This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our gestures and movements. The author argues that a psychological focus on our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied beings contributes significantly to a hi...

The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy. It is a vital period in what may be termed 'modernity': that is of the western societies that are increasingly industrial, capitalist and liberal democratic. Unsurprisingly, these years of stress and transition produced some significant reflections on politics and society.This indispensable introductory te...

This unique book is a compendium of carefully curated published papers in the biosciences, which have (or will) precipitate a profound change in prevailing paradigms and research programs. A mix of new and classic papers, it shows the limitations of current thought or identifies novel vistas for investigations that have not yet been explored. The purpose of the book is to highlight scientific gems, most unrecognized, that suggest revisions to key pillars of thought in the biological scienc...

Gutenberg to Google explains the coming collapse of the traditional book publishing model and what it means for book lovers and society at large. It also explains the truth about publishers, bookstores, how books are chosen, why literary agents fail authors, what books will sell in the future and how they'll be sold, and the future of fiction writing.

The "World's Most Experienced Ghostwriter" and the "Michael Jordan of Ghostwriting", New York Times bestselling author, Michael Levin, details his process for creating books that capture what's most meaningful in the lives, careers, philanthropic endeavors, and other outside interests of his elite clientele.The Meaning of Your Life tells the stories of more than 40 books that Levin has created for his clients, ran...

This is the student version of the book. It does not contain answers and can be handed to the student to read and answer the problems.Verbal math, also known as mental math, is a practical and time-honored method of solving math problems. Written math is essential, but for children, handwriting is an additional difficulty that often slows them down. Many children dislike math because of the tiresome and seemingly endless worksheets requiring more effort fr...

“Is the 12 step program suitable for Jews? In this book Michael Levin shows with learning, sensitivity and wisdom why the answer is a resounding ‘Yes.’”–Rabbi David Wolpe“Shikkur is a goy.” This Yiddish phrase means “Only Gentiles can be alcoholics,” but it’s not true. Jews suffer from alcoholism and addiction at the same rate as everyone else in society. Due to the stigma surrounding addiction in our community, people are dying unnecessarily…because they believe they can’t...

John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a standstill. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, and also his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process. This study encompasses discourses on the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation from approximately the time of the American and French rev...

This is the teacher version of the book. The answers are there just for the teacher. You read the question to the child and wait for the answer.Verbal math, also known as mental math, is a practical and time-honored method of solving math problems. Written math is essential, but for children, handwriting is an additional difficulty that often slows them down. Many children dislike math because of the tiresome and seemingly endless worksheets requiring more...

Who has not watched their child sitting dejectedly infront of a math worksheet full of numbers! Most children do not like math worksheets, but will happily do the same problems verbally if they can think of it as a game. Children under the age of six, usually have weak fine-motor skills, hence combining math with handwriting leads them to a life-long dislike of math.The approach used in this book, removes the tedious handwriting aspect from early math practice, and frees your child...

When the urban neighborhood where William Lunch Money Barnes lives becomes too rough, his mother moves his family in the middle of the school year to an all-white suburb 50 miles away. The good-natured Barnes runs into one problem: everyone, including the middle school's basketball coach, assumes that since he is African American and from the inner city, he must be great at basketball and can save the school team's season. Unfortunately, Barnes is not an athlete, and contrary to assumption...

This course, suitable for children in grades one and two is designed to make math fun for your young child. As in learning to read, where children need to develop a basic vocabulary for fluency, the verbal problems in this course also build a basic mathematical vocabulary that your child needs to progress further. In addition to the numerical exercises, the real strength of this series are the word problems which help child relate math to real life.Written math makes simple arithmet...