Epstein: 378 books
Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes
The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.C., revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric Smithsonian scientist named Harrison Gray Dyar,...
by William Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In The Illusion of Psychotherapy William Epstein asserts that psychotherapy is probably ineffective and possibly harmful. He maintains that there is no credible clinical evidence that psychotherapy is effective in handling personal or social problems, or that it is more effective than other modes...
by William Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housing. Multitudes in other parts of the world, in addition to being poor, are jailed, tortured, and killed for being members of the wrong ethnic group or expressing...
Generative Social Science
Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an...
Attention Equals Life
The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history,...
Agent_Zero
Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based Modeling
In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules....
Psychotherapy As Religion
The Civil Divine In America
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
***A provocative look at America on the couch.***In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems. He argues that the practice is not a science at all but rather the civil...
Sublime Noise
Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How—and why—did...
La lezione della serenità
Impara dal Buddha a trasformare il trauma in un'esperienza positiva
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Nel corso di 2500 anni il buddhismo ha elaborato soluzioni ai problemi esistenziali che sorprendono per modernità ed efficacia. Nella sua Lezione della serenità Epstein, psicoterapeuta buddhista, riflette sul «trauma»: lutti, licenziamenti, malattie, abbandono, fine di un amore.... La reazione...
by Brian Epstein
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Über die Beatles ist viel geschrieben worden. Auch von Brian Epstein, dem legendären Entdecker, Manager und Förderer der Fab Four. Ende 1964, als die Beatles den ersten Höhepunkt Ihrer atemberaubenden Weltkarriere erreicht hatten, als sie die Beatlemania in die USA exportierten, mehrfach bei Ed...
Range
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, and more.
“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink
“So...
by Charles Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
"Goodbye, paycheck. How will I live without you?"
Will these be your words on the day you retire? They don't have to be.
Right this minute, you have the chance to start your own business, one that will manufacture paychecks for the rest of your life.
Sound too good to...
Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes
How to use Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdfunding platforms to support your entrepreneurial and creative dreams
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Just a few short years ago, if you wanted to produce a new gadget or raise money to make an independent film, you had no choice but to scrape together funding on your own ... or hope a generous friend or relative might put up seed capital. These days, there's a new approach: crowdfunding. Sites such...
by Dr. Paul Epstein ND
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
This little guide sets you on the path to your inner peace and happiness. Guided meditations cultivate qualities of being that create joy. Arranged by theme and by practice, the meditations-- short, sweet, and powerful-- transform our relationship to challenge as we open up to the gifts of the present...