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| GENERAL CARE | ||
| NAME OF BOOK AND AUTHOR | DISCRIPTION OF BOOK -copied from Amazon.com | Price |
| Caring for your Your
baby and Young Child - AAP |
•Basic care from infancy
through age five • Guidelines and milestones for physical, emotional, social, and cognitive growth •A complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, congenital diseases, and other disabilities •Guidelines for prenatal and newborn care with sections on maternal nutrition, exercise, and screening tests during pregnancy •An in-depth guide to breastfeeding, including its benefits, techniques, and challenges •A complete guide for immunizations and updated information on vaccine safety •A guide for choosing child care programs and car safety seats •Ways to reduce your child’s exposure to environmental hazards, such as secondhand smoke • Sections on grandparents, building resilience, media, and multiples • New chapters on sleep and on allergies—including food allergies •New content on prebiotics and probiotics, organic foods, and other healthy lifestyle topics •And much more |
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Caring for
your Baby the First Year - AAP |
*A month-to-month guide to your baby’s first year that lets
you know what to expect in terms of growth, behavior,
and development • A complete health encyclopedia, plus detailed instructions for coping with emergency medical situations • Information about vaccine safety and schedules for immunizations and health-care visits • Complete information on breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and introducing solids • Suggestions for choosing quality child care–and ways to ease your baby’s introduction to a sitter • Safety points for grandparents to keep in mind, both inside and outside the home • Poison prevention, infant CPR and choking instruction, general first-aid care • Safety checks for home and car, including a car safety seat shopping guide |
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**Your
Baby's First Year Week by Week - Curtis |
Contents include:Baby massage, Basic baby care,
Bonding with your baby, Baby gear, Common medical problems, Developing
cognitive, social and motor skills through play, How big is your baby
this week? |
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**Your Newborn Head to Toe - Familian |
The
second edition features a wealth of new information on topics such as
vaccines, child care providers, babies and learning, car seats, safe
sleep, cord blood, what to keep in the medicine cabinet, postpartum
depression, and organic formulas. With wit and humor, the pediatrician
moms allay the feelings of anxiety, guilt, and inadequacy that
inevitably plague first-time parents home alone with a newborn,
providing authoritative yet compassionate advice for the sleep-deprived
and overwhelmed. From "Going with the Flow" (the trials of
breastfeeding) and "What Goes in Must Come Out" (a discussion of "pee
and poop") to "Fever: Trial by Fire" and "Seeing Yellow: Jaundice," this
handbook provides solid, practical, balanced guidance that will enable
parents to feel confident about their parenting skills. |
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**BabyHood Leach |
Great book guiding you
through the first year. Well worth the time. |
$7.00 |
**Baby 411
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This detailed, down-to-earth
reference gives new moms and dads all the information they need to make
their child’s first year healthy and happy. Written by Ari Brown, a
pediatrician and mother, and Denise Fields, a best-selling author and
the mother of two boys, Baby 411 covers every aspect of baby’s
physical and emotional development, from circumcision and ear infections
to thumb sucking and temper tantrums. The book includes advice on
selecting a pediatrician, breastfeeding, juggling family and career, and
when to call the doctor. Newly updated to reflect the most up-to-date
research, this second edition includes new information on vaccines,
autism, food allergies, and preventing obesity, as well as an expanded
section on television and media use for infants. A comprehensive chapter
on sleep management helps everyone sleep through the night. |
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**Your Premature Baby
- Manginello |
The definitive "how to" on caring for a premature infant-now updated and expanded. Close to 500,000 premature infants are born in the US. every year. Your Premature Baby gives parents all the facts on properly caring for these babies, dealing with everything from preparing for the birth to handling the hospital stay. Thoroughly revised, this upbeat and informative guide also reflects the many important changes in treatment, medication, and equipment in this area. And it addresses the emotional toll on the parents of preemies as well, providing encouraging personal accounts of families who have been there. | |
**Heading Home
with your Newborn - Jana |
This fully updated guide offers "parent-tested, pediatrician-approved" advice for new parents finding themselves overwhelmed with the reality of caring for a baby in the first eight weeks of its life. The second edition features a wealth of new information on topics such as vaccines, child care providers, babies and learning, car seats, safe sleep, cord blood, what to keep in the medicine cabinet, postpartum depression, and organic formulas. With wit and humor, the pediatrician moms allay the feelings of anxiety, guilt, and inadequacy that inevitably plague first-time parents home alone with a newborn, providing authoritative yet compassionate advice for the sleep-deprived and overwhelmed. |
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| SLEEP TRAINING | ||
Healthy Sleep Habits Health Child -
Weissbluth |
Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both
are important to your child - Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more - Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally - Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed - Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers - Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problems. |
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BabyWise -
Ezzo |
Babywise is an exciting infant management plan that successfully
and naturally
helps infants synchronize their feeding, wake time and nighttime
sleep cycles. Find out what four million grateful parents worldwide
have already learned. Discover the positive prescription for curing
sleepless nights and fussy babies. Recommended by doctors across the
country.
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Solve Your Sleep Problems - Ferber |
Solve Your Child's
Sleep Problems--a tired parent's essential for more than 10
years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't
enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on Ferber's research as
the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at
Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide
to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. Detailed case
histories on night waking, difficulty sleeping, and more serious
disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking help illustrate a wide
variety of problems and their solutions. New parents will benefit from
Ferber's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily
schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first
place. |
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**Good Night Sleep
Tight - West |
from the Foreword of
GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, Faith A. Hackett, M.S. Fellow of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, Courtesy Staff Physician, Johns Hopkins
Hospital Staff Physician, Anne Arundel Medical Center “For all the parents who have lost countless hours of sleep trying the tough love approach of letting the baby cry it out, this book comes as a wonderful, informative reprieve…. I’ve been looking for a definitive how-to book on sleep that I can recommend without reservation. GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT is that book.” |
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**Sleeping Through the
night - Mindell |
Dr.
Mindell also offers practical tips on bedtime, rather than
middle-of-the-night-sleep training, and shows how all members of the
family can cope with the stresses associated with teaching a child to
sleep. |
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**Nighttime
Parenting - Sears |
Why do some
families have fewer sleep problems than others? What works for most
parents most of the time and why? Parenting is a full-time, twenty-four-hour-a-day job. Nighttime Parenting was written to make that job easier and to help the whole family--mother, father, baby--sleep better. It helps parents understand why babies sleep differently than adults, offers solutions to nighttime problems, and even describes how certain styles of nighttime parenting can aid in child spacing and lower the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Renowned pediatrician Dr. William Sears helps you find a solution to your baby's sleepless nights and offers comprehensive, caring advice on issues such as: * Where babies should sleep * What foods help children sleep * Tips for single parents * Getting children to bed without a struggle |
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Happiest Baby on the Block - Karp |
Karp, a
pediatrician in Santa Monica, Calif., and assistant professor at the
School of Medicine, UCLA, offers a new method to calm and soothe crying
infants. While nursing or being held satisfies some babies, others
seemingly cry for hours for no reason. These babies suffer from what
Karp calls the Fourth Trimester. When you bring your soft, dimpled
newborn home from the hospital, you may think your nursery is a peaceful
sanctuary.... To him, it's a disorienting world part Las Vegas casino,
part dark closet! Karp recommends a series of five steps designed to
imitate the uterus. These steps include swaddling, side/stomach
position, shhh sounds, swinging and sucking. The book includes detailed
advice on the proper way to swaddle a child, the difference between a
gentle rocking versus shaking and more. According to the author,
virtually all babies will respond to these strategies although some
trial and error may be needed to find the most effective calming method.
A number of the steps letting kids nurse more frequently or encouraging
babies to use pacifiers, for instance contradict other childcare
experts. However, parents who are at their wits' ends because of a
baby's incessant crying will find this book invaluable. In fact,
expectant parents may want to read it before they bring their newborns
home from the hospital. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. |
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| BREASTFEEDING | ||
**The Mother of all
Baby Books - Douglas |
"As the old saying goes, 'Babies don't come with instruction manuals.' Well, Ann Douglas' The Mother of All Baby Books is really the next best thing! Covering everything imaginable - from newborn care to bathing basics, baby proofing your home to coping with sleepless nights - you will find ways to nurture this amazing new little person in your life while still keeping your sanity. Ann's wise ideas, researched information and real-life tips will help you make this time even more magical and memorable." —Nancy Price, Editor, GeoParent.com, ePregnancy.com and ePregnancy Magazine |
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**Breastfeeding Your Baby -
Kitzinger |
Readers will not be persuaded
that a natural, commonplace activity like breastfeeding warrants an
illustrated how-to guide, even if, as Kitzinger asserts, "women often
lack confidence," and, hence, cause themselves unnecessary difficulties
because of nervousness and anxiety. With a simple, short explanatory
text and some 200 photographs (approximately 100 in color) of nursing
mothers, the author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Child birth
sets out to dispel fears about breastfeeding and conveys practical
advice about positioning the baby, interpreting the baby's sucking
rhythms, maternal nutrition and breast care. The most valuable parts of
the book, however, are not on honing "technical skills" but those that
treat aspects of the intimate communication between mother and
baby--during breastfeeding and beyond. Kitzinger encourages the mother
to involve the father in the burdens of infant care--as well as the
rewards of nurturing--and to link up to a supportive network of women
with children who can share both her positive and negative experiences
and help her to maintain perspective during the emotional first months
of a baby's life. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc |
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The Complete Book of
Breastfeeding - Eiger |
The classic work with
over one million copies in print has been completely revised and updated
to cover the new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines. Photos &
line illustrations. |
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The Womanly Art of
Breastfeeding - LeLeche League |
Ultimate support bible
offers: • real-mom wisdom on breastfeeding comfortably—from avoiding sore nipples to simply enjoying the amazing bonding experience • new insights into old approaches toward latching and attaching, ages and stages, and answers to the most-asked questions • strategies for moms who choose to breastfeed for a short time or who plan to nurse for a year or more • reassuring information on nursing after a C-section or delivery complications • recent scientific data that highlight the many lifelong health benefits of breastfeeding • helpful tips for building your support network—at home or when back at work • nursing special-needs infants, premies, multiples, and how to thrive no matter what curveball life throws • guidance on breast health issues, weight gain, day care, colic, postpartum depression, food allergies, and medications |
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**Nursing Mother’s Companion – Huggins
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Breastfeeding may be considered natural, but it is not always instinctive. The 20th Anniversary Edition of this classic guide to breastfeeding, beloved by a generation of women, has been completely revised and updated to provide even more practical, reassuring advice and support for today’s expectant and nursing mothers. Topics covered include breast care, nursing positions, diaper rash, "survival guides" for the first twelve months, and an appendix on drug safety (a unique feature among breastfeeding books). | |
New Mothers Guide To
Breastfeeding- AAP |
• Preparing for breastfeeding
before your baby is born • Breastfeeding benefits for mothers and babies, including the most recent neurological, psychological, and immunological research showing why breastfeeding enhances your infant’s immune system and protects against many common illnesses • Establishing a nursing routine and what to do when you return to work • The father’s role and creating a postpartum support network • Handling special situations, from C-sections to premature births • Breastfeeding beyond infancy • Weaning your baby • Solutions to common breastfeeding challenges |
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| MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS | ||
**Baby Minds Brain Building
Games - Acredolo |
More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's
amazing brainpower. Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is yes! Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants. It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly influence intelligence, creativity, language development-and even later reading and math skills. Now two psychologists and child development experts-authors of the bestselling Baby Signs-have created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to: _ Create a homemade mobile to stimulate your three-month-old's delight in solving problems _ Play a patty-cake game to help your two-year-old make logical connections _ Initiate bedtime conversations that build your child's memory and sense of personal history _ Develop "Baby Signs" to help your toddler communicate before he or she can talk _ Stimulate your child's natural number skills with puppets and counting games _ Use nursery rhymes and special read-aloud techniques to foster reading readiness _ Nurture budding creativity with humor and fantasy play Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies." Instead it builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your daily interactions full of the joy of discovery-for both of you. |
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**Getting Organized for your
New Baby - Bard |
Everything you'll need to prepare you for baby is here: checklists, how-to hints, forms, charts, and bibliographies to help you get scheduled, budgeted, and prioritized. Getting Organized for Your New Baby has the latest information to help plan for your bundle of joy. This book will remove your worries over missing important details. You'll find: |
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**97 Ways to Make a Baby Laugh
- Moore | Completely nutty yet effective, this charming book for parents who want to tickle their baby's funnybone--and their own--is like a book of parlor tricks, except that the person who's being entertained is six months old and often as impassive as a stone. Adult readers, especially those harried by the day-to-day details of caring for an infant, will rediscover their own sense of the absurd and delight in the suggestions and illustrations. | |
**The Fussy Baby Book – Sears
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self-soothe, have difficulty sleeping,
nurse often and well into their toddler years and are intense, draining
and demanding, say pediatrician Sears and his RN wife, parents of eight
children and authors of The Birth Book and 12 other parenting titles.
Informed by their experience with a high-need daughter and by
observations of patients, the Searses outline how to handle such fussy
babies, rehashing their theory of "attachment parenting"?carrying the
baby in a sling, nursing on demand, sharing the family bed and
responding rather than letting the baby "cry it out," etc. Parents are
encouraged to focus on the positive: a high-need baby, the authors say,
"cries impressively" and "values being with you"; he or she isn't a
"difficult sleeper" or "clingy." Desperate parents will be grateful for
the many tips and the mommy-burnout survival list. But veteran moms and
pops may have trouble swallowing some suggestions (bounce gently on a
trampoline with baby). Readers may also yearn for substantiation of
claims that fussers grow up to be confident, expressive, responsible
teens and adults. Still, the authors' warm-fuzzy "You're okay, baby's
okay" outlook may be just the right medicine for many anxious parents of
demanding children. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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Baby Play Gymboree |
Includes over 100 activities for babies 0-12 months. ** Organized by appropriateness for each month of life. ** Includes wide variety of play activities, from ball rolling to imitative play. ** Developed in consultation with the play experts at Gymboree. ** Contains a useful glossary of key terms in child development. |
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**Homemade Baby Food Pure and Simple Linardakis
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Inside you'll find: ·Tasty, easy-to-make recipes that your baby will love ·Pediatrician-approved nutritional guidelines and advice ·Practical hints and tips to save time and money ·Sample menus and food introduction charts ·Special recipes for allergies and sleep difficulties ·Simple ways to teach good eating habits for life |
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**The Premature Baby
Book - Harrison |
The Premature Baby
Book is the result of seven years of intense research into medical
literature, and of interview with neonatologists, intensive care nurses,
social workers, therapists and hundreds of parents of prematures. From
her research and personal experience, Helen Harrison knows exactly what
parents want and need to know to deal with the emotional, medical, and
practical issues facing them after the birth of a premature baby.
Proceeds from the sale of The Premature Baby Book will be donated to
organizations that help premature babies and their families. |
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The New Father – Dad’s Guide to first year – Brott
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An indispensable handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the first 12 months, The New Father charts the physical, intellectual, verbal, and emotional changes which a child experiences in the first year and examines the emotional and psychological developments the father may be experiencing. 30 illustrations.rgreene. | |
**Twins
- Agnew |
The
authors cover comprehensively pregnancy, birth, the postpartum
experience, and the first year of life. Interviews with parents of twins
lend a fascinating insight to the topics discussed. Also particularly
helpful are the detailed descriptions of the type of medical care
necessary during pregnancy and the babies' first year and the resource
guide at the back of the book. |
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The Baby Whisperer
Solves all your problems - Hogg |
Thousands of parents
have asked the Baby Whisperer to help them solve their problems. With
this book you too can take advantage of the advice, insights, and
parenting techniques from beloved child expert Tracy Hogg. "A problem is
nothing more than a situation calling for a creative solution," she
reminds us. "Ask the right questions and you'll come up with the right
answers." |
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The Baby Whisperer -
Hogg |
The first half of the book is devoted to E.A.S.Y--her name for creating a structured daily routine for you and your baby that makes the most of your baby's awake times and also leaves time just for you. These concepts aren't designed to force your bundle of joy into not following her body's needs, but rather to create a feasible middle ground between total rigidity and on-demand food and sleep (and no time for mom to shower). If it still strikes you as too regimented, keep reading. The author makes room for differences in personal style and includes short quizzes to determine whether you're a "planner" or a "winger", and what level of daily structure you are likely to find helpful. In the same chapter, she identifies five general temperaments of infants, how to get an accurate feel for yours, and what methods of care are likely to be the most effective for his temperament. Her statement that babies prefer routine is backed up by research from the University of Denver. While most of the book relies on anecdotes to get the points across, Hogg does find room to back up some of her statements with quotes from various researchers and institutions. Included at the end of the book are assurances that E.A.S.Y. can be followed even with a colicky baby or one who's been ruling the roost for the first few months. Frustrated parents might like to read the last page first: "all the baby-whispering advice in the world is useless unless you're having a good time being a parent" is an excellent reminder to enjoy this time with all of its ups and downs. --Jill Lightner --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. | |
| Your Fussy Baby - Weissbluth | Renowned pediatrician Dr. Marc Weissbluth knows firsthand how stressful life can be for a sensitive, fussy newborn—not to mention the child’s frantic, exhausted parents. His own firstborn, like more than a fifth of all babies, was a colicky child, causing him and his wife to suffer many sleepless nights. Your Fussy Baby is Dr. Weissbluth’s gift to other sorely tired mothers and fathers, written to help them comfort their newborns without disrupting their own lives. Even extreme fussiness, he says, is not dangerous and usually stops when the child is about four months old. In the meanwhile, however, life can be tough for the whole family. But whether your baby cries for as long as eight hours a day, suffers from gas, refuses to sleep, or all of the above, Your Fussy Baby will gently guide your little one—and you—through this mysterious phase of infant growth. | |
Magical Parent
Magical Child - Mendizza |
This parenting guide presents seven principles for guiding and teaching children in today's turbulent learning environment. It replaces traditional adult-child formulas, rewards, and punishments with playful interaction, creative intelligence, and insight. With the goal of raising happy, healthy, intelligent young people, the book adopts proven strategies that allow top athletes and others to perform at high levels, called variously "zone," "flow," and "play." Using these concepts, parents and other caregivers will learn how to create and maintain "Optimum Learning Relationships" with children of any age |
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**The Indigo Children - Carroll |
My son's kindergarten teacher recommended this book because she feels my son fits the "Indigo" model so closely. I had never heard of the book "Indigo Children" or its sequel, and I must say that each and every description of the "Indigo Child" echoed my own characterizations of my son. In a way, this is a relief. I do think the advice the book offers is already helping my son. I understand why the old "because I said so..." paradigm never works with my son, and I see how his hyper-sensitivity results in such an overwhelming flood of emotion. I'm verrrrrrry skeptical however of the assertion that this "Indigo" label applies to an entire generation of children and that they've come from another plane or planet to help emancipate their fellow earthlings. This element of the argument undermines the credibility of an otherwise compelling and helpful approach to raising and understanding kids that don't blend in or conform | |
Ask and It Is
Given - Hicks |
This is, plain and simply, one of the most powerful books I have ever read. One's entire life can change because of what is found here." - Neale Donald Walsch; "This is a great book! My wife and I have enjoyed these profound and extremely practical Abraham teachings for several years" - John Gray -- | |
The Four Agreements - Ruiz |
A series of four "agreements"
are detailed, which make up a larger picture of unconditional human
faith. Despite the New Age- sounding language, Ruiz is refreshingly
clear in the presentation of his ideas. 1. Be impeccable with your word 2. Don't take anything personally 3. Don't make assumptions 4. Always do your best |
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The Mastery of Love - Ruiz |
In a refreshingly honest investigation of the true nature of
love, don Miguel Ruiz brings to light the commonly held fallacies
and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most
relationships. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda, he uses
inspirational stories to impart the wisdom of three fundamental
Toltec masteries (Awareness, Transformation, and Love). The themes
explored include the Toltec wisdom of the heart, the track of love,
and the war of control.
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The Power of Now - Tolle |
It's no wonder that
The
Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been
translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple
principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring
spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the
ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and
light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment
and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a
creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by
living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the
way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of
our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms
of life that are subject to birth and death." Featuring a new preface by
the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of
Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there
Enlightenment.
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The Five Languages of Love -
Chapman |
People express and receive love in different ways. Dr. Gary Chapman identifies these as the five languages of love: quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service and physical touch. If you express love toward others in a way they don't understand, they will not realize you've expressed your love at all. The problem is that you're speaking different languages! |
