Where do my poems come from? They are the products of an idle mind, several of these ideas rattle around in those waking moments as morning clears the remnants of my dreams from my head. The poems are what remains as the dreams fade, or they are the thoughts that rattle around when I am caught up in a quiet moment.Deep Inside My Own Head is a collection of poems that reflect the thoughts that rattle around in, as the title suggests, deep inside my own head. They cover a wide range ...

Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers argues that the brands that find the most success on social media are the ones that acknowledge the real key to social media marketing—it’s all about the followers. This collection, edited by Brandi Watkins, explores how social media has shifted power dynamics away from brands and toward the consumers themselves—the social media users who choose to like, share, and engage with brands online. This dynamic has paved the wa...

PURPLE BURT is an illustrated sci-fi fantasy comedy musical novel about an 11-year old purple boy named Burt who accidentally turns himself invisible and color-blind after being ridiculed at school. With the help of his family and kooky friends he searches for acceptance, as well as his famous inventor purple dad who disappears completely when Burt becomes invisible.Inspired by Mitch Friedman’s 2005 National Parenting Product Awar...

PURPLE BURT is an illustrated sci-fi fantasy comedy musical novel about an 11-year old purple boy named Burt who accidentally turns himself invisible and color-blind after being ridiculed at school. With the help of his family and kooky friends he searches for acceptance, as well as his famous inventor purple dad who disappears completely when Burt becomes invisible.Inspired by Mitch Friedman’s 2005 National Parenting Product Awar...

Sandplay Wisdom provides key concepts for understanding and using sandplay therapy effectively, distilling insight from more than four decades of experience. Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman provide both core principles and hard-won practical tips to deepen understanding of sandplay therapy for both experienced and novice practitioners.The principles presented provide key insight into many important therapeutic dimensions, including childhood trauma, archetypal ...

Cycle of Four Seasons is an anthology of poems that I wrote for a writing workshop that I facilitate.

A new edition of a textbook that provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages, completely revised, with significant new material.This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract re...

How will you be remembered, by the people you love, when you are gone? Did you do right by them? Did you provide them with the kind of life they deserved? How many lives did you touch, that you did not know about?This is what goes through the mind of a man who sits waiting, after a long life, as Death slowly approaches."Icy Fingers" is a little taste of a collection of short stories that I have been working on, inspired by quote: "The examined life is not worth living."...

The mind is a steady stream of thoughts and images. These poems represent the steady stream of thoughts through my mind.

Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace the uses of numerical frameworks, they portray how Jews define, negotiate, and enact matters of ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. But, words can evoke vivid pictures in the mind. As a painter uses his colors to create images that touch the soul, the poet uses his words to achieve the same effect.The poems in this volume, it is my hope, will create images that touch the readers heart and soul. They are the product of the poet's observations of the world around him.Several of these images reflect his perception of the world as he is out and about, some are the images...

What, exactly, shapes us into the people we are? Attempting to understand why he perceives his relationship with his wife and children seems to be falling apart, Gene embarks on an odyssey in search of himself. He goes back to where he grew up, and reflects upon his past.Will Gene's emotional and spiritual quest lead to understanding the man he has become?