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Melanie Joy on Vegan Radio

Thursday, October 16, 7:00pm

Melanie Joy will discuss Strategic Action for Animals with the Vegan Radio crew.

Boston Vegetarian Food Festival

Saturday, November 1, 10:00am - 6:00pm

In between tastings, catch up with Lantern authors Melanie Joy (Strategic Action for Animals) and Michael Greger (Bird Flu).

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News at Lantern

Our Economy, Then and Now 10/1/08

Hillary Rettig, author of The Lifelong Activist, weighs in on The Huffington Post.

Look Two Ways at Candle 79 9/19/08

Bart Potenza and Joy Pierson celebrated the fifth anniversary of their eatery, Candle 79, with a fiesta that doubled as a release party for Bart's book, Look Two Ways on a One-Way Street. With vegan eats, books printed on recycled paper, and pedicabs home, it was green from end to end.

'Vegetarian' Featured by WNBA 9/10/08

Read about Patti Breitman's life as a champion of safe sex, women's ability to say "no", and healthful eating in this Women's National Book Association interview featuring How to Eat Like a Vegetarian.

Vegetarianism in the Age of Aquarius 9/5/08

The 2009 Llewellyn Moon Sign Book will include a vegan chapter, by Judy Carman, author of Peace to All Beings. Peaceful eating is new to the Moon Sign Book, a good "sign."

How to Eat in Veg News 9/4/08

Veg News magazine's eNewsletter says to "keep an eye out for this great new guide to veg eating" filled with "all kinds of handy info." How to Eat Like a Vegetarian is great for even seasoned vegetarians.

Eat Two Ways 9/3/08

Restauranteer Bart Potenza's new book, Look Two Ways on a One-Way Street, is now available from Lantern, but also at Candle Café and Candle 79. If you like food as well as thought, go chat with Bart, who'll be happy to sign a book for you!

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Ayurvedic Medicine

You don't need a special week to celebrate Ayurveda: it's the oldest medical system in the world. Here's how it works.

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	Wangari Maathai The Green Belt Movement 2004 Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Wangari Maathai's book offers a compelling insight into the internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded by Kenyans and run by and for Kenyans. Read more.... Read author's profile.

	Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman How to Eat like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One Don't have time to cook? Don't like to follow recipes? Cutting back on meat but don't know what to serve? Want an easy way to eat healthfully? This is the book for you. The lists, charts, and hints in this book will reward you with meals, snacks, and surprises that are as easy to make as they are delicious. Ten Time-Saving Tips Aztec Salad

	Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, Afterword Shahid Athar, MD Islam Is... New and Revised Edition Sr. Mary Margaret Funk has engaged in interfaith dialogue with American Muslims in an effort to bridge the gaps that seem to divide Christianity and Islam. Islam Is . . . is the fruit of her reflections on Islam. Table of Contents Foreword Chapter One, "An Unlikely Voice"

	pattrice jones Aftershock Aftershock is about the real war against terror—the struggle for a world in which nobody lives in fear of atrocities perpetrated by human beings. It is for survivors of all kinds of trauma, for therapists who treat trauma, and for anyone who hopes to reduce the amount of terror in the world. Table of Contents User's Guide Preface Chapter One

	Ruth E. Heidrich, Ph.D. Senior Fitness The "other" Dr. Ruth demonstrates that the senior years don't have to be filled with aches and pains. Read more... Interview with Ruth Heidrich

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	Dr. John A. McKinnon An Unchanged Mind *An Unchanged Mind* begins with a clinical riddle: Why are American teenagers failing to develop normally through adolescence? The book explains the problem carefully and offers a remedy. Table of Contents Preface

	Andreas Jung, Regula Michel, Arthur Ruegg et al. The House of C. G. Jung An artistic and architectural portrait of C.G. Jung's house on Lake Zurich, where he lived from 1908 to 1961. 150 illustrations, many in color. Read more....

	Fr. Murchadh Ó Madagáin By the Word of Their Testimony Fr. Ó Madagáin shares his story of answering the call to serve God and others. Read more....

Recently on the Lantern Books Blog:

Ayurvedic Medicine by Martin Rowe
Running Again by Martin Rowe
Cooking up a Storm by Martin Rowe
Making Peace by Martin Rowe

Keeping On

Fortunately, you don't have to have a lot of money to change the world. See:
-Strategic Action for Animals
-The Lifelong Activist
-Move the Message
-Aftershock
-Consciousness in Action

Carol J. Adams: One to Watch

Carol Adams is known for her hard-hitting critical theories, The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat.

She's lesser known for her gentle approach to living a full and peaceful lifestyle, as evidenced in The Inner Art of Vegetarianism and the just re-released Living Among Meat Eaters.

But wait, she writes cookbooks, too! How to Eat like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One is co-authored with Patti Breitman, and was just released. Order yours now.

A Sacred Duty

Richard Schwartz, author of Judaism and Global Survival and Judaism and Vegetarianism, is the inspiration for, and guide to, a wonderful new documentary, called A Sacred Duty. You can watch it here.

Back to School, Safely

No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine has ideas about how schools become dangerous places.

"If you're a parent, read this with your child; if you're a teen, leave this on your parents' bedside table—and above all else, start the conversation too much of this world is unwilling to have."
—Jodi Picoult, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Nineteen Minutes

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