The Secret Power of Music

David Tame

A delightfully biased argument on what is the right music spanning various cultures and cults.

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On Playing the Flute

Johann Joachim Quantz

An exceptional treatise written by a master virtuoso that goes far beyond being a flute method illuminating the art of music and musicianship as a whole.

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Lasker's Manual of Chess

Emmanuel Lasker

World chess champion Emmanuel Lasker's great work covering every aspect of chess.

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You Can Save the Animals: 251 Ways to Stop Thoughtless Cruelty

Ingrid Newkirk

From one of the great peacemakers of our day--the real ones who demand nonviolence to all species--Ingrid Newkirk is among those whose deeds and words should be honored, studied, and put into practice.

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The Case for Animal Rights

Tom Regan

Very welcome to anyone who wants a "scientific" defense of animal rights.

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Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombe

Jane Goodall

Dramatic saga of 30 years in the life of Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman.

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Animal Liberation

Peter Singer

This book will continue to inspire people to take action against the cruelty against and exploitation of animals.

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The Dhammapada: Sayings of Buddha

Thomas F. Cleary

Buddha's beautiful, concise, and accessible aphorisms profoundly illustrate the serenity and unalterable dignity of the Buddhist path of light, love, peace and truth.

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Buddha Stories

Demi

Filled with wisdom and insight, this beautiful collection of fables will continue to educate and entertain for years to come.

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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice

Matthew Fox

A work urging that holistic spirituality embrace compassion as the heart of life.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story

Richard Bach

It is every gull's right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding the greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams - a spiritual classic!.

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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Richard Bach

Discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found deep within ourselves.

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Great Indian Epics: The Stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata

John C. Oman

A volume combining the two great Hindu sagas.

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How Can I Help: Stories and Reflections on Service

Ram Dass

Support and inspiration for members of the helping professions providing strength, clarity, and wisdom.

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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Swami Nikhilananda

Truly one of the spiritual treasures of the ages containing over 1,000 pages of dialogue capturing the words and essence of a man beloved not only in India but around the world as a pure expression of the divine.

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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A facinating self-portrait of possibly the greatest soul of this century.

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki

A remarkable book on Zen meditation - simplicity at it's best, and that is what makes it beautiful.

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The Inner Game of Tennis

Tim Gallwey

Much more than tennis - a book on life itself.

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Zen Comics

Ioanna Salajan

Zen teachings through comics - a most appropriate presentation of profound simplicity.

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Island

Aldous Huxley

Huxley's utopian masterpiece, this book is more than a novel - it is a philosophy and more than anything it is a book about hope, about what we as humans can achieve with just the right viewpoint.

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Reverence for Life

Albert Schweitzer

The classic by one of the world's great humanitarians.

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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing

Gary Colombo

Every essay is enjoyable and enlightening revealing the experiences of women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, working people and many other groups through their voices.

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Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas

Sy Montgomery

A sensitive and revealing contribution to the legend of a unique sisterhood telling of three women who each gave her mature life to the love, study, and defense of another primate species.

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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots

Robert D. Bullard

Exposing a not-so-obvious aspect of racism and the 'environmental oppression' endured by minorities.

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Faces of Environmental Racism

Laura Westra

A collection of essays on dealing with many issues surrounding racist actions on an environmental scale.

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The Animal Rights Crusade: The Growth of a Moral Protest

James M. Jasper

Revelation of the movement to treat animals with the dignity of living creatures.

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Slaughter of the Innocent

Hans Ruesch

A must for whoever considers himself a human being dealing both with moral issues and clinical issues.

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Pregnancy Children and the Vegan Diet

Michael Klaper

Nutritional information and recipes - a wonderfully informative book.

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A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Judy Krizmanic

Much more than a guide to modifying diet, this book takes pains to explain why vegetarianism is beneficial both to the individual and to the planet.

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Cookin' Healthy With One Foot Out the Door/Quick Meals for Fast Times

Polly Pitchford, Delia Quigley

A light-hearted look at easy and painless vegan cooking with over 140 creative ways to spend minimum time in the kitchen - most recipes taking less than 15 minutes preparation time, with easy-to-find ingredients.

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The Single Vegan: Simple, Convenient and Appetizing Meals for One

Leah Leneman

A mouth-watering selection of quick and easy-to-prepare vegan menus, all suitable for one person.

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The Peaceful Palate: Fine Vegetarian Cuisine

Jennifer Raymond

A delightful variety of low-fat, vegan recipes with information about protein.

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The scientific basis of vegetarianism

Dr. William Harris

Explains the hazards of our traditional diet (promoted by economic forces and governmental policies) and presents the case for a plant-based diet.

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Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Barbara Marx Hubbard

A pivotal turning point in human history, leading us into an era of heightened creativity, environmental accountability, and spiritual development.

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Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides

John Wargo

An expert in pesticide policy traces the history of pesticide law and science, focusing on the special hazards pesticides have presented to children past and present, and suggesting urgent reforms are necessary to protect them.

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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

Sandra Steingraber

A touchstone for generations, reminding us of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the integrity of our air, land, and water.

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Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes

Claudia S. Miller, Nicholas Askounes Ashford

Explains how day-to-day variations in chemical exposure can cause unusual and seemingly unpredictable symptoms (e.g. headache, breathing problems, anxiety, fatigue), including many that have in the past been termed psychosomatic.

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Eat Smart: A Guide to Good Health for Kids

Dale Figtree

A way to open a child's mind to the cause and solution of their weight problems.

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Our Stolen Future

Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski

This groundbreaking book first revealed that chemicals in the environment have affected human reproductive patterns in way that may threaten the survival of the species.

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The Healthy House: How to Buy One How to Build One How to Cure a Sick One

John Bower

For people trying to reduce toxic or irritating materials from their home, this book provides comprehensive coverage and thorough research.

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The Healthy Home Environment Guide

Raymond O'Connor

Provides the most up-to-date information on such in-home hazards as lead, asbestos, radon, formaldehyde, and electromagnetic fields, explaining how to measure theirpotential threats and make the home environmentally sound.

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Healthy Home Handbook: All You Need to Know to Rid Your Home of Health and Safety Hazards

John Warde

This book tells homeowners everything they need to know about the dangers of carbon monoxide, how to assess old wiring and safeguard electrical systems, silence unwanted noise, reduce and eliminate household allergies, and more.

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Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do

Helen Caldicott

Completely revised, updated, and expanded version of the 1978 classic, spotlighting the insidious influence of the nuclear power industry and calling on us to accept the moral challenge to fight against it, both for our own sake and for that of future generations.

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A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography

Helen Broinowski Caldicott

The memoirs of a mother of three, physician-activist and fighter for life and peace who blessed this world.

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If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth

Helen Caldicott

The renowned nuclear activist focuses her attention on ecological issues, providing solutions to ozone depletion, excess energy consumption, pollution, and global warming.

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A Celebration of Wellness: A Cookbook for Vibrant Living

James, M.D. Levin

A magnificent vegan uncookbook providing non-fat, healthy dishes with tastes and flavors that are outstanding.

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Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health

Thomas Hanna

A gentle program that reverses or avoids many of the effects associated with aging.

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The Body of Life: Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement

Thomas Hanna

Another of Hanna's works promoting an alternative approach to understanding our body.

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Fitness Without Stress - A Guide to the Alexander Technique

Robert Rickover

A guided tour from the beginning years of the Technique to its present.

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The Alexander Technique: How to Use Your Body Without Stress

Wilfred Barlow

A revolutionary method of bodywork providing the key to successful body dynamics.

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Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique

Michael J. Gelb

By unlearning common bad postural habits and ways of using the body, people can alleviate tension, fatigue, back pain, neck stiffness, asthma, headaches, depression, and many other ailments - photography for this book was done by Laura Huxley.

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Body Awareness in Action: A Study of the Alexander Technique

Frank Pierce. Jones

Remains one of the best books on this system of bodywork.

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Your Guide to the Alexander Technique

John Gray

Possibly this book may be the best Alexander book not written by FM Alexander himself.

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Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth

Moshe Feldenkrais

Provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body integrating physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness.

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A Gift for Healing: How You Can Use Therapeutic Touch

Deborah Cowens, Tom Monte

Will put readers in touch with powerful healing abilities that lie untapped in most people so they may learn to sustain and energize the force that is the source of life and health.

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Therapeutic Touch: A Practical Guide

Janet MacRae

Comprehensive instruction guide to the gentle, powerful, non-invasive healing technique being used increasingly both inside and outside the medical profession.

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The Touch of Healing: Energizing the Body, Mind, and Spirit With Jin Shin Jyutsu

Alice Burmeister

The means to greater health, vitality, and self-understanding through the practice of an ancient oriental healing art and practical holistic philosophy.

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Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing the Healing Touch into Home, Hospital and Hospice

Libby Barnett

Explains the body's energy system, and describes how Reiki can be used in a variety of settings to balance energy and create the conditions needed for healing.

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The Tellington TTouch: A Revolutionary Natural Method to Train and Care for Your Favorite Animal

Linda Tellington-Jones

Solid how-to advice that anyone can use on dogs, cats, horses, birds, even reptiles and exotic animals to show how to release the pain, fear, and tension so many animals suffer.

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Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field

Barbara Ann Brennan

A former NASA scientist and atmospheric physicist provides the first in-depth study of the human energy field--known in lay terms as "aura" presenting techniques on the leading edge of new consciousness and new medicine.

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Raw - The Uncook Book New Vegetarian Food for Life

Juliano

Gourmet raw cuisine - you'll be amazed by the creativity of the recipes in this book.

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Nature's First Law; The Raw-Food Diet

Stephen Arlin, David Wolfe et al

Benefits of a raw food diet are life transforming as explained in this very comprehensive book.

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Raw Power! Building Strength and Muscle Naturally

Stephen Arlin

The raw way to power and strength from an expert on the subject.

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The Sunfood Diet Success System: 36 Lessons in Health Transformation

David Wolfe

In a world full of information that confuses most people the Sunfood Diet Success System removes any confusion and allows you to live life full.

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Living Foods for Optimum Health

Brian R. Clement

With sample menus and more than 100 appetizing recipes, this raw food guide,prepared by the director of the Hippocrates Institute, makes the latest research and instructions available to all.

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The Complete Book of Food Combining: A New Approach to Healthy Eating

Jan Dries

A thorough exploration of the scientific and physiological principles of food combining explains how eating different foods together affects the digestive system, and provides new ways to relieve common digestive complaints.

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Survival into the Twenty First Century

Viktoras Kulvinskas

A true reference book, a compliation of hundreds of sources with an extensive bibliography - a true find on life as it may well needs to be.

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Sprouts For The Love Of Everybody

Viktoras Kulvinskas

A classic book about one of the most economic and nutritious food options available by a foremost authority on the subject.

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Conscious Eating

Gabriel Cousens

A book with uniqueness in that it addresses the subject of eating within the context of how it affects our spiritual development, our health and happiness.

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Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies

Cherie Soria

Raw food delights.

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Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzymes Concept

Edward Howell

Lays out the role that "enzymes" play in our life process - is a must read for anyone who's interested in improving their health.

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Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet

Brenda Davis, Victoria Harrison, Vesanto Melina

A comprehensive and up-to-the minute guide to achieving a healthful vegetarian lifestyle written by three highly qualified dietitians.

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Prescriptions for a Healthy House: A Practical Guide ...

Paula Baker, Erica Elliott, John Banta

Very useful information in a nitty-gritty reference manual that covers everything from theory to specification language in a way that can be applied to any construction type.

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Dr. Attwood's Low-Fat Prescription for Kids: A Pediatrician's Program

Charles R. Attwood, Benjamin Spock

A practical guide to changing children's high-fat eating habits from one of America's leading pediatricians debunking 12 common myths about low-fat diets and mapping out a realistic, four-stage switch to a meatless, complex-carbohydrate-based diet.

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Critical Pat

R. Buckminster Fuller

A summation of a life devoted to the betterment of all humanity and based on the premise that one individual can make a difference if he or she takes care of the things that need to be done.

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Natural Hygiene: The Pristine Way of Life

Herbert M. Shelton

A presentation of this system of health by one of its greatest advocates.

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The Science and Fine Art of Food and Nutrition

Herbert M. Shelton

The second volume from Shelton's work The Hygienic System.

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The New Natural House Book

David Pearson

A very comprehensive and up-to-date book providing cutting-edge information to transform our homes into havens for the body, mind and spirit.

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Healthy Healing: A Guide to Self-Healing for Everyone

Linda Rector Page

An encyclopedia-style reference with over 350 alternative healing remedies, and addresses alternative health care, over 150 specific ailments with recommendations, women's, men's, children's and even pet health issues, and more.

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The History and Principles of Natural Hygiene

Herbert M. Shelton

The Naturopathic Teachings of Doctors Jennings, Graham, Trall and Tilden.

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Immunization

Walene James

A book that explores the dangerous vaccination issue from political, ethical,psychological, aesthetic, and spiritual perspectives supported by the scientific discoveries of researchers who have received little recognition in orthodox medical literature.

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Diet for a New America

John Robbins

One of the most profound studies ever written of how our eating habits affect our lives, and indeed all of life on our planet.

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The Handbook of Self-Healing

Meir Schneider

Self-healing techniques that work on all parts of the body.

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Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing

Bernie S. Siegel

A reissue of the runaway bestseller that shows patients how to influence their own recovery, including a new introduction by the author who proves that love heals and miracles happen every day.

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How to Live Green, Cheap, and Happy: Save Money! Save the Planet!

Randi Hacker

A win-win approach to living.

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How to Raise a Healthy Child: In Spite of Your Doctor

Robert S. Mendelsohn

A renowned pediatrician and author advises parents on home treatment and diagnosis of colds and flu, childhood illnesses, vision and hearing problems, allergies, and more.

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Confessions of a Medical Heretic

Robert S. Mendelsohn

For anyone who has doubts about the benevolence of the AMA, pharmaceutical companies and the allied health industries or has suffered from drug interactions, side effects, long-term effects, misdiagnoses, botched treatments, apathy or arrogance on the part of medical providers.

Wellness Erudition