#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin GruwellNow a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the HeartIn 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room...

Messengers Among Us: The Many Voices of GodNot every message from heaven comes with thunder. Sometimes, it arrives as intuition, a stranger's kindness, or a silent knowing that changes how we view the world. Every person can receive guidance not through hierarchy, but through openness.Messengers Among Us explores how the divine speaks through human life itself through art, through compassion, and through moments that transcend logic yet fe...

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it imp...

What if one of the greatest misconceptions about Christianity isn't theological-but historical?For generations, many have been taught that Christianity arrived in Africa through European missionaries during the colonial era. But history tells a far different story.Long before colonialism, African kingdoms embraced Christ. African theologians helped define Christian doctrine. African monks transformed Christian spirituality. African churches flourished centu...

The Secret Science Behind Miracles by Max Freedom Long Max Freedom Long was a preeminent western scholar on the Huna, the psychological philosophies of the ancient polynesian culture that incorporated 'miraculous' events such as hands on healing, fire/hot lava walking, spirit communication and management, and psychic occurances. This text is a compilation of his case studies and field work. Chapters include The Practical Use Of The Magic Of The Miracle, How The Kahunas Controlled Winds, We...

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He asserts that it is no accident that the upsur...

An astonishing debut, how to get over is part instruction manual, part prayer, part testimony. It attempts to solve the reader’s problems (by telling them how to get over), while simultaneously creating them—troubling the waters with witness and blues. ford’s poems witness via a series of “past life portraits” that navigate personal space as well as the imagined persona. These portraits conjure the blues via the imagined lives of the inanimate (a whip, a machete), the historic (a ...

THE DISCOVERY THAT MAY CHANGE THE WORLD This report deals with the discovery of an ancient and secret system of workable magic, which, if we can learn to use it as did the native magicians of Polynesia and North Africa, bids fair to change the world … provided the atom bomb does not make all Further changes impossible. As a young man I was a Baptist. I attended the Catholic Church often with a boyhood friend. Later on I studied Christian Science briefly, took a long look into Theosophy, an...

According to Long, self-suggestion is a technique for using the power of the mind to bring about positive change in one's life. He explains that the subconscious mind is highly suggestible and can be influenced by repeated positive affirmations and visualizations. By using self-suggestion, individuals can reprogram their subconscious minds to focus on positive outcomes and achieve their goals.Long provides practical guidance on how to use self-suggestion effectively. He encourages readers ...

A standards-based teacher’s guide from the educator behind the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary, with innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.Don’t miss the public television documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the HeartIn response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students ...

Recovering the Ancient Magic presents the results of an 18-year-long study of Huna magic, detailing examples of fire-walking, spiritualism, levitation, mind-reading, instant healing, and changes in physical material.Max Freedom Long spent 14 years in Hawaii studying the secrets of the kahunas of magic. His attempts to discover the secrets behind magical ability are detailed in this volume containing his collected data and assimilated theories. Long examine...

This information concerning those parts of psychology which we have come to call hypnosis, mesmerism and suggestion, is being presented as an addition to the scant literature on the ancient psycho-religious system of the Polynesians called “Huna” or the “Secret”. It is taken for granted that the reader will already have gone through the first three books dealing with the rediscovery of Huna (The Secret Science Behind Miracles, The Secret Science At Work, and Growing Into Light). But for th...