Born Aware


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Discover an amazing phenomenon that hasn't been widely discussed or studied: some people have a conscious spiritual awareness at birth that is mature and clear. Born Aware delves into the effects of having been born conscious of our higher soul connection, what we can learn from it, and the implications for human consciousness and spirituality. Having innate spiritual awareness has affected Diane Brandon's life in remarkable ways, and this book chronicles her experiences as well as her efforts to learn from others who have been spiritually aware since birth. Using personal accounts and her own insights, Diane shows you how to access your spiritual awareness, even if you weren't born aware. Praise: "A compelling exploration of a spiritual phenomenon, Born Aware is fresh and engaging."—Foreword Reviews







Yoga For Pregnancy And Birth: Teach Yourself


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Yoga is an awareness of the link between breath, mind and body. The connection benefits the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing at all stages of life, but very noticeably during pregnancy. Yoga for Pregnancy and Birth offers you and your birth partner an effective, uniquely holistic technique which will help you maximise your health and wellbeing throughout pregnancy and beyond. It shows how to use yoga to give you a deeper insight into the process of pregnancy and create a yoga and breathing program which works uniquely for you and your baby. Learn a full range of adapted yoga postures intended to provide comfort, build stability and support the changes in your body. Breathing exercises will promote calm, boost vitality and help control labour pains, while yogic pelvic floor practices promote healthy tone and flexibility. And downloadable audio helps you set the pace of your breathing. Your pregnancy is a remarkable journey; learn how to use yoga to increase your comfort and control, and develop the skills to approach your labour with confidence. ABOUT THE SERIES People have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical, how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for whatever you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.




Students in Action


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This book chronicles our work on cogenerative dialoguing in high schools and an elementary school. Cogenerative dialoguing brings together students, teachers, and other relevant stakeholders in the educational enterprise to make sense of some common teaching—learning experiences and issues arising thereof in order to design changes in their environment for the purpose of improving the teaching—learning situation.




Others in Mind


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Based on empirical observations, this innovative book explores self-consciousness, how it originates and how it shapes our lives.




Racial Culture


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What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices. Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that would attempt to apply civil rights protections to "cultural difference." Unlike many criticisms of multiculturalism, which worry about "reverse discrimination" or the erosion of core Western cultural values, the book's argument is primarily focused on the adverse effects of multicultural rhetoric and multicultural rights on their supposed beneficiaries. In clear and compelling prose, Ford argues that multicultural accounts of cultural difference do not accurately describe the practices of social groups. Instead these accounts are prescriptive: they attempt to canonize a narrow, parochial, and contestable set of ideas about appropriate group culture and to discredit more cosmopolitan lifestyles, commitments, and values. The book argues that far from remedying discrimination and status hierarchy, "cultural rights" share the ideological presuppositions, and participate in the discursive and institutional practices, of racism, sexism, and homophobia. Ford offers specific examples in support of this thesis, in diverse contexts such as employment discrimination, affirmative action, and transracial adoption. This is a major contribution to our understanding of today's politics of race, by one of the most distinctive and important young voices in America's legal academy.




Focus on Golf


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Focus On Golf - Creating The Golfer's Edge will introduce you to EA Tischler's view on the process of playing golf. It addresses the golfer's underlined disposition and how to cultivate your disposition so that you will be predisposed to act and react productively on the golf course. That process involves creating a vision of how you will conduct yourself, developing a productive attitude, being genuine and open minded. Part Two of the book discusses the Cornerstones of Improvement. Those cornerstones involve Readiness - The Goal of Preparation, Performance - The Goal of Action, Recommitting - Staying the Course, and Composure - Being Purposeful in Golf. Then in Part Three of the book you will engage in exercises for Mindfulness, Imagery, and Focus. In short Focus On Golf addresses the inner game issues that influence developing the type of focus needed to play the game with heightened awareness and at a very high level of performance.




Shifting Ground


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This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think that we can do without usable articulations of concepts such as truth, reality, and objectivity, she maintains (as in the title of one of her essays) that epistemology needs to be "resuscitated" as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. While each essay contributes to a specific conversation, taken together they argue for addressing theoretical questions as they arise concretely. Truth, reality, objectivity, and other concepts that problematically rest on shifting ground are more than philosophical toys, and the ground-shifting these essays enact is a move away from abstruse theorizing-analytic and post-structuralist alike. Following Wittgenstein's injunctions to just look, to attend to the "rough ground" of everyday practices, Scheman argues for finding philosophical insight in such acts of attention and in the difficulties that beset them. These essays are an attempt to grasp something in particular, to get a handle on a set of problems, and collectively they represent a fresh model of passionate philosophical engagement.




House of the Fortunate Buddhas


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A searingly funny and passionate fictional monologue of woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life in 1950s Brazil.




Sparrow Speaks in This Poetic African American History


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Barbara Julian Dean, Sparrow Author, Dramatist, Newspaper Reporter and Playwright, is a native of Chicago, Illinois. In addition to giving dramatic recitations in Elementary, High Schools, Universities and Churches, she has entertained in the Prisons. She has appeared on television and radio shows and her poetry has been published in various newspapers and magazines. She s also an educator and a pastor a founder and director of the Gospel Music Hour Outreach Ministry in Homewood, Illinois. Since the second release of her book Open Door Open Mind, Sparrow has been working with young people in Chicago public schools and as an instructor at Harold Washington College. As an educator, she is able to inspire students with her message to look up! (love over and over, kindle universal peace). Her works has been accepted by the Chicago Public Library; the American Library Association, the Library of International Relations; the Canadian Library Association, Ottowa, Canada; the Library Association of Great Britain, London, England; the Library of the University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; the Misyani Girls Secondary School, Machakos, Kenya, East Africa, and commercial bookstores in Chicago, Illinois.