Words of Wisdom

Lama Surya Das, renowned spiritual guide and author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, expresses his depth of understanding and highly nuanced humor in this collection of witty and inspired sayings. A rich tapestry of insight gems and belly laughs, Words of Wisdom will leave you laughing, searching your soul, and asking for more.

“Using humor and wise, practical ways, Lama Surya Das invites our hearts to awaken to the highest wisdom.”
    —Jack Kornfield, author of After the Ecstasy the Laundry

“Lama Surya Das' books are a blessing on my bookshelf and a blessing on my heart.”
    —Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

ISBN 978-0-9773338-7-5
$9.95 small-format paperback

 

Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection – June 2008

Robert A. Johnson, bestselling author of He, She, We, and other psychology classics, shares a lifetime of insights and experiences in this easy-to-read book on psychological projection — seeing traits in others that are, in fact, our own. Drawing on early Christianity, medieval alchemy, depth psychology, and the myths of The Flying Dutchman and The Once and Future King, he also explores the subjects of loneliness, fundamentalist religion, and the spiritual dimensions of psychology.

“The healing power of Robert's writing is palpable.” —Marion Woodman

ISBN 978-0-9773338-2-0
$12.50 trade paperback original  

 

DISSENT: Voices of Conscience

On the eve of the Iraq War, Army Colonel (Ret). Ann Wright resigned from her State Department post, telling Secretary of State Powell that without UN authorization the invasion and occupation would be a disaster. In Dissent: Voices of Conscience, Wright and coauthor Susan Dixon tell the stories of two dozen government insiders and active-duty military personnel who also spoke out, leaked documents, resigned, or refused to deploy in protest of the Bush administration’s war policies.

"This illuminating and remarkably impressive book should be leaked into the government. It could awaken officials to withdraw their complicity and tell the truth. This country will not escape further human, legal, and moral catastrophes, or preserve itself as a democratic, constitutional republic, if that does not happen. If you're at all like me, you will have a whole set of new heroes when you finish reading this. Dissent: Voices of Conscience could change your life."
     — from the book’s Foreword, by Daniel Ellsberg 

   

Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

Since 1993, National Book Award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston has led writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families. This book is the harvest of their work together, creative, redemptive storytelling — nonfiction, fiction, and poetry — spanning five wars and written by those most profoundly affected by these conflicts. This epic and timely work is the distilled wisdom of warriors as well as peace activists, all expressing themselves with breathtaking artistry and truth.

"Powerful and finely written"
    —Chicago Tribune

"No one I know personally has done more to help veterans themselves bear witness to unspeakable experience than Maxine Hong Kingston."
    —Bill Moyers

 

Not One More Mother’s Child

“Reading Not One More Mother’s Child, one quickly understands the magnetism, the electricity she has generated in the peace movement. She speaks with a clarity, directness, and authenticity that remind us of how hungry we are for such voices in American politics.” —Lewis Klausner, bookseller, on C-SPAN Book TV

“There is a rhythm and tempo in her prose which recalls the great epic writers of Greece. She has a gift of candor and directness and epic simplicity. Cindy … is a born writer.” —Dario Fo, Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature.

   

On That Day, Everyone Ate

ONE WOMAN'S STORY OF HOPE AND POSSIBILITY IN HAITI

Margaret Trost was in her 30s when her husband died suddenly of asthma, leaving her to raise their young son alone. Seeking meaning in her life, she accepted an invitation to visit Haiti as part of a “pilgrimage of reverse mission” to serve the poor and, at the same time, to transform the providers. This moving account of Trost’s immersion in the West's most impoverished nation describes, gently and viscerally, how she struggles to stay present with such horrific conditions just a short plane ride from the U.S. We meet and come to love Father Jean-Juste and other wonderful Haitians who enter her life, the vitality, camaraderie, and learning’s that they share, and we accompany Trost as she creates a highly success food program for Haiti's children. This is the story of a woman’s passage from despair to hope.

Margaret Trost is founder and director of the What If? Foundation, which serves 5,000 meals a week to Haiti's children, offers educational scholarships, and operates a summer camp. A home-based business entrepreneur and former public television producer, she lives in Northern California. 

 

The Superferry Chronicles

ANATOMY OF A BOONDOGGLE

In 2001, an entrepreneur got the idea to start a high-speed, inter-island ferry that would connect Honolulu with the neighbor islands. In a short time, the idea was hijacked by a corporation with vast military ties, and the Hawai‘i Superferry became a prototype for America’s sea-based military strategy for the new century. Never approved by the people of Hawai‘i, the project rode in on a wave of deception and corruption — from the governor’s office to the Hawaii Superferry Corporation. On Maui, environmental groups blocked passage in the courts, only to be overridden by a special session of the legislature. On Kauai, citizens took to surfboards and effectively blocked the vessel from entering the harbor.

The Superferry Chronicles tells the full inside story of corporate and governmental collusion and, at the same time, of personal and political empowerment to protect Hawaii’s waters, lands, and people.

Koohan Paik is a Kauai filmmaker, writer, and media-literacy educator. 

In the 1970s, Jerry Mander founded the Public Media Center to help the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other nonprofit organizations create very successful media campaigns. In 1998, he founded the International Forum on Globalization. Author of the bestselling Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred, San Francisco-based Mander has been called “the patriarch of the anti-globalization movement” by the New York Times and “the Ralph Nader of advertising” by the Wall Street Journal.