In this next thrilling story from Alan Gold and Mike Jones, we meet Shalman, a freedom-fighter turned peacenik and archaeologist, and his young beautiful wife, Judit, a refugee from the horrors of Stalin's USSR. As the Second World War draws to a close, and the world begins to learn the truth about Hitler's genocide, the foundation of the State of Israel as a permanent home for what's left of the Jewish people becomes increasingly urgent. In Palestine, Arab and Jewish forces fight each other and the British for supremacy and the right to own the land, causing a nightmare environment of hatred and suspicion. But a deeply buried global conspiracy, which has its origin in Stalin's Russia, seeks to undermine Israel's future as an independent nation. A plot to fashion the fledgling nation as a puppet of the Soviet Union rests upon a handful of committed Jewish Communists, led secretly by Judit. But is she a heartless assassin, a disciple of the evils of Beria and the Kremlin, or a committed fusion of Zionist and Communist? And in the darkest recesses of ancient history, we meet Shalman's ancestors, themselves descendants of the builders of Solomon's Temple. As the family escapes the nightmare of the Roman occupation of Jerusalem, it witnesses the glories of the Islamic renaissance in Baghdad and the rampages of the Crusaders through the region. Another exciting instalment in this story of the births of nations and of the strength of their people.

In 2000, Theater Communications Group published Death & Taxes which contained the following one-acts: REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION, G DAVID SCHINE IN HELL, NOTES ON AKIBA, TERMINATING and EAST COAST ODE TO HWARD JARVIS. In 2009 the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, under the title Tiny Kushner, produced FLIP FLOP FLY, TERMINATING, EAST COAST ODE TO HOWARD JARVIS, DR ARNOLD A HUTSCHNECKER IN PARADISE, and ONLY WE WHO GUARD THE MYSTERY SHALL BE UNHAPPY. This book, for the first time, collects all these one-acts in one place.

Thanks to the enormous progress of neuroscience over the past few decades, we can now monitor the passage of initial stimulations to certain points in the brain. In spite of these findings, however, subjective consciousness still remains an unsolved mystery. This volume exposes neuroscience and cognitive science to philosophical analysis and proposes that we think of our conscious states of mind as a composite phenomenon consisting of three layers: neuronal events, somatic markers, and explicit consciousness. While physics and chemistry can and have been successfully employed to describe the causal relation between the first two layers, the further step to articulate consciousness is purely interpretative and points to the preponderant importance of language. Language is essential for the transformation of inchoate, not very informative somatic markers and mere moods into full consciousness and appraised emotion. Munz uses literary examples to shift our understanding of the mind away from computational models and to show how eloquence about our states of mind is manufactured rather than caused. He firmly rejects the efforts of both Freud and non-Freudian psychologists to find a scientific explanation for such manufacture and to make a science out of the eloquence of folk psychology. Instead he argues that the many ways eloquence is being manufactured to transform somatic markers into conscious states of mind are best accounted for in terms of Wittgenstein's conception of language games. This volume challenges most current thinking about consciousness and mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and linguists.

This new and attractively printed and illustrated edition of "The Other Side of the Jordan" serves to portray one of the greatest single-handed archaeological achievements of the century. The desert and the sown land – what special fascination this gives to the study of the Near East! In between them to this day are a floating population. Sometimes they settled and built towns. More often they roamed with their flocks, home-base being where they grew one crop a year on marginal land. Many are the theories to explain them, who they are and what they have accomplished. Yet what are the facts? What actually can one find out by travel on foot, horseback, or camel, living among present Bedouin to search the hills and valleys for evidence of a past they have long forgotten? Here is the story of what one man found out about this mystery in a search of many years, between 1932 and 1947. Its main conclusions are today still true – an important new chapter in the ancient story of man.

243 pages; contents A White Problem in America; The Mystery of Black; The Creeping Ghetto; The Circle of Failure; Beyond Civil Rights; etc

CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself. File Under : Steampunk [ Alternate History | Reptilian Royalty | Murder Most Foul | The World’s Fair ]

Once upon a time, a young girl ventured into a dark forest, looking for a cure for her much-loved elder sister ... A touching, tender and lyrical fable about what we do for the ones we love, and the beauty and mystery of being alive in a world in which we are part of everything, and everything is part of us. As a terrible pandemic rages through the country, a young girl, Teo, leaves her small village and sets off into the forest, in search of a cure for her sister who is infected with the pox. Her father Merdocai has surrendered himself to the evil Marquis to be experimented upon for the Greater Good; and with her mother long-dead, all Teo has to keep her going is the love of her sister, her father and her friend Rodrigo, a stuttering poet. As Teo ventures deeper into the forest, she encounters creatures and teachers who hold the answers to all the questions she has about who she is, and where she has come from. Meanwhile, out in the depths of the ocean, a whale is returning to the place he was born, to exhale his last breath. While Teo does not know this, he too holds secrets that belong to Teo's story. The Whale's Last Song is a tender, sweet and wise fable, on what we are prepared to do for those we love; a celebration of the beauty and mystery of being alive in a world in which we are part of everything, and everything is part of us; and a love song to the natural world. It is The Alchemist meets The Princess Bride meets The Little Prince. It is a little gem. 'A bright ode to all that is good and beautiful in the world. The Whale's Last Song is a timeless tale, an allegory of the heart.' Maggie Hamilton 'Fresh, exquisite, a creative tour de force ... Both challenging and reassuring, the story weaves a sense of belonging through the fallibility of being human and the mysteries of being alive.' Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

ABNORMAL psychology, or the study of abnormal mental phenomena, is one of the late developments of scientific medicine. It is not a mere fad, as some of its critics would attempt to make us believe, neither has it sprung up like a mushroom, within a single night. Abnormal psychology is the outcome of the work of small groups of investigators in France, Germany, and America, within the last twenty- five years. Beginning with a study of the phenomena of hypnosis, these researches gradually developed into a series of brilliant psychological discoveries. The most important of these is the principle of dissociation or of N splitting of the mind. In a general way we speak of these matters as the theory of the subconscious. This theory has not only thrown an immense amount of light on the nature of human personality, but other peculiar phenomena, such as losses of memory or amnesia, automatic writing, crystal gazing, and such diseases as neurasthenia, hysteria, psychasthenia, have been stripped of the mystery which surrounded them for centuries. These phenomena, even more than the modern investigations on the ultimate nature of matter, form the "fairyland of science." Apart from any scientific knowledge, the general reader has a certain interest in these problems, either from curiosity or the light they shed upon human personality or perhaps from the mystery which seems to surround them.Abnormal psychology has also its practical aspects. Its discoveries have made possible the psychic treatment of certain functional nervous disorders. Technically, this is known as psychotherapeutics. The interpretation of these functional states is based on the principle of the dissociation of consciousness. But psychotherapeutics would be in a very chaotic condition and barren of results, were it not for abnormal psychology, for a scientific psychotherapeutics must be based upon a sound psychopathology.

"Sarah Jean is an intelligent mathematics student who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are only now coming to light. It's time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in terms she understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Elliot is a theoretical physicist who spends most of his time thinking about time, and how to unify all physics. So when he meets Carmen, a violinist, the two bond over talks about music and theory. Talks that lead them into bed and into a marriage that should and shouldn't be. As their relationship teeters through time, work and family become an unbalanced balancing act, and theories are thrown to the stars revealing truths they're not ready to face."--

This collective memoir of the Bloomington, Indiana High School Class of 1968 chronicles the transformation of clean-cut midwestern teens grappling with issues that would touch the rest of their lives. Chuck Walls, a young English teacher turned them on to edgy literature, music---and marijuana. His life was short but remains consequential to more than a hundred people who spoke candidly to the authors. Hiding his sexuality was mandatory and we see how it led to the demise of a gifted yet troubled teacher. His arrest and tragic death, still wreathed in mystery, continue to haunt the minds of the Class of 1968.

A murder mystery originally published in 1987, which is now a Radio 4 dramatisation, and concerns Detective Kate Baeier who is hired by a wealthy woman to act as minder for her musically gifted daughter.

These eight stories of psychological drama are so mesmerizingly rich, intimately drawn, and luminously crafted that we have to keep reminding ourselves they are true. The reader finds himself in the intensely private and charged space between patient and therapist and becomes engaged as collaborator and peer in the healing process. It is a rare opportunity afforded by an author whose style reflects warmth, intellect, modesty, humor, and an often touching awareness of his own fears and frailties and the limitations of his profession. In each one of these radiantly humanistic stories there is a central mystery - from an elderly woman whose tennis racket has become virtually an extension of her hand; to seemingly ordinary Artie, who obsessively fantasizes about strangling his nine-year-old niece; to the popular comedienne who hears voices; to Constantine and Peter, the mirror-image twins; to the orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst whose unyielding belief in unconscious motivation drives him to plead guilty to an obvious accident. George Weinberg introduces us to people with very different visions of life, but in each case the goal of therapy remains the same - to bring the patient nearer to the heart's desire. These stories provide a privileged glimpse of life on both sides of the couch. We feel, we react, we identify, we reflect - and we learn a great deal more about ourselves, each other, and the wondrous depths of the human psyche.

Mad Men meets Nashville in this debut mystery set in 1963, written by Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Cynthia Weil. "I loved everything about I'm Glad I Did ... Not just brava, Cynthia. Bravissima!!" --Carole King, multi-Grammy winning singer-songwriter of Tapestry and author of the New York Times bestseller A Natural Woman New York City, summer of 1963: JJ Green is a born songwriter--a major problem, since her family thinks the music business is a cesspool of lowlifes and hustlers. Defying them, she secretly takes an internship at the Brill Building, the epicenter of a new sound called rock and roll. When she finds a writing partner in Luke Silver, a boy with mesmerizing green eyes, JJ believes she is living her dream. They'll even be cutting their first demo with legendary singer Dulcie Brown. But soon JJ's dream is shattered by tragedy, and she must navigate a web of troubled pasts, hidden identities, and tangled secrets--before it snares her, too. From the Hardcover edition.

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of S words that reveal a spectacular story! With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The S Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

Another riveting international thriller from bestselling author Alan Gold. Book Two in the Amra’s Journey trilogy. Book Two of Amra’s Journey that began with The Gift of Evil. For the past fifty years, the golden treasures of Troy have been lying in the basement of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Now, as the millennium approaches, Germany and Turkey are both reclaiming their treasures. But who really owns the precious antiquities? And how far is each country prepared to go to claim them as their own? American lawyer Sarah Kaplan, an expert on the reclamation of property, is drawn into the debate when the Turkish government employs her to get the treasure back. But things go very wrong and Sarah ends up in a Turkish gaol, accused of theft and blasphemy. Her only link with the outside world is the amulet she wears around her neck, passed down to her from her great-grandmother. Engraved with the symbols of the bull and owl of Troy, the amulet’s origin is a mystery. But gradually, through the unfolding of stories three thousand years apart, the secret of the amulet becomes known.

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