Have you ever found yourself confronting life and its many important decisions and find yourself living life due to your past decisions? Do you earnestly seek and need a change in your life’s direction? As you come from your vicissitude of despair, suddenly enlightenment dawns upon you. Your pathway becomes clearer and you begin the process of change. As you continue, the change you seek does not appear; but then, you come to your final crossing point, that is, either to descend into darkness or embrace the light or face death. As you face your end, a miraculous savior appears and you realize, “Yes, I want to live.” In A Soldier Dies to Live, Collins Herrington was such a man who “gave himself the bullet that he didn’t get in the war and found himself lying horizontally across a vertical stream” – his final crossing point. You shall discover whether Collins dies in order to live.

Many people living in this country are unhappy with their overall quality of life. Michael Morris, a therapist of more than thirty years, knows that firsthand. He has helped thousands of people overcome emotional, psychological, physical, and other types of trauma. The Foundation Forty lifestyle is a tool that provides guidelines to create a high quality of life—one that is in line with your best interests. Position yourself to: • set in motion the dynamics of change for a happy and healthy life; • move past the unfortunate lifestyle that has become a reality for most Americans; • resolve disagreements and cultivate more meaningful relationships with others. The author also examines the reasons why so many people are unhappy, noting that most Americans have lived with the horrors of war and terrorism their entire lives. This level of stress, however comfortable you get with it, reduces the ability of society and individuals to function at their best.

In Pebbles from Oceanshore of life, Archana Chowdhury, yoga-practitioner studies with humane interest diseases of the ‘Soma’ to realise the ‘Soul’. The result is an astonishingly eloquent compassionate biography of fellow human beings interweaving life, health disease in totality with endeovour to realise higher domains of existence. The stories are connected with human ignorance, beliefs, faith, misconceptions and cures of diseases. The characters from real life range from the illiterate, socially marginalized rural ones to medical students, doctors, the elite and also terrorist and yogis. The book marches gracefully weaving stories of case of smallpox, rabies, cardiac, respiratory diseases, malignancy to end-stage-renal disease, dialysis and transplantation. The book is a lucid and beautiful journey of a physician from entry to medical school till more than thirty years in the profession. It is a gripping, flowing tale of life, existence, body, mind, soul, matter and consciousness woven across time and space. The manner of presentation is that of a learner, learning humbly, bowing with humility to the Master. Insightful and intuitive ‘Pebbles from Oceanshore of life’ provides panoramic view of human diseases in the larger perspective of life. It gives fascinating glimpses of art, science and spirituality in medical profession. Teachers and students, practitioners of medicine as well as the non-medical people will relate with the stories of humanity.

In The Life And Death of Adolf Hitler, biographer Robert Payne unravels the tangled threads of Hitler’s public and private life and looks behind the caricature with the Charlie Chaplin mustache and the unruly shock of hair to reveal a Hitler possessed of immense personal charm that impressed both men and women and brought followers and contributions to the burgeoning Nazi Party. Although he misread his strength and organized an ill-fated putsch, Hitler spent his months in prison writing Mein Kampf, which increased his following. Once in undisputed command of the Party, Hitler renounced the chastity of his youth and began a sordid affair with his niece, whose suicide prompted him to reject forever all conventional morality. He promised anything to prospective supporters, then cold-bloodedly murdered them before they could claim a share of the power he reserved for himself. Once he became Chancellor, Hitler step by step bent the powers of the state to his own purposes to satisfy his private fantasies, rearming Germany, slaughtering his real or imaginary enemies, blackmailing one by one the leaders of Europe, and plunging the world into the holocaust of World War II. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER is the story of not so much a man corrupted by power as a corrupt man who achieved absolute power and used it to an unprecedented degree, knowing at every moment exactly what he was doing and calculating his enemies’ weaknesses to a hair’s breadth. It is the story of a living man.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.