"If the world could be saved by a book, this just might be the book." - John Holt -

In the jungle of Venezuela Jean Liedloff meets the Yequana-Indians. Fascinated of "the happiest people I have ever seen" she lives with them for two and a half years and she finds the cause of their harmonic living together in the treatment of their children. She discovers, that these indians still have a knowledge about the primal necessities of an infant, which is completely lost in our society.  She shows, how we treet babys wrong from their birth on. The consequences - like lack of trust, self-worth, spontaneity and dignity - are the normality in the western world. She describes the life of the indians, whose babies don't cry, where siblings don't quarrel, where happiness is the normal feeling of life.   The book is a "Must-have" for everyone who becomes parents, for every therapist and the ones who are interested psychology. Parents, who utilize the knowledge of this book report that their children are much more social and cooperative than other children and that they don't need their parents attention all the time. This book gives a deep insight into human nature and sanity. Perseus Books Group,   220 pages,   16.00 $

The american physician Raymond Moody has spoken with people, who have been bodily dead for some minutes and who have been reanimated afterwards. In this book he describes the incredible experiences during "beeing dead": About people who left their physical body and who could exactly describe what has happened around them while they were dead, who moved through a "tunnel", have seen a bright light and a "flashback of their life" and much more. Moody collected 150 cases and he found surprisingly similar elements in these stories. All these people were so deeply impressed by their near death experience that it changed their subsequent life. In the same period other physicians from other countries (like for example Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss) discovered the same phenomenon independently from each other and published books about that. Harpercollins,   175 pages,    14.00 $