Living Teachers

Pema Chodron: (An American Buddhist Nun and Shambhala Teacher.)
* No Time To Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
* When Things Fall Apart
* The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Joko Beck: (One of America's premier Zen teachers.)
* Nothing Special (For Video: Willkefilm.de)
* Zen - Work and Love

Thich Nhat Hanh: (Exiled Vietnamese Monk nominated in 1967, by Martin Luther King Jr., for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
* For a Future to be Possible
* Peace is Every Step: Commentaries on the Five Mindfulness Trainings
* Call Me by My True Names
* Anger: Wisdom for cooling the Flames
* No Death No Fear
* Creating True Peace

H.H. The Dalai Lama: (Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, exiled leader of Tibet.)
* The Art of Happiness (also in CD and audio Cassette)
* How to Practice: The way to a Meaningful Life

Nelson Mandela: (Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of South Africa.)
* Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography
* Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography

Sogyal Rinpoche: ("One of the foremost interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West.")
* The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
* Glimpse after Glimpse

Sulak Sivaraksa: (Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, human rights champion and activist from Siam/Thailand.)
* Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist vision for Renewing Society
* Loyalty Demands Dissent

Desmond Tutu: (Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Catholic Bishop)
* No Future without Forgiveness
* African Prayer Book

Child Development and Education

Krishnamurti: (Founder of the International Krishnamurti Schools and renowned Teacher/Author)
* Education and the Significance of Life
* A Flame of Learning: Krishnamurti with Teachers
* Life Ahead
* On Education

Mel Levine: (Points out that children have different styles of learning.)
* A Mind at a Time

Maria Montessori: (First female Italian Doctor and founder of the international Montessori Schools)
* The Montessori Method
* Childhood Education

A.S. Neill: (Educator and founder of famed Summerhill School in England)
* Summerhill School: A new view of Childhood

Rudolf Steiner: (German Philosopher and founder of Waldorf Schools)
* The Essentials of Education
* The Spirit of the Waldorf School

Exceptional Legacies

Martin Luther King Jr: (Minister, United States civil rights leader, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.)
* A call to Conscience Landmark speeches by Dr. King

Krishnamurti: (Prolific Indian author and educator about natural mind)
* All the Marvelous Earth
* Beyond Violence
* The Awakening of Intelligence
* Star in the East: Biography by Roland Vernon

Thomas Merton: (Catholic Priest who investigated Buddhism)
* Asian Journal
* When the Trees Say Nothing

Swami Rama: (Hindu Swami who enjoyed astonishing western doctors with internal yoga practices)
* Science of Breath
* Art of Joyful Living

Swami Satchidananda: (Beloved Hindu Swami who taught in the United States and Europe for decades and enjoyed playing with language.)
* Beyond Words
* Golden Present: Daily Inspirational readings

Shunryu Suzuki: (In 1958, Japanese Zen Master Suzuki Roshi began teaching in California.)
* Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Cogyum Trungpa: (Tibetan Lama, founder of Shambhala International and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.)
* Cutting through Spiritual Materialism
* The Tibetan Book of the Dead
* Meditation in Action
* Training the Mind & Cultivating Loving-Kindness

Practical Psychology

Dan Kindlon:
* Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Mel Levine: (Points out that children have different styles of learning.)
* A Mind at a Time
* The Myth of Laziness

Phil McGraw: (A gritty "tell it like it is," behaviorist.)
* Self Matters
* Dr. Phil: Getting Real: Lessons in Life, Marriage and Family

Rosalind Wiseman:
* Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and other Realities of Adolescence

Mainstream Wisdom

Health & Wellness

Xu, Xiagcai: (Chinese translator/educator of QiGong practices and Chinese Medicine.)
* QiGong For Treating Common Ailments: The Essential Guide to Self-Healing
* Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Essential Guide to Understanding the Human Body

America and Democracy

John W. Dean: (Former Counsel to President Richard Nixon. "John Dean presents an irrefutable case that the tactics of the Bush Administration are, in intent and reach, the most potentially dangerous threat to American life in recent political history.")
* Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

Justin A. Frank, M.D.: (Frank has brought psychoanalysis out of the mothballs and into our lives with this brilliant expose of the mind of George W. Bush. He explains Megalomania, how religion can replace the curiosity to understand, and "how it has come about that we have chosen a leader so ill-equipped for the job." Irving Yalom M. D.)
* Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

Arianna Huffington: ("Read it and weep." Bill Moyers)
* Pigs at the Trough
* Fanatics & Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America

Molly Ivins: (Syndicated columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist)
* SHRUB: The short but happy political life of George W. Bush
* BUSHWHACKED: Life in George W. Bush's America
* Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known

Susan Jacoby: (Reminds us that America is "a nation founded not on dreams of justice in heaven but on the best human hopes for a more just earth.")
* Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

George Lakoff:
* Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think

Michael Moore: (Director FAHRENHEIT 9/11, "Best Picture" Cannes Film Festival 2004, and author)
* Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone
* "Dude, Where's My Country?"

Thomas Paine: (Clear voice for democracy, "GodFather of America.")
* Common Sense
* Rights of Man

Greg Palast: (Michael Moore says, "Read this book.")
* The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

George Soros:
* The Bubble of American Supremacy (Correcting the misuse of American powers)

Ron Suskind: (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist)
* The Price of Loyality: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

Howard Zinn:(Professor emeritus Boston University)
* A People's History of the United States

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