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- Book Review: What's Worth Knowing - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: "Tending a garden isn't so different from raising children. Plants like to grow when you spend time with them. Don't keep the whole crop for yourself. There are always people who don't know how to make things grow, and they probably need your tomatoes more than anybody else." ...
Views: 1859 - Book Review: 52 Ways to Celebrate Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: 52 Fun Things to Do on the Plane is from a card deck series designed to inspire creativity and offer an alternative to the idiot box (see 52 Great Books to Read and 52 Special Traditions for Family and Friends). This particular deck, small enough to tuck into a purse or ...
Views: 1303 - Book Review: Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Call it Robert Fulghum by way of John Wayne... In 1953, Zell Miller was as low as he could get. He'd dropped out of college after being made to feel inferior because of his "hillbilly" background and wound up in jail one weekend after getting drunk on moonshine and driving ...
Views: 4023 - Book Review: Freeing the Soul from Fear - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Robert Sardello is considered a leading philosopher on the soul, having inspired both Thomas Moore's and James Hillman's writings. Once again he departs from common spiritual assumptions in this intelligent and smoothly written handbook, Freeing the Soul from Fear. One of the ...
Views: 1179 - Book Review: The Comfort Trap or, What If You're Riding a Dead Horse? - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Don't get too comfortable, warns psychologist Judith Sills, who invites readers to jump over "the electric fence of anxiety" to find deeper satisfaction in their lives. Sills, the best-selling author of Excess Baggage, compares our rigid routines, bad habits, stale ...
Views: 1949 - Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Admittedly, we sometimes become oversentimental about motherhood. But in a climate of rampant cynicism and family disintegration, stories about maternal love, courage, devotion, and triumph can be immensely comforting and inspiring. Contributors such as Dave Barry, Barbara ...
Views: 2119 - Book Review: In the Checklist of Life: A Working Book to Help You Live & Leave Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: "Death is certain. Life is not." So begins this commonsensical, infinitely useful workbook that's aimed at helping your survivors handle the requisite legal and household affairs after your death. Author Lynn McPhelimy was inspired to write the book when her parents were both ...
Views: 1240 - Book Review: The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Sacred Psychology - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: This is the perspective and discipline that brings the human spirit into contact with the realms of the divine through the use of myth, experiential exercises and rituals. Product Information: No Information To view this book on Amazon.com, click here.
Views: 1109 - Book Review: Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Some sports--the solitary ones, in particular--are simply more prone to mysticism and mystery than others. Golf, certainly. Long-distance running, of course. Fishing. Climbing. Each has a literature that confronts the essence of its lonely pursuit and explores the way the ...
Views: 1248 - Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul anthologizes 80 stories of heartwarming writerly success. As is the trademark of the Chicken Soup series, these are feel-good stories about unforgettable relatives, encouraging teachers, serendipitous encounters, memorable experiences, ...
Views: 1103 - Book Review: Simple Words: Thinking About What Really Matters in Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: "Simple words are by no means simple," states Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in his introduction to Simple Words. This is certainly true of the words he has teased out from contemporary spirituality to expound upon here. Each chapter is dedicated to so-called simple words such as ...
Views: 989 - Book Review: 101 Grrreat Quickies - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Remember when your mother taught you to never deface a book? Well, forget her advice and rip (literally!) into Laura Corn's 101 Grrreat Quickies. The author of 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex is working her magic again. As she puts it, "You make love. Sometimes slow and ...
Views: 2906 - Book Review: Nothing's Impossible:: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: This self-described "maniac leader" has written a delightful guide to becoming boss, whether it be in business or your own life. In this case, Lorraine Monroe's line of work is public education--and she possesses some pretty impressive credentials. As founder and principal of ...
Views: 2496 - Book Review: Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: As the story goes, author Kent M. Keith was a sophomore at Harvard University in the 1960s when he first wrote "The Paradoxical Commandments," a manifesto about doing good in a crazy, ungrateful world. These commandments are the basis of his repackaged and expanded book ...
Views: 1916 - Book Review: Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: A sequel of sorts to Reeve's bestselling memoir, Still Me, Nothing is Impossible is a concise, meditative companion to the earlier book. Each of its nine chapters is devoted to some aspect of successful living (humor, faith, hope) or addresses a major life issue (parenting, ...
Views: 2546 - Book Review: Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: This book is the dramatic followup to I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program to help you create a life you can fully enjoy. Using the practical exercises and bold strategies she outlines, you can make your ...
Views: 1596 - Book Review: Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Few people other than Oprah can count Bono, Alicia Keys, Sen. Barack Obama, and award-winning authors Amy Bloom and Ann Patchett among her buddies. Oprah's rightfully tapped these friendships over the years for contributions to O, The Oprah Magazine, for Q & A's and ...
Views: 905 - Book Review: How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Laura Schlessinger takes the quotation marks off the phrase "bad behavior," and makes an impassioned argument against the self-indulgent subjective morality rampant in our society. Following her previous New York Times bestseller, 10 Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their ...
Views: 1367 - Book Review: From Beginning to End - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Fulghum, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, turns his inspirational ponderings to the rituals that fill and inform our daily lives, from brushing our teeth to the grand rituals responding to birth, life, and death. --This text refers to the Mass ...
Views: 842 - Book Review: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip "Dilbert," has written a modern-day parable about a young man and an unlikely mentor. God's Debris starts with a young deliveryman trying to hand over a package to a man with a San Francisco address. But delivering the package ...
Views: 1328 - Book Review: Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Mia Hamm, star of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Cup champion, and five-time National Player of the Year, has a simple take on her talents that also explains her success: "Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't ...
Views: 3424 - Book Review: Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: If the pace of your life or depths of your depression leave you lacking in body and soul, this book can help you feel whole again. Jennifer Louden encourages you to assemble and draw on personal rituals, journals and sanctuaries that can add comfort and breathing space to ...
Views: 969 - Book Review: Living the 7 Habits : The Courage to Change - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Stephen Covey's famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. But how do Covey's principles translate for real people living their lives? Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 little stories of ...
Views: 3124 - Book Review: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: If you loved "The Rules for Being Human" attributed to "Anonymous" in the bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul, you're in luck. The author--corporate trainer Chérie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.--has stepped forward and written a follow-up book: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules. ...
Views: 2235 - Book Review: The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook: Your Personal Companion to How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Leonardo da Vinci is the perfect antidote to a dumbed-down world. Perfect for anyone with similar aspirations for self-actualization, the exercises in The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook are designed to provide a lifetime of cerebral expansion, using the seven ...
Views: 1230 - Book Review: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified ...
Views: 2061 - Book Review: Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Maria Shriver's warmth, humor, and wisdom are evident on every page of this little book. Inspired by her commencement speech at the College of the Holy Cross, the book contains stories and insights that will be helpful, entertaining, and encouraging to graduates at every ...
Views: 1123(1 vote) - Book Review: Morrie: In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Preceding the phenomenal success of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, in which Albom discusses his weekly visits with his mentor, Morrie, as Morrie faces death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Morrie Schwartz published his own book, Letting Go: Morrie's Reflections ...
Views: 3070 - Book Review: Unleashing the Ideavirus - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Treat a product or service like a human or computer virus, contends online promotion specialist Seth Godin, and it just might become one. In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin describes ways to set any viable commercial concept loose among those who are most likely to catch ...
Views: 1079 - Book Review: Reach for the Summit - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Pat Summitt has been called a living legend. As head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, Summitt has taken her NCAA Division 1 women's basketball team to back-to-back national championships in 1996 and 1997, and five titles in a 10-year span. In Reach for the ...
Views: 3605 - Book Review: Worry - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem ...
Views: 932 - Book Review: When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal With Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Does anything hurt worse than betrayal by a close friend? Sociologist and friendship expert Jan Yager (Friendshifts: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives) explores failed, hurtful, and destructive friendships in When Friendship Hurts. The book describes 21 ...
Views: 3124 - Book Review: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: World-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall earned her fame by studying chimpanzee feeding habits. But in Harvest for Hope, she scrutinizes human eating behaviors, and the colossal food industries that force-feed some cultures' self-destructive habits for mass ...
Views: 1723 - Book Review: You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Amazing things happen when Woman taps her inner Girl Scout. In You Can Do It!, Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas and friends present an engaging cast of female "mentors" who share their expertise in activities ranging from money management to firewalking. Fanning the can-do spirit ...
Views: 1254 - Book Review: Yesterday, I Cried : Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: "Life is about cleaning up the crap and, while you're doing it, being okay with the fact that you have to do it.... A word of caution. You can't get caught up in the crap! If you do, you will surely lose sight of the real meaning of life and lose your Self." Iyanla Vanzant ...
Views: 3598 - Book Review: Uplift : Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: A book as uplifting as the disease it discusses is tragic, Uplift is an inspiring collection of voices of breast cancer survivors. Barbara Delinsky, author of The Woman Next Door and other novels, and herself a survivor of breast cancer, presents inspirational snippets from ...
Views: 916 - Book Review: Dark Nights of the Soul - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: When it comes to spiritual growth, we humans are solar-seeking beings; eager for the bright lights of clarity and the bliss of illumination. Paradoxically, we all need to walk through the shadow of the dark night in order to discover a life worth living, according to ...
Views: 1016 - Book Review: Living Through the Meantime : Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Begin the Healing Process - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: The "meantime," according to best-selling author and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant, is that in-between stage of life when you're gathering up strength, evaluating past mishaps, and preparing for the next chapter. Using the metaphor of psyche as house, Vanzant believes ...
Views: 2157 - Book Review: Golf in the Kingdom - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Esalen Institute founder Michael Murphy's divine meditation on the royal and ancient game defied categorization when it was first published in 1972, and it still does. Instantly hailed as a classic, Golf in the Kingdom is an altogether unique confluence of fiction, ...
Views: 1846 - Book Review: I Hope You Dance - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Available in different covers that may differ from the image shown on this page. Amazon.com is unable to accept requests for a specific cover. The various covers will be assigned to orders at random. Product Information: Named the CMA song of the year, I Hope You Dance is ...
Views: 2307(2 votes) - Book Review: Every Second Counts - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking here about his preparation for what would prove to be his second ...
Views: 2282 - Book Review: The God Code: The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review: Author and computer systems designer Gregg Braden wrapped this entire book around the premise that God's name is literally encoded into every human body. According to Braden's logic, the basic elements of DNA--hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon--directly translate into ...
Views: 1689 - Book Review: Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This is the book for you if you've ever had the urge to tell off your boss, quit your job, hurl your Palm Pilot into the trash, and move to a farm. Written by bestselling stress consultant and psychotherapist Dr. Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, it advocates the ...
Views: 2269 - Book Review: Life Strategies for Teens - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "Are you as tired as I am of books constantly telling you the same old Brady Bunch, Beaver Cleaver, goody-two-shoes BS about doing your best to understand your parents, doing your homework, making curfew, getting a haircut, dropping that hemline, and blah blah blah?" So ...
Views: 3903 - Book Review: Fish! Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Fish! Tales is Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul's follow-up to Fish!--their enormously popular fable that draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! Tales the authors show ...
Views: 3784 - Book Review: Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review It is impossible to read Turning to One Another in the wake of the devastating attack on New York City's World Trade Center and not marvel at the book's eerie and moving prescience. Of course Margaret Wheatley has already earned herself a (deserved and legit) reputation as ...
Views: 733 - Book Review: Until Today! : Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This book of 365 daily devotionals supports the time-honored adage, "Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?" The charismatic spiritual leader Iyanla Vanzant knows how easy it is to stay stuck in "old sentiments, resentments, beliefs, decisions, agreements, ...
Views: 1827 - Book Review: Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Author and reader Phillip McGraw is at the forefront of a group of self-help gurus rethinking Americans' decade-plus-long celebration of victimhood. Calling himself a realist, he outlines 10 ways to take responsibility for and change your life. His reading mirrors the style ...
Views: 862 - Book Review: Stop Whining, Start Living - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Dr. Laura Schlessinger agrees that there are things worth whining about! A certain amount of whining allows for some venting of reasonable pain, disappointment, fear, frustration, or frank rage. However, staying stuck in whining mode can become a life-long problem. This is ...
Views: 1435 - Book Review: The Resilience Factor: 7 Essential Skills for Overcoming Life's Inevitable Obstacles - by Submitted on May 11, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review In the capable hands of psychologists Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté, resilience is not a Band-Aid or a buzzword. It is a habit of mind. The Resilience Factor is a practical roadmap for navigating unexpected challenges, surprises, and setbacks at work and home. Their ...
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