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Fresh Cooking: A Year Of Recipes From The Garrison Institute Kitchen By Shelley Boris chats with Dr. Alvin

Shelley Boris   Click Here To Listen Fresh Cooking is exactly what the home cook desires—a cookbook with range and flexibility that addresses seasonality, budget, and diverse diets and tastes. Built around meals Shelley Boris created for the Garrison Institute, a retreat center in New York's Hudson Valley, it contains thirty-six menus, with four to five delicious recipes in each, organized by month. Caroline Kasterine's beautiful photographs compliment the recipes. From the beginning of her career in the heydey of New York City's culinary scene with Dean & Deluca, Shelley Boris has maintained a love of fine, fresh ingredients and an intuitive grasp of their possibilities. This book draws on her passion and experience to [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Agriculture, Cooking / Food|Comments Off on Fresh Cooking: A Year Of Recipes From The Garrison Institute Kitchen By Shelley Boris chats with Dr. Alvin
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Sea Trials: A Lone Sailor’s Race Toward Race By Peter Bourke chats with Dr. Alvin

Peter Bourke Click Here To Listen Three years after his wife's death, Peter Bourke bought a boat--even though he had never learned to sail. In 2009, Peter entered the Oldest Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race at age 58. Sea Trials is the account of those 40 days of racing on his 44-foot sailboat Rubicon. Told with grace, insight, and humility, the book bares both the boredom and adventure of racing solo and provides insights to the value of going to sea. The author is donating all author payments to the Semper Fi Fund, an organization that provides assistance to injured soldiers, sailors, and marines and to their families.  

By |June 12th, 2014|Self-Help, Travel|Comments Off on Sea Trials: A Lone Sailor’s Race Toward Race By Peter Bourke chats with Dr. Alvin
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One Small Step Can Change Your Life By Robert Maurer chats with Dr. Alvin

Robert Maurer-The Kaizen Way Click Here To Listen   The essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps—is now repackaged as an impulse paperback with a dazzling new cover that speaks to its proper positioning as a self-help/inspiration title that’s applicable to business as well. Written by Dr. Robert Maurer, a psychologist on the staff of both the University of Washington School of Medicine and Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, and an expert on kaizen who speaks and consults nationally, One Small Step Can Change Your Life is the gentle but potent way to effect change. It is for anyone who wants to lose weight. Or quit smoking. [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Business, Leadership, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on One Small Step Can Change Your Life By Robert Maurer chats with Dr. Alvin
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Travel Channel’s History Explorer Don Wildman Kicks Off Monumental Mysteries chats with Dr. Alvin

Don Wildman-Monumental Mysteries Click Here To Listen   Travel Channel’s resident history explorer Don Wildman is back with an all-new season of “Monumental Mysteries” on a new night beginning Friday, June 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Season two will feature 13 hour-long episodes with more intriguing stories from one end of the U.S. to the other. They include the odd story of Seattle’s colossal bronze of Communist Vladimir Lenin to the tale of the twisted sculpture of a headless chicken in Colorado. Wildman now stakes his ground on Fridays as he offers viewers historical travel trivia perfect for any social gathering. Every Friday night, Wildman searches the United States to investigate our nation’s structures, statues [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|History, Travel|Comments Off on Travel Channel’s History Explorer Don Wildman Kicks Off Monumental Mysteries chats with Dr. Alvin
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Derrick Brown Sports Report 06.12.14 on DrAlvin.com: NBA Finals-NHL Stanley Cup-World Cup

D Brown Sports 061214 Click Here To Listen Get the latest in sports, news and commentary. NBA Championship. NHL Stanley. World Cup.

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The Great And Holy War: How World War I Became A Religious Crusade By Philip Jenkins chats with Dr. Alvin

Philip Jenkins Click Here To Listen The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Gospel, History, Jewish, Military, Movies, Spirituality, War|Comments Off on The Great And Holy War: How World War I Became A Religious Crusade By Philip Jenkins chats with Dr. Alvin
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Happiness: The Art Of Living With Peace, Confidence And Joy By Douglas A. Smith chats with Dr. Alvin

Douglas Smith Click Here To Listen In the midst of a successful business career, Doug Smith received life-altering news that set him on an entirely new journey to understand what leads to truly joyful, meaningful living-in other words, what leads to happiness. Through research and study, he began to understand that what the most joyful among us have in common is that they remember the past with peace, anticipate the future with confidence, and live in the present with joy and exuberance. Additionally, he discovered that what gives them this perspective is a set of skills that they consistently, even if subconsciously, practice. He also realized that he is not particularly good at several of [...]

By |June 12th, 2014|Business, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on Happiness: The Art Of Living With Peace, Confidence And Joy By Douglas A. Smith chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny By Joel Warner chats with Dr. Alvin

Joel Warner Click Here To Listen Two guys. 19 experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. And a book that will forever change the way you think about humor. Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist detail their epic quest to discover the secret behind what makes things funny. Dr. Peter McGraw, founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor. Their journey spanned the globe, from New York to Japan, from Palestine to the Amazon. Meanwhile, the duo conducted their own humor experiments along the way—to wince-worthy, hilarious, and illuminating results. In [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|Comedy|Comments Off on The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny By Joel Warner chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Third Son By Julie Wu chats with Dr. Alvin

Julie Wu Click Here To Listen In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years he will try to find her again. When he finally does, she is by the side of his oldest brother and greatest rival. In Saburo, author Julie Wu has created an extraordinary character, determined to fight for everything he needs and wants, from food to education to his first love. The Third [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on The Third Son By Julie Wu chats with Dr. Alvin
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Confessions Of The World’s Best Father By Dave Engledow chats with Dr. Alvin

Dave Engledow Click Here To Listen In an attempt to create an image that his new daughter would one day appreciate, Dave Engledow took a photo in which he’s cradling eight-week-old Alice Bee like a football and doctored it to look like he’s squirting breast milk into a "World’s Best Father" mug. Friends and family clamored for more. After Dave’s humorous attempts to capture the sleep-deprived obliviousness of being a first-time dad went viral, he and Alice Bee found themselves bona fide Internet and television celebrities. Merging a Norman Rockwell aesthetic with a darkly comic sensibility, Dave pairs each side-splittingly funny image with a log entry describing the awkward situation that the World’s Best Father [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|Men, Parenting, Photography|Comments Off on Confessions Of The World’s Best Father By Dave Engledow chats with Dr. Alvin
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