This book brings together for the first time many if the leading writers and thinkers from the psychological and mental health fields. Contributes include Robert Jay Lifton, Joanna Macy, Roger Walsh and others.

This book brings together for the first time many if the leading writers and thinkers from the psychological and mental health fields. Contributes include Robert Jay Lifton, Joanna Macy, Roger Walsh and others.

A collection of real life stories that share the lives of eight African-American individuals; it tells of the challenges and struggles they faced, many beginning in their childhood years. As you read this book you will laugh, you may cry, and we hope you will be challenged to find hope in whatever situations you face. If you love the Chicken Soup for the Soul books series you will enjoy this style. Share the love; get a book for you and one to share

This is a book that teaches and encourages believers to give unto the Lord without a struggle. It teaches the power of giving and that God expects us to give, and to give cheerfully at that.

The Gestaltbunker encapsulates the diversity of Paul A. Green's output during his long subterranean career. His engagement with nuclear apocalypse, global melt-down and the excesses of media landscaping is modulated through surreal inscapes and an intensifying torsion of language. He moves from mid-life grubbings in the basement of a psyche to marital praise-songs and celebrations. Yet the riddles of time and consciousness continue to pre-occupy him, whether encountered through magick, music or the mysteries of the city.

Today is the Day to Run Away is the story of a big toe's desire to run away and see the world. What would happen? Where would Big Right go? What about the fate of the other toes? This whimsical story will pique children's imagination. It's all about the management of competing demands, anticipation and change.

Just imagine for a moment that the Father of All Creation appointed one of his servants to usher in the changes needed to rebalance this universe and spark the dawning of a Golden Age where love and peace will reign. Well, imagine no further for that Servei Dei has been appointed and he is here. Throughout all ages and times, the Father has always had a hand in His creation by empowering a chosen one to hold the Rod of Power and bring secret teachings to select individuals that would rekindle the light of their inner divinity helping them to become God-realized. Now, as we rapidly approach a critical juncture of epochal change, Michael Edward Owens has been given the responsibility to usher in the spiritual currents that will foster humanity's next evolutionary step, a step that ancient calendars predict will begin December 21, 2012. His talks, as he travels the world spreading the seeds of wisdom that must precede humanity's new growth, are chronicled in the Sehaji Transcripts-Volume 1. Enjoy the spiritual feast it lays out before you and prepare yourself for these new, uplifting and exciting times

Through Slip Stream, Paula Green is interested in how to balance a challenging experience against the continuation of everyday life, and proposes small distractions and coping strategies: solving cryptic crossword puzzles, for example, the mock-clues of which are scattered through the poems. Making up a fluid, intensely felt narrative, these poems are untitled and mostly short, charting time passing and seasons turning by procedures done, books read, appointments made, food cooked and dreams dreamed. The language used is deceptively simple, but the poems speak to each other by these links, tricks and coping games. Though clearly deriving from Green's own experiences of surviving breast cancer, the sequence is not a simple, therapeutic record of true happenings but a carefully crafted collection after the fact, contrasting 'she doesn't try to make poetry out of her experience' against 'but keeps a diary like a scrap basket, just in case'. Slip Stream is both a moving but uplifting book about a experience with cancer and a writer's thoughtful exploration of how life may (or may not) be expressed in words. AUP's reader called it 'a brave and healing book full of pleasures'.

This is a new collection from established poet Paula Green of ""Flamingo Bendalingo"" fame, ""Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins"" is a poetic memoir in the light of art. It follows on from Paula's previous solo poetry collection, ""Crosswind"", which included collaborations with visual artists.""Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins"" was inspired by an invitation from the Auckland City Art Gallery to talk about their 2005 Frances Hodgkins exhibition. The eight opening poems focus on eight Hodgkins paintings and often use Green's characteristic list structure; the next part includes a number of autobiographical poems, lyrical and often beautiful, about the role art has played in her life. In the third section art moves into poetry, they intermingle in the works of some favourite artists and in the context of a recent illness; and, finally, a long poem 'Letter to Anne Kennedy' brings the main themes together. This is a polished collection from a fine poet.