At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover, the entrenchment of this free market system is undermining the foundations of healthy societies, caring communities, and personal wellbeing.

Humanizing the Economy shows how co-operative models for economic and social development can create a more equitable, just, and humane future. With over 800 million members in 85 countries and a long history linking economics to social values, the co-operative movement is the most powerful grassroots movement in the world. Highlighting the hopes and struggles of everyday people seeking to make their world a better place, Humanizing the Economy is essential reading for anyone who cares about the reform of economics, globalization, and social justice.

Audio Book: Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital, John Restakis

What do stories about humpback whales protecting a biologist from a shark, a pride of lions rescuing a girl from kidnappers, gorillas working together to dismantle poacher snares, a parrot warding off an attacker in a park, a chimpanzee consoling a human, and an elephant trying to rescue a baby rhino tell us about animal nature? And what might they suggest about our very own human nature? 
 
Until just a few decades ago, there were only a few animals reported to behave empathetically and altruistically. More recently, the list of species who have been observed behaving in compassionate, helpful, and caring ways has grown exponentially, ranging from rats to elephants.
 
When Animals Rescue presents dozens of astonishing and heart-warming stories about animals, such as chickens, horses, dolphins, and wolves, who engage in acts of helpful kindness. During a time in history when studies show that human empathy is decreasing, our knowledge about animal empathy is increasing. These true tales of heroism, kindness, and compassion suggest that we have far more in common with other animals than we once believed and provocatively suggest that what’s best about our human natures just might be our animal natures.

Available on Audible.

Audiobooks: "When Animals Rescue" by Belinda Recio, narrated by Hayden Panettiere

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 paper “The Nature of the Firm,” provided an economic explanation for this: Organizations lowered transaction costs, making the provision of goods and services cheap, efficient, and reliable. Today, this organizational advantage is rapidly disappearing. The Internet is lowering transaction costs—costs of connection, coordination, and trade—and pointing to a future that increasingly favors distributed sources and social solutions to some of our most immediate needs and our most intractable problems. 

As Silicon Valley thought-leader Marina Gorbis, head of the Institute for the Future, portrays, a thriving new relationship-driven or socialstructed economy is emerging in which individuals are harnessing the powers of new technologies to join together and provide an array of products and services. Examples of this changing economy range from BioCurious, a members-run and free-to-use bio lab, to the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, to the remarkable Khan Academy, a free online-teaching service. These engaged and innovative pioneers are filling gaps and doing the seemingly impossible by reinventing business, education, medicine, banking, government, and even scientific research. Based on extensive research into current trends, she travels to a socialstructed future and depicts an exciting vision of tomorrow.

Audio Book: The Nature of the Future, Marina Gorbis

Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability.

Audiobook: The Enablers:

Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience?

Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring proof that communication with animals is a wonderful, indisputable fact. All that is required is an attitude of openness, friendliness, humility, and a sense of humor to part the curtain and form bonds of real friendship.

For anyone who loves animals, for all those who have ever experienced the special devotion only a pet can bring, Kinship With All Life is an unqualified delight. Sample these pages and you will never encounter "just a dog" again, but rather a fellow member of nature's own family.

Audiobook: Kinship with All Life by J. Allen Boone, read by Michael Puttonen

JUNE 2014 - June is Audiobook Month - get this and other audiobooks for 50% off @ www.posthypnoticpress.com 

Profoundly original, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.

AUDIOFILE REVIEW: "[Gabor Maté's] nuanced understanding of pleasure seeking and pain avoidance inspires empathy for a wide range of addictions—from cocaine and alcohol to destructive patterns of shopping, eating, and sexual behavior. Along with his authentic-sounding dialogue Daniel Mate’s performance is notable for its emotional resonance with the author’s patients and their journeys. ... His engagement with the author’s writing makes this a moving invitation to the complex world of addictions." T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Nov. 2011

Audio Book: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté

Dozens of books on acting exist, but none of them quite like this. On Acting and Life provides both insightful acting advice and the memoir of an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen. Modelled after Stephen King’s bestseller, On Writing, the book is divided into two parts.

Part one takes readers on a seventy-year journey that begins with William B. Davis, at age twelve, riding his bicycle through the streets of Toronto to his first acting classes, and eventually leads to him starring in the long-running television series, The X-Files. From a summer theatre in Ontario to the National Theatre of Great Britain to the National Theatre School of Canada to the William Davis Centre for Actors’ Study in Vancouver, few have achieved such a colourful journey. Along the way, Davis met all sorts of familiar faces, including Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox, Albert Finney, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson, among others.

Although there is a lot about acting in part one, the heart of the book for an aspiring or working actor is in part two. What has Davis learned in seventy years of working both in the theatre and in film and television? A lot, as you will see. Davis’ grasp of the art of acting is vast and practical. And in some ways, original.

In his final chapter, Davis explores the underlying philosophy of acting and actor training and argues for bringing the work in to the twenty-first century.

Audiobooks: William B. Davis, "On Acting ... and Life," read by the author.

WEREWOLF: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog is the raw, first-hand account of the life of a police K9 named “Brag” and his cop partner. When they first meet, Brag shows no interest in human attachment and his handler is wary of caring too much for a dog whose life he must risk every night. But as the dangerous manhunts push both to their mental and physical limits, the two develop an unbreakable bond that blurs the line between human and canine.

Anyone who has ever loved a dog will embrace this heartfelt story of courage and loyalty!

Audiobook: Werewolf: The True of On Extraordinary Police Dog, David Alton Hedges

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humor as a tool for learning.

Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today.

Audiobook: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, bell hooks, narrated by Robin Miles

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of learning. bell hooks writes candidly about her own experiences. Teaching, she explains, can happen anywhere, any time - not just in college classrooms but in churches, in bookstores, in homes where people get together to share ideas that affect their daily lives.

In Teaching Community bell hooks seeks to theorize from the place of the positive, looking at what works. Writing about struggles to end racism and white supremacy, she makes the useful point that "No one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice." Teaching Community tells us how we can choose to end racism and create a beloved community. hooks looks at many issues-among them, spirituality in the classroom, white people looking to end racism, and erotic relationships between professors and students. Spirit, struggle, service, love, the ideals of shared knowledge and shared learning - these values motivate progressive social change.

Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom. Teaching - so often undervalued in our society -- can be a joyous and inclusive activity. bell hooks shows the way. "When teachers teach with love, combining care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust, we are often able to enter the classroom and go straight to the heart of the matter, which is knowing what to do on any given day to create the best climate for learning."

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The central feature of today's geopolitical landscape is the decline and fall of America's global empire. The nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory, with repercussions reaching far beyond the United States' borders.

John Michael Greer challenges the conventional wisdom of empire, offering a wealth of historical examples combined with groundbreaking original analysis. Greer illustrates how, in the pursuit of political and economic power, the USA has backed itself into a corner, explores the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, and argues the only constructive way forward is a renewal of democratic institutions.

Rather than ask whether today's American empire should survive, Greer examines whether it can survive, and argues persuasively that the answer to the latter question is "no," An invaluable contribution to the body of speculative post-industrial literature, Decline and Fall is a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the Union or who believes that it is time to reinvent the American Dream. 


Audiobook: Decline and Fall, John Michael Greer

The imminent decline and fall of America's global empire is at the center of today's geopolitical landscape. America's response to it will determine much of it's future, and the implications reach far beyond the United States' borders. Greer offers a wealth of historical examples and groundbreaking original analysis to show how the United States has backed itself into a corner in it's pursuit of political power and wealth. Exploring the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, Greer argues that the only constructive way forward is a renewal of democratic institutions.

Audiobook: John Michael Greer: Decline & Fall: The End of Empire...

Gabrielle Ginsberg was a public defender with plenty of nerve and Braden Pierce was an assistant district attorney with a whole lot of swagger. Gabrielle wanted Braden and Braden wanted Gabrielle. Could true love overcome a lack of privacy, interference by jealous rivals and the insanity of the criminal court system?

Audio Book: Law of Attraction, by N.M. Silber, narrated by Tavia Gilbert

In the past, brands were the sole domain of owners, advertisers and marketers. Strategies were crafted in smoke-filled boardrooms and rolled out with little to no input from consumers.

Times have changed. Today, consumers are the new owners. They have more information, more channels, more power and more choice but less time, less loyalty and less trust than ever before. Brands intersect every aspect of our lives, but the business of building brands is still misunderstood.

Dim Sum Strategy presents a carefully curated selection of proven strategic tools, with insights and anecdotes from three decades working with some of the world's leading brands at the world's top agencies. The book is structured to follow the author's proven Brand Centered Management(TM) process, with a smattering of different "tools" split into four parts: Discovery, Definition, Direction, and Delivery. Each tool is presented in bite-sized, standalone chunks; you can read the book in stepwise fashion or cherry-pick in whatever order you wish--just like a dim sum meal.

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In the past, brands were the sole domain of owners, advertisers and marketers. Strategies were crafted in smoke-filled boardrooms and rolled out with little to no input from consumers.

Times have changed. Today, consumers are the new owners. They have more information, more channels, more power and more choice but less time, less loyalty and less trust than ever before. Brands intersect every aspect of our lives, but the business of building brands is still misunderstood.

Dim Sum Strategy presents a carefully curated selection of proven strategic tools, with insights and anecdotes from three decades working with some of the world's leading brands at the world's top agencies. The book is structured to follow the author's proven Brand Centered Management(TM) process, with a smattering of different "tools" split into four parts: Discovery, Definition, Direction, and Delivery. Each tool is presented in bite-sized, standalone chunks; you can read the book in stepwise fashion or cherry-pick in whatever order you wish--just like a dim sum meal.

Dim Sum Strategy by Peter Wilken

This collection combines Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, first published in 1888, and Irish Fairy Tales, published in 1892, with an introduction by Bernard O’Donoghue and a foreword by Dr. Anne Abrams.

In this charming collection, readers will find themselves transported to the shadowy, twilit world of Celtic myth and legend — where the deenee shee (fairy people) work their mischief, where priests and the devil wage an endless struggle for the souls of humankind, where clever wives outwit murderous giants and druids cast geise (spells).

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Margaret Trudeau reflection on life and aging offers women sage advice that is honest, straightforward, and ultimately hopeful. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of other women, Trudeau discusses everything from pension planning and retirement homes to sex and "grey divorce." Trudeau promotes a more proactive, engaged aging process and encourages baby boomers to serious about finding joy in their "third act." All rights reserved.

Audiobook: Margaret Trudeau, "Time of Your Life," narrated by Colleen Winton

"High Desert Blood" is a true crime book by Andrew Brininstool that focuses on the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot and the experiences of the Williams brothers, Gary and Jeff, caught in the chaos. The book explores the conditions that led to the riot, the brutality within the prison walls, and the tragic consequences for the inmates and their families. It also delves into Gary's quest to uncover the truth about his brother's disappearance during the riot. Read by Michael Puttonen.

AUDIOBOOK: High Desert Blood: The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot and the Tragedy of the Williams Brothers

In this audiobook - term is over and, after a short camping expedition that leaves poor Mr Wilkins determined never to go through such an horrific experience again, Jennings is off to stay with his Aunt Angela. There, he meets Emma Sparrow who needs to hide her collection of stray animals from the exasperated caretaker. When Jennings comes up with a seemingly flawless plan, he congratulates himself on his quick thinking. But with Jennings at large, things can always be expected to go disastrously wrong! '-fossilised fish-hooks!' 

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After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.

What is the world going to look like when all these changes have run their course? Author John Michael Greer seeks to answer this question, and with some degree of accuracy, since civilizations tend to collapse in remarkably similar ways.

AUDIOBOOK: Dark Age America by John Michael Greer, read by Michael Dowd

"In When the Body Says No," Gabor Maté writes: “People have always understood intuitively that mind and body are not separable. Modernity has brought with it an unfortunate dissociation, a split between what we know with our whole being and what our thinking mind accepts as truth.” The mind and body are not just connected, but inseparably intertwined, and, Maté believes, certain chronic diseases - ALS, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, breast cancer - are at least in part “an expression of an internal disharmony” brought on by the effects of stress.
	The significance of the mind-body connection is not new, but modern medicine has a tendency to split the two. However, in recent years an entire field of research, psychoneuroimmunology, has begun to explore “how the mind. . . profoundly interacts with the body’s nervous system and how both of them, in turn, form an essential link with our immune defenses.” And it is not such a stretch to see the connection between organic disease and “stress,” a relentless pressure that can twist around the immune system’s protective powers into a “suicidal assault”: what Maté calls “a civil war inside the body”. 
	It is how Maté defines stress that is so different from mainstream interpretations as to be practically revolutionary. Probing deeply into the life histories and psyches of many patients he has treated during his years as a palliative care physician, he emerges with nothing short of a revelation. 
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Gabor Maté

Kiera Van Gelder's 1st suicide attempt when she was only  12 years of age marked the beginning of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships. Despite these issues, it took 20 years before Van Gelder was diagnosed as having of borderline personality disorder.

An often debilitating and misunderstood condition, "The Buddha and the Borderline" offers a window into this mysterious disorder. An unblinking portrayal of one woman's fight against the devastation of borderline personality disorder, this haunting, intimate memoir chronicles Kiera's a devastating period in Kiera's life and her eventual diagnosis and inspirational recovery. Recovery isn't easy, but it's possible. Kiera's journey included therapy, Buddhist spirituality, and a few online dates gone wrong. Her story sheds light on the difficulties this disorder presents for all concerned: the people who suffer with it, their families and friends who struggle to support them, and the difficulties in obtaining a correct diagnosis and finding suitable treatment. Carla Mercer-Meyer's narration brings this struggle to life - riveting listen.

Audio Book: Buddha And The Borderline by Kiera Van Gelder

In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.

Audio Book: bell hooks, feminism is for everybody, narrated by Robin Miles 5min - Sample

In 1972, British scientist John Yudkin proved that sugar was very bad for our health, but he was ignored or maligned by the majority of the medical profession and the food industry. Forty years later, Dr. Robert Lustig (author of Fat Chance), "discovered" the dangers of sugar through his own research, and also rediscovered John Yudkin's work and early warnings. This is a recording of Yudkin's book, with an intro by Dr. Lustig. 
Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, Professor Yudkin explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types – is brown sugar really better than white? – to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods and how it is damaging our health.

Audio Book: Pure White Deadly by John Yudkin, narrated by Chris MacDowell

This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time--peers replacing parents in the lives of children--is now more relevant than ever. This sample is from the original edition. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what parents can do, and is available only through our site (www.posthypnoticpress.com).
 
In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction--for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident--as do the solutions.

Daniel Maté’s warm and sensitive narration, gift with dialogue, and engagement with the authors writing make this an enjoyable and informative listen.

Audio Book: Hold On To Your Kids, Gabor Maté & Gordon Neufeld

John Taylor Gatto's "Weapons of Mass" Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down" (also available in audio from Post Hypnotic Press), put the now-famous expression of the title in common use worldwide. "Weapons of Mass Instruction" promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against schooling. Available to download or as a MP3 or regular CD set. Narrated by Michael Puttonen. Purchase a download or CDs from our web site (www.posthypnoticpress.com) or on amazon.ca (CDs), audible, emusic, etc. 


Audiobook: John Taylor Gatto: Weapons of Mass Instruction, read by Michael Puttonen

Written from the inside by a person who himself has ADD, with the wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of ADD as a genetically based illness, offering real hope and advice for children and adults who live with this disorder.

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Audio Book: Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté. Read by Daniel Maté

“Enlightenment”—is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now—and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions you can awaken to clear insight and a happiness independent of conditions.

The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works

Audio Book: The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. Read by Edoardo Ballerini.

Anne of Green Gables (1908) is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, a literary classic that has entertained audiences of all age all over the world. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince Edward Island, and who had intended to adopt a boy to help them. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school and the town.

Narrated by Vancouver actress Colleen Winton, a Vancouver actor, singer, dancer, director and choreographer...and now a narrator. 

AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE REVIEW:
"Colleen Winton captures the charm of Anne Shirley in this delightful edition for a new generation of listeners. Anne is an orphan who is mistakenly sent to Green Gables farm--and soon wins her way into the hearts of everyone in Avonlea. Winton brings the perfect amount of wide-eyed wonder and spark to Anne. As Anne finds herself in many adventures throughout the story, Winton strikes the right balance between drama and humor. She also excels with a pitch-perfect pensive and stoic Marilla and the quiet and shy Matthew. Her comfortable storytelling pace allows listeners to get lost in Anne's world. With its great production quality and an array of expression and voices from Winton, this is an excellent new version of a beloved classic." S.B.T. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2014]

Audio Book: Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, read by Colleen Winton

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