Product Description: In this volume, Epstein presents a new theory of personality, referred to as cognitive-experiential theory, that is integrative of all other major personality theories. This integration is accomplished by expanding upon current basic assumptions, including the assumption that all higher-order animals automatically construct an implicit theory of reality that is necessary for adapting to their environments and that is, therefore, inherently reinforcing...read more

Product Description: A humorous and often moving memoir, this account details the years Seymour Epstein spent serving on the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which works with Jewish communities all over the world. This chronicle of Epstein’s international adventures explores the role of community in late 20th-century Jewish life and examines the disintegration of North Africa’s rich Jewish past alongside the spontaneous development of new Jewish communities in Russia The stories included in this book contain profound lessons that can be applied to Jewish community life worldwide...read more

Casey and his father find a special way to share their love when his father has to go away on business.

Product Description: This is a book on how to gain control of one's emotions. It is a serious book that contains a theory of automatic processing it presents and its implications for controlling emotions. Epstein is a professor of personality psychology and a highly regarded research psychologist who has supported his theory with extensive research published in the most demanding professional journals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A personality expert describes the Constructive Thinking Inventory--the test he created to measure practical intelligence--offering insights into the personality traits that really matter in life. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: When Alice Hopper Epstein was diagnosed as having inoperable cancer, she was given three months to live. That was fourteen years ago. Mind, Fantasy and Healing is the remarkable story of her recovery and the long journey from hopelessness to wholeness...read more

Dan and Sara Singer rediscover themselves after a young couple enters their lives at the New Jersey shore, and they forge new bonds in their loving marriage

During the period that stretches from the days of Hitler's first assaults to the near present, two young boys--Bronx-born Saul Klein and Eugene Strauss, the child of elegant German Jewish refugees--seek their elusive destinies