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Re-Modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance starts with a challenging proposition: what if human personality is best understood by looking first at nature and animals? We know that nature's systems are self-balancing, and we know that insects, animals, birds, and even micro-organisms are born knowing things.

I use Carl Jung's ideas about personality, but in departure from other explanations of Jung, I think that when he said "introversion," he was talking about the parts of our mind that are born "knowing things" the way animals do. Like animals, humans need to know how to...

Perhaps the most important work written in Old English, "Beowulf" grew out of a culture very different from ours, and yet its story of war, violence, and heroism remains relevant to modern readers. Accessible to high school students, general readers, and undergraduates, this companion overviews the poem and its legacy. The initial chapters review the plot of "Beowulf," while later chapters discuss its style and language, its cultural and historical contexts, and its afterlife in contemporary popular culture.

The first part of the book provides information of interest to a wide range of...