Practical advice for the curious seeker on how to jump-start a spiritual life. Today’s most inspiring teachers—meditation experts, alternative health practitioners, monks, medical doctors, and spiritual and popular self-help authors—provide you with insight and guidance on seeking spiritual understanding and focusing on what is most important in life. Other innovative features—including self-tests, spiritual practice suggestions and time capsule exercises—make this book an inviting first step on your path to a rewarding spiritual life.

Practical advice for the curious seeker on how to jump-start a spiritual life. Today’s most inspiring teachers—meditation experts, alternative health practitioners, monks, medical doctors, and spiritual and popular self-help authors—provide you with insight and guidance on seeking spiritual understanding and focusing on what is most important in life. Other innovative features—including self-tests, spiritual practice suggestions and time capsule exercises—make this book an inviting first step on your path to a rewarding spiritual life.

Growing up in the late 1800s, Black Elk saw that the American Indian way of life was in great danger of disappearing. In his old age, he told his life story, in great detail, to writer John Neihardt, allowing the spiritual beliefs, ceremonies, and religion of the Plains Indians to be preserved and passed on to new generations of Indian people. Black Elk fulfilled his vision of protecting his people as the Great Spirit had told him he was meant to do. Through historically accurate illustrations and photos, inspiring age-appropriate activities, and Black Elk's own words, this colorful biography introduces a remarkable person to children in a way they can understand and enjoy. Includes resources for parents and teachers, a list of important words to know, and a timeline of events in the life of Black Elk.

This engaging introduction to Dorothy Day will show you how one person can accomplish big things.

This colorful book introduces you to the world of Dorothy Day, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century. You will be inspired as you learn about Day s life from her efforts to further peace and equality as a young woman to her work helping the hungry and homeless with food, shelter, and unconditional love and her belief that we all have the power to make the world a better place.

Through enjoyable biography, activities inspired by Dorothy Day s values and beliefs, and Day s own words, "Dorothy Day: A Catholic Life of Action" will show you how to stand up for your beliefs and lead a life that inspires those around you to do the same.

Up-to-date and comprehensive how-to instruction on conducting effective online research. The competing Dummies guide on this topic is more than five years out of date, and the biggest book in the field is primarily an annotated list of Web sites, not a how-to.Written for a general audience -- people of all ages and backgrounds will find this book easy to read and understand without a technical background or advance knowledge of online researchSpecial chapter dedicated to informing writers of specific ways to research their fiction or nonfiction piecesThis book will help researchers and writers master the Internet. It provides detailed, practical techniques that the novice or experienced Internet user can immediately put to use. Clear explanations of the kinds of resource materials that can be accessed online are accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions on how to locate the Web sites through search engines, hyperlinks, and other methods. Screen shots from actual site searches show the reader how to interpret information on the credibility of the site's information, its sponsoring organization or personal owner, the currency of its data, and other important considerations when using the Internet as a research source. Techniques such as "drilling down" through layers of site and creating efficient search strings for databases will allow readers to find specific (and serendipitous) information with confidence and ease.