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Gift from the Sea
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1991
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 978-0-679-73241-9 (0-679-73241-1)
A modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."—New York Times Book Review.Read more >
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1991
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 978-0-679-73241-9 (0-679-73241-1)
A modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."—New York Times Book Review.
Giving
How Each of Us Can Change the World
Written by Bill Clinton
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-307-26674-3 (0-307-26674-5)
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around...Read more >
How Each of Us Can Change the World
Written by Bill Clinton
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-307-26674-3 (0-307-26674-5)
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around...
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How Can I Help?
Written by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-394-72947-3 (0-394-72947-1)
In this practical helper's companion, the authors provide support and inspiration for us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other's needs. Here too are the deeply moving accounts of a housewife who brings...Read more >
Written by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-394-72947-3 (0-394-72947-1)
In this practical helper's companion, the authors provide support and inspiration for us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other's needs. Here too are the deeply moving accounts of a housewife who brings...
Improv Wisdom
Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Written by Patricia Ryan Madson
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8188-2 (1-4000-8188-2)
One of the 50 Best Spiritual Books of 2005, Spirituality & Health magazine
Improv Wisdom teaches us how to apply the maxims of improvisational theater to real-life challengeshelping readers to loosen up, think on their feet, and take on everything life has to offer with skill, chutzpah, and a sense of humor...Read more >
Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Written by Patricia Ryan Madson
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $16.95
Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8188-2 (1-4000-8188-2)
One of the 50 Best Spiritual Books of 2005, Spirituality & Health magazine
Improv Wisdom teaches us how to apply the maxims of improvisational theater to real-life challengeshelping readers to loosen up, think on their feet, and take on everything life has to offer with skill, chutzpah, and a sense of humor...
Learned Optimism
How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Written by Martin E. Seligman
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7839-4 (1-4000-7839-3)
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an...Read more >
How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Written by Martin E. Seligman
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7839-4 (1-4000-7839-3)
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an...
Letters to a Young Artist
Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3238-9 (1-4000-3238-5)
From Anna Deavere Smith here is brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes, in the tradition of Rilke's classic Letters to a Young Poet.
Hailed as a pioneering force in American theater for her signature documentary style of performance, Anna Deavere Smith here looks back on lessons from thirty years of...Read more >
Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3238-9 (1-4000-3238-5)
From Anna Deavere Smith here is brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes, in the tradition of Rilke's classic Letters to a Young Poet.
Hailed as a pioneering force in American theater for her signature documentary style of performance, Anna Deavere Smith here looks back on lessons from thirty years of...
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Letters to a Young Teacher
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 978-0-307-39371-5 (0-307-39371-2)
In this collection of his letters to Francesca, a first year teacher in a Boston elementary school, Jonathan Kozol reflects on what he calls the “beautiful profession” she has chosen while he also tries to guide her through the many unexpected challenges she encounters. Under her shrewd and sometimes irreverent questioning...Read more >
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 978-0-307-39371-5 (0-307-39371-2)
In this collection of his letters to Francesca, a first year teacher in a Boston elementary school, Jonathan Kozol reflects on what he calls the “beautiful profession” she has chosen while he also tries to guide her through the many unexpected challenges she encounters. Under her shrewd and sometimes irreverent questioning...
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The Light of Conscience
How a Simple Act Can Change Your Life
Written by Bill Shore
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7363-1 (0-8129-7363-1)
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How a Simple Act Can Change Your Life
Written by Bill Shore
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7363-1 (0-8129-7363-1)
Living a Life that Matters
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2002
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72094-6 (0-385-72094-7)
Most of us need to feel that we matter in some way; perhaps this explains the high value placed on titles, corner offices, and even fleeting celebrity. But most of us also need to feel that we are good people. In this luminous yet practical book of spiritual advice, Harold Kushner...Read more >
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2002
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72094-6 (0-385-72094-7)
Most of us need to feel that we matter in some way; perhaps this explains the high value placed on titles, corner offices, and even fleeting celebrity. But most of us also need to feel that we are good people. In this luminous yet practical book of spiritual advice, Harold Kushner...
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Mindset
The New Psychology of Success
Written by Carol Dweck
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6275-1 (1-4000-6275-6)
A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. In Mindset, she argues that it explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic, shaping our goals, our...Read more >
The New Psychology of Success
Written by Carol Dweck
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6275-1 (1-4000-6275-6)
A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. In Mindset, she argues that it explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic, shaping our goals, our...
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On Becoming an Artist
Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
Written by Ellen J. Langer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 978-0-345-45630-4 (0-345-45630-0)
On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity is not a rare gift that only some special few are born with, but rather an integral part of...Read more >
Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
Written by Ellen J. Langer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 978-0-345-45630-4 (0-345-45630-0)
On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity is not a rare gift that only some special few are born with, but rather an integral part of...
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Teach with Your Heart
Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
Written by Erin Gruwell
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $23.95
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1583-0 (0-7679-1583-6)
In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up...Read more >
Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
Written by Erin Gruwell
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $23.95
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1583-0 (0-7679-1583-6)
In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers, picks up where The Freedom Writers Diary (and the movie The Freedom Writers) end and catches the reader up...
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Written by David Shields
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $23.95
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-307-26804-4 (0-307-26804-7)
Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating book: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion—an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound...Read more >
Written by David Shields
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $23.95
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-0-307-26804-4 (0-307-26804-7)
Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating book: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion—an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound...
