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National Geographic Channel: The 90’s-The Last Great Decade By David Sirota chats with Dr. Alvin

David Sirota Click Here To Listen Beginning Sunday, July 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT and airing for three straight nights, National Geographic Channel presents the network’s next epic miniseries event: The 90's: The Last Great Decade?.

By |June 25th, 2014|Entertainment, Music, Television|Comments Off on National Geographic Channel: The 90’s-The Last Great Decade By David Sirota chats with Dr. Alvin

Soul Contracts: Find Harmony And Unlock Your Brilliance By Danielle MacKinnon chats with Dr. Alvin

Danielle MacKinnon Click Here To Listen Stop worrying and start living. This entirely new approach to life helps you recognize and release hidden barriers in your soul that are blocking the way to true happiness and success. How many times have you wondered why, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t keep a relationship? Can’t stay healthy? Can’t make enough money? Can’t find happiness? Have you ever stopped to think—perhaps there is some other force at work? In Soul Contracts, intuitive coach and consultant Danielle MacKinnon helps you recognize and release the energetic barriers lodged deep in your soul, called soul contracts. Born out of despair, fear, pain, or anger, a soul contract [...]

By |June 25th, 2014|Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on Soul Contracts: Find Harmony And Unlock Your Brilliance By Danielle MacKinnon chats with Dr. Alvin

Change Your Story, Change Your Life: Using Shamanic And Jungian Tools To Achieve Personal Transformation By Carl Greer chats with Dr. Alvin

Carl Greer Click Here To Listen Change Your Story, Change Your Life is a practical self-help guide to personal transformation using traditional shamanic techniques combined with journaling and Carl Greer’s method for dialoguing that draws upon Jungian active imagination. The exercises inspire readers to work with insights and energies derived during the use of modalities that tap into the unconscious so that they may consciously choose the changes they would like to make in their lives and begin implementing them.

By |June 24th, 2014|Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on Change Your Story, Change Your Life: Using Shamanic And Jungian Tools To Achieve Personal Transformation By Carl Greer chats with Dr. Alvin

Let The Tornado Come By Rita Zoey Chin chats with Dr. Alvin

Rita Zoey Chin Click Here To Listen From an award-winning poet comes this riveting, gorgeous memoir about a young runaway, the trauma that haunted her as an adult, and the friendship with a horse that finally set her free. When she was eleven years old, Rita began to run away. Her father’s violence and her mother’s hostility drove her out of the house and into the streets in search of a better life. This soon led her into a dangerous world of drugs, predatory older men, and the occasional kindness of strangers, but despite the dangers, Rita kept running. One day she came upon a field of horses galloping along a roadside fence, and the [...]

By |June 24th, 2014|Biography, Women|Comments Off on Let The Tornado Come By Rita Zoey Chin chats with Dr. Alvin

How Not To Be Wrong: The Power Of Mathematical Thinking By Jordan Ellenberg chats with Dr. Alvin

Jordan Ellenberg Click Here To Listen   The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not To Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do—the whole world is shot through with it.  

By |June 24th, 2014|Education, Science|Comments Off on How Not To Be Wrong: The Power Of Mathematical Thinking By Jordan Ellenberg chats with Dr. Alvin

Salad Samurai: 100 Cutting-Edge, Ultra-Hearty, Easy-to-Make Salads You Don’t Have to Be Vegan to Love By Terry Hope Romero chats with Dr. Alvin

Terry Hope Romero-Salad Samurai Click Here To Listen   Award-winning chef and Veganomicon coauthor Terry Hope Romero knows her veggies. In Salad Samurai, she's back to teach you the way of the veggie warrior, rescuing salads from their bland, boring reputation and "side" status with more than 100 vibrant, filling entrees. This is your guide to real salad bushido: a hearty base, a zesty dressing, and loads of seriously tasty toppings. Based on whole food ingredients and seasonal produce, these versatile meatless, dairy-free dishes are organized by season for a full year of memorable meals.  

By |June 24th, 2014|Cooking / Food|Comments Off on Salad Samurai: 100 Cutting-Edge, Ultra-Hearty, Easy-to-Make Salads You Don’t Have to Be Vegan to Love By Terry Hope Romero chats with Dr. Alvin

Forever An Ex By Victoria Christopher Murray chats with Dr. Alvin

Victoria Christopher Murray-Forever An Ex Click Here To Listen Three Los Angeles women who’ve helped each other overcome heartbreak are reunited eight years later when their troublesome exes come back into the picture in this follow up to Victoria Christopher Murray’s bestselling novel The Ex Files.  

By |June 24th, 2014|African Americans, Gospel, Relationships, Women|Comments Off on Forever An Ex By Victoria Christopher Murray chats with Dr. Alvin

Postcards From Cookie: A Memoir Of Motherhood, Miracles, And A Whole Lot of Mail By Caroline Clarke chats with Dr. Alvin

Caroline Clarke Click Here To Listen Award-winning journalist Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful and secret and sealed. Her story begins with a happy childhood in the Bronx, as the only child of educators, both with strong ties to their large West Indian families. She never had any desire to know her birth parents until her thirties when some health questions led her to contact Spence-Chapin Family Services. The adoption agency's response sparked a series of stunning discoveries. Caroline knew her biological family and had so for more than twenty years. Her birth mother, nicknamed "Cookie," was the eldest sister of one of her dearest college friends; thus, Caroline's girlfriend [...]

By |June 23rd, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Entertainment, Music|Comments Off on Postcards From Cookie: A Memoir Of Motherhood, Miracles, And A Whole Lot of Mail By Caroline Clarke chats with Dr. Alvin

Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangster Legend By Christian Cipollini chats with Dr. Alvin

Christian Cipollini-Lucky Luciano Click Here To Listen Charles Lucky Luciano is one of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time. His name has become synonymous with NY City's high drama gangland days of prohibition bootlegging, the information of the infamous five families, and controversy over his alleged Last Testament. However, there exists many fascinating and lurid tales and theories regarding Lucky's rise and fall from the mobs top spot. Some of these stories are known, but still incited debate, such as the origins of his nickname and menacing facial scars. Other legends are not so well known to the general public With information culled from rare news articles, government documents and [...]

By |June 23rd, 2014|Biography, Crime, Law|Comments Off on Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangster Legend By Christian Cipollini chats with Dr. Alvin