Michael Berman has spent most of his sixty-plus years "living large." Though his weight has gone up and down dramatically a number of times, he estimates that he has gained and lost well over a thousand pounds. Yet even with a healthy and loving family and an accomplished career, Berman felt the humiliation and the sadness which often accompanies life for the overweight.

A poignant, funny, and, above all, honest look at obesity from the inside out. Is it the goal of life to be thin? Or to be happy? In this inspiring story, those two elusive goals become one, as a fat man learns acceptance, loses the guilt, and gains the wisdom to manage his weight.You can hardly pick up a magazine or turn on the TV today without encountering a torrent of talk on weight. But all too rarely do we hear from overweight people themselves—especially men—about how life fe...

Stories of the archetypal Trickster from Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others.World Fantasy Award FinalistThe mythic Trickster is both good and bad, wise and witless, sacred and profane. He appears in many different guises in world mythology, taking the form of a god in Greek legend; a coyote, raven, or rabbit in Native American lore; a meddlesome faery in English folktales; a la...

Movie magic, family drama, and the man who helped shape Hollywood.From humble roots as the son of Jewish immigrants, Pandro S. Berman rose to become one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. Alongside boyhood friends Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick, Pandro helped transform early cinema into a cultural force, shaping not just the studio system, but the very essence of America's image at home and around the world. His films didn't just reflect the 20...

The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the bod...

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the the...

In this first installment of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Michael Vey series, a supernaturally gifted teen discovers he’s not the only one with electric abilities.To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette’s syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor ha...

Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and w...

Drawing on his own life and career and the rich lore of The Lion King, Alton Fitzgerald White, Broadway’s longest-running “King,” delivers his message of service—taking responsibility for and deriving happiness from commonplace achievements—as a philosophy that anyone can get through each day with satisfaction, pride, and a sense of accomplishment.If you’ve ever wondered how an actor can perform the same role hundreds of times without burning out, in White’s book you’ll me...

A collection of stories and ballads that comprise a corpus of shamanic storytelling and praxis, as told by Michael Berman, a leading expert on storytelling as a tool and as an artform.Michael Berman BA, MPhil, PhD, works as a teacher and a writer. Publications include A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom and The Power of Metaphor for Crown House, and TheNature of Shamanism and the Shamanic Story for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Shamanic Journeys through Daghe...

Michael and his friends try to recruit Hatch’s Electric Youth to their side as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!

The book contains a wide variety of stories: sad, funny, sublime, ironic, philosophical, surreal... Often in the stories of this collection there is a combination of melancholy and laughter, romance and pragmatism, absurdity and logic, as well as other interesting, unusual and unexpected mixes, syntheses.