Lantern Books

For many years at the Jivamukti Yoga School in New York City and throughout the world, popular and highly regarded yoga instructor, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, (affectionately known as Lady Ruth) has been offering her students dharma talks.- stories from her life that accompany her classes and represent the yogic commitments to ahimsa (non-violence), compassion and service.

In this book, a companion to An Offering of Leaves, much-loved Jivamukti Yoga teacher ,Ruth Lauer-Manenti, ('Lady Ruth') offers over forty more of the 'dharma talks' that she gives at the beginning of each yoga class.

IN SPIRITUALITY, CONTEMPLATION & TRANSFORMATION, some of the leading practitioners of centering prayer - the contemporary expression of the Christian contemplative tradition as developed by the desert fathers and mothers and elaborated by mystics such as saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila - write about the many and varied benefits of this dynamic and intimate means of connecting with ...

In this major new work, Father Thomas Keating reflects on the wisdom and legacy of the Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve-Step Method and its connections to, and similarities with, the Christian mystical traditions of centering prayer and Lectio Divina.

In this clear elucidation of the philosophy of animal rights, professors, Mylan Engel and Kathie Jenni, explore the fundamental outlines of the debate over our duties and responsibilities toward nonhuman animals.

Covering doctrine and the lived experience of the world's religious practitioners, CALL TO COMPASSION is a collection of stirring and passionate essays on the place of animals within the philosophical, cultural, and everyday milieus of spiritual practices both ancient and modern.

In this companion to his first book, An Unchanged Mind, John A. McKinnon provides invaluable advice to all parents of teenagers and young adults. Using case studies gathered from his years helping parents with troubled adolescents, Dr.

Foreword by Brian May. For four decades, Kim Stallwood has had a front seat in the animal rights movement, starting at the grassroots in England and working his way up to leadership positions at some of the best-known organisations in the world, including Compassion In World Farming, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

For fans of The Vegan Family Cookbook - and anyone who is concerned about animals, the environment and their health – Chef, Brian McCarthy, is back with a cookbook that shows that international vegan food is not only good for the planet and good for you, but it's easy and fun to prepare too.

When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary.

Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate—Aotus, the owl monkey, or "monkey of the night." But along her journey to discover the behaviour of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself.