Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker speaks about achieving balance. She explains that people often pass the buck when it comes to responsibility. Alice also shares her method of achieving balance. She emphasizes that oneness with nature is key to being balanced.

What's really inside a Twinkie? A new book takes apart the world's most famous junk food -- and takes the reader on a wild ride through the bizarre world of processed foods.

Experts think that e-readers are likely to be like iPods for books. Are you willing to read books on an electronic gadget to save some trees?

A new buzz book — WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century — hits the shelves next week. I just ordered it because I want to change the world, as long as it's easy.

Until now, what is commonly referred to in English as the Tibetan Book of the Dead was actually just an excerpt, or chapter, called the Bardo Thodol or The Great Liberation by Hearing. The entire 1,300 year old funerary text, credited to Padmasambhava, the great yogi who brought Buddhism to Tibet, is actually a much larger book.