Schwartz: 1127 books
by Hillel Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Called to the bedside of someone critically or chronically ill, what should you bring,
what can you do, what must you know, what will you say?
Likely you've already sat with a grandparent, parent, brother, sister, lover, or friend in a hospital or nursing home and found yourself disturbed by...
Your Soul's Plan eChapters - Chapter 3: Parenting Handicapped Children
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of parenting children who have Asperger’s, bipolar disorder, severe autism, Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD, blindness, and other handicaps?
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Your Soul’s Plan eChapters: Parenting Handicapped Children contains the Preface, Introduction,...
Snap Strategies for Couples
40 Fast Fixes for Everyday Relationship Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Snap Strategies for Couples: 40 Fast Fixes for Everyday Relationship Pitfalls is full of quick solutions to every relationship’s most common problems. Dr. Lana Staheli and Dr. Pepper Schwartz offer 40 practical, immediate fixes (or snaps”) that partners can use to end the fighting, leave the...
Sexual Subjects
Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age.
Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine...
The Two Faces of Islam
Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa’uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism—a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism,...
The 8 Laws of Change
How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Scientifically based strategies for enacting successful and enduring change on personal, societal, and global levels, no matter what your background
• 2016 Nautilus Silver Award
• Shares the stories of people who have changed history, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ben Franklin,...
Building the Golden Gate Bridge
A Workers' Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories...
by Sol Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This is the story of Sol Schwartz, the youngest of three children born to Sam and Rose Schwartz, Romanian immigrants, who migrated to America in the early part of the twentieth century. Sol, born in 1925, relates about his stressful life growing up in Brooklyn as part of a somewhat fractured family....
The Order-Disorder Paradox
Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Increasing order in a system also creates disorder: this seemingly paradoxical idea has deep roots in early cultures throughout the world, but it has been largely lost in our modern lives as we push for increasing systematization in our world and in our personal lives. Drawing on nearly five decades...
The Other Islam
Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This eye-opening, insightful exploration of Sufism, the spiritual tradition that has supported Islam for more than a thousand years, shows why it offers a promising foundation for reconciliation between the Western and Muslim worlds.
Many Americans today identify Islam with maniacal hatred...
Worm Work
Recasting Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. From antiquity to today, the ubiquitous and multiform worm provokes an immediate discomfort and unconscious distancing: it remains us against them in anthropocentric anxiety. So there is always something muddled, or dirty,...
by David Schwartz
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Poche figure nella storia della scienza moderna hanno il carisma di Enrico Fermi. E poche sono state altrettanto determinanti per gli sviluppi successivi della loro disciplina. Tuttavia, molti aspetti della sua biografia sono ancora poco indagati. Il libro di David N. Schwartz colma questo vuoto,...
A Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles
One Womans Odyssey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives...
by Jonathan Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Marina del Rey attorney Tom McGuire must defend his client against a charge of carjacking and murder, rescue a proctologist-turned-plastic-surgeon, and battle with a government administrator of the Federal Witness Protection Program. Tom also runs into a modern-day Indian tribe that inhabits a high-rise...