Epstein: 378 books
The Sports Gene
Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The New York Times bestseller – with a new afterword about early specialization in youth sports – by the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
The debate is as old as physical competition. Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians by Helen Epstein (92,000 words)
A collection of profiles of some of the world's most fascinating musicians, including the late Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Dorothy DeLay and the very lively James Galway and Yo-Yo Ma. Passed from hand...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.
Going to Pieces Without...
Children of the Holocaust
Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors by Helen Epstein (123,000 words; with a 30th anniversary preface by the author)
A blend of memoir, reportage and oral history, Children of the Holocaust was the first book to examine the inter-generational transmission...
by Paul Ornstein, Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Looking Back is the unusual memoir of a Holocaust survivor and physician who became prominent in American psychoanalysis and a leader of the psychoanalytic Self Psychology movement.
“Paul Ornstein's remarkable life has taken him from a cheder in a Hungarian town, to the Budapest Rabbinical...
The 24-Hour Genius
Unlocking Your Brain's Potential with Strategic All-Nighters
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
If a year of study or work is a competitive marathon, all-nighters are often the sprints in which certain runners break away from the pack. Tap into your genius and achieve greater success by learning to strategically pull an all-nighter.
Whether fine-tuning a business plan or trying...
by Joseph Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget...
The Basic Beliefs of Judaism
A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
One of the oldest monotheistic religions known to humankind, Judaism has withstood the tests of time. So what exactly are the tenets of this ancient faith that have been passed down over the millennia, and how do they apply to our lives in the 21st century? The Basic Beliefs of Judaism gives an updated...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay by Helen Epstein (12,200 words)
Dorothy DeLay (1917-2002) was the first woman to become an internationally-acclaimed master teacher of the violin. Her thousands of students (at the Juilliard School in New York, the Aspen Music Festival,...
The Haunted Smile
The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes...
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These...
Crafty Screenwriting
Writing Movies That Get Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made.
Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters", Crafty Screenwriting...
Snobbery
The American Version
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
Observations on the many ways we manage to look down on others, from “a writer who can make you laugh out loud on every third page” (The New York Times Book Review).
Snobs are everywhere. At the gym, at work, at school, and sometimes even lurking in your own home. But how did we, as a culture,...
Another Fine Mess
America, Uganda, and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
"A stunning new book of reportage and analysis." - Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg
Is the West to blame for failing Uganda?
In this powerful story of Uganda and its war-torn neighbors in eastern and central Africa, journalist Helen Epstein chronicles how America's naïve dealings...