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"This book is destined to become a classic."
--Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Drawing on fascinating case histories from his own practice as well as medical techniques he has observed in his travels around the world, Dr. Weil shows how the mechanisms of self-diagnosis and self-regeneration have worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. But spontaneous healing is also the...

The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to Francois Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and...

2010 Sydney Taylor Book Award, Notable Book for Older Readers

The tale of Rashi s granddaughter, a young girl who defies her community to help a friend in need. In this sequel to My Guardian Angel, Sylvie Weil continues the story of Elvina, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Rashi, the famous 11th-century French Bible and Talmud commentator. It is the spring of 1097 in the town of Troyes, in France. The Crusaders have been marauding their way through Europe, attacking Jewish communities. One evening, a mysterious family arrives in Troyes German Jews forced by the Crusaders...

Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects, from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression, political freedom and French national identity.

Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks sees Weil...

Seit dem Münchner Abkommen im September 1938 steht Europa vor der Drohung eines neuen Weltkriegs. Simone Weil, Philosophin, Gewerkschaftlerin, Aktivistin, sieht sich unter äußerstem Druck: Was kann sie, die radikale Pazifistin, tun, wenn Hitlers Deutschland tatsächlich den Krieg beginnt? In dieser Extremsituation schreibt sie einen ihrer berühmtesten Texte, eine souveräne Darstellung des homerischen Epos, zugleich die minutiöse Analyse dessen, was die kriegerische Gewalt macht aus den Menschen und der Welt. Simone Weil weiß, »dass man die Gewalt niemals bewundern soll, die Feinde...