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The Three Doctors-Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt-discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: As children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance. While each young man dealt with the turmoil caused by an absent father, with no male role model to turn to for advice, each veered dangerously close to a life of delinquency, drugs, and crime. But despite great odds, the three overcame the statistics. In high school, they formed the Pact, a promise to one another that they would become doctors, and it kept them dedicated to one another and to their dream, and helped to put them on the road to successful careers as physicians.

In The Bond, the Three Doctors plumb their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness. But rather than cling to any bitterness or pain they may have felt as children about their fathers' inability to be in their lives, as adults Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt sought out their fathers and worked to reconnect with them. In the doctors' own words-and their fathers'-they describe the crucial lessons they learned, identifing ways to stem the tide of fatherlessness that's sweeping through communities across the country. Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man..
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Many of us feel called to respond to the ecological destruction of our planet, yet we feel overwhelmed, immobilized, and unable to deal realistically with the threats to life on Earth. Noted spiritual and environmental thinkers Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown contend that this crippling response to world crisis is a psychological defense mechanism that has been endemic since the years of the Cold War arms race, when we had to adapt within a single generation to the horrific possibility of nuclear holocaust.

Since its publication in 1983, Joanna Macy's book, Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age has sold nearly 30,000 copies and has been the primary resource for groups of men and women confronting the challenging realities of our time without succumbing to paralysis or panic. Coming Back to Life provides a much needed update and expansion of this pioneering work. At the interface between spiritual breakthrough and social action, Coming Back to Life is eloquent and compelling as well as being an inspiring and practical guide. The first third of the book discusses with extraordinary insight the angst of our era, and the pain, fear, guilt and inaction it has engendered; it then points forward to the way out of apathy, tio "the work that reconnects". The rest of the book offers both personal counsel and easy-to-use methods for working with groups in a number of ways to profoundly affect peoples' outlook and ability to act in the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mathew Fox
1. To Choose Life
2. The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, The Deadening of Mind & Heart
3. The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature & Power
4. The Work that Reconnects
5. Guiding Group Work
6. Affirmation: Coming from Gratitude
7. Despair Work: Owning & Honoring Our Pain for the World
8. The Shift: Seeing with New Eyes
9. Deep Time: Drawing on Past & Future Generations
10. The Council of All Beings: Rejoining the Natural World
11. Going Forth
12. Meditations for Coming Back to Life


Joanna Macy has developed an international following over the course of 40 years as a speaker and workshop leader on Buddhist philosophy and the deep ecology movement.
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Do you feel stressed, overworked, like you’re running on empty? Are you caught in the race to get it all done—with little time to enjoy the rewards life has to offer?

There’s no doubt about it: these days we are just too busy. With the conveniences of technology, we’re compelled to get more done in less time and end up constantly striving for the next thing – rarely stopping to consider if it’s something we even want. As a result, we end up missing out on the things that truly matter: our relationships, the activities we love, quiet time to reflect and replenish our energy.

Valorie Burton’s How Did I Get So Busy? is the solution for anyone who feels perpetually overwhelmed and overworked: a simple, effective 28-day program to help you rediscover your true priorities, shift out of overdrive, and reclaim your life and schedule. Built around Burton’s “Ten Commandments of Self-Care,” each day presents an easy-to-follow task to help you strip away the meaningless activities that occupy your time and make room for what nourishes you--mind, body, and spirit. The tasks are simple but yield big rewards:

Take a full hour for lunch
Set “no-email” periods
Add fun goals to your to-do list
End your day “on purpose” – meaning that you decide when to leave the office, head home, and fall asleep.

Uplifting and inspiring, How Did I Get So Busy? offers an easy way to be rid of the busywork that fills our days and rediscover the life you’ve always wanted.

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An interactive workbook to help couples reconnect

The simple phrase "I love you" is terribly important to people–so what keeps so many of us from saying it? In Reclaim Your Relationship, Ron and Pat Potter-Efron, marriage therapists who have been married for 37 years, combine their real-life and clinical experience in this practical and accessible workbook designed to help individuals improve connections in their relationships with those they love. Presenting engaging, hands-on exercises, the authors help readers learn to say "I love you" to their partners with ease and genuine meaning, show their partner love through consistent acts of caring, and take in their partner’s loving words and deeds without always demanding more.

Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, PhD and Pat Potter-Efron, MS (Eau Claire, WS) are psychotherapists in private practice. They are the authors of Letting Go of Anger (1-572-24001-6) and Letting Go of Shame (0-894-86635-4)..
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In The Couple's Survival Workbook, two veteran psychologists show that the secret to marital longevity is deep, abiding friendship. Partners will learn to stop blaming and start focusing on their own contribution to the problem..
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Advance Praise

"From his pulpit at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Alan Jones has influenced for good an entire continent of struggling Christians. In this provoking and helpful new book, he extends his voice to those both within and beyond the Church. A thinking Christian in a thoughtless world is what he is and what he aims to make us. This is a very good start."
-- The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes
The Memorial Church, Harvard University, and author of The Good Book

"It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply."
-- Brian D. McLaren, pastor (crcc.org) and author of A New Kind of Christian

"This is a bracing breath of spiritual fresh air, an intelligent, witty, and passionate reclaiming of the goal of religious practice-the conversion of the heart to kindness and peace as the common faith in which we can all be believers."
-- Sylvia Boorstein, author of Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake and It's Easier Than You Think

"Alan Jones is the best guide I know to lead us on the thorny but promising path that could lead to the renewal of Christianity."
-- Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly

"Compulsively readable, Alan Jones's book is a brave and brilliant attempt to res-cue Christianity from the clutches of the cruel reactionaries into which much of it has fallen. Generous-hearted Christians of all persuasions will cheer him on."
-- The Most Rev. Richard Holloway, retired as primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Bishop of Edinburgh

"Alan Jones combines the power of the mystical, the honesty of the skeptical, and the eagerness of the romantic. His vision of faith and ministry for the time to come will be a gift for many readers."
-- Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia

"A daring call to renew our relation to Christianity-and ourselves-through fac-ing the great questions of the heart that today permeate the life of every serious seeker and the life of our whole endangered world."
-- Jacob Needleman, author of The American Soul and Lost Christianity.
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Old Wives say comfort is its own reward. Darla Garber thinks those venerable women may be confused, because lately, the only reward comfort produces in her twenty-year marriage is stale and sporadic sex. Time and familiarity have rusted their cycles of lovemaking. It used to be that they dreamed of having the house to themselves again--of having sex in the kitchen if they felt like it.

Now with the kids nearly grown, can a wife who still adores her husband find the forgotten physical spark? Fearing sex-out-of-habit for the rest of their lives, Darla isn't so sure. But when her girlfriends prescribe a change of pace as just what a gorgeous animal doctor needs, Darla sets out to discover whether a little effort can set a comfortable marriage into motion, and rekindle the passion one wife desires.

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In The Bond, the Three Doctors plumb their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man..
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Every year countless physician practices fail, needlessly Physicians are stereotypically bad business people - but it's no their fault.

From the beginning of a physician's career, they are overwhelmed with massive and ever-changing amounts of clinical information. Information they must master to protect the lives of their patients.

Ironically, physicians receive no formal business training in medical school or residency. Yet they are thrust into a small business the minute they enter practice.

Practicing physician, practice management coach and devoted entrepreneur, Dr. David Zahaluk makes a strong case that physicians must master wearing two hats simultaneously: clinician and practice builder. He contends practice success is determined by the ability to balance both roles.

In the mid 1990's an ominous trend appeared in physician practice management. Two medical practice management giants were toppled: MedPartners and Phycor. Both promised to take the burden of managing practices from their physician-clients. Both promised economies of scale that would enrich their doctors. Both failed on a massive scale.

The toppling of these two giants has an important implication for today's physicians - delegating control of the business side of your practice is supremely risky.

This authoritative work is a prescription for financial (and emotional) health for modern private practices. Dr. Zahaluk details advanced concepts including how to build your practice's core message and USP, inexpensive retention and referrals systems, direct mail campaigns that work, easy and lucrative joint ventures in your own community, coding pearls and how to get more out of your staff than you ever dreamed possible..
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