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In his thought-provoking new book, the author ventures far outside the box of traditional thinking about education. His radical proposal? Children naturally want to learn, so let them direct their own education in democratic learning communities where they can interact seamlessly with their neighbourhoods, their towns, and the world at large. Most learning systems apply external motivation through grades, rankings, teacher direction, and approval. 'The Happy Child' suggests that a self-motivated child who is interdependent within a community can develop the full human potential to live a creative and fulfilling life. Harrison focuses on the integration of the whole child, the learning environment, and the non-coercive spirit of curiosity-driven education. With practical suggestions, Harrison details how to provide a living and responsive environment that can meet the expanding mind of a child--an environment that is non-coercive, democratic, and relationship-based. A child can thrive in a model where all participants view the child as an interdependent individual in the community--an individual who is both expressive and fully responsible. A happy child will flourish with an education that recognises that the child is already fully expressive and relating to life. And a happy child, the author, asserts, is at the core of a truly functional and creative society.

This profound exposition of the truths of an integrated life challenges the reader to confront difficulty with authentic spirituality. Meditation, the practice of silence, and the body of mystical experience are all effective forces that confound evil and give us the means to live a loving life. Beatrice Bruteau is both a brilliant synthesiser and an original thinker. The book describes the value of meditation, leisure, relaxing the body, and keeping silent for a period of time -- all within the context of the ordinary demands of life. There is a role to be played by imagination, mythology, and self-image in either promoting or interfering with our ability to 'find our base and our centre in the sense of eternity and wholeness'. As the founder of an international network for contemplatives of all traditions, Bruteau is able to present her practical spirituality in terms that all readers can understand, no matter what their backgrounds. The book also expresses the idea that our growing global interdependence -- cultural, economic, and ecological -- can help us to 'sense the reality of each person within the unity of shared life' and thus be motivated to act in the interests of the larger community.

Some have called this book the greatest novella of the modern era, others have named it the finest example of philosophical thinking in the last fifty years. Scholars have declared it a rare and astounding menippean satire, a seriocomic stroll through the carnival of life. Unfortunately few of these admiring critics were sober; those that were not inebriated were of questionable sanity; and none were willing to be quoted here. This is a new and revolutionary book in which the reader constructs the meaning of what is read, and what the obsequious critics missed is that without their construction there is no meaning at all contained within these pages.

Anyone who agrees that the hype around the 2012 prophecies needs skewering, and who enjoys penetrating wit served up with a healthy dose of enlightened perspective, will find that 2013 is the essential guide to survival and prosperity when the world ends. Whether that end comes through a meteor impact, a viral pandemic, a changing climate, or simply the wrath of God, N Nosirrah offers a brief escape from the overwhelming terror that can come when facing the end of the world. He explores the end times and world monetary collapse with insights that are undaunted by their self-contradictions, witticism that never lets up, and the promise of multi-level marketing. This is a self-help survival manual cum novella for the reality-challenged, explores the place where profit is made, a place found between our world of fiction and the unseen world of truth, and suggests that it is possible to make a fortune, get enlightened, and laugh uproariously when the world ends. If "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" took you to the edge, 2013 will push you over.

This book reveals how seemingly benign elements of American culture are making millions of children chronically ill, disabled, or dysfunctional. Children are being diagnosed with illnesses such as autism, asthma, allergies, and ADHD at a breathtaking rate. The aetiology of autism continues to confound mainstream medicine, yet parents, medical researchers, and healthcare practitioners dedicated to unravelling the mystery are beginning to put the pieces of the puzzle into place. They have found that environmental factors that cause autism are the same ones causing epidemics of ADHD, juvenile diabetes, asthma, gastrointestinal disorders, and many other chronic illnesses. Although the specific pathophysiology of each individual child's illness varies, they all have the same basic underlying causes. It is a "perfect storm" of environmental factors including decades of pharmaceutical over-usage, toxic or nutritionally anemic diets, excessive exposure to environmental toxins, specific American habits and lifestyles, and excessive or improperly administered vaccines. The book provides details on how this epidemic can be reversed and how to prevent more children from becoming ill, supplying evidence that children can recover from chronic illnesses, including autism, by altering their environmental influences and by stepping outside of the traditional western medical paradigm.

N Nosirrah is considered by his followers to be perhaps the most notable writer and speaker of the past century on the Way of the Mystic, while his critics insist that the man is functionally illiterate, a fraud, and possibly a lunatic. Nosirrah himself maintains that since neither he, his fans, nor his critics exist, he is therefore in an unknowable state beyond any form of praise or critique. As such, the author was unable to authorise his own autobiography, which appears before us today as the remarkable spiritual memoir Practical Obsession. In this magnum opus, the enigmatic mystic reveals himself in great detail, including the fact that he died shortly after birth and that a rare genetic disorder produced in him an enlightened state in early childhood. A true master of consciousness, he recounts his travels through the inner and outer worlds, topping them off with a tender tale of love. Readers will find that the mystic's life itself is a radiant message for humankind. According to the publisher, "few lives have been as fascinating as the life of Nosirrah, or could point so directly to the essential truths of our existence, and more importantly, perhaps, to our non-existence".

In Still Trending, author Kenneth N. Weiss transports us back to the earliest form of “social media”. Some of the similarities we observe over time are startling, and two realities remain steadfastly true: The country has a rich and often troubled history as a democracy, and time and time again, we manage to work through our differences. Democracy not only survives but emerges stronger than ever before.

A delusional memoir of the author's unrelenting investigation into the erotic, which many would consider absurdist satire but the few recognize as the deepest truth. To understand what this masterpiece points to, you must immerse yourself so deeply in your desires and go where you dare not go in your own fractured psyche. Then, you can absolutely get what you want. Beware, when you get what you want, you also get what you don't want.