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La Dieta de la Paz Mundial

¿Qué es tan simple como comer una manzana? Y sin embargo, ¿qué podría ser más sagrado o profundo? La comida es nuestra conexión más íntima y reveladora, tanto con el orden natural como con nuestro patrimonio cultural. Pero cada vez está más claro que lo que elegimos para comer hoy en día conduce a la degradación del medio ambiente, a enormes problemas de salud humana y a una crueldad inimaginable hacia otras criaturas.

La Dieta de la Paz Mundial presenta las líneas maestras para entender el mundo de forma más enriquecedora, a partir de la comprensión de las implicaciones de largo alcance de nuestras elecciones alimenticias. Al incorporar la teoría general de sistemas, enseñanzas de la mitología y de las religiones y las ciencias humanas, Will Tuttle ofrece un conjunto de principios universales para todas las personas de conciencia, de cualquier tradición religiosa, que muestran cómo nosotros, como especie, podemos hacer avanzar nuestra conciencia, permitiéndonos ser más libres, más inteligentes, más amorosos y más felices en las elecciones que hacemos.

Desde su publicación en 2005, La Dieta de la Paz Mundial y su autor, Will Tuttle, han llegado a cientos de miles de personas en todo el mundo y han creado un nuevo movimiento de gente que hace una conexión consciente con una dieta saludable y una vida sin crueldad, comprometida espiritual, psicológica y socialmente a la no violencia y a la auténtica sostenibilidad.

Tongue-Tied

Words matter; they mold and mirror our values and our reality. And so it is with the language we use to think and talk about species other than our own. In Tongue-Tied, Hanh Nguyen unpacks the many metaphors, meanings, and grammatical formulations that speak to and echo our physical exploitation of other-than-human animals, and shows how they constrain our abilities to relate to our animal kin fairly and honestly.

Full of subtle insights and richly suggestive observations, and drawing from Nguyen’s own cross-cultural experiences, Tongue-Tied offers a glimpse of a language that is freed from euphemistic self-deception, one that accepts definition without limitation and difference without hierarchy.

“The animal rights movement has come under regular criticism for being ‘Eurocentric’ and failing to adequately attend to cultural differences. Nguyen provides insights for moving beyond this, often unwitting, chauvinism. From her distinct multi-linguistic experiences growing up in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, Nguyen insightfully explores the way language works to continually marginalize other-than-human animals. She calls for critical engagement with the words we use to refer to ourselves and other animals in our work to achieve both linguistic and embodied justice.”—Lori Gruen, author, Entangled Empathy

Racism As Zoological Witchcraft

In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement marked by a deconstruction of the conceptual framework that keeps activists silo-ed fighting their various oppressions—and one another. Through a subtle and extended examination of Jordan Peele’s hit 2017 movie Get Out, Ko shows the many ways that white supremacist notions of animality and race exist through the consumption and exploitation of flesh. She demonstrates how a critical historical and social understanding of anti-Blackness can provide the pathway to genuine liberation.

Highly readable, richly illustrated, and full of startling insights, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft is a brilliant example of the emerging discipline of Black veganism by one of its leading voices.

“Sometimes a book comes along that has the potential to change how people think. This is one of those books. Racism as Zoological Witchcraft does more than break new ground—it takes the ground we thought we knew, the ground beneath our feet, and shows us with bracing clarity that it isn’t as solid as we thought.”—Claire Jean Kim, author, Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age

“You have never read anything like Racism as Zoological Witchcraft, which draws on history, critical race theory, and pop culture to make compelling arguments about the impact of white supremacy both on race and our treatment of animals, especially given the dehumanizing nature of racism. Partially informed by Jordan Peele’s Get Out, but drawing on a wide variety of research, Aph Ko helps us envision a world beyond our limited notions of ‘intersectionality’ to chart a course for a more humane future.”—Tananarive Due, author, Freedom in the Family: A Mother–Daughter Memoir of the Struggle for Civil Rights

“Racism as Zoological Witchcraft is a sophisticated throwdown about how we can re-think anti-racist and animal rights activism(s) in a modality more nearly adequate to our profound entanglement in white supremacy’s comprehensive and hydra-headed monstrosity. Liquefying arcane academic theory in popular culture fluidity, Aph Ko offers a voice at once critical, generous, and polysemous. Her Afro-futurism relentlessly tracks the racialized animality of white cannibalism that eludes ‘sighting’ in discrete discourses and intersectional advocacies. The multi-dimensional liberation she conjures demands a political hearing from anyone laboring for a different future.”—James W. Perkinson, professor of Social Ethics and Theology, Ecumenical Theological Seminary

“Racism as Zoological Witchcraft is a fascinating, groundbreaking, thoughtful work that shows nuanced relationships between systems that historically dehumanize people of color and the consumption of animals as food. This transformative framework is as disturbing as it is enlightening. Aph Ko steadfastly demonstrates that veganism can be more than a matter of health and lifestyle—that plant-based diets can be a radical practice in valuing the aligned rights of all living beings on Earth as well as a practice in dismantling systems on our planet that devalue humanity.”—Ytasha L. Womack, author, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture

“Racism as Zoological Witchcraft is an exciting hands-on theoretical guide to white supremacy’s grounding in ‘zoological racism,’ a violent devouring of the bodies, souls, and lives of all it deems ‘animal,’ both nonhuman and human. This ‘guide to getting out’ also illustrates the dangers of supposedly liberatory movements that do not recognize ‘the animal’ as the source of violence against animals as well as black people, ultimately providing its readers with the intellectual tools to imagine and enact ‘afro-zoological resistance’ and liberation for all—what could be more important or inspiring?!”—Lindgren Johnson, author, Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840–1930

“Aph Ko’s brilliant analysis on zoological racism and movement politics is transformative, challenging everything readers think they understand about racism. By framing white supremacy as a zoological witchcraft practice, she cuts across genres and offers something completely new, linking race and animals in a powerful book that is sure to wake readers up.”—lauren Ornelas, Executive Director, Food Empowerment Project

“In Racism as Zoological Witchcraft, Aph Ko has written an accessible argument rooted in theory that is eminently readable and will have broad appeal. In her argument for what she calls ‘epistemic ruptures,’ Ko has created a compelling treatise against making current activist movements merge, arguing instead that our conception of ‘the animal,’ as a label for consumable and disposable bodies, is tied to the legacy of racism that operates by virtue of zoological, white supremacist witchcraft. Using examples from popular culture—including Jordan Peele’s 2017 film Get Out—Ko examines the tension that exists between contemporary anti-racism and animal rights movements and argues for an examination of ‘raw’ oppressions that can move the conversation beyond modern day liberation movements in ways that intersectionality has been unable to achieve.—Laura Wright, author, The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror

“Aph Ko’s work is at the center of a conceptual Big Bang. Theorizing beyond increasingly stale notions like diversity, speciesism, and intersectionality, she takes us back to the ‘raw oppression’ itself. She guides our hands towards the one weapon that has characterized every true movement against oppression: recognizing the incomplete nature of our current justice movements. The scholarship is as rigorous as it is accessible and refreshingly inspiring. Her insights not only challenge all of us concerned with racial and animal oppression to imagine new pathways forward, but to recognize that much of Black thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis already had gone beyond a vision of racial justice or human dignity to open toward a vision of freedom for all life.”—Aaron S. Gross, associate professor, University of San Diego, and founder of Farm Forward

Grief’s Journey

Grief and love are at the center of the human and divine drama. How we find our way through the mazes of these losses and gains determines our character, meaning, purpose, and our legacy. When clergyman, psychotherapist, and spiritual director Hal Edwards lost Betsy, his wife of fifty years, he was perhaps as well placed to chart his passage through that maze as anyone. Yet grief spun its own thread, leading his soul on a voyage into the center of sorrow, before accompanying him toward clarity, illumination, and wisdom.

Grief’s Journey is at once a tender memoir of a marriage, a poignant reflection on friendship and age, and a practical and compassionate guidebook for those who grieve (whether alone or in group workshops).

“For years I have grieved four different personal deaths with little to no help from others. This book is spot-on about how grief can feel. Better yet, I found enormous help with the questions and meditations in the last chapters. I highly recommend this little treasure book to anyone going on grief’s journey. It has profoundly helped me!”—Gale Hartman

For the Birds

For thirty years, Karen Davis has been advocating for, writing about, and studying the world of chickens and other domesticated fowl. As the founder and director of United Poultry Concerns, Davis has done more than perhaps anyone to reveal the complex and socially rich lives of birds. Her writing—intellectually rigorous, passionate, erudite, and witty—brings fully to the fore the great injustices we have perpetrated on these intelligent and loving creatures.

For the Birds showcases Davis’s three decades of popular and academic work. She tells the story of how she became an advocate and the many individual birds she has known and whose lives and deaths have deepened her commitment to seeking their freedom from suffering. Stirring, provocative, and brilliantly written, For the Birds illuminates one woman’s enduring quest to change our perceptions of those animals we routinely confine, abuse, and kill by the billions.

Pit Bull Flower Power

For decades, pit bulls have been demonized by society and portrayed as hellhounds. They’ve become the most feared, hated, and abused of all companion animals. Some cities and even entire countries ban them, while the media persist in associating them with viciousness. This unjust reputation has sealed the fate of millions of dogs, who face prejudice around the world and languish in shelters, where they are the most euthanized. In America alone, hundreds of thousands of pit bulls are put to sleep every year.

Since 2014, French photographer Sophie Gamand has been composing portraits of adoptable pit bulls from more than thirty shelters and rescues throughout the United States. Many had been waiting for years for a home. Adorning her models with handmade flower-crowns, Gamand tells each dog’s story and celebrates their inherent personality, vulnerability, and individuality.

Posted and shared widely on social media, the portraits—at once charming, candid, and deeply affecting—have not only led to hundreds of dogs finding loving, forever homes, but have also spurred efforts to destigmatize an animal whose reputation for violence says more about us than it does the character of the dogs themselves.

Full of moving, honest, and inspiring stories of individual dogs and their lives (and deaths), Pit Bull Flower Power presents a vivid, beautifully composed cross-section of Gamand’s extraordinary work. The book also serves as a testament to the caring people who work in animal rescue, the passion and dedication of those who provide homes for these animals, and the dignity, forbearance, and love of these dogs, who are at the mercy of humans.

Brave Teaching

In this companion volume to Brave Parenting, Krissy Pozatek, author of The Parallel Process, employs the skills she learned in wilderness therapy to show how teachers can build emotional resilience and regulation and mindfulness in their students, as well as nurture their abilities to problem-solve and develop life skills.

With examples drawn from the practical experiences of Sarah Love, a fourth-grade teacher, Krissy demonstrates how educators can create a dynamic and engaged student body, communicate effectively, and manage emotions and expectations in contemporary classrooms, schools, and in parent–teacher relationships.

“I am a teacher at a high school where the students perform very well academically but are often highly stressed. With all of the demands and stressors in today’s world, it is imperative that our children develop emotional resiliency to be both successful AND well-adjusted. Schools can greatly help our children grow in this area but frankly many teachers, administrators, and parents struggle with resiliency themselves or are unable to properly articulate to students what it means to be emotionally resilient.

“It is critical that we as adults value students feelings and struggles, while helping children to curtail their negative behaviors and take ownership to solve their own problems as much as possible. But it takes hard work and some initial discomfort at a new way of thinking. It’s difficult for adults to avoid getting frustrated or to avoid trying to fix the problem. We have to resist this urge, so that students are more accountable for solving their own problems. Unfortunately, most professional development focuses on instructional issues and not enough on cultivating students’ resiliency and problem-solving to support academic growth—beyond what I feel are generalities and nonspecific platitudes.

“This is why Brave Teaching is so helpful. The author does an excellent job of outlining how to help students improve their resiliency and problem-solving. Strategies are presented in a clear, concise fashion. The strategies are relatively easy to implement once you get the hang of it, and the examples provided to highlight the strategies are easy to follow and present a balanced perspective of some of the challenges which may occur. Teachers are given language and vocabulary to help them become more consistent and natural with executing the strategies. Frankly, the book is a quick read and easy to comprehend.

“I really enjoyed Brave Teaching and look forward to refining my practice in the coming school year. If you are a current teacher or going to be a new teacher in September, read this book. I promise that you will find it extremely helpful.”—Jeff K (review on Amazon)

Yoga for the Wounded Heart

Orphaned in her early teens and shuttled between abusive foster homes, Tatiana Forero Puerta found herself in her early twenties in New York City, haunted by memories of her tumultuous youth and suicidal feelings. Following emergency hospitalization, she was advised by her doctor to take up yoga. Over days, weeks, months, and then years, she embraced yoga’s honesty and discipline—delving more deeply into its wisdom, literature, and, vitally, its practice. In so doing, yoga healed her scars, opened her soul to forgiveness, and allowed her to reconcile herself with a past that had threatened to snuff out her life.

Yoga for the Wounded Heart is an unsparingly honest memoir of a childhood lost and of courage and resilience gained. It’s also an exploration of the fundamentals of yoga—as a technology that focuses our awareness; as a practical application of mindfulness and attention to what is really going on in our lives and bodies; and as a vehicle for the body to guide the mind and heart toward healing.

“Tatiana sees the human condition in a way that blends spirituality and practical insight, and she writes like both a wise teacher and an understanding friend. It takes someone with these integrated diversities—gentleness and strength, youth and wisdom, lightheartedness and realism—to explore the territory covered here, and she does it masterfully.”—Victoria Moran, bestselling author, Main Street Vegan

“This book should be prescribed to anyone who is hurting. In an age where yoga has taken on somewhat of a trendy role in society, the pure, unpretentious, and down-to-earth approach that Yoga for the Wounded Heart takes is a beacon of light.”—Jennifer Faylor, author, Edison’s Ghost Machine

“Tatiana is a natural teacher. She has what it takes to make philosophy clear and applicable to both beginners and seasoned yogis. Her work is a beautiful contribution to the yoga community.”—Jhon Tamayo, founder, Atmananda Yoga

“Yoga for the Wounded Heart is a testament to the Enduring Spirit and a guide for those seeking to understand the proudly transformative tools of yoga. Tatiana’s wisdom and words of resiliency speak directly to the hero’s journey and what it is to be established in the gift that yoga promises. Through insight, story, and the fearless application of the full breadth of yoga, Tatiana demonstrates the steps of meeting the challenges of waking from the dream and opening to the wholeness at the other side. Part testimonial and part academic perspective on the Yoga Sutras, Yoga for the Wounded Heart is rare, even among the rare, as it has come out of Tatiana’s own hard-won relevancy of what it is to be a survivor and a yogi. Tatiana is a shining example of what it is to be a hero, not despite our story but because of it.”—Shanti Kelly, founder, Shanti Yoga Practice

“Tatiana has done us the service of authoring a book as both teacher and student of the art, science, and philosophy of yoga. Yoga for the Wounded Heart is a beacon of light illuminating the teachings of an ancient tradition, while also serving as a living, breathing example that our greatest strength rests in our vulnerability. For anyone moving through the trials of depression—or longing to understand the heart, mind, and soul of those who do—this book answers the call for help.”—Kevin Courtney, creator, The Bridge Practice

Beyond Beliefs

Vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters can feel like they’re living in different worlds. Many vegans and vegetarians struggle to feel understood and respected in a meat-eating culture, where some of their most pressing concerns and cherished beliefs are invisible, and where they are often met with defensiveness when they try to talk about the issue. They can become frustrated and struggle to feel connected with meat eaters. And meat eaters can feel disconnected from vegans and vegetarians whose beliefs they don’t fully understand and whose frustration may spill over into their interactions. The good news is that relationship and communication breakdown among vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters is not inevitable, and it is reversible. With the right tools, healthy connections can be cultivated, repaired, and even strengthened.

In Beyond Beliefs, internationally recognized food psychology expert and longtime relationship coach Dr. Melanie Joy provides easy-to-understand, actionable advice so you can:

– Learn the principles and tools for creating healthy relationships
– Understand how to communicate about even the most challenging topics effectively
– Recognize how the psychology of being vegan/vegetarian or of being a meat eater affects your relationships with others, and with yourself

“Melanie Joy thinks clearly, writes exquisitely, and persuades truthfully. Beyond Beliefs gently melts the bars of the cages which we erect around our beliefs. It deserves a place in every vegan library and on the reading list of every non-vegan.”—Philip Wollen, former vice president of Citibank and founder of Winsome Constance Kindness

“From the minute you meet Melanie Joy, it becomes clear that she is a catalyst for connecting you with your deepest levels of compassion and common sense. Instantly you wish you could be at least a fraction as articulate as she is. Luckily, you now have in your hands a guide to help you navigate distances between you and the others in your life, the world, and yourself. Beyond Beliefs will leave you feeling clearer, more connected, confident, and even— though many difficult issues are addressed—happier. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to be a more mindful agent for bringing the light of conscious living to everything from personal relationships to the predominant culture in which we live.”—Lani Muelrath, author of The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness

“In this insightful and engaging book, Melanie Joy offers wisdom, comfort, and advice for any vegan or vegetarian who’s ever felt misunderstood by meat eaters and for any meat eater who’s ever felt confounded by vegans or vegetarians. This book can show you the way beyond your beliefs, so you can relate and communicate with clarity and compassion. I highly recommend it!”—Lisa Bloom, civil rights attorney at The Bloom Firm

“Melanie Joy is fundamentally shifting the way we view our relationship with others and ourselves, making the world a better and more compassionate place in the process.”—Nathan Runkle, Founder of Mercy For Animals

“Dr. Melanie Joy addresses an important subject with keen insight and lucid thought.”—Glen Merzer, author of Off the Reservation

“Melanie Joy hit the nail on the head! This is the book all vegans need, to gain perspective, alleviate compassion fatigue, and live healthy lives with a purpose!”—Shannon Keith, Esq., president and founder of ARME and Beagle Freedom Project

“As a member of a veg/non-veg marriage, I am grateful for Melanie Joy’s wisdom about living with a partner’s choices while honoring my own integrity. Beyond Beliefs is essential reading for anyone who wants mealtime to be a source of nourishment—physical, spiritual, and social.”—Linda Riebel, PhD, licensed psychologist and faculty, Saybrook Graduate School

“Navigating relationships can be hard, particularly for new vegans trying to figure out how to relate to their non-vegan friends and family. Dr. Joy’s book provides excellent guidance to help with these issues and provides vegans and others with the tools they need for social success.”—Dave Simon, Esq., author of Meatonomics

“Melanie Joy’s work contains some of the very best thinking ever on the psychology of eating and provides the first really robust, consistent, deep analysis of some of our most critical food beliefs. In Beyond Beliefs, Joy has again made a major achievement. This book is, please excuse me, a joy to read. I cannot imagine anyone reading this without an ‘aha’ moment, and one for the good.”—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PhD, author of When Elephants Weep and other books

“This book can help people with any food beliefs significantly improve their relationships and communication. And if you’re vegan (or vegetarian), this book will also help you better understand yourself and be a much more effective ambassador for the cause.”—Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, author of The 30-Day Vegan Challenge and other books