Category: Books

Twenty years later, Thomas R. Lindlof tells the story behind the production and release of the controversial film "The Last Temptation of Christ" in his book "Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars."

Twenty years after the controversy, the story of one of the most contentious films in American cinema history is finally being told. University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications professor Thomas R. Lindlof's book Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars examines the storm that surrounded the making and the release of the 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' 1955 novel of the same name.

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Hollywood Under Siege draws on original interviews with many figures central to the controversy of The Last Temptation of Christ, including the director, Martin Scorsese.

Thayer White's new book, "Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze," helps people navigate successfully through the complex maze of available spiritual tools, systems and choices. He describes about 101 New Age traps and treadmills, including the seductive trap of the Law of Attraction and the addictive use of God's love, meditation and prayer.

Thayer White's new book, Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze, helps people navigate successfully through the complex maze of available spiritual tools, systems and choices. He describes about 101 New Age traps and treadmills, including the seductive trap of the Law of Attraction and the addictive use of God's love, meditation and prayer.

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King Reginald is murdered and his son, Robert, fearful he will experience the same fate, must rely on a sister who knows magic and a time-traveler masquerading as a duke to protect him from a mysterious woman. Will the unlikely duke be able to help his 'prince in need' before it is too late?

Return to Myrridia where magic makes anything possible, even unique forms of murder. Mysterious villains kill a king and then seek his son's demise. They can even plant evil in a person's mind so it can trigger another's death. Excitement builds as an unlikely duke and his friends fight to save their sovereign in Debra Killeen's A Prince in Need: Book Two in the Myrridian Cycle.

The meaning of life has long perplexed humanity. We wonder where we came from and whether life exists after death. In "Honeycomb," Israel del Rio explores the possibility that we can choose the lives we are given.

Many questions exist about the nature of good and evil. Karma is the belief that our kind acts and evil deeds follow us into our next life. But one man is allowed to choose his next life in Israel del Rio's thought-provoking and inspiring Honeycomb.

It's summertime and self-help obsessed celebs are looking for good beach reads. Stars like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Oprah, Nicole Kidman, Fergie, and Meg Ryan have all been spotted reading the self-help tome by Denise Coates to attract their desires. The only question is: What more could these stars want?

Maybe stars are more like us than we realize. When we're feeling stuck in some area of our lives, many of us look for answers by perusing the self-help section of our local Barnes and Nobles. With the latest trend of celebrities buying and even endorsing self-improvement literature, regular folks who read about how to spice up their love lives or manifest more money may just spot a famous face pouring through the same self improvement books as them.

What if we all lived our lives as if anything was possible? As if everything was possible? This is the one of the key messages in Linda Thompson's recently published novel, "I Am My Own Dragon."

We all have a dragon that burns deep inside, because we all have the power to make anything we want to happen, happen.

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Salaam Press publishes "Illegal Citizens: Queer Lives in the Muslim World" by Afdhere Jama. The book follows 33 people in 22 countries.

Following thirty-three people in twenty-two countries, Afdhere Jama paints a complicated picture in Illegal Citizens; Queer Lives in the Muslim World. "I set out to tell the stories of people suffering everywhere," says Jama, who is the editor of Huriyah, a queer Muslim magazine. "Instead, I was confronted with diverse lives including happy ones - sometimes in places I never imagined."

"The Raw Food Diet Myth" by Ruthann Russo is an exploration of the philosophy behind the raw and living foods movement.

The purpose of the book The Raw Food Diet Myth is to introduce interested readers to the philosophy of raw and living foods by pulling together all of the components, including diet, into one place. The book provides readers with information to make a conscious decision about whether they will want toincorporate any of the raw and living food philosophy into their own philosophy of living.

"The Backward-Flowing Method: The Secret of Life and Death," by JJ Semple offers startling revelations on the yet-to-be appreciated powers of meditation.

Curious about the hidden powers of the body? Interested in recent discoveries on meditation? Want to know more about improving concentration, reducing stress, increasing productivity? Did you know that Transcendental Meditation (TM) has improved test scores in schools across the country? That schools are beginning to buy into the benefits of meditation? And that's only the beginning. The Backward-Flowing Method: The Secret of Life and Death covers many hitherto secret topics on meditation science.

For those disappointed with the results of lengthy, expensive, traditional therapies, quantum psychology offers a different path.

It seems like everyone these days in is some sort of therapy, whether it is for stress associated with a troubled economy, family problems, or traumatic experiences such as child abuse and "battle fatigue." Now a new book offers a different solution to the problems we all must deal with in our lives.