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Carole Hyder - Wind
and Water and Living Feng Shui
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 07:30 pm
Feng Shui works with the circulation and flow of
the life force (eh'i) in the living and working environment to
create balance and harmony. It provides ways to create or select an
ideal living or work space to bring prosperity, productivity, and
peace. Throughout the centuries, Feng Shui has been extensively used
in all Eastern cultures. It has recently found its way to the West
where it has gained popularity as people have come to realize it's
power.
Wind and Water
Your Personal Feng Shui Journey
presents Feng Shui as simple suggestions that can be done on a daily
basis. There are many Feng Shui books that provide the complete
didactic approach. In this book, each page will provide information
and a corresponding activity. Instead of reading about Feng Shui,
this book will provide an immediate experience of Feng Shui.
Living Feng Shui
Living Feng Shui features 20
case studies that demonstrate feng shui's ability to transform
living and working spaces. With the help of popular feng shui
consultant Carole Hyder, the reader learns how to analyze a space,
identify life issues, and address desired changes.
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Hendrik Hertzberg -
Politics: Observations and Arguments
1966-2004
Tuesday, August
03, 2004 07:00 pm Bound to be
Read
Imagine if the Rolling
Stones were just now releasing its first greatest hits album, and
you'll have some idea of how long overdue, and highly anticipated,
Politics is. Here are Hendrik Hertzberg's most significant and
hilarious and devastating and infuriating dispatches from the
American scene--a scene he has chronicled for four decades with an
uncanny blend of moral seriousness, high spirits, and perfect
rhetorical pitch. Politics is at once the story of American life
from LBJ to GWB and a testament to the power of the written word in
the right hands. In those hands, everything seems like politics, and
politics has never seemed more interesting. Hertzberg breaks down
American politics into component parts--campaigns, debates,
rhetoric, the media, wars (cultural, countercultural, and real),
high crimes and misdemeanors, the right, and more--and draws the
choicest, most telling pieces from his body of work to illuminate
each, beginning each section with a new piece of writing framing the
subject at hand. Politics 101 from the master, Politics is also an
immensely rich and entertaining mosaic of American life from the
mid-1960s to the mid-2000s--a ride through recent American history
with one of the most insightful and engaging guides
imaginable. |
Bryan Burrough -
Public Enemies
Wednesday,
August 04, 2004 07:00 pm
In 1933, police
jurisdictions ended at state lines, the FBI was in its infancy, the
highway system was spreading, fast cars and machine guns were easily
available, and a good number of the thirteen million Americans who
were out of work blamed the Great Depression on the banks. In short,
it was a wonderful time to be a bank robber. On hand to take full
advantage was a motley assortment of criminal masterminds,
sociopaths, romantics, and cretins, some of whom, with a little help
from J. Edgar Hoover, were to become some of the most famous
criminals in American history. Bryan Burrough's grandfather once set
up roadblocks in Alma, Arkansas, to capture Bonnie and Clyde. He
didn't catch them. Burrough was suckled on stories of the crime
wave, and now, after years of work, he succeeds where his
grandfather failed, capturing the stories of Bonnie and Clyde,
Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and the rest of the FBI's nemeses,
weaving them into a single enthralling account. For more than forty
years, the great John Toland's Dillinger Days has stood as the only
book that provides the entire big picture of this fabled moment in
American history. But an extraordinary amount of new material has
come to light during those forty years, a good deal of it unearthed
by Burrough in the course of his own research, and Public Enemies
reveals the extent to which Toland and others were fed the story the
FBI wanted them to tell. The circles in which the "public enemies"
moved overlapped in countless fascinating ways, large and small, as
Burrough details. The actual connections are one thing; but quite
another is the sense of connectedness Hoover created in the American
public's mind for his own purposes. Using thetools of an
increasingly powerful mass media, Hoover waged an unprecedented
propaganda campaign, working the press, creating "America's Most
Wanted" list, and marketing the mystique of the heroic "G-men" that
successfully obscured an appalling catalog of professional
ineptitude. When the FBI gunned down John Dillinger outside a
Chicago movie theater in the summer of 1934, Hoover's ascent to
unchecked power was largely complete. Both a hugely satisfying
entertainment and a groundbreaking work with powerful echoes in
today's news, Public Enemies is the definitive history of America's
first War on Crime. |
Kathy Kater - Real
Kids Come in All Sizes
Thursday, August 12, 2004 07:30 pm
Based on proven classroom
techniques, Real Kids Come in All Sizes is a guide for parents who
want their children to feel comfortable in their own bodies while
living healthy lives. The author, an experienced psychotherapist,
begins by debunking six damaging myths about body image, eating, and
weight that permeate our culture. She then presents parents with
practical strategies to challenge these myths by talking to their
children about their genetic legacy, their changing bodies, hunger
and appetite, the need for physical activity, and how to maintain
perspective on their looks. While learning how to successfully
provide their children with a blueprint for healthy choices and
attitudes, parents will also read about important?and often
controversial?issues such as childhood obesity, the definition of
healthy weight, the effect of mass media, and how cultural
differences and prejudice influence body image attitudes. Armed with
this knowledge, parents will be better prepared to take an active
role in the development of their child's body intelligence.
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Barbara Rossing -
Rapture Exposed
Monday,
August 16, 2004 07:00 pm
The idea of "The
Rapture"--the return of Christ to snatch born-again Christians off
the earth--is an extremely popular interpretation of the Book of
Revelation in the Bible and a jumping-off point for the best-selling
Left Behind series of books. However, most Christian churches and
biblical scholars condemn rapture theology as a distortion of
Christian faith with little biblical basis. Yet this interpretation,
based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts
of thousands if not millions of North Americans and people
worldwide. In The Rapture Exposed, professor of theology and
ordained minister Barbara Rossing argues that the Left Behind
novels' script for the world's future distorts the Bible, is
disingenuous, and flat out wrong. There is neither "rapture" of
Christians off the earth, nor does Revelation predict that a
seven-year tribulation culminating in war in Israel and the Middle
East. Rather, Rossing argues, Revelation offers a vision of God's
healing love for the world--a love that will not be left behind. The
Rapture Exposed makes the case for reclaiming Christianity from
fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back
into God's beloved community. |
Howard Frank Mosher -
Waiting for Teddy Williams
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 07:00 pm
Waiting for Teddy Williams
begins on the eighth birthday of Ethan -- E.A. -- Allen in the
remote village of Kingdom Common, Vermont. Here, in a region that
lags decades behind the rest of New England, E.A. lives with his
honky-tonk mother, Gypsy Lee, and his acid-tongued Gran,
wheelchair-bound since the Sox"s heartwrenching playoff loss to the
Yankees in 1978. Haunted by a dark mystery in his family"s past,
E.A. is an outcast in town, except when it comes to baseball. Into
the Allens" world comes a drifter named Teddy, who is determined to
do one decent thing in his life by teaching E.A. how to really play
ball. As E.A. grows up and learns the secrets of baseball, we get to
know Kingdom Common and its fl inty, colorful people. We also meet
the Red Sox and their manager, the Legendary Spence. With the Red
Sox"s new owner vowing to move the team to Hollywood if they lose
the Series again, Spence has to take a chance on a young nobody from
Vermont. |
Jonathon Odell - View
From Delphi
Thursday,
August 19, 2004 07:30 pm
Set in pre-civil rights era in Mississippi, The
View From Delphi is the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida
-- one white and the other black. Having only two things in common
-- the devastating loss of their sons, and a deep and abiding
loathing for one another -- the novel focuses on both of their
lives: their drastically differing stories and their drastically
differing lives.When Vida is hired as a maid by Hazel's husband to
keep tabs on his unpredictable wife, they reluctantly start to see
the other as her last chance at personal redemption. Together, the
form an unholy alliance to turn the town of Delphi on its head.With
an irreverent vein of dark humor, Jonathan Odell has created an
absorbing novel, exploring the sometimes contradictory sentiments
around race, family and home. |
Larry Flynt - The
State of the Union: Sex, Lies, and Politics
Friday, August 20, 2004 06:30 pm
Voted best guest speaker in
2002 on college campuses on First Amendment issues, Flynt continues
to make the rounds and recently spoke at Harvard, Cornell, and
Yale.- The 1996 film, The People vs. Larry Flynt made him a
household name.- Will appeal to readers of Michael Moore, Bill
O'Reilly, Al Franken and Bill Maher.- Flynt contains to make
news--he's currently suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the
Department of Defense.- His Hustler Hollywood retail chain has
stores in Los Angeles, San Diego, Cincinnati, with five new
locations to come in 2003: Atlantic City, Ft. Lauderdale, New
Orleans, Phoenix, and Columbus. |
Chuck Strinz - Back on
the Mississippi
Tuesday,
August 31, 2004 07:30 pm
In 1979, Strinz and his wife moved to the Twin
Cities, where he was employed as a copywriter and producer for two
prominent advertising agencies before launching his own freelance
copywriting business. During this period, he wrote for myriad
organizations including advertising, promotion, journalism and
television production firms. He also devoted some of his time to
writing short stories and producing short films, including a script
for Twin Cities Public Television's "Minnesota Living History"
series, and the creation of optically-printed titles for the "Energy
Issues" television program. In 1983, Strinz added a new and
relatively unknown category to his business and creative endeavors:
online communications. Through 1994, he pioneered Internet products
that predated the World Wide Web, broke new ground with a syndicated
radio program about high tech and home electronics, edited and
co-wrote the world's first online humor magazine, and consulted with
a range of small and large corporations including QWest, WCCO-TV,
Minnesota Public Radio, startribune.com, and British Telecom. Strinz
sold his consulting business in 1994 to devote more time to his
home, his family, and his work as a creative writer and Webmaster.
Strinz lives in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife and two children. He
enjoys history, hiking, nature, depression-era movies, and driving
on the back roads of the country. Writing and producing this program
is the culmination of a large part of his training and experience.
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