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This book of unique and humorous short stories covers everything from mice to pseudo-human men, from the future to the past, and everything in between. But the stories are often not what they seem. For instance, before there were the Beatles, there were three young Skiffle band members in the Quarrymen in Liverpool who dreamed of success with their own music. They wrote their own songs, but in the words of one of the characters of this short s...

Jung's interest in the East was deep-rooted and life-long, and the traditional teachings of China and India played an important role in his personal and intellectual development, as well as in the formations of the ideas and practices that are central to Jungian psychology.Jung on the East brings together key selections from his work on Buddhism, yoga and Taoism, and on such classic texts as the I Ching and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. It als...

Woodstock promoted itself as "Three Days of Peace and Music". Due to massive traffic delays and sporadic horrible weather, it actually took place over four days from Friday, August 15 to Monday, August 18, 1969. But it wasn't just four ordinary days in the summer of '69. Woodstock was more than a monstrous and unprepared happening in a farmer's field in the Catskills. It was a significant turning point for a generation that represented a uniqu...

This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice for over 20 years, why and how it moved across the continent to live in a Chinese community, and how each family member adjusted to the challenges and opportunities of their ...

Imagine a country in which one in six of the population is either an official member of the hated secret police or hapless informers forced to spy on their friends and families. To escape from their repressed society, some sought any means possible to do so. Some were successful but most were not. And if found, all those involved in the escape attempt were sent to a feared secret prison where they were interrogated and possibly tortured, menta...

This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America. Author of four books on the social history of Chinese family-run businesses, he has given dozens of lectures around the country. A Chinese American Odyssey provides a fascinating and insightful behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, pub...

When high school volunteers cleaning up plastics in the South Pacific Garbage Patch are swept away when a major tsunami hits their ship, they miraculously survive by landing on a landform that should not exist. The closest civilization is thousands of miles away. Last Tree Standing follows the journey of these survivors in their amazing attempts to attract rescuers thousands of miles away.

Black Rock is a coming-of-age story about a gang of children living in an urban neighborhood filled with immigrants, generational poverty, and families with marginal incomes where they experience violence, racism, and threats to life and limb but also the best times of their lives. The concept of living on the wrong side of the tracks was never a concept that these children felt growing up. (Warning: Strong language. Adult content)

A serial killer returns after being absent for several decades. This time he resurfaces in Boston. Is it the Zodiac Killer? The police think so. Unfortunately for those in the Boston Commons, the killer hit his targets. But several people he was pursuing escaped to other states. They are tracked relentlessly by the killer. But he may have met his match in a little town in Georgia. Who survives?

A young "come-far-away" from the Canadian mainland takes his first professional job in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the early 1970s. He experiences many unique moments and people on this exotic island off the northeastern coast of North America. He consequently attracts others from his alma mater to join him creating some unusual things to happen in Newfoundland.

Die Gewaltfrage ist eine der großen Fragen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Die Urszene der Gewalt ist die biblische Geschichte von Kain und Abel und dem Brudermord. Der »homo violens« steht im Zentrum der Beiträge dieses Bandes, der den Zusammenhang von Hochkultur und Gewalt behandelt und im Rahmen der Kooperation der Universität Bonn mit dem Collège de France (Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Gastprofessur) entstanden ist. Im ersten Teil widmen sich sieben Be...

Joseph Shepherd is a brilliant man whose travels with Luke Greene are chronicled in this adventure. Along the way, Greene and Shepherd encounter men of science, kings, and the most illustrious characters of the 17th century. Shepherd's influence on science, government and medicine run through the narrative. Follow this journey of adventure, intrigue, exploration, powerful personal stories, and the surprises at the end. You will be moved by She...

This book collects highlights from the fifty-year correspondence between C. G. Jung (1875- 1961) and his friend Adolf Keller (1872-1963), a celebrated Swiss theologian who was one of the founders of the modern ecumenical movement. Keller was one of the first religious leaders to become interested in Jungian psychoanalysis. He eventually became a pioneer of pastoral psychology and a major player in the World Council of Churches in the postwar e...

Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of Eastern spirituality Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to the psychology of alchemy. Here for the first time are Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of yoga and meditation, delivered ...

Joseph Shepherd is a brilliant man whose travels with Luke Greene are chronicled in this adventure. Along the way, Greene and Shepherd encounter men of science, kings, and the most illustrious characters of the 17th century. Shepherd's influence on science, government and medicine run through the narrative. Follow this journey of adventure, intrigue, exploration, powerful personal stories, and the surprises at the end. You will be moved by She...

Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of Eastern spiritualityBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to the psychology of alchemy. Here for the first time are Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of yoga and meditation, delivered b...

Jung's lectures on the history of psychology-in English for the first time Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to yoga and meditation. Here for the first time in English are Jung's lectures on the history of modern psychology from the Enlightenme...

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Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C. G. Jung's correspondence with Adolf Keller, a celebrated Protestant theologian who was one of the pioneers of the modern ecumenical movement and one of the first religious leaders to become interested in an

Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to yoga and meditation. Here for the first time in English are Jung's lectures on the history of modern psychology from the Enlightenment to his own time, delivered in the fall and winter of 1933-34. In these i...