-An eloquent plea for two needed emphases: more humane doctor-patient relations, and greater patient involvement in the struggle with disease.---Melvin Konner.
-An eloquent plea for two needed emphases: more humane doctor-patient relations, and greater patient involvement in the struggle with disease.---Melvi...
Cousins recalls key moments from his forty years of learning, editing and writing, reporting on important events, acting as a presidential emissary, and working on health projects, and tells of his work with famous men and women.
Cousins recalls key moments from his forty years of learning, editing and writing, reporting on important events, acting as a presidential emissary, a...
Lucid and lyric, informational and inspirational--a lasting testament to the human spirit and its indefatigable instinct for lasting meaning in a temporal world In his classic bestseller Anatomy of an Illness, the late Norman Cousins showed us how to use our minds to heal our bodies. In The Celebration of Life, he offers healing balm for the modern soul. In this thought-provoking and unusual book, Cousins takes on a subject no less than immortality itself and shows how we can realize it here and now, every moment of our daily lives. Written in a unique dialogue...
Lucid and lyric, informational and inspirational--a lasting testament to the human spirit and its indefatigable instinct for lasting meaning in a t...
Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology in the twentieth century. Incomparable designer, engineer, and architect, he proved that a lone genius, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world. In this inspiring account of Fuller's life and legacy, Lloyd Steven Sieden brings new light to Fuller's belief system and recognizes his many contributions to humanity.
Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative con...
This popular study of -psychological healing-treats topics ranging from religious revivalism and magical healing to contemporary psychotherapies, from the role of the shaman in nonindustrialized societies to the traditional mental hospital. Jerome and Julia Frank (who are father and daughter) contend that these therapies share common elements that improve the -morale-of sufferers. And in combating the -demoralizing meaning-that people attach to their experiences, the authors argue, many therapies are surprisingly similar to rhetoric (the art of persuasion) and to hermeneutics (the study of...
This popular study of -psychological healing-treats topics ranging from religious revivalism and magical healing to contemporary psychotherapies, f...
In this book, a seasoned commentator on world affairs discusses the way power in government becomes enlarged, exploited, and institutionalized not just as the result of external dangers, real or contrived, but as the result of the way the arms race spills over into and dominates foreign policy. The clandestine operation that led to the Iran-Contra affair, Norman Cousins observes, is a recent example of dangerous trend with its own momentum. Mr. Cousins returns here to the central theme that dominated the editorial pages of the Saturday Review during the thirty years of his editorship: the...
In this book, a seasoned commentator on world affairs discusses the way power in government becomes enlarged, exploited, and institutionalized not jus...
