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The
Latest Books
December
2011
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Each month,
except for January, Phoenix Rising Books features
20 new titles sourced from publishers both in
Australia and overseas.
The selection covers
the leading edge material across holistic (mind,
body and soul) subject area.
This page has the
ten new books for the month.
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Rumi: The Big Red Book
Coleman Barks
HC AUD35.00
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"Rumi's "Divani
Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams
of Tabriz"--named in honor of Rumi's spiritual
teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems
that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's
bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian
literature.
Its most familiar form
is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman
Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry
and his work on these particular poems has never
been published anywhere.
This book represents
over thirty-three years on Rumi's seminal classic,
a vast collection centering on Shams Tabrizi,
a wandering mystic who transformed Rumis life.
Rumi was already renowned
when Shams arrived in Konya, in todays Turkey,
having wandered for years searching for someone
with a soul as profound as his own with whom to
share sobbet, a mystical conversation about God
and love.
Rumi and Shams inspired
each other for several years, until Shams mysteriously
disappeared. He lives on in Rumis searching poems.
Most of the hundreds of poems collected here are
short although even the longer ones have the same
intimate tone.
Richly sensual yet
never flowery, Barks language emphasizes Rumis
embodied spirituality in a book to savor.
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Changing on the Job
Jennifer Garvey Berger
HC AUD39.95
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Listen to people in every field
and you'll hear a call for more sophisticated
and thoughtful leadership, for leaders who can
solve more complex problems than the human race
has ever faced before. But these leaders won't
simply come to the fore; we have to develop them,
and we must cultivate them as quickly as is humanly
possible.
Changing on the Job is a means to
this end. Leadership discussions often begin with
tips and toolkits that take for granted the readiness
of our leaders to face the challenges of today.
Changing on the Job builds on sophisticated theories
of adult growth and development. As opposed to
showing us how to play the role of a leader in
a "paint by numbers" fashion, this book
helps readers to become individuals who are capable
of leading and are ready to do so in any scenario.
Moving from the theoretical to the
practical, it shows how organizations can grow
the complex and agile workforce that they need
while maintaining and improving performance. Using
real-world examples which bring concepts to life,
author Jennifer Garvey Berger invites readers
to change the way they think about leadership
and adult growth, while offering a set of building
blocks, so that readers and the talent that they
support can realize their fullest potential.
With a background as a teacher, writer, researcher,
and coach, Jennifer Garvey Berger helps individuals
and teams to transform themselves and their organizations.
Jennifer has worked with executives in a wildly
diverse set of organizations, helping leaders
to build the capacity to thrive in a complex world.
She also teaches coaches around the world about
adult development, deep listening, and transformational
habits of mind.
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Bringing Home the Dharma
Jack Kornfield
PB AUD39.95
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If you want to find inner peace
and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram
or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the
perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield, one of America's
most respected Buddhist teachers, shares this
and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty
years of committed study and practice.
The topics include: How to cultivate
loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity;
Conscious parenting; Spirituality and sexuality;
The way of forgiveness; and committing ourselves
to healing the suffering in the world.
Bringing Home the Dharma includes
simple meditation practices for awakening our
buddha nature, our wise and understanding heart,
amid the ups and downs of our ordinary daily lives.
Watch a You Tube trailer via the
Phoenix
Rising You Tube Channel
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Leveraging the Universe
Mike Dooley
HC AUD34.95
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In his latest book, author Mike
Dooley builds on the principles from Infinite
Possibilities and Manifesting Change to offer
a step-by-step strategy for leveraging the Universe
in the course of self-fulfilment and success.
In just seven steps, Dooley teaches
you how to channel the Universe's incredible energy
to achieve your greatest dreams. Filled with practical
strategies and simple exercises that anyone can
do, Leveraging the Universe lays out the path
to engaging the magic that is available to everyone.
Dooley weaves his inspiring personal
history throughout the book to demonstrate first-hand
how properly applying the Universe's power has
brought success and fulfilment to his own life.
Watch a You Tube trailer via the
Phoenix
Rising You Tube Channel
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Real Happiness - the
Power of Meditation
Sharon Salzberg
PB and CD AUD24.95
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Thousands of years prove it, and
Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens
focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves
chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps
us experience greater calm. Meditation connects
us to our inner-most feelings and challenges our
habits of self-judgment.
Meditation helps protect the brain
against aging and improves our capacity for learning
new things. Meditation opens the door to real
and accessible happiness. There is no better person
to show a beginner how to harness the power of
meditation than Sharon Salzberg, one of the world's
foremost meditation teachers and spiritual authors.
Cofounder of the Insight Meditation
Society, author of Lovingkindness, Faith, and
other books, Ms. Salzberg distills 30 years of
teaching meditation into a 28-day program that
will change lives. It is not about Buddhism, it's
not esoteric, it is closer to an exercise, like
running or riding a bike. From the basics of posture,
breathing, and the daily schedule to the finer
points of calming the mind, distraction, dealing
with specific problem areas (pain in the legs?
falling asleep?) to the larger issues of compassion
and awareness, Real Happiness is a complete guide.
It explains how meditation works;
why a daily meditation practice results in more
resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance;
and gives twelve meditation practices, including
mindfulness meditation and walking meditation.
An extensive selection of her students' FAQs covers
the most frequent concerns of beginners who meditate-"Is
meditation selfish?" "How do I know
if I'm doing it right?" "Can I use meditation
to manage weight?"
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A Profound Mind
H.H. the Dalai
Lama
PB AUD23.00
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One of the greatest religious
leaders of our age shows us how to use meditation
to achieve enlightenment.
The Dalai Lama visited New
York in 2003 and gave a series of lectures,
culminating in a public talk in Central
Park, which drew over a quarter of a million
people. Based on these lectures, this new
volume will provide practical instruction
on how we can use meditation to realise
the mind's phenomenal potential.
Leading you through the diverse
schools of Buddhist philosophy, this book
also shows us how to let go of our own strong
ideas of self and how to find a little more
happiness in life, for ourselves and for
others. For all the millions of followers
of the Dalai Lama's writings, and for anyone
yet to be introduced to his thinking, A
Profound Mind is the perfect book to learn
how to dedicate our positive activities
to the benefit of all in order to build
a better world.
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Sacred Stones and
Crystals
Phillip Permutt
and Lyn Palmer
PB AUD34.95
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Conscious Gardening covers
all the natural, physical aspects of organic
gardening, like Sacred Stones takes you
on a personal journey of discovery leading
to a deeper connection, which can benefit
your wellbeing on a physical, emotional
and spiritual level. Since the dawn of mankind,
stones and rocks have been revered throughout
the world.
From Stonehenge in England
to Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia, and
from Easter Island to the Cote des Megalithes
in Brittany, France and Petroglyphs in Arizona,
stones are regarded as sacred. You may have
collected pebbles and stones that have caught
your eye, picked them up, examined them,
befriended them and taken them home to make
treasures of them.
You may have been drawn to
a crystal and amazed by an ancient sacred
site. Sacred Stones is a guide to discovering
your personal connection to the world of
stones, pebbles and crystals, all of which
have an innate energy - learn how to tune
into and benefit from that energy.
Discover how to read the faces
in stones and develop your own special relationship
with individual stones and crystals. Gain
pleasure from the simple exercises that
enable you to use stones and crystals to
benefit your health and wellbeing.
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The Mandala Bible
Madonna Gauding
PB AUD30.00
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The Mandala Bible is an informative
and empowering entrance to the ancient Mandala
community.
The mandala is a symbol of
wholeness that can be found in cultures
around the world. These symbolic diagrams
reflect the symmetry of natural forms, the
cycle of time and the circle of community.
From ancient Hindu mandalas
to the intricate patterns of Native American
sand paintings and Celtic knotwork, this
comprehensive book will introduce you to
the many different forms the mandala can
take and provides practical information
on how you can use them to promote spiritual
health and wellbeing.
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Earth Mother Dreaming
Scott Alexander
King
PB AUD40.00
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Living in our urbanised,
modern society we have lost day to day contact
with the beauty and wisdom of Mother Earth.
In this comprehensive, hands
on workbook, Scott Alexander King presents
ways to reconnect to the power of Nature
- to re-energise, reflect and gain a greater
understanding of the meaning of our lives
and our connection to natural world.
Included are techniques to
learn; Nature healing therapies and techniques
such as Bach flower remedies and Chakra
meditations; Forecast the weather; divine
future events and gain important messages
from Mother Earth.; Gain awareness of your
powerful Animal totems and develop an understanding
of their messages to you ; Connect to The
healing energy of Mother Nature through
Wicca, crystal therapy and bush magic; Explore
the world or Faery and Elemental spirits
and Create Shamanic tools and journey on
your own pathway into the wheel of life.
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Psychic Secrets
Jade Sky
PB AUD25.00
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Are you interested in becoming
more intuitive or want to learn about opening
up your psychic abilities? Discovering how
to use your sixth sense can help you navigate
your way through life with a bit of help
and guidance.
You can learn more about the
spiritual world and how it affects the physical
world you live in. Psychic/Medium Jade-Sky
shows you how to become attuned to the spirit
world. She helps you to meet your spirit
guides, to open yourself up psychically,
to see and feel auras and to be able to
sense things intuitively.
Easy to follow activities,
exercises and information will help you
to unlock the secrets to your psychic world.
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Books for November 2011
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For
music, DVD's and audio book releases go to Page
2 of the New Releases for December 2011
For
Hay House Publishing December releases - visit
this page
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