"This book describes the methods used by Joseph Parnes, President of Technomart, to obtain consistent returns in the stock market. Most investors fail to exceed the returns represented by the Standard and Poor's Stock Index, but Parnes often does using his investment philosophy. This book outlines his method of stock assessment, providing an understandable formula. If the formula tells a reader to buy a stock, then, as explained, there is a significant chance that stock will go up. If the formula tells a reader to short a stock, then the book shows how there is a significant chance that the stock will go down"--

The quick and lasting results which Dr. Wolpe has obtained with the pioneer method of psychotherapy described in this book have begun to attract attention of psychiatrists and behavioral scientists everywhere. A new theory of psychotherapy is here a serious alternative to the repression theory of psychoanalysis and one that is the direct product of modern learning theory. By applying known laws of learning to the special problems of neurosis, Dr. Wolpe has developed new techniques of therapy apparently much more effective than any previously reported. Methods ranging from traditional counseling to psychoanalysis all record much the same measure of success (about 50 per cent). The methods developed by Dr. Wolpe have resulted in a ratio of "apparently cured" and "much improved" patients that is consistently in the region of 90 per cent. According to Dr. Wolpe, several facts emerge from his work that support the hypothesis that reciprocal inhibition has a central role in human in general, it is possible to overcome a habit by forming a new and antagonistic habit in the same stimulus situation; animal neuroses are overcome if feeding can be made to occur in the presence of anxiety-evoking stimuli; by deliberately opposing response antagonistic to anxiety responses, neurotic anxiety-response habits can be overcome, and more neurotic patients can be successfully treated, apparently, than by other methods; the success of other approaches to therapy is explicable on the reciprocal inhibition principle; "spontaneous" improvement of neuroses in the ordinary course of life is explicable on the reciprocal inhibition principle. In addition to the theoretical, experimental, and clinical material that forms the background to this approach, there is a detailed description of the techniques of therapy and a statistical analysis of 210 patients.

Pocos escritores gozan del raro privilegio de contarse entre los más leídos y haber recibido, al mismo tiempo, el reconocimiento de sus pares y de la crítica. Nombres tan disímiles como Victoria Ocampo, César Tiempo, Martha Lynch y Ulises Petit de Murat han elogiado la obra de Narosky.Si todos los tiempos... confirma la habitual agudeza y sentido poético del autor de Si todos los hombres... para indagar en los grandes temas de la el mal, el bien, la verdad, la justicia, la mujer, el dolor... 'Palabras que acarician, penetran', ha observado el autor, y sus palabras llegan al corazón del lector, incitándolo a la reflexión sincera.'Sensibilidad y talento en un libro recorrido por un profundo sentido humanístico', ha señalado Clarín; La Prensa lo ha recomendado como libro de cabecera', y los más diversos medios han celebrado su publicación.Estos reveladores aforismos son una síntesis perfecta de filosofía, ética y poesía. Narosky escribe para un hombre nuevo que acaso surja con el nuevo siglo, un hombre más sabio y espiritual.'Somos hojas al viento. Y nos creemos el viento...'

The 1951 regular season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. And not once in major league baseball’s 278 preceding playoff and World Series games had a team overcome a three-run deficit in the ninth inning. But New York rallied, and at 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The Giants won the pennant. The Echoing Green follows the reverberations of that one moment–the Shot Heard Round the World–from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse, where a home run forever turned hitter and pitcher into hero and goat. It was also in that centerfield block of concrete that, after the home run, a Giant coach tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The spyglass would remain undiscovered until 2001, when, in the jubilee of that home run, Joshua Prager laid bare on the front page of the Wall Street Journal a Giant secret: from July 20, 1951, through the very day of that legendary game, the orange and black stole the finger signals of opposing catchers. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail the 1951 pennant race and illuminating as never before the impact of both a moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca. A wonderfully evocative portrait of the great American pastime, The Echoing Green is baseball history, social history and biography–irresistible reading from any angle.

This is the untold story of the secret scandal behind baseball's most legendary moment:The Shot Heard Round the World. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. At 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The ball sailed over the left field wall and into history. The Giants won the pennant. That moment—the Shot Heard Round the World—reverberated from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse, where hitter and pitcher forever turned into hero and goat. It was also in that centerfield block of concrete that, after the home run, a Giant coach tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail and illuminating as never before the impact of both a moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca.

"Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned after a year of "involuntary research leave" to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman-Joy Ladin."--Dust jacket.

A cookbook of simple foods that celebrates the bounty of the Mediterranean region and the cultures that inhabit it: Moroccan, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Algerian, and more. Illustrated. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A groundbreaking new biography of Jack Kerouac from the author of the award-winning memoir Minor Characters Joyce Johnson brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend in this compelling new book. Tracking Kerouac’s development from his boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, through his fateful encounters with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and John Clellon Holmes to his periods of solitude and the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in his composition of On the Road followed by Visions of Cody , Johnson shows how his French Canadian background drove him to forge a voice that could contain his dualities and informed his unique outsider’s vision of America. This revelatory portrait deepens our understanding of a man whose life and work hold an enduring place in both popular culture and literary history.

First published in 1973, when its author was nineteen years old, Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties has become a classic to many of the baby boom generation, for its sharply observed account of coming of age during turbulent times. Now used in many high school English and social studies courses, this new edition is being brought out to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of the original, not only for those of Maynard s generation, but to make available, to the current generation of young readers in particular, a work that may inspire them to give shape to their experiences of growing up, and as a reminder that a person is never too young to tell his or her own story.

From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.

The Kuzari, full title Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion, also known as the Book of the Khazar (Hebrew: ספר הכוזרי: Sefer ha-Kuzari), is one of the most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Judah Halevi, completed in the Hebrew year 4900 (1139-40CE). Originally written in Arabic, prompted by Halevi's contact with a Spanish Karaite, it was then translated by numerous scholars, including Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon, into Hebrew and other languages, and is regarded as one of the most important apologetic works of Jewish philosophy.[2] Divided into five parts (ma'amarim – articles), it takes the form of a dialogue between a rabbi and the king of the Khazars, who has invited the former to instruct him in the tenets of Judaism in comparison with those of the other two Abrahamic religions: Christianity and Islam.

Adam is dying of cancer and hepatitis. But then his best friends offer him a wonderful new life, free from fear and cares for ever - as a vampire.

"What is contained in a state has become ever more plural while the boundaries of a state have become ever more fluid. In a world of migration and shifting allegiances - caused by cultural, economic, military and climatic change - the state is a more provisional place and its inhabitants, more stateless." "This spirited and engaging conversation, between two of America's foremost critics and two of the most influential theorists of the last decade, ranges widely across what Enlightenment and key contemporary philosophers have to say about the state, who exercises power in today's world, whether we can have a right to rights, the past, present, and future of the state in a time of globalization, and even what the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" in Spanish says about the complex world we live in today."--BOOK JACKET