A mystery, a love story and a searching inquiry into our deepest questions: the origin of consciousness, the fiction of matter, the truth of deraming, the eternal paradox at the cneter of being --- and ultimately: how to live on our benevolent, but fragile planet, in our vast and thinking universe. It's and illuminating glimpse of Divinity to which Science so eloquently points the way.
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Explores an area that has long intrigued scientists and educators: the linkages between the side of the body we favor for seeing, hearing, touching, and moving and the way we think, learn, play, and relate to others. Your Dominance Profile is actually a key factor in shaping the way you think and act...
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Explains why and how successful learning occurs. It is a practical guide for producing confident, eager learners at any age, in any school. Peter Kline's ideas and his ability to apply them in practical, down-to-earth situations have already helped transform the lives of many children, their families, and teachers...
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Explores the elemnts of folk art that make it so universally appealing.
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Dave Carey is desperate for a breakthrough. His life is unraveling and none ofhis considerable prestige and experience is helping. A chance encounter reconnects him with Adam, renowned artist and teacher of the Genesis Principle. During an intense weekend in the woods, Adam puts Dave to the fire with experiences both searing and expanding to bring him face to face with the Source of Creativity.
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The story of Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche's nationwide speaking tour to introduce the American public to the teachings and works of her Buddha Master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The author's descriptions of the places and people she meets on the road are interwoven with teachings of the Buddha and stories of her own life experiences as a Buddhist practitioner...
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Author Ray Mulry combines his deep and practical knowledge of the inner dynamics of athletic and mental proficiency with his wide experience and skill as a teacher and therapist to present the key elements of mind/body mastery: Relaxation, Balance, Flexibility, and Focus...
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Food, we can't live without it, yet its costs are rising and consuming more of the family budget. In addition, health concerns about the use of pesticides, gmo foods, and potential soil mineral depletion in the food supply inspire more people to want to grow their own vegetables. Many of these live in cities with only small yard spaces...
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Ever forgotten the ABC song? Songs learned in childhood are remembered for a lifetime. Now for my Next Number! presents a collection of colorful, easy-to-sing, easy-to-memorize songs that will help children practice and learn multiplication. Each song features a number and its multiples and tells a story in rhythm, rhyme, melody and pictures, making math a lively and multi-sensory activity...
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Our ideas about what we are and what we are capable of lag far behind what the science of the last hundred years has shown us. We are vibrational fields in a sea of vibrational fields, open to all potential. We are dynamic, learning beings with unavoidable power to influence one another and the surrounding world...
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The narrations in this book are all true stories that the author, Zheng Hui Shi, saw, heard, experienced, and actually participated in during the twelve years spanning 2001 to 2013. Living inside the home base she was able to observe from a close distance, the Buddha and the True Buddha-dharma...
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This book is designed to help you learn better, to study better, and to do better in school. Its aim is to make you successful at the things in life that are most important to you. We'll try to make it as enjoyable and as revelant to you personally as we possibly can- because that is the key to successful learning for everyone.
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Launa Ellison provides the reader with a set of magic glasses to more powerfully see and know the whole child. She uses the latest brain-based models of learning as clarifying lenses that guider her choices and goals for each of her students. Ms. Ellison shows these new models in action as she presents an inviting picture of her own classroom and the human beings in it.
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Neurophysiologist and educator Dr. Carla Hannaford brings the latest insights from scientific research to questions that affect learners of all ages. Examining the body's role in learning, from infancy through adulthood she presents the mounting scientific evidence that movement is crucial to learning.Dr...
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The autobiography of Madeleine Slade, a young English woman who renounced her heritage of privilege to become, as Mirabehn, the intimate and trusted disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.
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A mulit-purpose guide on how to turn every institution into a vital contributor to all its stakeholders. Peter Kline and Bernard Saunders have demystified the learning organization and translated its abstract and fuzzy notions into and extremely practical competitive strategy.
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A powerful guide to spiritual renewal and a spellbinding story of spiritual loss and discovery. Severely depressed, haunted by the past and by spiritual darkness, Susan maguire journeys to the outer chamber of the soul and emerges renewed, knowing, eager to sharetheoptimistic, lifesaving discoveriesin this book...
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