Product Description: Are you in touch with the basic five senses you were born with? Do you know how to travel and when to stop? Can you listen, in darkness, to that still, small voice within? When Spelunking Through Life, you can laugh and grieve -- and it is perfectly okay to trip over the door frame as you set out on your journey...read more

Product Description: Horace, the ancient Roman poet, declared that “every old poem is sacred.” Whatever could he have meant by that? The contributors to this haiku collection pour forth their contemporary poetic response by calling our attention to unassuming moments in church and temple; meadow and mountain; on the train and on the trail; where they find their hearts brimming over with reverence, awe, wonder, silence, joy, affection and love...read more

Product Description: Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical...read more

Product Description: Newspapers carry stories of dangerous and irresponsible teenagers.At home, they are messy, silent, and annoying. We tend to blame this irritating behavior on adolescence. But psychologist Robert Epstein argues that the problem is not the teenagers themselves but the way they are treated...read more

Product Description: Brought to you by the same people who brought you internettollfree.com. The National Toll-Free & Internet Business Buyer's Guide provides a comprehensive source of information on companies that offer products and services for businesses nationwide...read more

Product Description: This addition to the best-selling Big Book of Business Games Series is packed with over 40 original games and exercises managers can use to motivate their teams―and themselves. The Big Book of Motivational Games presents managers with a variety of games that can be customized to suit their specific needs and group size...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the modern economy, where most workers are knowledge workers, creativity and innovation are the most easily sustainable competitive advantages. In The Big Book of Creativity Games, Harvard trained psychologist Robert Epstein provides dozens of games and activities designed to stimulate creativity and generate innovation in the workplace...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The term "disability" most often calls up images of a wheelchair or a blind person, but millions of people are challenged by disabilities that are not so apparent: chronic pain or illness, aids, add, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression or other psychiatric problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Teach trainees to "stress-proof" themselves with these training activities from a renowned Harvard-trained psychologist. Designed to provide lasting results, as well as on-the-spot relaxation, Dr. Robert Epstein's world-famous, science-based "stress-proofing" methods are fun to teach and easy to apply. Filled with what Psychology Today called "gems," the exercises in this book can be taught to your trainees in minutes and can be performed any time, anywhere, with a dramatic effect on mood and performance. The book gives you quick methods for relaxing groups of any size or type and helping them be open and receptive to any training content you present. This simple "bag of tricks" will help trainers raise people's stress-tolerance levels, create a comfortable learning environment, and unleash their creativity. Also included are special methods for handling organizational change and interpersonal conflict; reproducible handouts ; and much more.

Product Description: An engaging spoof of the modern view of the universe which, as the author shows, defies common sense to the point of absurdity. It presents in straightforward language the real Albert Einstein, and the fictitious, hapless U. T...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An athlete and a psychologist offer tips on fitness and exercise, including advice on motivation, work-out regimens, self-image, and breathing techniques

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Product Description: Prince Eugene at War: 1809 is an in-depth military history study of the heretofore largely neglected Italian and Hungarian campaigns of Napoleon's step-son, Prince Eugene de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, and commander-in-chief of the French Army of Italy...read more

Product Description: This book provides a representative collection of some of B.F. Skinner's best-known papers. Each paper begins with an editor's note and concludes with a postscript by Dr. Skinner. The collection focuses on Skinner's laboratory work, several of his major theories, and applications of his principles in animal training, education, and child rearing...read more