Psychology / Math / Science
Renowned “mathemagician” Dr. Arthur Benjamin’s book is an exploration of key mathematical concepts in a way that teachers seldom do, in order to instill a greater love and appreciation of this often feared subject. Math is all around us; omnipresent when we are selecting a job, making daily financial decisions, or observing the beautiful, intricate patterns of nature. In his previous book, The Joy Of Math, Dr. Benjamin, chairman of the math department at Harvey Mudd College sold hundreds of thousands of copies, DVD's and also appeared on several TED talks. New York Times bestseller.
A practical guide for parents and teachers to create a more compassionate, community-minded family culture. Designed to be read with children as young as four, the book presents ten fundamental concepts to weave into your family's daily life.
The Hot Guide to a Cool Sexy Menopause helps women embrace the menopause experience with knowing smiles and empowering tools, rather than grimacing and accepting what mothers and grandmothers endured. Nurse Barb is a practicing Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner in the San Francisco Bay area in Silicon Valley. Barb is a popular guest lecturer at Stanford University and keynote presenter at conferences. She’s also the award-winning author of Your Personal Guides to Health, used by over 3.5 million women across the country.
Dr. Elefteriades, one of the most respected cardiac surgeons in America, has treated over 10,000 patients in his distinguished career. Now, for the first time, he shares fascinating stories of his most memorable patients and cases--patients who have challenged him technically and moved him emotionally, patients who have enriched his life and expanded his horizons while he cared for their hearts. By detailing heart conditions and cardiac reparative procedures with specific yet accessible medical narratives, Dr. Elefteriades encapsulates the beauty, complexity, and majesty of the human heart. John A. Elefteriades, MD, holds the William W.L. Glenn Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery and is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Aortic Institute at Yale University and Yale New-Haven Hospital.
Well-known social justice lawyer Joshua Safran has garnered national recognition for his heroic advocacy on behalf of battered women. His outlandish childhood and remarkable triumph over adversity are the backstory to the film, Crime After Crime, documenting Safran's seven-year struggle to free a wrongfully imprisoned survivor of domestic violence. The award-winning film, an Official Selection at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was recently purchased by the Oprah Winfrey Network. Now Safran is chronicling the exceptional story of his countercultural and abusive childhood in a forthcoming memoir to be published by Hyperion Books. His stories are compelling and humorous, illustrating a remarkable childhood living off-the-grid in the rural West amongst revolutionaries and rednecks, hippies and artists, lunatics and violent alcoholics. Safran's inspiring journey out of the wilderness of chaos, paganism, and poverty is guided by his unlikely reconnection with the God of his Hebrew ancestors and his emerging revelation that mainstream society is not the evil empire he was taught to fear.
Reel Fulfillment: Transforming Your Life Through Movies responds to many of the demands present in current American society, incorporating meditation, weekly and daily exercises, and elements of popular culture. Dr. Grace's approach is to use popular films to help people face the elements in their lives that impede the experience of joy. Grace employs her background in classics and myth in the application of film. Her Ph.D. - also in counseling - is from McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Grace has taught Transforming Your Life Through Movies: A Modern Method for Self-Discovery to large audiences in both New York and Austin with positive results. She appeared in Oprah Magazine.
Cathy Greenblat challenges the dominant images of people with dementia as “empty shells.” Seeing Alzheimer's Differently: Love, Loss and Laughter offers a positive vision of what person-centered care can achieve and speaks to the universal fears of aging and memory decay. Love, Loss and Laughter provides personal anecdotes, poetry, and insightful statements from an international group of care partners, researchers, medical experts, social care providers, activists, and people with dementia themselves. 150 color photographs from 5 countries accompany the narrative.
Stanley Kaplan had been the world leader in test preparation for sixty years. In a time when it was thought impossible to improve scores on standardized tests through tutoring, Kaplan started out as a tutor in his home in Brooklyn, New York. From there, he built a mega-educational testing business known throughout the world which he sold to The Washington Post 30 years ago. He provides insights into standardized tests and testing issues and is considered one of the leading experts on education today. The book sold in Canada and other foreign countries.
This book chronicles the saga of Laura Shapiro Kramer's struggle with her son Seth's cerebral palsy and her search for alternative treatments in the face of an uncomprehending medical establishment. Uncommon Voyage went into a second edition in 2001 (North Atlantic Books) to redefine the complementary treatments as well as discuss new solutions to dealing with this debilitating disease. It has sold in Canada. Hardcover and softcover editions.
More than 250 world celebrities offer their insights for the next one thousand years. With contributors such as Oliver Stone, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nadia Comaneci, George Harrison, Norman Schwarzkopf, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Predictions for the Next Millennium combines fascinating messages with brief celebrity biographies and professional photographs. The authors appeared on Good Morning America and were featured in exhibitions in conjunction with the Empire State Building and the Trump organization. The book has sold in Canada and other foreign countries.
Every year millions of parents and teens begin the arduous college admissions process. For parents, the path to the college admission's finish line is littered with obstacles and hurdles of all kinds—some anticipated and some completely unforeseen. These may include a child's uneven academic record, some disciplinary problems in high school, or a simply unproductive or oppositional approach to the college admissions process. Tackling College Admissions: Sanity + Strategy = Success empowers parents to effectively partner with their child to secure acceptance at an appropriate high-quality institution despite any of these setbacks. Dr. Paradis is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Marymount Manhattan College and teaches courses in Child Development and Abnormal Psychology. Faren R. Siminoff, is an attorney and historian and she regularly counsels students about college transfer options at a community college.
Ross addresses the concerns of parents during the tricky “tween” years. Middle School is a minefield of changing bodies, values and attitudes, and parents of these millions of children are often desperate for practical advice on how to navigate the murky and sometimes turbulent Middle School years. Drawing from real life cases during her 18 years as a parenting expert, counselor, author (and the mother of two teenagers), Practical parenting skills for the Middle School Years offers many humorous and moving anecdotes, focusing on time-tested and practical skills that parents need as their children move through this tumultuous time. Julie Ross is the author of Practical Parenting for the 21st Century: The Manual you Wish Had Come With Your Child, and Joint Custody With A Jerk: Raising a Child With an Uncooperative Ex Now What Do I Do?, and A Guide to Parenting Elementary Aged Children. Reviewed by: Publisher’s Weekly and featured in The Wall Street Journal. Appearances on Oprah & Friends Radio and the Dr. Alvin Jones show.
Peg Streep is an accomplished writer on women’s issues and spirituality, including her national bestselling inspirational memoir Necessary Journeys: Letting ourselves learn from Life, and Adolescence with Nancy Snyderman, MD (Hyperion 2002), which was serialized in Good Housekeeping. Mean Mothers is a collection of true personal stories about the daughters of mean mothers, including Ms. Streep’s own battle with her fears of motherhood. She highlights the success of real mothers who have overcome their fears and statistical inclination to parent in the fashion of their mean mothers to find that they are not only good mothers, but that motherhood can be a deeply satisfying experiences. Appeared on ABC's Good Morning America.
Dr. Tancredi introduces recent breakthroughs in brain research to significantly further the age-long debate about whether criminality is biologically determined or is a failure of socialization. Proponents of both sides of this "nature/nurture" debate have agreed that criminal behavior results from some combination of the two. Recent discoveries in neuroscience lend credence to the idea that man's capacity for moral responsibility has genetic and biological antecedents, with revolutionary consequences for criminal law and public policy. MD-JD psychiatrist-lawyer Laurence Tancredi, a Clinical psychiatrist at New York University School of Medicine, has also written Dangerous Diagnostics (Basic Books 1989, 1994) and Legal Issues in Psychiatric Care (Harper Collins, 1975). As a forensic psychiatric consultant, he has worked on a wide variety of psychiatric issues including criminal trials for assault, rape, and homicide. Hardwiring Behavior: What Neuroscience Means for Morality is a groundbreaking book aimed at a popular audience with varied interests including biology, criminology, law, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Japanese rights sold, 2008.
A retired Wall Street Journal editor and mother compares two generations of women—boomers and GenXers—to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.
For the first time in American history, a significant number of mothers are heading major corporations, including General Motors, Ulta Beauty, and Best Buy. Over the past several decades, women have made gains throughout executive suites. Yet these “Power Moms” still struggle with balancing their management responsibilities with raising children. Joann S. Lublin draws on the experiences of the nation’s two generations of these successful women to measure how far we’ve come—and how far we still need to go.
Dr. Phyllis Chesler presents a brilliant feminist analysis and an important understanding on how unchecked child sexual abuse can lead to devastating consequences in adults. The criminal justice system does not take into account the totality of the situation.
