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For centuries the Chinese have consulted the I Ching both as an oracle and as a means of self-understanding.  The moral and psychological depth of its wisdom has been celebrated by its scholars, psychologists, poets, and scientists.  In this clear, immensely readable interpretation, Sam Reifler eliminates the obscure and dated references of previous translations to provide an accurate and accessible version of the ancient Chinese classic for the contemporary seeker.

For me, Sam Reifler's I Ching is the best in directly speaking 
to questions involving love and/or relationship dyanmics.



Confessions of a Record Producer by Moses Avalon exposes the bad, the baddest , and the worst elements of the music business. This new, expanded version of the top-selling guide to the music 'biz is not about how the music business should work, but how it does work. Music Industry insider Moses Avalon tells it like it is – how producers dip into budgets, artists steal songs, lawyers write contracts in code – and shows you how to survive these and other career-stifling situations.

Avalon started in the business 15 years ago as a studio engineer and went on to produce records. He has also composed soundtracks for several independent films and now consults for artist managers, record labels, and investors. Avalon examines the various stages of the record deal. He explains the role of each person involved and suggests what that person's self-interest is. He also contrasts the differences among deals at the major labels, independents, and vanity labels, and he discusses "baby" deals between artists and production companies. Avalon's final cut is a medley of stories, rumors, and myths about ways people can be or have been "ripped-off." Though sometimes too blunt, Avalon provides a caveat that novices could miss out on elsewhere. -David Rouse 

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This book is about The Gods in Everyman, the innate patterns – or archetypes – that lie deep within the psyche, shaping men from within. These gods are powerful, invisible predispositions that affect personality, work, and relationships. The gods have to do with emotional intensity or distance, preferences for mental acuity, physical exertion, or esthetic sensibility, yearning for ecstatic merger or panoramic understanding, sense of time, and much more. Different archetypes are responsible for the diversity among, and complexity within, men and have much to do with the ease or difficulty with which men (and boys) can conform to expectations and at what cost to their deepest and most authentic selves.



Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among women. Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen believes that an understanding of these inner patterns and their interrelationships offers reassuring, true-to-life alternatives that take women far beyond such restrictive dichotomies as masculine/feminine, mother/lover, careerist/housewife. And she demonstrates how understanding them can provide the key to self-knowledge and wholeness. Dr. Bolen introduces these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women will identify. Goddesses in Everywoman shows readers how to identify their ruling goddesses (from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite), how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become better "heroines" in their own life stories.

The Gods in Everyman was recapitulated,

meaning I owned it before in a previous personal library.

These two books are also the first psychology works I read in college.

Kevin Liles is the guy from Def Jam that most people don't recognize. Everyone knows Russell, most people know Rick Rubin. Kevin's one of the guys who came on board in the days when the company was transforming from start-up to big-time. He delivers a really simple message throughout Make It Happen... work harder than everyone else. That's the real gist of the 242 pages. There are chapters that have other themes, but the underlying cause of his success comes out in every section. Liles worked hard and was single-minded in the pursuit of his goals.



If you are bored with the classic iPhone/iPod earbuds, try this super luxurious Apple product diamond earbuds. They are no ordinary earbuds, they are the world’s most expensive ones for Apple products and with good reason too. They are beautifully decorated with round brilliant cut diamonds in micro-pave setting. They certainly look gorgeous without being too shiny. The white gold compliments the frosty diamonds nicely.

THE WEEKLY NIETZSCHE: HOW OVERMEN, OVERCOME THEMSELVES

"Forward, lamefoot!"

he shouted in an awe-inspiring voice.

"Forward, lazybones, smuggler, pale-face,

or I shall tickle you with my heel!

What are you doing here between towers?

The top of the tower is where you belong.

You ought to be locked up;

you block the way for one better than yourself."

And with every word he came closer and closer;

but when he was but one step behind,

the dreadful thing happened which made 

every mouth dumb and every eye rigid:

he uttered a devilish cry 

and jumped over the man 

who stood in his way.

THE DARK HORSE YEAR