Monthly Archives: December 2011

Power to prosper: 21 days to financial freedom

By Michelle Singletary In her softcover book The Power to Prosper, award-winning writer Michelle Singletary has a field-tested financial challenge for you. For twenty-one days, you will put away your credit cards and buy only what you need for survival. With Michelle’s guidance during this three-week financial fast, you’ll discover how to: * Break your spending habit * Handle money with your significant other or your spouse * Break your bondage to debt with the Debt Dash Plan * Make...

A Christmas Story (DVD)

This delightfully funny holiday gem tells the story of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsly) a 1940′s nine-year-old who pulls out all the stops to obtain the ultimate Christmas present. It’s Christmas time and there’s only one thing on Ralphie Parker’s Christmas list this year: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle, but many obstacles stand in the way of his dream because every adult that he confronts keeps telling him he’ll shoot his eye out. Meanwhile The Old...

Consuming instinct: what juicy burgers, Ferraris, pornography and gift giving reveal about human nature

By Gad Saad Foreword by David M. Buss, author of The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and The Evolution of Desire What do all successful fast-food restaurants have in common? Why do men’s testosterone levels rise when they drive a Ferrari or a Porsche? Why are women more likely to become compulsive shoppers and men more likely to become addicted to pornography? How does the fashion industry play on our innate need to belong? The answer to all of these intriguing...

Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics

By James P. McCartin A hundred years ago Catholic believers young and old, rich and poor, would fill churches on holy days, drawn together in prayer and in the conviction that they, the laypeople, needed the clergy and patron saints to mediate between them and their God. Today a Catholic believer in America is as likely as not to find God for herself. This book traces dramatic changes in the practice of faith among American Catholics through evolving ideas about...