Larry Brilliant tells his amazing story about how he, as a visionary physician, helped conquer smallpox, considered the worst disease in history at the time. An especially great read due to the experience of our current pandemic. Dr. Brilliant is considered one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and the winner of the TED Prize.￼ Praised by Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Sheryl Sandberg. #hardcover #Pandemic #doctor #Medicine #Spirituality

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics in human history. His story, of what happens when love, compassion and determination meet the right circumstances to effect positive change, is the kind that keeps hope and the sense of possibility alive.

After sitting at the feet of Martin Luther King at the University of Michigan in 1963, Larry Brilliant was swept up into the civil rights movement, marching and protesting across America and Europe. As a radical young doctor he followed the hippie trail from London over the Khyber Pass with his wife Girija, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm commune to India. There, he found himself in a Himalayan ashram wondering whether he had stumbled into a cult. Instead, one of India's greatest spiritual teachers, Neem Karoli Baba, opened Larry's heart and told him his destiny was to work for the World Health Organization to help eradicate killer smallpox. He would never have believed he would become a key player in eliminating a 10,000-year-old disease that killed more than half a billion people in the 20th century alone.

Brilliant's unlikely trajectory, chronicled in Sometimes Brilliant, has brought him into close proximity with political leaders, spiritual masters, cultural heroes, and titans of technology around the world--from the Grateful Dead to Mikhail Gorbachev, from Ram Dass, the Dalai Lama, Lama Govinda, and Karmapa to Steve Jobs and the founders of Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Microsoft and eBay and Presidents Carter, Clinton, Bush and Obama. Anchored by the engrossing account of the heroic efforts of the extraordinary people involved in smallpox eradication in India, this is a riveting and fascinating epidemiological adventure, an honest reckoning of an entire generation, and a deeply moving spiritual memoir. It is a testament to faith, love, service, and what it means to engage with life's most important questions in pursuit of a better, more brilliant existence.

Sometimes Brilliant

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A little bit of humor, but mostly discussion on modern motherhood and how to create a mothering style that works for you. The authors are two young mothers who share personal experience and lots of suggestions coming from their experience. #paperback #Parent #Parenting #Family #Motherhood #Mother #Children #paperback 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Reinventing Modern Motherhood

"I don't know how she does it!" is an oft-heard refrain about mothers today. Funnily enough, most moms agreethey have no idea how they get it done, or whether they even want the job. Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile spoke to mothers of every stripeworking, stay-at-home, part-timeand found a surprisingly similar trend in their interviews. After enthusing about her lucky life for twenty minutes, a mother would then break down and admit that her child's first word was "Shrek." As one mom put it, "Am I happy? The word that describes me best is challenged." Fresh from the front lines of modern motherhood comes a book that uncovers the guilty secrets of moms today . . . in their own words. I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids diagnoses the craziness and offers real solutions, so that mothers can step out of the madness and learn to love motherhood as much as they love their kids.

I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids

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Cookbook offers guide for eating as a vegan for health and wellness.￼ Includes meal ideas, recipes, information for pregnancy and breast-feeding, and charts about 
supplements and stocking the pantry. #paperback #Cookbook #Vegan #Plant-based #Food #Nutrition

Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet

Going vegan? Here's the go-to-guide, with a six-step transition plan to a plant-based diet, with detailed nutritional information for everyone from athletes to kids to pregnant women.

Whether you're considering going vegan or just want to learn more about plant-based nutrition,Vegan for Life is your comprehensive, go-to guide for optimal healthy eating. Registered dietitians and long-time vegans Jack Norris and Virginia Messina debunk some of the most persistent myths about vegan nutrition and provide essential information about getting enough calcium and protein, finding the best supplements, and understanding the "real deal" about soy.

Covering everything from a six-step transition plan to meeting protein requirements and even calorie and nutrient needs during pregnancy and breastfeeding, Vegan for Lifeis the guide for aspiring and veteran vegans alike, complete with an easy-to-use food chart, tasty substitutions, sample menus, and expansive resources.

Vegan for Life

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Author, who is the physician, discusses how to integrate the world’s great therapeutic traditions to create a new kind of transformative medicine. ￼ In near-perfect condition with dust cover. #Healing #Therapy #Health #Medicine #IntegrativeMedicine #ChineseMedicine #Emotions  #hardcover 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine

This extraordinary book offers nothing less than a new vision of medical care. Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., has created a unique, integrative blending of the primary holistic schools of healing that is far more potent than any one of these alone. Like Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil, Rudolph Ballentine is a medical doctor who became intrigued by the workings of mind-body medicine and looked beyond the West in his search for understanding. Drawing on thirty years of medical study and practice, Dr. Ballentine has accomplished a singular feat: integrating the wisdom of the great traditional healing systems--especially Ayurveda, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, European and Native American herbology, nutrition, psychotherapy, and bodywork. Melded together, the profound principles buried in these systems become clearer and stronger, and a new level of effectiveness becomes possible. Healing and reorganization are accelerated and deepened--physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The result is transformation. The result is radical healing. Radical Healing harnesses nature's medicinals--plants and other natural substances--with commonsense essentials such as diet, exercise, and cleansing, as well as the most profound principles of spiritual and psychological transformation. In Dr. Ballentine's synthesis, illness is an opportunity for growth that can go far beyond recovery. Through radical healing old habits and attitudes that supported the development of disease fall away, to be replaced by the clarity that comes with a whole new way of being in the world.

Radical Healing

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Learn techniques to release your natural powers for healing such as gentle movement, self-employed massage, breathing exercise, and meditation. All are drawn from the ancient Chinese healing system of qigong and are easily adaptable to every lifestyle. #Chinese #qigong #Healing #Health #Meditation #Grieving #Movement #ChineseMedicine #paperback 

Using Traditional Chinese techniques to Release Your Body’s Own Medicine

RELEASE YOUR NATURAL POWERS FOR HEALING, ENDURANCE, AND LONGEVITY With this revoloutionary guide, you will learan four simple and remarkably effective techniques to release your natural powers for healing. The methods – gentle movement, sel

The Healer Within

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Science and wisdom collide and make friends in this real world adventure that is ultimately a guide book for living, showing you how your intentions have great power. Slight wear on cover with a few sections underlined but 15extremely readable and in otherwise very good condition￼. #paperback #bodymindspirit #nonfiction #rethink #science #intention #Physics #QuantumScience￼

Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

Draws on original experiments as well as scientific research to explore a theory that the entire universe is connected by a vast energy field that can be manipulated for the betterment of the world using positive thought processes.

The Intention Experiment

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For folks who love the mysticism and foresight of Nostradamus, this ￼hardcover interprets his prophecies of tomorrow, including a third world war, nuclear destruction of New York, the sudden death of a pope and the rise of an antichrist. Translated and edited by Erica Cheetam￼. #Hardcover #Nostradamus #Mysticism #Prophecy #Future

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

1985 and Beyond

The Further Prophecies of Nostradamus

This is a vintage book with lots of classic children’s games that would be fun to revive in this electronic era. It includes the all-time favorite Duck Duck Goose but so many more wonderful games that can be used for children’s parties as well as psychotherapy professionals who work with children and children’s groups and play therapy. #Children #Childrensgames
 #PlayTherapy #Psychotherapy #ExperientialActivities #Experiential #Games

Making Children’s Parties Click

Thoughtful and helpful book about kids who are coping with extreme circumstances, such as deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia or severe disabilities, as well as other circumstances that are painful or difficult. In this young adult adaption, the author explores how people who love one another mush struggle to accept one another and in doing so documents triumphs of love over prejudice. #Children #Teens #Deafness #Dwarfism #DownSyndrome #Autism #Schizophrenia #youngadult  #Disability #Families #Loneliness

Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another ... Our Differences Unite Us

From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, Far From the Tree, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children. The old adage says that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else—sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world? In this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism, who have schizophrenia, who have multiple severe disabilities, who are prodigies, who commit crimes, and more. Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, Far From the Tree explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each other—a theme in every family’s life. The New York Times calls the adult edition a “wise and beautiful” volume that “will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place.”

Far From The Tree

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Stunning photographs of the Washington National Cathedral, a source of architectural, artistic and spiritual inspiration rivaling its European counterparts in size and beauty.￼ #Cathedral #Art #ArchitectSure #Religion #WashingtonNationalCathedral #Gothic #Prayer #Saints #God

Begun in 1907 with the laying of its cornerstone, the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul stands in Washington, D.C., as a great symbol of our country's religious heritage. This engrossing book features the magnificent edifice in all its glory. Full-color photos.

The Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul

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Souvenir picture book of the great city of London, including photographs of much of the pomp and pageantry related to the royal family as well as scenes of gardens, boats and other landmarks. #London #Photography #Royalty #Travel #Pageantry #RoyalFamily

A Picture Book to Remember Her By

Displays color photographs of the marketplaces, parks, museums, historic buildings, and modern structures of London.

London

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The story of Pinocchio for children in Espanol. #Pinocchio #Spanish #Espanol #Children #WaltDisney 

Pinocho 

A really wonderful and attractive cookbook to help people move towards vegetarian eating. The recipes are supplemented by nutritional information, anecdotal sidebars, serving suggestions and more. In near-new condition.￼ #Vegetarian #Cookbook #Cooking #Recipes #Vegetables #Diet #SemiVegetarian #Food #paperback 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Primer for Cooks who are Eating Vegetarian Most of the Time, Chicken & Fish Some of the Time & Altogether Well All of the Time

A cookbook for part-time vegetarians emphasizes a mostly vegetarian, high-fiber, low-fat approach to diet, with recipes for Sweet Potato Pancakes, Chunky Lentil Soup with Parmesan, and other delectable dishes. Original. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Almost Vegetarian

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SIGNED! Michael Feldman, the popular comedy talk show host from American Public Radio, talks about his philosophies on sex education, politics, male communication skills, wedded bliss and many other topics. Signed by the author! #PublicRadio #Philosophy #Radio#Opinions #Wisconsin #AmericanPublicRadio #Comedy

A Book

The host of the popular American Public Radio show, "Whad'ya Know?", offers a unique perspective on life in the Midwest, discussing topics ranging from home remodeling, to politics, to middle age

Whad'Ya Know?

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The Great Cat Chase

Vintage children’s book by Maurice Sendak. Dated 1963 and SIGNED by the author! This book is a 1964 Caldecott medal winner for the most distinguished picture book of the year. A real classic! Not only did I greatly enjoy this book personally but I used it frequently as a psychotherapist to teach about anger. In very good vintage condition although the dust cover has some slight scuffs and tears￼. #MauriceSendak #Children #PictureBook #WhereTheWildThingsAre #Anger #ChildrenPsychology

Where the Wild Things Are

This picture improved book brings together more than 40 eclectic personal shrines, offering a diverse and vibrant vision of sanctuary. Inspiring and beautiful. #Altars #Spirituality #DayOfTheDead #Religion #Creativity #Memory #Ancestors￼ #Photographs #Interviews #Sacred￼

Sacred Spaces in Everyday Life

Describes forty personal shrines, their sacred and secular uses, and the spiritual benefits derived by their owners

Altars and Icons

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Jennifer Giustra-Kozek is a pyschotherapist and the mother of a son with Autism Spectrum disorders. After treating Evan bio-medically, along with other healing practices, Jennifer witnessed the kind of improvements that every parent of a similarly diagnosed child dreams of: Evan no longer grunts and screams, throws toys, hits others, or has mood swings. He no longer throws himself into fits of uncontrollable rage; he now listens to his teachers and responds appropriately. He copes better with changes in routine, makes eye contact more often and no longer enters into a trance-like state. 

This book provides a full menu of natural treatment options, including a real-world success story and simple recipes and healthy alternatives. Readers will learn how to:

Identify common labels of behaviors

•           Recognize the early warning signs that an autoimmune disorder is brewing

•           Identify the different medications and their potential benefits and side-effects

•           Find the right doctors and practitioners

•           Identify food sensitivities and other autoimmune assaults

#ADHD #ADD #autism #spectrumdisorders #psychotherapy #children #parenting #alternativehealth #naturaltreatment #health #wellness

Treating ADHD, Apraxia and Autism Spectrum Disorders Naturally and Effectively Without Harmful Medications

Treating ADHD, Apraxia and Autism Spectrum Disorders Naturally and Effectively without Harmful Medications Jennifer Kozek is a therapist who practices in Connecticut, and is also the mother of a son with Autism Spectrum disorders. After treating Evan bio--medically, along with other healing practices, Jennifer witnessed the kind of improvements that every parent of a similarly diagnosed child dreams of: Evan no longer grunts and screams, throws toys, hits others, or has mood swings. He no longer throws himself into fits of uncontrollable rage, listens to his teachers & responds appropriately. He copes better with changes in routine & makes eye contact more often. He no longer enters into a trance--like state ...and the list goes on. Healing without Hurting includes a full menu of natural treatment options, including: A real world success story and simple recipes/healthy alternatives. Readers will learn how to: Identify common labels of behaviors Recognize the early warning signs that an autoimmune disorder is brewing Identify the different medications; potential benefits and side--effects; Find the right doctors and practitioners Identify food sensitivities and other autoimmune assaults and much more.....

Healing Without Hurting

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Vintage children’s book by the incomparable Maurice Sendak. Published in 1976. Created long before graphic novels were a thing! ￼Some scuffs on dust cover with inscription on first page to child who obviously was the original owner of this book. #Sendak #Dog #Illustrations

Or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?

Some Swell Pup

For the crafter, art therapist or occupational therapist: This large-size book gives detailed instructions for making Colonial Williamsburg-style Christmas decorations. This book offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for Christmas ornaments you can make home. Compiled and adapted by the staff of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center with detailed instructions for Early American ornaments such as folk stars, cornhusk angels and pigs, walnut boats, hemlock strings, knit mini-stocking, pine needle men and so much more. #xmas #Christmas #folkart #craft #crafting #Williamsburg #ornaments #colonialwilliamsburg #creativity

Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg’s Folk Art Collection

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For the crafter, or therapist or occupational therapist: Hardback book offers instructions and beautiful pictures for more than 30 projects to make Christmas tree decorations, ranging from pretty papier-mâché fruits and glorious garlands to spicy scented Commodores and cinnamon cookies. Photographs are exceptional and the book has detailed instructions. This book, published in England, contains 64 pages and is very good condition with the exception of small scuffs on the dust cover. #Christmas #Crafts #ChristmasTree #Decorations #Crafting #Projects #Creativity #Xmas

Keepsake Crafts

Christmas Tree Decorations 

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Transform and order to your backyard guard know to a true shoop place. Like new, never used. #Gardening #Fountains #Ponds #Birds #WaterGardens

How to Build, Plant, and Maintain Ponds, Fountains, and Basins

Water Gardening Idea Book

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Offers an inspiring array of creative projects that can be made for next to nothing. Easy step-by-step instructions to make containers of all sizes, benches and stools, ponds and bird baths, pavers and stepping stones, and even a barbecue. #Birdbaths #ponds #gardening #containers #creativity #plants #gardendesign￼ #Design #Concrete￼

Easy and Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features and More

Concrete Garden Projects

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A psychologist explains the development of racial identity. Revised with a new introduction by the author. #BlackStudies #Education #Racism #Civil rights #Psychology #Families #BlackFamilies￼

Larry Brilliant

Sometimes Brilliant

Trisha Ashworth; Amy Nobile

I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids

Jack Norris; Virginia Messina

Vegan for Life

Rudolph M. Ballentine

Radical Healing

Roger Jahnke

The Healer Within

Lynne McTaggart

The Intention Experiment

Erika Cheetham

The Further Prophecies of Nostradamus

Virginia W. Musselman

Making Children’s Parties Click

Andrew Solomon; Laurie Calkhoven (Adapted by)

Far From The Tree

Robert Llewellyn (Photographer); Kathleen D. Valenzi (Introduction by); John Chancellor (Introduction by)

The Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul

Ted Smart

London

LIBSA

Pinocho

Diana Shaw

Almost Vegetarian

Michael Feldman

Whad'Ya Know?

Mercer Mayer

The Great Cat Chase

Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are

Jean McMann

Altars and Icons

Jennifer Giustra-Kozek

Healing Without Hurting

Maurice Sendak & Matthew Margolis

Some Swell Pup

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg’s Folk Art Collection

Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell

Christmas Tree Decorations

Peter Bisset

Water Gardening Idea Book

Malin Nilsson

Concrete Garden Projects

Beverly Daniel Tatum

"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

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