In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...

The New York Times–bestselling author presents startling new evidence of God's existence based on the largest near-death experience study in history.In Evidence of the Afterlife, Dr. Jeffrey Long laid out a strong scientific case for life after death. Now he goes further, revealing evidence that a Supreme Being exists—and there is amazing consistency in the accounts of what he is like.Through his Near Death Experience Research Foundation, Dr...

“There is currently more scientific evidence to the reality of near death experience (NDE) than there is for how to effectively treat certain forms of cancer,” states radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long is his groundbreaking new book Evidence of the Afterlife. In 1998 Dr. Long and his wife, Jody, began the Near Death Experience Research Foundation with the goal of creating a forum for near death “experiencers” to share their stories. Grounded in first-hand evidence culled from o...

This WWII illustrated history examines the 1944 Allied attack on Italy with archival combat images paired with photos of the terrain today.The Battles for Monte Cassino—a vital stronghold on the road to Rome—encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. The fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations.Between January and May 1944, forces from Britain, Canada, France, India, New Z...

Die spannendsten Nahtoderfahrungen und Gottbegegnungen aus aller WeltDr. Jeffrey Long ist eine wissenschaftliche Koryphäe auf dem Gebiet der Nahtodforschung. In seinem viel beachteten Erstling „Beweise für ein Leben nach dem Tod“ trug er bereits faszinierende Fallgeschichten aus verschiedenen Kulturkreisen zusammen. Dieses Buch versammelt nun weitere unglaublich beeindruckende Nahtoderfahrungen aus aller Welt, die auf einer bahnbrechenden wissenschaftlichen Studie ...

Erste umfassende Dokumentation von Nahtoderfahrungen aus aller WeltFür den Krebsarzt Dr. Long waren Nahtoderfahrungen zunächst alles andere als unumstritten. Doch immer öfter kam er in Kontakt mit Menschen, die bewusstlos und am Rande des Todes standen und die später von Erlebnissen außerhalb ihres Körpers berichteten. Er überprüfte mögliche gehirnphysiologische oder chemische Erklärungen des Phänomens. Heute ist er überzeugt: Nahtoderfahrungen sind real. Seine Fal...

Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability. Now, Li...

The St. Croix–born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. Harrison’s ideas profoundly influenced “New Negro” militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his work is a key link in the two great strands of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggle: the labor- and civil-rights movement associate...

“There is currently more scientific evidence to the reality of near death experience (NDE) than there is for how to effectively treat certain forms of cancer,” states radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long is his groundbreaking new book Evidence of the Afterlife. In 1998 Dr. Long and his wife, Jody, began the Near Death Experience Research Foundation with the goal of creating a forum for near death “experiencers” to share their stories. Grounded in first-hand evidence culled from o...

Based on the largest near-death experience study in history, involving 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions, including nonbelievers, God and the Afterlife presents startling evidence that a Supreme Being exists—and there is amazing consistency about what he is like.In his bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife, Dr. Jeffrey Long showed us that there is a strong scientific case for life after death. Now, he goes further, revealing evide...

Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory and archaeology!

Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of class and race issues is a key unifying link between the two great trends of the Black Liberation ...