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RIGHTS INFORMATION Watering the Desert with Tony De Mello John Callanan
ISBN: 978 1 85635 444 8 Format: Paperback Size: B format Extent: 160pp Category: Mind, Body, Spirit Rights Available: All Key Note A book of Meditation Exercises celebrating the spirit and enthusiasm of a great Indian Master of Prayer, Anthony de Mello.
Description ‘New Zealand probably has more resident birds that can’t fly than any other place on earth. I’m told that long ago these birds could fly but life was so good in their land and enemies so few that they saw no reason to exercise and develop their Godgiven talent, and thus they let these attributes fall into disuse. If you don’t use the talent, you lose the talent, and that’s exactly what happened. ’We don’t want to be like the Kiwi bird. Faith may have been handed on to us, but if we let it lie dormant, it will surely wither. The philosophy of life and prayer practices offered in this book capture some of Anthony de Mello’s unique holistic approach to spirituality. Wherever he went, de Mello touched the minds, hearts and spirit of his listeners.’ This book hopes to continue his work. It blends the rich insights of eastern and western spirituality, thus encouraging Christians to keep going in their search for truth and vibrancy.
Author Information John Callanan, SJ, is a priest and Irish Jesuit who is currently chaplain and student adviser at University College Dublin. He has conducted retreats and prayer workshops in Ireland, France, the British Isles, the USA and Africa and is the author of a trilogy of books: The Spirit of Tony de Mello, Dreaming with Tony de Mello and Finding Fire with Tony de Mello.
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Woman In Search of Wholeness
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Woman in Search of Wholeness Anne Alcock ISBN: 9781856353915 Format: Paperback Price: â‚Ź10.95 / ÂŁ9.50 Size: 198mm x 129mm Extent: 96pp All rights available
Key Note Body-mind-spirit reflections on the story of the Samaritan woman.
Selling Points This book is for use in personal prayer, small prayer groups, or for privately conducted retreats or quiet days.
Description Drawing on the biblical story of the Samaritan woman who encountered Jesus at Jacob's well (John 4) and to whom he offered the water of life, Woman in Search of Wholeness guides the reader in a journey of the body, mind and spirit with the following themes: self-identity, gratefulness, conflict, transition, choices, wholeheartedness, images of God, prayer as lived experience and personal spiritual practice.
Author Information Anne Alcock, who traces her roots back to Ireland, England and Madeira, was brought up in Africa but has lived in Ireland since 1987. She alss works in private practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist, specialising in mid-life issues, transition, personal holistic development and stress-management. She has MA degrees in pastoral theology and applied theology, and is the author of 'Word Into Heart'."" For further information, please contact: further information, please contact: PatrickForCrowley Unit 3B, Oak House, Bessboro Road, Blackrock, Cork Ireland
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RIGHTS INFORMATION Do You Want a Miracle? Willie Hughes
ISBN: 978 1 85635 575 9 Format: Paperback
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Extent: 160pp Category: Mind, Body, Spirit Rights Bvailable: All Key Note Many of us want miracles in our lives but we seldom approach God in the right way when asking for one. The Bible encourages people to ask God for what they want. This book teaches us how to still our minds and bodies and leave ourselves open to the experience of peace. It gives us the courage to believe there is always hope of a miracle.
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Over 200,000 people sea angling in Ireland every year
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Illustrates a step-by-step approach to achieving a miracle
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Do You Want a Miracle? shows us how to build inner peace and develop a relationship with our Guardian Angel
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Contains suggested programmes to follow [based on Gospel meditations] to help us to reach spiritual awareness and peace
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Description The author uses stories from the Bible to examine the extraordinary trust that people had in Jesus and their belief that he would be able to perform the miracle they so greatly desired. This kind of trust is even more difficult to achieve today, surrounded as we are by scientific evidence refuting the existence of miracles. We also often turn to material goods to anaesthetise ourselves from our problems and distract us from our genuine desires. In this book we learn to turn away from these distractions and achieve the level of trust that Jesus demands of us if we are to receive the ultimate reward for our belief in him: a miracle.
Author Information Willie Hughes is a composer and holds an MA for his research in contemporary music. When not immersed in music, he is submerged in books on spirituality. He has been a long-time practitioner of transcendental meditation. He has long-standing links with the Jesuits who educated him, and with the Cistercians to whom he retreats when he needs tranquillity. He lives in County Kildare and is married with two children.
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RIGHTS INFORMATION The Yin Yang Complex Create success by understanding one of the world’s oldest dynamic forces Brendan Foley ISBN: 978 1 85635 652 7
Size: 198 x 129
Format: Paperback Extent: 256pp Category: Mind Body Spirit Rights Bvailable: All except Audio Key Note Explores the ancient philosophy of balance in all areas of life to help develop an understanding of why we feel, behave and think the way we do
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A holistic approach to finding balance in your life
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An impressive, media savvy author who speaks to large groups on a regular basis
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Supported by author signings and events
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IDescription In The Yin Yang Complex you will be taken on a journey of discovery that will unearth the reason why the world is in its current state of turmoil and why you have evolved in the manner that you have. From the Mesolithic period to the modern day, Brendan Foley explores how we have become so unbalanced. He takes ancient knowledge and applies it to our lives today – our relationships, our businesses, the environment. Each chapter contains exercises that will allow the reader to personally explore the balance in their own lives. Readers will learn the key to great relationships as well as success in all other aspects of life, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the masculine and feminine energies of The Yin Yang Complex.
Author Information After 10 years in marketing and advertising, Brendan Foley set up Seachange Training, a leading provider of leadership, coaching and teambuilding services. When he discovered Reiki he found his calling. He is now a Reiki and Secheim Master and regularly runs energy and spirituality workshops.
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RIGHTS INFORMATION Dancing the Rainbow Holistic Well-Being Through Movement Lani O’Hanlon ISBN: 978 1 85635 546 9 Format: Paperback
Size: 215NN x 135NN
Extent: 256pp Category: Mind, Body, Spirit Rights Bvailable: All except Spanish language Key Note Inside everyone there is a dancer waiting to break free. Sometimes they may dance alone in the kitchen to a particular song on the radio, or having been told at school that they couldn’t dance or sing, they may have ignored their ability or desire to move freely or to express their creative side. This book asks if dance, voice and movement could be more than an expression of creativity but also a way of healing?
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A colourful, creative book in the growing market for creative therapies
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An original Irish voice speaking about issues that we are all dealing with
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A self help book to help the reader to think more creatively and spontaneously to release old creative blocks that were caused by past trauma or creative hurts
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Creative dance is fast becoming popular as a companion to yoga and pilates for health and fitness
Description Have you ever sat in the audience but wished you were on the stage? Or maybe you are a naturally creative person but sometimes you feel blocked or find it hard to keep going? If you ever breathed in with joy when you saw a particular colour, like the colour of the gorse or the sea, and would like to recapture that feeling and build on it, this book is for you. It will help you to become fitter in body and soul, to slow down your thinking and worrying and inhabit your body with more passion and ease. Lani O’Hanlon brings the creative and healing arts together in Dancing the Rainbow. It includes the story of how movement and dance transformed her life when she started to use dance to heal the trauma in her own body, and her book sets out to also transform the reader’s life through dance. With easy to follow illustrations throughout, it uses tried and tested methods to unlock creative potential in a way that is in balance with the body’s rhythm and with the rhythm of the Earth.
Author Information Lani O’ Hanlon MCTA is a Colour Therapist, Dancer, Writer and Facilitator and has danced, sang and performed from the age of three. She has been teaching various forms of dance to children and adults for over twenty years and throughout the country. She now works with psychotherapists and psychologists using dance and colour to support their work with post-traumatic stress. She has worked for the past ten years with private healing/ movement sessions and group work.
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RIGHTS INFORMATION I’ll Stop Tomorrow Paul Campbell ISBN: 978 1 85635 538 4 Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm Extent: 224pp Category: Mind, Body, Spirit / Addiction Rights vailable: All except Russian language Key Note This book is different, because it is written by a man who ‘liked a jar’, but for a long time did not see that as a problem. Drink soon became the the most important thing in his life. He chose booze ahead of everyone and everything, and in the end it cost him everyone and everything.
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Targeted at alcoholics, recovering alcoholics, families of alcoholics, young people, employers, doctors, clergy etc
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Interest generated by a large alcoholism problem in Ireland
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Most people know someone who has been affected by alcoholism
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The author now works as an addiction counsellor
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Description During his drinking days Paul CamPaperbackell let down and hurt many people - his family and loved ones in particular. Alcoholism is known as the ‘family illness’ and it truly is. Before alcoholism kills, it usually destroys the lives of loved ones, the ones ironically that care about the alcoholic the most. Much of this book is written with these people in mind. To Paul CamPaperbackell’s mind, family members are usually the silent victims of alcoholism. This book is not written by an academic or a doctor. It doesn’t have carefully drawn charts or squiggly diagrams describing a variety of personalities and behaviour patterns. This book is written by someone who had everything, who lost everything, who went through the living hell of chronic alcoholism and the tough times of recovery. Ultimately though, he is proof that there is hope for everyone - even the most crazy, out-of-control, self-destructive alcoholic. Paul CamPaperbackell discovered that giving up drink was only half the battle. Living and enjoying life is the real challenge.
Author Information Paul Campbell is an Addiction Counsellor. He now lives in Sallins, Kildare and writes regular columns on alcoholism for a local magazine.
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RIGHTS INFORMATION Psychic Kids Lynne Gallagher ISBN: 978 1 85635 551 3 Format: Paperback
Size: B Format
Extent: 320pp Category: Mind, Body, Spirit Rights Bvailable: All except Italian language Key Note Deals with a broad range of children’s psychic abilities in a thought-provoking and down to earth manner.
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Uses real examples and explanations everyone can relate to
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Provides a starting point to delve further into things that may have puzzled and intrigued in the past
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Many examples both personal and reported, to confirm that the ‘imaginary friend’ is actually a spirit communicating
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Provides keys for cultivating a child’s natural talents
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Description A child's world is a magical place – but for a child with psychic and precognitive abilities, it is beyond extraordinary… Does your child have an imaginary friend? Do they know things that they couldn’t or shouldn’t possibly know? There is an explanation for these occurrences that you might not have considered … Through experiences related by people from around the world, this book investigates the uncanny ability of some children to predict events, from thunderstorms to pregnancies, to sense presences and convey messages from the dead. It provides guidelines on how to communicate with your unborn child and how to react with sensitivity to your child’s psychic experiences. Psychic Kids will fascinate even the most confirmed cynic and teach you to look at your own extraordinary child through new eyes …
Author Information Lynne Gallagher was born in Liverpool in 1964. She was a gifted child, forming full sentences at 9 months and reading proficiently aged 4. She had precognitive dreams from the age of 3. She gained an Open University degree in History 1991. She started her own company, ‘Roo’ children’s interior design, in 2004, which featured in The Star newspaper, local Radio 3 and RTÉ’s Nationwide program. She now lives in Birr, Co. Offally and has had articles published by numerous psychic magazines.
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RIGHTS INFORMATION Life after Loss Christy Kenneally ISBN: 978 1 85635 243 7 &YUFOU QQ 4J[F Y NN Category: Mind / Body / SpirJU Rights Bvailable: All
Key Note What do you say after you’ve said Sorry for your trouble? This is not just a book for the bereaved but for everyone who is unsure how to act and what to say when faced with friends, family, loved ones, colleagues and acquaintances who have been bereaved.
Description Life After Loss was written for what the author calls the ‘second circle’ who are dealing with the bereavement of others. They include family, friends, colleagues, employers, carers, nurses, doctors, priests, pastors, social workers and counsellors. Drawing on twenty years of lecturing, training and broadcasting on the subject of bereavement, Christy Kenneally has put together a book filled with human interest, anecdote and even humour.
Author Information Christy Kenneally, one of Ireland’s best-loved communications and media personalities, is the bestselling author of book of memoirs, Small Wonders. He now works as a communications consultant and broadcaster.
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RIGHTS INFORMATION Depression An Emotion Not A Disease Áine Tubridy and Michael Corry ISBN: 1 85635 479 2
Format: Paperback
Size: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 224 pp
Category: Self-help Rights Bvailable: All except Turkish language Key Note Depression is NOT a disease, it is an emotion triggered by traumatic events whose hazardous treatment with drugs by doctors worldwide is only a band-aid, not a cure — Tubridy and Corry
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Depression has become an urgent health issue in Ireland. Last year one in five of the population was prescribed anti-depressants at a cost of 100 million euro.
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Depression: An emotion not a disease takes on the medical community’s ‘hazardous’ use of medication in treating depression, calling for a re-examination of the scientific assumptions associated with it.
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It is written by psychiatrists who see the full spectrum of depression, right up to suicidal intent, and see the inadequacy of medication and the biomedical model.
Description Depression is an emotion, just like fear, anger or love. It is the imprint felt after a stressful or traumatic experience. Depression is natural. It is not a disease process reflecting a change in brain chemistry. The sick brain model of depression is a hideous and terrifying concept, as it turns us into cogs in a machine where, if we find the going difficult and want to disengage, we are prescribed an emotional painkiller and advised to carry on regardless. Chemically-induced slavery has arrived. This book offers hope and understanding, and effective ways to create a new identity.
Author Information Dr Aine Tubridy qualified in medicine from UCD in 1977. After working for a time in general practice, she trained as a constructivist psychotherapist and joined the Institute of Psychosocial Medicine in 1990. She has co-authored a book, Going Mad?, on the origins of mental illness. Dr Michael Corry qualified in medicine from UCD in 1973 and also trained as a constructivist psycho¬therapist. His interest in psychosis and altered states of consciousness developed from his work in St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital, Dublin. In 1987 he was appointed consultant psychiatrist to Clane General Hospital.
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The 5 States of Success SPACE Brendan Foley
The 5 States of Success
ISBN: 978 1 85635 804 0 Format: Paperback
Price: â‚Ź9.99 / ÂŁ8.50 Size: 198mm x 129mm Extent: 160pp Publication Date: July 2011 9ights available! (SS
Key Note Achieve and maintain meaningful success in your business.
Selling Points * 'The 5 States of Success' addresses the REAL recessionary world, written by someone working with real people, real companies, creating meaningful success in one of the toughest recessions the world has ever known * Accompanied by a social marketing campaign including Facebook, Twitter and Youtube initiatives * Well-known business coach with good media contacts involved with some of the highest level executives in the Irish economy
Description Brendan Foley has worked with 1000s of people and 100s of companies across all sectors to help to create meaningful success. Through working with highly successful business professionals across the globe he has identified the '5 States of Success', insight, connection, certainty, vitality and spirit. When these states are entered into they produce; clarity, empathy, conviction, action and purpose, which are the essential ingredients of meaningful success. He has found that most successful people and businesses demonstrate these traits. Using clear examples, deep insights, the latest research, tools, techniques and practical exercises, the reader will learn how to enter these states to create meaningful success and happiness in business and life! The question you have to answer now is: are you prepared to create meaningful success in your business and your life?
Author Information Brendan Foley is a life and business coach, owner of Seachange Training, motivational speaker, international sailing champion, author and multi-award-winner across a variety of industries stretching from charity to advertising to technology. His passion is helping people, teams and businesses on their path to potential.
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