Anneli S. Rufus

Using extensive research, interviews, and the author's own experiences, explores how a lack of self-esteem can turn people into their own worst enemies, and details what can be done to stop this epidemic.

How to Stop Hating Yourself

Unworthy

Rufus identifies a rather striking social trend: many people are stuck in the wrong relationship, career, or town, or just with bad habits they can't seem to quit. Many even say they want to change, but face a complex network of causes for immobilization.

Why We Can't (or Won't) Move on

Stuck

Kristan Lawson

This unique guidebook presents over 1,000 of Europe's most unusual attractions. There are sights not to be found in the standard guidebooks. Each chapter is devoted to a single European nation and describes sights and activities off the beaten tourist track in more than 20 countries, from Great Britain, to Scandanavia, to Eastern Europe. These include museums, festivals, catacombs, religious relics, tournaments, unusual art exhibitions, architectural and archeological sights, zoos, and natural wonders. Contains directions to the sights, a wealth of photographs, and calendars listing dates and locations of festivals and events.

A Guide to Unusual Sights

Europe Off the Wall

The Scavengers' Manifesto

Each date of the year is listed and holidays or special events are discussed featuring customs from all over the world.

Celebrations for Every Day of the Year

The World Holiday Book

Holy relics -- the bodily remains of saints and other sacred figures -- were for centuries the most revered objects in the Western world, at center-stage in Europe's great churches and cathedrals. Today some relics have been shunted to side chapels and dark crypts, yet many continue to draw prayerful pilgrims, as they have for centuries, seeking solace, inspiration, and signs of miracles. In Magnificent Corpses, Anneli Rufus recounts her visits to 18 of Europe's most significant relics. With an engaging mix of history and personal narrative, Rufus tells their secret stories and, along the way, revisits with a fresh eye the compelling accounts of the saints whose physical bodies the relics represent.

Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Chiara's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saints' Relics

Magnificent Corpses

Celebrating a long overlooked spiritual heritage, this unique resource explores stunning, easily accessible yet little known locations such as Hera's birthplace at Argos, Greece; the site where earth goddess Diana reigns in Nemi, Italy; the Temple of Isis at Szombathely in Hungary; and the great sanctuary of the goddess Brigid in Kildare, Ireland. Photographs, illustrations, maps.

Discover Places where the Goddess Has Been Celebrated and Worshipped Throughout Time

Goddess Sites, Europe

Many people are stuck, or think they are. They feel frozen. Marooned. Trapped on treadmills. They say they're stuck in the wrong relationships, the wrong careers, the wrong places at the wrong times. They're stuck in bad habits and can't quit. They're stuck the past and can't let go. They're stuck in the present and can't plan for the future. And in many cases, they're looking for someone or something to blame. How did we get here? Consumer culture certainly has a hand in it, training us from infancy onward to seek instant gratification via various forms of brand loyalty: doing the same things with the same products in the same ways over and over again. But other factors play other key roles, notably fear of change. Stuck is a work of social commentary that delivers a long-awaited diagnosis for our day and age. For some, there's a light at the end of the tunnel; this book includes stories of people who managed to become unstuck and of others who, after much reflection, decided that they're already exactly where they're meant to be. Chapter 1 - ONCE UPON A TIME: Stuck in the Past Chapter 2 - SEMIAUTOMATIC: Stuck in the Present Chapter 3 - OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN: Stuck on Habits Chapter 4 - THE HORROR, THE HORROR: Stuck on Trauma Chapter 5 - PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE: Stuck on Others Chapter 6 - TAKE THIS JOB AND....: Stuck on Work

An award-winning journalist offers a frank, insightful exploration of the full range of emotions that often accompany death, discussing the conflicted feelings of loss, guilt, doubt, and even joy that sometimes accompanies the death of a loved one. Original.

How We Really Respond to Death

The Farewell Chronicles

Anneli Rufus

This irreverent, gruesome, and off-the-wall guide to churches made of salt, two-headed animals, underwater hotels, and magical relics, provides a respite from the perennially loved and eternally crowded mainstays of Europe. 75 photos.

Anneli S. Rufus

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