"We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements-from the freedom of India from British rule to...

In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule--what scientists know for sure about how our brains work--and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that most...

Remarkable True Stories of Miraculous Answers to Prayer! Many people pray, but some don't really believe that God is listening. Answers to prayer can be so small and ordinary that they go unnoticed. But every so often we are powerfully reminded that God does indeed hear and answer prayer. What begins with simple faith and a basic prayer from an average Christian ends with an astounding gift from our loving heavenly Father. In this new collection,...

Is Peace Available to Us? We often feel that peace is far away or that we can only attain it from someone or something. We suffer in not recognizing that we are already the peace we hope to find. Emotional Memory opens us to the knowledge that we are powerful beyond what we believe and that we can heal our health and lives by the light that we are. Our behaviors can keep us stuck in a state of suffering while feeling that there is no way...

An incredible truth... for all women to embrace and live!"We are many things to many people," Elaine Walker writes of women. "We are daughters and confidants. We are girlfriends, wives, and lovers. WE are mothers, maids, and cooks. We are doctors and nurses, teachers and counselors, hairdressers and clothes buyers, interior decorators and fashion experts-all often in the same day, many times to the same people. We are vested with remarkable responsibility...