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With Charity for All
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Written by Ken Stern
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95
Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight... Read more >
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Written by Ken Stern
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95
Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight... Read more >
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $12.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $12.99
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Close Encounters with Addiction
Written by Gabor Mate, M.D.
Foreword by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 520 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $17.95
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined... Read more >
Close Encounters with Addiction
Written by Gabor Mate, M.D.
Foreword by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 520 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $17.95
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined... Read more >
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Dakini Power
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. Read more >
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. Read more >
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Written by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $9.99
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from... Read more >
Written by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $9.99
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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The Last Men on Top
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
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The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Trade Paperback, 1344 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Price: $25.00
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost... Read more >
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Trade Paperback, 1344 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Price: $25.00
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing... Read more >
America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing... Read more >
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Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >
Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
