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My Copy of the Book Year Published: 2017 Genre: Non Fiction; Self-Help; Spirituality Blurb: The Japanese have an old saying: “If you see Buddha on the road, kill him.” It’s a reminder we all take our own path to enlightenment—a lesson the modern spirituality marketplace has conveniently forgotten. Modern spirituality is big business, with gurus, shamans, spiritualists, and others plugging feel-good phrases and recycled, simplistic ideas. The marketplace holds out the promise of a trouble-free life, paradigm-changing insights, and simplified secrets of enlightenment—all for a modest fee, of course. Harry Meier has traveled through the morass of modern spirituality for forty years—and killed his share of Buddhas along the way. Meier argues the industry sells spiritual junk food that is designed to make you feel good but ultimately lacks any real nourishment. To truly advance, Meier believes we must abandon the pleasant but unhelpful comfort zone of mass-market spir...

My Copy of the Book Year Published: 2007 Genre: Non Fiction Blurb: American girls today are forced to navigate a minefield more challenging, difficult, and pressure-filled than ever before when it comes to one vital topic: sex. Over the last decade, a new female imperative - that sexiness trumps intelligence and character at even the highest levels of influence and power - has emerged, undermining girls' sense of worth in their formative years and glorifying behaviour that is destructive to their future health, happiness and self-respect.  About the Author: Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political analyst and commentator based near New York. She has provided analysis and commentary on national television for PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and has appeared locally on the Orange County News Channel and Cox Cable. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she served as editorial chairman of The Daily Princetonian , and Harvard Law School, wh...