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The
Latest Books
April
2011
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Each month,
except for January, Phoenix Rising Books features
20 new titles sourced from publishers both in
Australia and overseas.
The selection covers
the leading edge material across holistic (mind,
body and soul) subject area.
This page has the
ten new books for the month.
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Reconciliation
Thich Nhat Hanh
PB AUD29.95
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Zen Master Thich Nhat
Hanh, offers unique insights on how mindfulness
practice can encourage wellness and balanced mental
health, and help heal childhood suffering and
trauma.
With personal stories,
techniques for dealing with old and new situations,
and advice for building strong and long-lasting
relationships, Reconciliation is full of concrete
practices for healing the inner child. Nhat Hanh
shows how mindfulness can transform anger, sadness,
and fear and allow joy and tranquility to flourish.
He states: "Your
wounded child may represent several generations.
Maybe your parents and grandparents had the same
problem. If you generate the energy of mindfulness,
understanding, and compassion for your wounded
child, you will suffer much less."
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Reunion
Ellen Gunter
PB AUD34.95
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From the earliest mythologies, it's
clear we all start as a little bit of dirt. But
these stories aren't just entertaining. They also
carry a profound message: each of us is born with
a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one
that many of us have lost touch with.
The authors, Ellen Gunter and Ted
Carter, spent more than two years interviewing
organic and biodynamic farmers, environmentalists,
filmmakers, authors, farming advocates, teachers,
and spiritual leaders to understand how that connection
is present in our lives-and how we can begin to
see it ourselves.
Using historical narratives, dozens
of simple and profound practices and examples
of people whose adventures in earth stewardship
are showing us the way to our own roles in the
world's environmental crises, this book is about
how we rediscover and repair that connection ourselves-and
by doing that, open ourselves up to solutions
we had never considered before.
Read
Sue's review
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The Three Laws of Performance
Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
PB AUD37.95
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The power in this book stems from
using the Three Laws of Performance. The authors
state that a law isn't a rule, tip, or step, but
distinguishes the moving parts at play behind
an observable phenomenon.
When the Three Laws in this book
are applied, performance transforms to a level
far beyond what most people think is possible.
It doesn't happen bit by bit, but all at once,
as individuals and organizations rewrite their
future.
The first section takes these laws,
one at a time, and shows how to apply them. You'll
see how to jettison what's holding you back, create
a future for your business, and your life beyond
what's predictably going to happen. Section Two
looks at leadership in light of the Three Laws.
This section identifies key leadership
principles, and how to apply them in organizations.
We also look at the new frontier of organizations:
working effectively in the developing world, creating
sustainability in communities, and generating
the expansion of wealth (both material and in
the well-being of people). Section Three is about
the personal face of leadership.
This book is not an academic study,
although its conclusions draw on well-established
lines of research.
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Kabbalah for the Student
Rav. Michael Laitman (Editor)
PB AUD52.00
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The greatest contemporary Kabbalists,
Rav Yehuda Ashlag, and his son and successor,
Rav Baruch Ashlag, provide valid answers to life's
most fundamental question: "What is the meaning
of my life?"
Based on their interpretations of
The Book of Zohar, and The Tree of Life, we can
now learn how to benefit from the wisdom of Kabbalah
on a day-to-day basis. In addition to authentic
texts by these great Kabbalists, this book offers
illustrations that accurately depict the evolution
of the Upper Worlds as Kabbalists experience them,
as well as several helpful essays to enhance our
understanding of the texts.
Rav Michael Laitman, PhD, Rav Baruch
Ashlag's personal assistant and prime student,
compiled all the texts a Kabbalah student would
need in order to attain the spiritual worlds.
In his daily lessons, Rav Laitman bases his teaching
on these inspiring texts, thus helping novices
and veterans alike to better understand the spiritual
path we undertake on our fascinating journey to
the Higher Realms.
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Rewire Your Brain
John B. Arden
PB AUD22.95
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Not long ago, it was thought that
the brain you were born with was the brain you
would die with, and that the brain cells you had
at birth were the most you would ever possess.
Your brain was thought to be "hardwired"
to function in predetermined ways. It turns out
that's not true.
Your brain is not hardwired, it's
"softwired" by experience. This book
shows you how you can rewire parts of the brain
to feel more positive about your life, remain
calm during stressful times, and improve your
social relationships.
Written by a leader in the field
of Brain-Based Therapy, it teaches you how to
activate the parts of your brain that have been
under activated and calm down those areas that
have been hyper activated so that you feel positive
about your life and remain calm during stressful
times.
You will also learn to improve your
memory, boost your mood, have better relationships,
and get a good night sleep.
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The Mindful Child
Susan Kaiser Greenland
PB AUD25.00
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Mindful awareness works by
enabling you to pay closer attention to
what is happening within you, your thoughts,
feelings, and emotions, so you can better
understand what is happening to you.
The Mindful Child extends
the vast benefits of mindfulness training
to children from four to eighteen years
old with age-appropriate exercises, songs,
games, and fables that Susan Kaiser Greenland
has developed over more than a decade of
teaching mindful awareness to kids.
These fun and friendly techniques
build kids' inner and outer awareness and
attention, which positively affects their
academic performance as well as their social
and emotional skills, such as making friends,
being compassionate and kind to others,
and playing sports, while also providing
tools to manage stress and to overcome specific
challenges like insomnia, overeating, ADHD,
hyper-perfectionism, anxiety, and chronic
pain.
When children take a few moments
before responding to stressful situations,
they allow their own healthy inner compasses
to click in and guide them to become more
thoughtful, resilient, and empathetic. The
step-by-step process of mental training
presented in The Mindful Child provides
tools from which all children, and all families,
will benefit.
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Where Can Peace
be Found
J. Krishnamurti
PB AUD32.95
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In Where Can Peace Be Found?
Krishnamurti focuses on how the war and
destruction we human beings wreak on each
other and the environment are primarily
caused by our feelings of nationalism and
by a misplaced attachment to religion.
The root of the problems we
face in our world-primarily war and hatred
of one another-is due to an attachment to
a sense of self and individuality that leads
to aggression, competition, greed, and conflict.
When we free ourselves from
our conditioning by recognizing that our
consciousness is not individual but common
to all humans, we can finally work together
in a spirit of cooperation and compassion.
Krishnamurti teaches that
each of us needs to take personal responsibility
for our actions and reactions-in our relationships
and in our lives-as a necessary first step
toward a more global view of reality.
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Intuition- Keys
to Unlocking Your Inner Wisdom
Paul Fenton-Smith
PB AUD34.95
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Well developed intuition can
help you to achieve success in love, career
and in your social life. Discover the closely
guarded secrets of a professional clairvoyant
through games and exercises as you learn
these powerful psychic techniques.
At any moment in life, you
stand between your footprints and your future.
Look back closely at where you have been,
as your steps have led you here. Glance
ahead with confidence that in the end, your
life journey is both a gift and a puzzle.
Strengthening your intuition helps you to
understand this puzzle, which then allows
you to enjoy your gift.
In simple steps this book
shows you how to strengthen your intuition.
You'll also; discover your natural psychic
strengths; gradually master a range of effective
intuitive techniques including telepathy,
clairvoyance, seeing auras, intuitive dreams,
meditation and sensing your best life direction;
recognise the importance of psychic cleansing
and protection for psychic safety; enjoy
a range of games and exercises for improving
your intuition; value the ways you nourish
your soul or psyche and learn about the
importance of psychic etiquette.
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Work, Sex and Money
Chogyam Trungpa
PB AUD33.00
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Each day we deal with the
challenges of ordinary life: a series of
mundane experiences that could be summarized
by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money.
We all hope that these aspects
of our life will be a source of fulfillment
and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they
are also always sources of problems for
which we seek practical advice and solutions.
The best prescription, according
to Chögyam Trungpa, is a dose of reality
and also a dose of respect for our world
and ourselves. His profound teachings on
work, sex, and money celebrate the sacredness
of life and our ability to cope with its
twists and turns with dignity, humour, and
even joy.
He begins by breaking down
the barrier between the spiritual and the
mundane, showing that work, sex, and money
are just as much a part of our spiritual
life as they are a part of our everyday
existence.
He then discusses these subjects
in relation to ego and self-image, karma,
mindfulness, and meditation. "Work"
includes general principles of mindfulness
and awareness in how we conduct everyday
life as well as discussion of ethics in
business and the workplace. "Sex"
is about relationships and communication
as a whole. "Money" looks at how
we view the economics of livelihood and
money as "green energy" that affects
our lives.
The result is an inclusive
vision of life, one that encompasses the
biggest issues and the smallest details
of every day.
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The Buying Brain
Dr. A.K. Pradeep
HC AUD38.00
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It is feasible that 95% of
our decisions are made by the subconscious
mind.
As a result, the world's largest
and most sophisticated companies are applying
the latest advances in neuroscience to create
brands, products, package designs, marketing
campaigns, store environments, and much
more, that are designed to appeal directly
and powerfully to our brains.
The Buying Brain offers an
in-depth exploration of how cutting-edge
neuroscience is having an impact on how
we make, buy, sell, and enjoy everything,
and also probes deeper questions on how
this new knowledge can enhance customers'
lives.
The Buying Brain gives you
the key to; brain-friendly product concepts,
design, prototypes, and formulation; highly
effective packaging, pricing, advertising,
and in-store marketing and building stronger
brands that attract deeper consumer loyalty.
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For
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2 of the New Releases for April 2011
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