mark R. Rank

  This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass -the center of most policy debate -struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that welfare recipients share much in common with the rest of the population.
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  Angels and Quilt Pieces . . . Our Journey with a Katrina Family

  by Stephanie Ehmen

  September 2005, in the after-math of Hurricane Katrina, we had no idea that we were about to embark on an unexpected journey. As the days, weeks and months progressed, the Thornton family, from New Orleans, told us their extraordinary story in bits and pieces. Our journey over the following months has changed our lives forever. We are telling our story through our own eyes, what we saw, heard and witnessed. It... (more)
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  Tee mit dem Teufel

  Als deutscher Militärarzt in Afghanistan

  by Reinhard Erös

  Reinhard Erös, medical doctor and colonel of the German Bundeswehr, gives his accounts of his illegal ventures to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, where he and his family helped the war-torn civilian population. The book gives an insight into the Afghan culture, Soviet war crimes and physical and psychological hardships Erös and his fellow helpers had to endure. It is illustrated with many private photos taken by Erös... (more)
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  Hijacking sustainability

  by Adrian Parr

  The idea of "sustainability" has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has happened: how the goals of an environmental movement came to be mediated by corporate interests, government, and... (more)
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  The Silent Gift

  by Michael Landon Jr., Cindy Kelley

  The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrifices in the face of circumstances horrendous beyond belief. When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn't wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Jack are out on their own in a world that has... (more)
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  Jesus: Author Of My Life

  by Stellah Mupanduki

  Jesus: Author Of My Life is a book of hope for Terminal illnesses and eradication of strongholds in people's lives. It's a book of victory which explains and depicts the coming and existence of God to save amidst chaos, darkness, hopelessness and brokenness. It explains the power in the blood of Jesus, the cross, and name of Jesus. The book explores combating spiritual warfare through events, unusual phenomenon... (more)
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  Managing Stress With Qigong

  by Gordon Faulkner

  The ancient Chinese health system of Qigong combines physical postures with breathing techniques to promote harmony between the body and the mind. It is quickly gaining popularity in the West as a natural yet powerful way of combating stress and its related effects. This step-by-step guide to managing stress using Qigong begins by looking at our response to stress from both an Eastern and a Western perspective. It... (more)
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  Cugir (Watershed)

  by Valentin Chirosca

  Monograph with issue Cugir basin, data from the period 1900 - 1975, for topics Geology, Hydrography, Hydrology, Fora, Fauna, Meteorology, Climate, Tourism and Culture. Equivalent to 200 A4 pages with 206 black and white images, photos, graphic maps, tables include the results of pedagogical experiment empowerment of students through their participation in the generation, collection and primary processing of data.... (more)
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  The End of Poverty

  Economic Possibilities for Our Time

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Sachs’s aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he ... (more)