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Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 2: Physical Illness by Robert Schwartz

2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 2: Physical Illness Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Written by Robert Schwartz

eBook, 80 pages | Frog Books | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Cancer; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; Body, Mind & Spirit - New Thought | $3.99 | 978-1-58394-644-2 (1-58394-644-6)

Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning and purpose of AIDS, cancer, and physical illness in general?

Your Soul’s Plan eChapters: Physical Illness contains the Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: Pre-birth Planning, and Chapter 2: Physical Illness from Robert Schwartz’s best-selling spirituality book, Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born. This special eChapter tells the true stories of a man who planned before he was born to experience AIDS and a woman who planned to have cancer, and it explains why they courageously chose to have these difficult experiences.

Before we are born, we ourselves plan great challenges in order to foster our own spiritual growth and the growth of the people we love. This inspirational, healing, and deeply thought-provoking eChapter speaks to our heartfelt desire to know: What is the spiritual meaning of physical illness? Why do illnesses occur? What can we learn, and how can we grow, as a result of them?

After sharing their personal stories, the two individuals in this eChapter have sessions with gifted mediums and channels in which Schwartz asks Spirit, “Was this illness planned before birth, and if so, why?” The great love and wisdom that come forth from “the other side” help us to understand the deeper spiritual purposes served by AIDS, cancer, and other physical illnesses.

If you or someone you love faces an illness, an awareness of pre-birth planning will empower you to transform any feelings of victimization, anger, sadness, or confusion into acceptance, understanding, and peace. Suffering that once seemed purposeless will become imbued with deep meaning.

The full edition of Your Soul’s Plan also explores the pre-birth planning of parenting handicapped children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, and severe accidents. Individual Your Soul’s Plan eChapters are available under the following titles: Parenting Handicapped Children; Drug Addiction and Alcoholism; and Death of a Loved One.

Talk Softly by Cynthia O'Neal

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

Talk Softly A Memoir
Written by Cynthia O'Neal

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Biography & Autobiography - Social Scientists & Psychologists; Biography & Autobiography - Rich & Famous; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $22.00 | 978-1-60980-079-6 (1-60980-079-6)

Actress and model Cynthia O'Neal was living her dream life—married to the famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of two young sons, resident of the Dakota downstairs from John Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and frequent guest at dinner parties with Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Nureyev.
And then she changed course suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. The AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard, and after seeing the multitude of people facing an unfamiliar and stigmatized disease completely alone, Cynthia walked into the fray. With the support of longtime friend Mike Nichols, she founded Friends in Deed and soon found herself spending her days in hospitals, cramped rooms, and dirty apartments, anywhere a patient needed a hug, a hand held, or confidence boosted. And when Patrick became ill and passed away in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead of someone else’s and found her life transformed again.
Talk Softly is the story of a life well-lived—with passion and compassion, in celebration of the joy of each moment, and with the ability to surprise yourself when you least expect to.

Gaia and the New Politics of Love by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

2010-08-31T00:30:00-05:00

Gaia and the New Politics of Love Notes for a Poly Planet
Written by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

eBook, 272 pages | North Atlantic Books | Health & Fitness - Sexuality; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; Body, Mind & Spirit - Gaia & Earth Energies | $13.95 | 978-1-58394-296-3 (1-58394-296-3)

***WINNER, 2010 Nautilus Silver Book Award – Cosmology/New Science

Gaia theory argues that the flora and fauna of the planet operate in a self-regulating web that keeps the world livable. According to the theory, humankind is the most powerful species in this web and also its biggest threat. This provocative book explores ways to minimize and ultimately eliminate this threat with love and intimacy. Controversial Italian author Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio has authored the first global ecology study based on an analysis of human health. Anderlini-D’Onofrio identifies her remedy within the context of Gaia theory, re-envisioning it as a more inclusive philosophy that positively impacts not only relationships, but world ecology under duress. The author links human sexuality to the global ecosystem, claiming that freedom from fear will stimulate a holistic health movement powerful enough to heal relationships and restore planetary balance.

Gaia and the New Politics of Love is bracing in its range, weaving together issues of human and global health; the relationship of politics, sexuality, and ecology; practices and styles of love; the changing roles of eroticism and gender in our lives; and polyamory, bisexuality, and the AIDS reappraisal movement.

Clarification Statement from the Author
The argument of this book emphasizes the arts of loving as a way to help humanity make peace with our hostess Gaia, the third planet. Some of these arts involve sharing emotional resources and amorous partners.

Often, the arts of loving require the use of barriers: mechanical protections such as condoms. At times they do not because only tantric energies are exchanged. The author of this book is persuaded that barriers are recommendable when sexual practices result in the exchange of deep body fluids, unless previous fluid-bonding arrangements have been made. The author is also persuaded that good practices of holistic health contribute to strengthening the immune systems of those who engage in the arts of loving.

Safety practices are important in making the arts of loving healthy regardless of what factors are involved in the syndromes most prevalent today, including AIDS and other conditions in the STD spectrum. Historically, disagreement has moved knowledge forward: Today’s science is the result of yesterday’s disagreements and controversies. The author believes in critical thinking and she respects dissidence in science today, including Gaia science, reappraisals of AIDS, and holistic medicine. She hopes her readers will be open to hearing more than one side of a story.

This statement and the contents of this book do not constitute medical advice in any way. Readers are invited to consult their own healers and health care providers.

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love
Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, March 2010
Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Talk Softly by Cynthia O'Neal

2010-05-04T00:30:00-05:00

Talk Softly A Memoir
Written by Cynthia O'Neal

Hardcover, 240 pages | Seven Stories Press | Biography & Autobiography - Social Scientists & Psychologists; Biography & Autobiography - Rich & Famous; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $22.00 | 978-1-58322-906-4 (1-58322-906-X)

Gaia and the New Politics of Love by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

2009-09-08T00:30:00-05:00

Gaia and the New Politics of Love Notes for a Poly Planet
Written by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Trade Paperback, 272 pages | North Atlantic Books | Health & Fitness - Sexuality; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; Body, Mind & Spirit - Gaia & Earth Energies | $16.95 | 978-1-55643-821-9 (1-55643-821-4)

Science Sold Out by Harvey Bialy

2007-01-02T00:30:00-05:00

Science Sold Out Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?
Written by Rebecca Culshaw
Foreword by Harvey Bialy

Trade Paperback, 112 pages | North Atlantic Books | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $14.95 | 978-1-55643-642-0 (1-55643-642-4)

There are many well-established scientific reasons that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is highly doubtful. In Science Sold Out, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher who has received funding to study HIV ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. This book focuses on the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current, government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception.

Seasonal Fires by Ingrid De Kok

2006-04-04T00:30:00-05:00

Seasonal Fires New and Selected Poems
Written by Ingrid De Kok

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Seven Stories Press | Poetry - African; History - South Africa; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $18.95 | 978-1-58322-718-3 (1-58322-718-0)

Ingrid de Kok's first book to be published in the United States is also the first volume to demonstrate the variety and continuity of de Kok’s work over the last 25 years. In South Africa and internationally, readers have recognized and responded to de Kok’s deeply developed sense of compassion. South Africa’s most lucid and composed voice in contemporary poetry, she shares her ability to interweave the intensely personal world with the politically panoramic. Ingrid de Kok is one of the few poets to successfully broach the burden of tragedy revealed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and the ceaseless ravaging of the AIDS pandemic. In doing so, "she captures, in the most delicate and individual terms, devastating phenomena" (Antjie Krog).

The Secret Epidemic by Jacob Levenson

2004-02-03T00:30:00-05:00

The Secret Epidemic The Story of AIDS and Black America
Written by Jacob Levenson

eBook | Anchor | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $14.99 | 978-0-375-42310-9 (0-375-42310-9)

Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers of young black men and women. Medical researcher Mindy Fullilove investigates the epidemic’s links to crack cocaine, the Bronx fires, and national health policy. Desiree Rushing must reconcile her crack addiction and HIV infection with the fate of her city, family, and the black church. David deShazo, a white AIDS worker in Alabama, fights to prevent the American South from becoming the epidemic’s new epicenter. And Mario Cooper, a gay, infected son of the black elite confronts the boundaries of American race politics in Washington, D.C. Seamlessly interweaving personal stories with national policy, Levenson indelibly captures this devastating epidemic and illuminates its potential to expand our understanding of race in America.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

A Small Gathering of Bones by Patricia Powell

2003-12-01T00:30:00-05:00

A Small Gathering of Bones
Written by Patricia Powell

Trade Paperback, 144 pages | Beacon Press | Fiction - Gay; Fiction - Historical; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $14.00 | 978-0-8070-8367-3 (0-8070-8367-4)

It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affecting, as it conveys the shocked puzzlement of those troubled by Ian's condition while simultaneously documenting Jamaican society's struggle to accept the dignity of gay love. Dale's world collapses, yet his experience of being gay in a middle-class culture circumscribed by church, family, and compulsory heterosexuality is hauntingly memorable-and familiar.

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AIDS by James Feast

2002-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

AIDS A Second Opinion
Written by Gary Null
Contribution by James Feast

Hardcover, 768 pages | Seven Stories Press | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; Science - History; Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies | $34.95 | 978-1-58322-062-7 (1-58322-062-3)

In this first book to bring both establishment and dissenting views of the AIDS crisis into one volume, Gary Null unravels the halftruths that many argue have marred the study of this disease from the start. In clear, jargon-free prose, the book offers an unbiased, unflinching discussion of all sides of each issue.

AIDS: A Second Opinion argues that the AIDS drama has exposed problematic issues having to do with the functioning of U.S. medical institutions. Null explores a new type of health care, grounded in patients' own choices and dispositions, that poses a challenge to the top-down, expert-controlled medical systems favored by the establishment.

Drawing from Null's many years of study of alternative, traditional, and orthodox medicine as well as from interviews with many long-term survivors, the book dissects the claims of the AZT and drug-cocktail approach to treating AIDS and offers a trilogy of treatment strategies based on wide views of how to enhance the immune system and improve overall functioning.

Amores Locos y los Peligros del Contagio by Gonzalo Aburto Iniesta

2001-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Amores Locos y los Peligros del Contagio
Written by Gonzalo Aburto Iniesta

Trade Paperback, 64 pages | Siete Cuentos | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; Health & Fitness - Health Care Issues; Health & Fitness - Sexuality | $5.95 | 978-1-58322-276-8 (1-58322-276-6)

A medida que el SIDA penetra más profundamente en las comunidades latinas, nadie puede ignorar el virus o distanciarse de él. Este libro pequeño ofrece consejos médicos, espirituales, de auto-ayuda y testimonios, además de listas de recursos para las personas que han sido afectadas por esta epidemia.

Love Undetectable by Andrew Sullivan

1999-10-26T00:30:00-05:00

Love Undetectable Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
Written by Andrew Sullivan

Trade Paperback, 272 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Gay Studies; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $14.00 | 978-0-679-77315-3 (0-679-77315-0)

"Sullivan offers [a] profound, often beautiful appreciation of friendship. . . . [He can] fascinate us with the range and depth of his mind."--San Francisco Chronicle

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"One of the great pleasures of this book lies in watching Sullivan's mind at work . . . [his essays] are filled with a passion and heat that most cultural criticism lacks." --Katie Roiphe, The Washington Post

When former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan publicly revealed his HIV positive status in 1996, he intended "to be among the first generation that survives this disease." In this new book, a powerful meditation on the spiritual effect AIDS has on friendship, love, sexuality, and American culture, we follow Sullivan on his path to survival.

A practicing Catholic, Sullivan reflects on his faith in God, and expresses his bittersweet joy upon learning about new AIDS treatments that he believes led to the virus's recent transformation from a plague into a chronic illness. He revisits Freud to seek the origins of homosexuality and reviews the works of Aristotle, St. Augustine, and W. H. Auden to define friendship for a contemporary, post-plague world. Sullivan's last essay extols the virtues of friendship, elevating platonic love over the romantic, as he memorializes his best friend, who died of AIDS.  Intensely personal and passionately political, Sullivan's essays are not just about his own experiences but also a powerful testament to human resilience, faith, hope, and love.

"Sullivan has found meaning in chaos. . . . With its paradoxical sense of beauty amid pain, Love Undetectable has something of the quality of a war memoir."  --The New York Times Book Review

"On display here are all of the author's many strengths--compelling, poetic prose style, some keen observations on faith. . . . Sullivan offers a moving defense of the open gay male urban sexual culture and his participation in it."  --The Boston Globe

The Second Decade of AIDS by Michael Shernoff, CSW, ACSW

1998-06-03T00:30:00-05:00

The Second Decade of AIDS A Mental Health Practice Handbook
Edited by Walt Odets, Ph.D. and Michael Shernoff, CSW, ACSW

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Hatherleigh Press | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $19.95 | 978-1-886330-01-6 (1-886330-01-8)

AIDS in Nepal by Jill Hannum

1997-11-04T00:30:00-05:00

AIDS in Nepal Communities Confronting an Emerging Epidemic
Written by Jill Hannum

Trade Paperback, 208 pages | Seven Stories Press | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; History - India; Health & Fitness - Alternative Therapies | $22.95 | 978-1-888363-60-9 (1-888363-60-6)

In 1993, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) began a three-year, community-based AIDS prevention program in 17 sites scattered throughout the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, with the objective of enabling people to protect themselves and their sexual partners against HIV/AIDS through information, education, and access to means of prevention. The program also aimed to reduce people's individual and collective vulnerability to HIV/AIDS through the teaching of literacy and other sklls needed for alternate income generation.
In AIDS in Nepal: Communities Confronting An Emerging Epidemic, Jill Hannum presents the voices of people who are at the forefront of the response to HIV/AIDS in Nepal. She reveals the many discoveries that the community-based organizations made through their interaction with young people and adults across the country, as they opened a dialogue on sexuality and disseminated information on safer sexual behavior in culturally appropriate ways.
This book is a powerful resource for individuals and organizations concerned with community-based health and social development programs, both within and outside Nepal. It carries a message of hope as communities and those who support them demonstrate how they can respond effectively to an emerging epidemic.

Cooking for Life by Donald P. Kotler

1996-12-02T00:30:00-05:00

Cooking for Life A Guide to Nutrition and Food Safety for the HIV-Positive Community
Written by Robert H. Lehmann
Foreword by Donald P. Kotler

Trade Paperback, 276 pages | Dell | Health & Fitness - Diets; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv; Cooking | $19.00 | 978-0-440-50753-6 (0-440-50753-7)

A.I.D.S. Today and Tomorrow by Robert S. Walker

1994-08-01T00:30:00-05:00

A.I.D.S. Today and Tomorrow
Written by Robert S. Walker

Trade Paperback, 275 pages | Humanity Books | Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv | $22.99 | 978-1-57392-488-7 (1-57392-488-1)

Since its publication in 1991, Robert Walker's book has become the standard student text on AIDS--for courses dealing with both social issues and natural disasters or epidemics. This completely revised second edition is updated through the spring of 1994 and includes data released at that time.

With a broad-based introduction, utilizing a wide-range of sources in a unified and manageable way, Walker uses the virus itself, its characteristics, and our perception of it, as the foundation for his analysis. The character of the epidemic is seen as a function of the virus, thus his examination integrates politics, economics, avoidance issues, and scientific research with the biology of HIV.

Topics include discussions of linguistic usages and metaphors applied to AIDS and their consequent policy significance; the impact of the epidemic on those professional groups engaged in researching cures and treatments; a historical-epidemiological comparison of the bubonic plague and the AIDS epidemic; the policy implications deriving from the nature of HIV itself; behavior impact on individuals seeking to avoid AIDS; avoidance strategy and risk assessment; economic and political impacts; and a conjectural view of the future through the prism of the current epidemic.

Random House New Releases - Health & Fitness - Diseases - Aids & Hiv

Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 2: Physical Illness by Robert Schwartz

Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 2: Physical Illness Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were BornWritten by Robert Schwartz

Talk Softly by Cynthia O'Neal

Talk Softly A MemoirWritten by Cynthia O'Neal

Gaia and the New Politics of Love by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Gaia and the New Politics of Love Notes for a Poly PlanetWritten by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Talk Softly by Cynthia O'Neal

Talk Softly A MemoirWritten by Cynthia O'Neal

Gaia and the New Politics of Love by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Gaia and the New Politics of Love Notes for a Poly PlanetWritten by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Science Sold Out by Harvey Bialy

Science Sold Out Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?Written by Rebecca Culshaw Foreword by Harvey Bialy

Seasonal Fires by Ingrid De Kok

Seasonal Fires New and Selected PoemsWritten by Ingrid De Kok

The Secret Epidemic by Jacob Levenson

The Secret Epidemic The Story of AIDS and Black AmericaWritten by Jacob Levenson

A Small Gathering of Bones by Patricia Powell

A Small Gathering of Bones Written by Patricia Powell

AIDS by James Feast

AIDS A Second OpinionWritten by Gary Null Contribution by James Feast

Amores Locos y los Peligros del Contagio by Gonzalo Aburto Iniesta

Amores Locos y los Peligros del Contagio Written by Gonzalo Aburto Iniesta

Love Undetectable by Andrew Sullivan

Love Undetectable Notes on Friendship, Sex, and SurvivalWritten by Andrew Sullivan

The Second Decade of AIDS by Michael Shernoff, CSW, ACSW

The Second Decade of AIDS A Mental Health Practice HandbookEdited by Walt Odets, Ph.D. and Michael Shernoff, CSW, ACSW

AIDS in Nepal by Jill Hannum

AIDS in Nepal Communities Confronting an Emerging EpidemicWritten by Jill Hannum

Cooking for Life by Donald P. Kotler

Cooking for Life A Guide to Nutrition and Food Safety for the HIV-Positive CommunityWritten by Robert H. Lehmann Foreword by Donald P. Kotler

A.I.D.S. Today and Tomorrow by Robert S. Walker

A.I.D.S. Today and Tomorrow Written by Robert S. Walker

Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 2: Physical Illness Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Written by Robert Schwartz

Talk Softly A Memoir
Written by Cynthia O'Neal

Gaia and the New Politics of Love Notes for a Poly Planet
Written by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Talk Softly A Memoir
Written by Cynthia O'Neal

Gaia and the New Politics of Love Notes for a Poly Planet
Written by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

Science Sold Out Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?
Written by Rebecca Culshaw
Foreword by Harvey Bialy

Seasonal Fires New and Selected Poems
Written by Ingrid De Kok

The Secret Epidemic The Story of AIDS and Black America
Written by Jacob Levenson

A Small Gathering of Bones
Written by Patricia Powell

AIDS A Second Opinion
Written by Gary Null
Contribution by James Feast

Amores Locos y los Peligros del Contagio
Written by Gonzalo Aburto Iniesta

Love Undetectable Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
Written by Andrew Sullivan

The Second Decade of AIDS A Mental Health Practice Handbook
Edited by Walt Odets, Ph.D. and Michael Shernoff, CSW, ACSW

AIDS in Nepal Communities Confronting an Emerging Epidemic
Written by Jill Hannum

Cooking for Life A Guide to Nutrition and Food Safety for the HIV-Positive Community
Written by Robert H. Lehmann
Foreword by Donald P. Kotler

A.I.D.S. Today and Tomorrow
Written by Robert S. Walker