Selling Spirituality

From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultural addiction that reflects orthodox politics, curbs self-expression and colonizes Eastern beliefs. Exposing how spirituality has today come to embody the privatization of religion in the modern West, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King reveal the people and brands who profit from this corporate hijack, and explore how spirituality can be reclaimed as a means of resistance to capitalism and its deceptions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Richard King

J. Carrette

Sociology

Routledge

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change\nThere is no present in Wales, 
And no future; 
There is only the past, 
Brittle with relics. 
- 'A Welsh Landscape', R. S. Thomas\nIn the closing third of the twentieth century, Wales experienced the simultaneous effects of deindustrialisation, the subsequent loss of employment and community cohesion, and the struggle for its language and identity. These changes were largely forced upon the country, whose own voice, rarely agreed upon within its borders, had to fight to be heard outside of Wales.\nBrittle with Relics is a history of the people of Wales undergoing some of the country's most seismic and traumatic events: the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh language movement; the Miners' Strike and its aftermath; and the narrow vote in favour of partial devolution.\nFeaturing the voices of Neil Kinnock, Rowan Williams, Leanne Wood, Gruff Rhys, Michael Sheen, Nicky Wire, Sian James, Welsh language activists, members of former mining communities and many more, this is a vital history of a nation determined to survive, while maintaining the hope that Wales will one day thrive on its own terms.

Brittle With Relics

History

Europe

Faber&Faber

Original Rockers

Original Rockers is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of the several years that Richard King spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records - a business run from the heart rather than the head. King brings that lost environment back to life - the sounds, the smells and the people - along with a vivid sense of how it feels to discover taste-shaping records and the artists who created them for the first time. Original Rockers evokes a golden moment in British cultural history, and celebrates the magical abandon that music offers us.

Arts & Photography

Music

A ROCK READER

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

My Maggie is a rare and real love story. Rich and Maggie King were two people who never gave up on each other a testament to a love few have the will to attain. She was his childhood sweetheart and wife of thirty two years. Diagnosed with hearing loss at the age of four, she wore cumbersome hearing aids and felt the humiliation of being different. Slowly, an insidious disease robbed her of vision. She fought three different cancers, changed careers in the middle of her life and fought to realize her dreams. Yet, underneath these great challenges, there was an incredible love shared by two people. It was cemented by adversity and reached a near perfect spiritual connection. They lived a classic old fashioned love story. King shares one of the most powerful, complex, and memorable love stories ever written. It is an American story of great heroism, courage, and devotion. Maggie was a woman who understood how to lead a happy life and then led it, in spite of the challenges placed in front of her. My Maggie is great drama, great passion, and great fun. It is a book written with a love so immense it almost defies description. 65% of the royalties from this book will be donated to: The Lighthouse for the Blind The American Cancer Society

My Maggie

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

HPH Publishing

Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain Filled with hope, scientifically researched data, and 80 individual patient narratives, this resource focuses on a "hands-on" therapy that has been very successful in treating female infertility and other complex conditions, in published studies. Full description

Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Belinda Wurn

Larry Wurn

Women's Health

Med-Art Press

Unexpected breakthroughs that bring hope and healthThe Wurn Technique® has restored quality of life to many people suffering adhesion-related pain. It is producing countless unanticipated benefits &ndash; including restored female fertility &ndash; as its story continues to unfold.In 1985, physical therapist Belinda Wurn was told she would live in excruciating pain from adhesions for the rest of her life. She and her husband, Larry, didn't take it sitting down. Through extensive study, trial and error they developed an effective hands-on treatment to relieve Belinda's pain. Their technique proved valuable beyond what they had even imagined.Inspired by the results they witnessed, they established a clinic to provide care and compassion to people who, like Belinda, had been told by doctors there was no hope. The foundation of treatment was their Wurn Technique®, a deep 'hands on' therapy to affected muscles and organs. They found that it worked for most patients as it had for Belinda.Soon, they began hearing from patients who were experiencing a range of totally unexpected benefits. It started with a woman who had come to them as a last gasp effort to relieve severe pelvic pain. After completing the Wurn's therapy she was virtually pain-free; but it didn't end there. Before therapy, she was infertile due to seven years of totally blocked fallopian tubes. But after her visit to the Wurns, she called to say she had become pregnant &ndash; the good old fashioned way. As word spread, physicians began referring women with pain or infertility despite years of expensive medical treatments, surgery or IVF. One doctor referred his wife, 12 years' infertile and entering menopause. Most of these women (including the doctor's wife) had natural pregnancies and easy births after the Wurns' therapy. To their delight, many found that desire and orgasms increased, or sex was no longer painful.Then reports came in from others with similar stories of unanticipated positive results. In the face of these, and with the encouragement of the medical community, Belinda and Larry began expanding their horizons.Overcome Infertility or Pain, Naturally is the fascinating story of these breakthroughs. It details the science behind the Wurn Technique® and presents the results of rigorous medical studies. It shares the dramatic narratives of women who had been declared medically infertile and went on to become "miracle moms." And it shines the light on many areas of new hope for people suffering a range of painful symptoms, from intestinal blockages to hormonal problems.This is a book of inspiration and hope built on a rock solid foundation of good, sound science and fact. It is required reading for anyone seeking solutions to female infertility, pain (whether unexplained, or related to adhesions or endometriosis), and other adhesion-related problems.

Overcome Infertility and Pain, Naturally

CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP

Amy Parker

Mary Dennis

Jackie Schuld

Joanna Culley

Lisa Ibarra-Rivera

Gisele Malenfant

Parenting & Relationships

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834, and 1835: Under the Command of Capt. Back, R.N.

Arctic & Antarctica

Nabu Press

A Study of Ancient African History reveals an early African definitions of the human melanin system as a whole body Black Melanin System that serves as the eye of the soul to produce inner vision , true spiritual consciousness , creative genius , beatific vision , to become godlike , and to have conversation with immortals . The purpose of ancient education was to provide knowledge and development of the will of the student that allowed salvation of the soul from the fetters of the physical body .

Melanin : A Key To Freedom

M.D.

Philosophy

Afrikan World Books

The Ancient Egyptian knew the relationship of the pineal gland to higher states of conciousness more than 4000 years before its rediscovery by modern biological psychiatry . The concept of an african origin of biological psychiatry is based on a review of the material evience related to the eye od horus , found in the tomb of Pharoah Tutankh -amun

African Origin of Biological Psychiatry

Medical Books

Psychology

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