Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally focused on the USA and the Global Northwest. In contrast, this book explores the production, circulation and consumption of self-help books from an innovative transnational perspective. Case studies on Trinidad, Mexico, the People's Republ...

A collection of poems written primarily in free form that mix rhyme, rhythm, and no rhyme at all for the purposes of creating a mood of inspiration and provocation of thought for all who care to read and enjoy.

“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPRA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up wi...

'Just Imagine' brings together two Rhyme Whisperer Books, 'As The Moon And The Sun' and 'In The Madness Of Meeting' in an anthology of poetry on love, faith and dreaming that will provoke minds and brighten hearts of readers of all ages.

Opposite poles of the magnet same.One rests in the north,The other is in the south.Quiet eyes with the laughter loud,Encompassing a calmed soulAs well as a nosy heart.Her mind, a battlefield.Her bod, a shrine.With the rings of fireAlong its depths,She is an ocean.That's at outburst.

Volume 2 of the Rhyme Whisperer Series, 'In The Madness Of Meeting' follows the poetry collection 'As The Moon And The Sun' in bringing readers more poems to enrich minds and hearts.

The book Mystical Twilight is a manifestation of different mazes of emotion. It fleshes out the human experience from the eyes of a poet that responds to every incident of joy, anguish, triumph & deliberation with a heart that spontaneously beats & breathes the pulse of life.The poet reflects on a plethora of experiences ranging from war, peace, hope, childhood, innocence, fear, frustration, friendship & love. In away the book is a mystical combination of everything that spells out...

I am The Leopard of the Shadows. I am the essence you feel when you read the lines I have written. I stalk the souls of those who read my stories, thoughts, and poems. Enchanting them with the subliminal messages that hide amidst the lines. My spells swirl amid the words, entering through your eyes to fall upon your mind with the sorcery of a lost soul. You can not help feeling the energy and aura when you hear the howl of one who is nocturnal. Beware Reader of the wisdoms contained in tha...

These poems have been written over the course of several years, and therefore reflect a myriad of sensibilities. Some of the poems reflect emotions as they pertain to feeling alienated, misunderstood, or different, Gothic subculture, desire, morbid curiosity, and a love of all things dark, embracing our darkest fears, and confronting our inner demons.

This awe-inspiring collection of poetry, guides readers down familiar roads of life, love and heartache. The author intertwines personal life experience with an intriguing intensity of passion and multitude of deep human emotion.In Veronica's words: "Poetry to me, is an inaudible voice crying out to be heard, the connection between the heart and soul more so than the head.Poetry is beauty, sadness, pain, hope, glory, defeat, inspiration and motivation, all tied in together w...

Poems of love, and despair; the hanging longings of a woman who has lost her lover's hand. She can't go on, but she must; and the feelings she holds inside. These are depressive love poems, poems of want and desire.

An opportunity to journey through the mind body and soul of a conscious poet. You are invited to encounter the expression of emotions that harmonize with a heartbeat of rhythms. Each artful entry makes a statement after guidance on verses that flow. Connect in the presence of this poetic vortex with a spirit that has written revelations, sensations, and creations.