Specialness is great until it isn't. A young girl is called holy by a traveler and then the entire village goes a little crazy about it. This tale shows the challenge of bringing together the higher and lower things of our world and how to do so without harm. It shows how being different or unique can be both wonderful and challenging.

Eric Epstein weaves multiple story lines into an experiential, eye-opening guide for leaders, consultants, counselors, natural helpers, spiritual guides, teachers, and mentors. Readers see the living details of how recovery from deep suffering can occur and are stretched to consider new ways of creating contexts where this is possible. Discovering how to see deeply, broadly and in proportion while integrating these insights into practices makes this book both practical and transformative. ...

A wisdom tale about a leaf who must contend with abilities that can have a strong effect on others. It is tale for all ages with rich photography that appeals to all sizes of eyes. The Purple Leaf must learn to let go of things that it believes are the only way forward in life in order to open up to greater things.

German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses on scholars who were outside the commonly known Max Horkheimer-Hannah Arendt circles, who are less well-known but not less important. Their experiences ranged from an outstanding career at an Ivy-League university to a return to the German Democratic Republic and a position as an econo...

Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global bionetwork. Their timely case studies describe the cultural adaptations of indigenous populations to their changing environments, evaluating their technological and global political-economic processes. The...

Parmi la génération des cinéastes ayant émergé au début des années 1920, peu ont connu une fortune critique aussi éclatante dans le champ de la réflexion contemporaine que Jean Epstein. Après une longue période d'oubli, par strates successives, l'influence et l'aura de ses films comme de ses écrits n'ont cessé de croître et de fertiliser aussi bien les pratiques artistiques que la réflexion théorique sur les images en mouvement. Des historiens et théoriciens du cinéma, des philosophes, des...

Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in North America, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and environmental regulation. Legal scholars predicted the “death of contract” and its...

Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1.50.Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can'Äôt ...

The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the globa...

If a year of study or work is a competitive marathon, all-nighters are often the sprints in which certain runners break away from the pack. Tap into your genius and achieve greater success by learning to strategically pull an all-nighter.Whether fine-tuning a business plan or trying to come up with the next high-performing app, pulling an all-nighter can be your key to success, if used wisely and managed effectively. In The 24-Hour Genius, all-nighter expe...

Argentina is still reeling from the worst economic and political crisis to afflict the nation in its modern history. Since December 2001, the country has been through economic depression and bankruptcy, the impoverishment of half the population, a presidency that changed four times in the span of two weeks, and social protests met by state repression that left dozens dead and hundreds injured.What brought on this state of affairs? What are the primary features of this crisis? Who a...

Cowinner of the MLA Prize for Bibliographical or Archival ScholarshipThe Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century wom...