Robert Shapiro brings us wisdom and guidance from our fellow creatures across the globe in this compendium of unexpected insights and perspectives. Each animal brings a wondrous gift to share with humanity enjoy it Various chapters include: eel, tortoise, frog, skunk, snail, deer, elephant, rabbit[...]

Whether you're asking for a raise, selling but holding your price, ending a relationship, or talking to children about divorce, success is predicated on planned, effective communication. Yet, most people fail to properly prepare their message. A veteran corporate attorney, sports agent, and expert c[...]

We live in a world of accelerating change marked by the decline of traditional forms of family, community, and professional life. Both within families and in workplaces individuals feel increasingly lost, unsure of the roles required of them. In this book a psychoanalyst and an Anglican priest, usin[...]

With so many trauma treatments to choose from, it is difficult for a therapist to know which is best for his or her client. In this single, accessible volume, Robin Shapiro explains them all, making sense of the treatment options available, their advantages and disadvantages and how to determine whi[...]

South Africa approaches 20 years of democracy and what better way to look back at the country's wild ride than through the lens of Zapiro. Look back to see how far the country has come but also how much further we still need to go to fulfil the promise of those early years of democracy. South Africa[...]

"The history of Shakespeare in America," writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, "is also the history of America itself." Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America's literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues--revolution, s[...]

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the[...]

When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success. After all, it was Jack Bruce who had the looks, and who co-wrote and sang all the band's major hits, including "Sunshine of Your Love", "I Feel Free" and "[...]

Sann lycka kan bara uppnås om vi får kontakt med vårt andliga hjärta. Gränslös kärlek ber oss att se in i oss själva, att gå bortom egot och finna djupare nivåer av kärleksfullhet, vänlighet, förlåtelse och tolerans. På ett upplyftande och inspirerande sätt uppmanas läsaren att leva[...]

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and EnglandShakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling [...]

At twenty-three, Dani Shapiro was in the midst of a major rebellion against her religious upbringing. She had dropped out of college, was halfheartedly acting in television commercials, and was carrying on with an older married man when her life was changed, in an instant, by a phone call. Her paren[...]

The ninja are legendary for their strength, survival, cunning, intensity, and adaptability. When a ninja undertakes a dangerous assignment, he must have a strategy that will guide him through to completion. He must have firm goals, but he must also consider all possible obstacles, and be open to unf[...]