Epstein: 378 books
The Invisible Cure
Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007
The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
A Living Will by Helen Epstein (8,800 words)
A personal account of a mother’s sudden and unexpected hospitalization, and how her adult children negotiated end-of-life decisions.
This essay appeared as a New York Magazine cover story on November 27, 1989 as "A Death in the Family 1989."
Super You
7 Steps to Profound Peace and Personal Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The greatest things that happen in your life are not consciously thought about or planned, like meeting a special someone, reading a life-changing book, or getting a great job.
These coincidences have to do with Super You, even though you may not know it. Through knowing your deepest, Spiritual...
by Helen Epstein, Wilma Iggers, Arno Pařík
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job was as a children’s book editor; his passion was mapping and archiving the sites of Jewish life...
by Delena Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Some places in this world are cursed. Is it the land itself or the people? F.B.I. Special Agent Samantha Westfield has returned to her hometown of Calhoun to find out. There have been four children kidnapped, each on the night of a full moon. Faced with a horrific childhood and a town she doesn’t...
Good Clean Food
Shopping Smart to Avoid GMOs, rBGH, and Products That May Cause Cancer and Other Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Did you know that American milk and meat are banned in Europe because of the health risks they pose? Or that one in three items on supermarket shelves contains genetically modified ingredients? How about that forty pesticides in use today have been linked to certain types of cancer?
Between...
Classical Mathematical Logic
The Semantic Foundations of Logic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not...
The Sky's Blue Eyes
Barefoot Heart Love Stories series
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The Sky's Blue Eyes is a story of yearning and longing of a woman to her beloved. The heroine and her children are on their way to a spring. The spring is a metaphor for her hidden love story. In the center of the story there is a description of the sore heroine's anticipation to meet her beloved. Will...
Democracy Without Decency
Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues...
by Richard A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the Obama administration in the White House and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) appears likely. But it can and should be stopped if at all possible, given the adverse impact that it will have on the workplace and the overall economy. In The...
Scandal of Colonial Rule
Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama....
Constitutional Law for a Changing America
A Short Course
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Drawing on political science as much as from legal studies, Constitutional Law for a Changing America helps students realize that Supreme Court cases are more than just legal names and citations. Ideal for a one-semester course, the Short Course offers all of the hallmarks of the Rights and Powers...
School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Preparing Educators and Improving Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools addresses a fundamental question in education today: How will colleges and universities prepare future teachers, administrators, counselors, and other education professionals to conduct effective programs of family...
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...