In 1922, San Francisco Daily News investigative journalist, Max Stern, posed as a down-on-his-luck cannery workers to uncover corrupt hiring practices and deplorable labor conditions employed by Chinese contractors and Alaska salmon canners. Stern's collective articles spotlighted the discrimination, exploitation, profiteering, and mistreatment of cannery crews and exposed the corrupt, abusive practices of the labor contract system. In thirty-seven articles published daily between Septembe...

In this new, revised edition, three experts in seven-card stud, who have earned millions of dollars in major tournaments and cash games, eight World Series of Poker bracelets and hundreds of other titles in competition against the best players in the world show readers how to play and win at all three types of stud poker. In addition to cash-game advice, the authors reveal the winning strategies for stud poker tournaments. Insightful give-and-take conversations between the authors provide mul...

The culmination of over three decades of investigation into traumatic processes, Repetition and Trauma is the late Max Stern's pioneering reconceptualization of trauma in the light of recent insights into the physiology and psychology of stress and the "teleonomic" character of human evolution in developing defenses against shock. As such, it is a highly original attempt to reformulate certain basic tenets of psychoanalysis with the findings of modern biology in general and neurob...

Trauma can be healed. In this guided meditation, lovingly narrated and supported by powerful healing music, Michael helps you release burdens from the past that you may have thought were yours to carry forever.Studies reveal a staggering percentage of adults have at some point been subject to physical or sexual abuse, with a large percentage of incidents occurring during childhood. Fortunately, the figures have been decreasing in recent years, and will hopefully continue to do so. ...

THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES:Introduction: 2:25Guided Meditation: 20:53Music from the Meditation: 20:50How do you feel about your body? The way you see yourself, and your attitude about your body, greatly influence your self esteem, your emotional well being, and even your physical health. If you’re interested in improving your health, recovering from illness, loosing weight, or becoming more fit, never underestimate the importance of your body image. And if you strug...

The mind-body component is a crucial part of the path to recovery in serious illness, and guided imagery has been used as part of cancer treatment for decades. This program utilizes guided imagery to focus on three different aspects of the healing process for cancer patients.Clearing Your Cells With Love 16:00Preparing For Treatment 14:00Emotional Support For Healing 15:00Each of these three guided meditation for healing programs covers a different ...

Engage your mind-body connection to release or reduce your pain with this gentle guided meditation. From your inner control room, find out what your pain has to tell you. (You might be quite surprised!) Then use golden light and rainbow-colored rain to make your pain smaller, and smaller, and send it on its way!PROGRAM INCLUDES:Releasing Pain - Guided Meditation - 16:24Releasing Pain - Short Version - 9:42Music from the Program - 16:24

An early morning visit to the beach brings you the sand, the sea, and the salt air -- an escape to a place where you can forget about life's problems, deeply relax, and experience healing and inner peace. Wading in, you’re embraced by gentle waves, as layer after layer of tension melts away, and you feel more and more at peace. A group of dolphins come to visit and celebrate your healing, and one takes you on a magical ride. Experience yourself as pure energy, floating free, with this gent...

“Number series for psychological normalization” writing was originated by Grabovoi Grigori Petrovich in the Russian language in 2003, was completed by Grabovoi G.P.The work contains sections on psychodiagnostics, psychotherapy, social psychology, psychology of labor, pathopsychology, psychophysics, defectology, perceptual psychology, personality psychology, psychoanalysis, motivational psychology, psychology of memory, psychology of emotions, feelings and thoughts, psychology of pe...

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open oc...

Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is Thor Heyerdahl’s account of his extraordinary three-month voyage across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands on a raft made from balsa wood.Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race that traveled across the ocean thousands of miles east by drifting with the wind patterns. He decided to prove his theory ...

The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that their perspective presents many problems: How does one distinguish real action from reaction? I...