<p>"This is a lovely and much needed book that provides an opportunity to open the conversation regarding bullying with our youngest children. In a 'question and brainstorm answers' format, Ms. Kempner's book will enable families to identify specific episodes of bullying that can occur in preschool and elementary school age children. Once identified, the readers are asked to think of alternative ways to handle the situations in which bullying can, but doesn't have to, occur." Susan D. Boulware, M.D, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Yale Medical University</p> <p><i>Endorsed and supported by The Turner's Syndrome Society of the United States, TSSUS</i></p> <p>This anti-bullying book is designed to teach children to have empathy towards other children that may be perceived as "different." The books helps children realize how painful it is to be teased, isolated or bullied, which hopefully will inspire them to refrain from treating others in this way.</p> <p>From the author: </p> <p><i>We need to come together as parents, professionals and educators to increase the awareness of the "differences" in many of our children today. We need to teach our children tolerance and acceptance of their peers who are so-called "different." As diagnoses of Autism, ADHD and other syndromes and issues are on the rise, we have no choice but to use awareness and understanding to reinforce empathy in our children. Children that are "different" should not be made to feel like outcasts; they need to be understood, not shunned or ignored.</i></p> <p><strong>The author: Jennifer Kempner, LCSWR</strong> is a mother of three children and a New York State licensed clinical therapist. She received her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work, specializing in Child and Family Counseling, from Fordham University in New York. She has been working with children, adolescents and adults in various settings since 1999. She currently practices in Dutchess County, New York. For more information, go to http: //healingatheart.com/</p> <p><strong>The illustrator: Mish Fornal</strong> studied at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Florida and at the School of Visual Arts of NYC. Her illustrations represent the love she experienced in her childhood. Mish now lives in Marlboro, New York with her partner, Dale, and children Pheebee and Cooper. Mish can be found on Facebook under Mish Fornal and Sweet Sketches.</p> "
<p>Family owned businesses are at great risk of failing in the event the chief executive has a life event that would require him to temporary or permanently leave the business. The life events would include retirement, serious disability, and the unexpected demise of the chief executive.</p> <p>The reason is that the majority of family owned companies do not have a succession plan for the chief executive. In the book, we provide an informational super-highway on the subject of succession planning. The information includes the building blocks of succession planning and the linkage between the blocks. The information covered includes: succession planning, exit strategies, estate planning, role of the directors and the emotional effects of retirement.</p> <p>The information was gathered from surveys, interviews, and research, then correlated to our personal findings. The presentation of the information includes case studies which provide a simulation of the principals of a real life event and questions that are designed to stimulate thinking on the subject matter.</p> <p>In summary, we provide a foundation of information that the chief executive can use in developing his succession plan.</p> <br /> <p><b>Dr. Edward Lagarde</b> has over 40 years of business experience in the financial services industry as a senior manager or chief executive officer of a public or privately owned firm. Dr. Lagarde has a Ph.D from Kennedy Western University in business, a Master's Degree from Lesley University in business and certificate in Management Analysis and Systems Planning from New York University School of Management. Dr. Lagarde has taught business subjects at Lesley University, Community College of Rhode Island and Queens College in Charlotte, N.C.</p> <p>Dr. Lagarde has experience in mergers and acquisitions, start-up companies and conversion of privately owned firms to public ventures. Dr. Lagarde has been involved in developing exit strategies for chief executives including himself.</p>
<p>In <em>Explore Your Sacred Truth</em> you will discover simple and effective ways to free yourself from stress and to approach your life from a calm perspective. By focusing on your personal development you learn how to: </p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Live a fulfilling life</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Access higher states of consciousness</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Open yourself to infinite possibilities</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Attract abundance into your life</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Become one with mind, body and spirit</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Learn how to manifest your thoughts into reality</em></strong></li> </ul> <p>I first met Theresa LePre through "Lightworkers, Healers and Spiritual Thrill-seekers." I was impressed right away with her dedication to truth, words of kindness and inner wisdom. Over time, I have come to appreciate her beautiful gifts all the more. She is the embodiment of kindness and has a truly wonderful outlook on life. She is an inspired teacher and has many lessons to share with the world. Her message is both simple and profound. It speaks directly to the hearts of those willing to hear and apply it. If you are seeking to grow, to learn and to transform your life, do yourself a favor and read what she has to say.</p> <p>Her book, <em>Explore Your Sacred Truth</em>, can lead you step by step through the process of recreating your life path. I would recommend the book for anyone seeking to connect with the greater truth that underlies everything. May blessings and peace follow you all your days.</p> <strong>Victoria L. Cayce</strong> <p></p> <em>Author and distant cousin of Edgar Cayce, Famous Physic</em> <p></p> <p>Our journey, from unaware to becoming aware of our ignorance, into the light of knowledge and up into the deep well of wisdom is a rather daunting task. Because of this, we, in this human form run into issues that are not usually addressed in the community, of our decision to create our own personal spiritual journey, the one that leads us to the understanding of sacred truth. Theresa LePre is a skilled author, spiritual adviser and business woman. Theresa is a down-to-earth, plain-spoken teacher who clears the seekers' path of all doubt and misinformation. In her book, <em>Explore Your Sacred Truth</em>, we are presented with an up-front approach, and a true, coherent explanation of our separate personal transition from ignorance . . . that is easy to understand and follow.</p> <p>Theresa is a gifted teacher who possesses the skills that she chooses to share in order to help others find their own path as you, the seeker, <em>Explore Your Sacred Truth</em>.</p> <strong>Chessie Roberts</strong> <p></p> <em>Host of 'Get on the Grid with Chessie Roberts' on www.soulsignalradio.com</em> <p></p> About the Author <p>Theresa LePre was born into a large New York Catholic family. Like many young people she questioned the teachings of her church and began instead the quest for her Sacred Truth.</p> <p>Theresa is a gifted teacher and passionate about helping others. She is eager to share the skills she possesses to help others on their journey through the spiritual wilderness.</p> <p>She has known abundance and hardship, joy and despair, happiness and grief. She has found her spiritual journey to be difficult on occasion, and her mission now is to help others find their own spiritual path and live their own truth. <em>Explore Your Sacred Truth</em> is for all those on the path with unanswered questions.</p>
<p>Raised in a middle-class Jewish family in New York, Betty Baer came of age in the turbulent sixties and joins the Revolutionary Communist Party. Her memoir, <i>The Graffiti I Didn't Do, The Prison Time I Did</i>, chronicles her arrest and incarceration for the 1980 spray painting of an anti-American slogan on the Exxon building in Houston, Texas. Betty remains loyal to her comrades, and despite her innocence, goes to trial and prison. Behind bars, she shares a common humanity with her fellow women prisoners, confronts her guilt over her activism's effect on her children and delves into her unquestioning commitment to a political idea. <br /> Throughout her story, Betty weaves the 1960s anti-Vietnam war movement, her migration to Texas and reflections on issues of criminal justice, police brutality and surveillance of activists that remain relevant today. <br /> Betty survives her ordeal with the support of family and friends, who keep her uplifted through a flood of letters, visits and by bringing her case to the public. Eventually freed, but changed, she returns home with her ideals renewed and prepares for a new beginning. </p> <p>Betty Baer moved to Texas from New York in the 1970's to spread the revolution. While no revolution fomented, she savors her life in Houston where she lives with her husband Fred. Her sons, daughter in law and granddaughter are close by.</p>
<p>Scandal at the University. </p> <p>Thomas Simpson, a professor at Sessions University, is seduced into joining the administration of president, Bryan Q. Fitz-Hugh, an extraordinarily brilliant, visionary, charismatic leader. As the new director of university communications, he begins to have disturbing concerns about the administration.</p> <p>The new Beijing Center is dedicated and funded. No one is sure how it was paid for yet the president is planning such centers worldwide to fulfill his vision of Sessions as The Global University.</p> <p>Anonymous international wire transfers of tens of millions of dollars are being received by the university's capital campaign.</p> <p>The president is sleeping with the Secretary of State, with whom he graduated from the Kennedy School at Harvard.</p> <p>The university's provost, who is jealous that Fitz-Hugh was chosen over him, successfully petitions the Faculty Senate to vote for an independent audit of the university.</p> <p>His sudden, mysterious death and the uncertainty of whether it was a suicide or murder shocks the university. </p> <p>As if Thomas did not have enough family, political and relationship troubles, an attractive and savvy reporter begins to stalk him, inquiring about the issues facing the university. Thomas's, his family's and the university's situation becomes ever more perilous and at risk. </p>
<p>This intimate guided tour of early Hasidism and Hasidic storytelling gives readers an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of Hasidic wisdom. In <i>A Heart Afire</i>, the teachings and tales of old-world Hasidism are richly enhanced by the enlightening insights, interpretations, and personal reflections of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shaolmi, a modern-day Hasidic master and founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, and his disciple Netanel Miles-Yepez, a scholar of comparative religion. Together they add a deeply meaningful dimension to these stories and a facile bridge between old and new interpretations of them. <i>A Heart Afire</i> explores many of the lesser-known stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female), and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch. Readers get a rare introduction to some of the more radical teachings of these popular Hasidic masters, and insights that connect them to the ecological, ecumenical, and feminist values of the modern world. Enlightening and spiritually uplifting, <i>A Heart Afire</i> reveals surprising relevancy today in cherished Hasidic wisdom and narrative of the past.</p>
These last writings of Swami Siddheswarananda, the former head of the French Ramakrishna Order, are the culmination of a lifetime of spiritual search. In his teachings, the Swami sought to convey an experience of an intuition beyond logic, outside the play of opposites, through which we will be better able to understand the nature of reality. To elucidate his meanings and to make them broadly accessible, the Swami draws on the writings of others, including Meister Eckhart, Ramana Maharshi, Shankara, Hubert Benoit, Ramakrishna, and Vivekananda. Swami Siddheswarananda (18971957) was a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India and, until his death, the spiritual head of the Centre VA(c)dantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, France."
With this one compact statement, Jacob Needleman has forced the discussion of both science and religion in our time into a new, more mature and discriminating phase. . . . It is a way station where those who are seriously exploring the transformation of consciousness will have to stop, take thought, and perhaps re-plot their course.-Theodore RoszakI want to strongly recommend it to every reader seriously interested in our present cultural situation.-Fritjof CapraNeedleman is unique; he is really on to something. . . . A fine book-Harvey Cox Western science has operated for centuries on the assumption that we can understand the universe without understanding ourselves. We are just now seeking to make the necessary connection between the general laws of nature to those of our own (inner) nature. But the job won't be done with massive injections of the new consciousness; we cannot democratize the sacred by cheapening its demands. My aim in this book therefore says Needleman, has not been to speak of the convergence of science and spirituality, but of their separation. As in nature itself, organic unity is a reciprocal relationship between separate but interdependent entities. In human life as well, there can be no real unity except through the awareness of real divisions. One may then hope to experience the magic power of sustained awareness by itself to bring the harmony that we have until now fruitlessly attempted to impose on ourselves and on our endangered civilization. Jacob Needleman is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including Money and the Meaning of Life, and The American Soul. In addition to his teaching and writing, he serves as a consultant in the fields of psychology, education, medical ethics, philanthropy, and business, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's acclaimed PBS series A World of Ideas.