Halpern: 111 books
Fame Junkies
The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2008
Why do more people watch American Idol than the nightly news? What is it about Paris Hilton’s dating life that lures us so? Why do teenage girls — when given the option of “pressing a magic button and becoming either stronger, smarter, famous, or more beautiful” — predominantly opt for fame?...
Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat
How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
"A fascinating and thought-provoking story, one that sheds light on the origins of... the current challenging situation in physics."
--Wall Street Journal
When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin...
Collider
The Search for the World's Smallest Particles
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe
The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the...
Something Shining
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Widely praised for his earlier collections, Daniel Halpern has grown steadily in stature and attainment. Now, with Something Shining, his first collection of new poems in seven years, he gives us an ambitious, wide-ranging meditation on birth, love, and maturity, marking a turning point in both his...
What's Science Ever Done For Us
What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
A playful and entertaining look at science on The Simpsons
This amusing book explores science as presented on the longest-running and most popular animated TV series ever made: The Simpsons. Over the years, the show has examined such issues as genetic mutation, time travel, artificial intelligence,...
Beautiful Data
A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the...
by Sue Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed—or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are our laws, technology, and lifestyles increasingly chipping it away?
These...
The Healing Trail:
Essential Oils of Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Essential oils, known for their healing properties as far back as ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia, have reached their zenith in Madagascar, says Dr. Georges M. Halpern, author of The Healing Trail: Essential Oils of Madagascar. This interesting, informative, and clearly written new book is well-documented,...
Alice in Shandehland
Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married Jack Horwitz. On the night of 24 November, Ben, Alice, and Jack met at Edelson Jewellers to "settle the thing." Words flew, a brawl erupted,...
Making Waves and Riding the Currents
Activism and the Practice of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
This book is about working for a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world while cultivating the wisdom that supports and deepens this work. Charles Halpern is a social entrepreneur with a remarkable record of institutional innovation. He founded the Center for Law and Social Policy, the nation’s...
The Means to Grow Up
Reinventing Apprenticeship as a Developmental Support in Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In The Means to Grow Up, Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"—a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique...
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking
A Workbook to Accompany Halpern's Thought & Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A workbook for Thought & Knowledge, Fourth Edition by Diane F Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, Fourth Edition is filled with new exercises to reinforce learning and practice newly acquired skills.
This workbook can be purchased in a student package with Thought & Knowledge or as a separate item.
by Mark Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Language and Human Nature" exposes a century's worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. It begins by examining the causes of changes in the English vocabulary. These sometimes take the form of new words, but...
Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
A Brief Edition of Thought & Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Consider that many of the people who are alive today will be working at jobs that do not currently exist and that the explosion of information means that today's knowledge will quickly become outdated. As a result, two goals for education clearly emerge -- learning how to learn and how to think critically...