Larry J. Goldstein Boeken

Drag queen. Prostitute. Drug addict. American bodhisattva. These words describe the unlikely persona of Issan Dorsey, one of the most beloved teachers to emerge in American Zen. From his early days as a gorgeous female impersonator to the LSD experiences that set him on the spiritual path, Issan's life was never conventional. In 1989, after twenty years of Zen practice, he became the Founding Abbot of San Francisco's Hartford Street Zen Center, where he established Maitri Hospice for AIDS patients. Featuring Bernie Glassman's foreword to the second edition, as well as a new foreword by Koshin Paley Ellison, Street Zen paints a vivid portrait of a teacher whose creativity, honesty, joy, and compassion awakened new possibilities for American Buddhism.

The world is in the midst of a revolution in military affairs, caused by a shift from symmetric to asymmetric war the digitisation and globalisation of information, and the automation of war by robotics and cyber aggression. In this modern environment, a new weapon known as lawfare plays an essential role. Lawfare is the use, or more correctly the misuse, of law as a weapon of combat to embarrass Western countries, to constrain their armies, and in this way to achieve military objectives. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the world's leading conflict on this new battlefront. Drawing on the personal stories of soldiers in the Israeli and US armies, as well as the filings at the International Criminal Court, A Table Against Mine Enemies: defines lawfare and related terms through personal stories; explains the four fundamental laws of war on which lawfare attacks are based; details Israel-based examples of lawfare in the separation barrier, the disputed territories, and flotilla attempts to break the blockade against importation of weapons to Gaza; and presents scenarios for the future of war and of lawfare, based on advanced electronics, robotics, cyber attacks, and machine autonomy. Lawfare is in the news every week, and will continue to appear over the coming decades. This book provides the information essential to understanding this new and revolutionary weapon of war.

American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial roles. Schneider argues that the study of a highly differentiated society such as our own may be more revealing of the nature of kinship than the study of anthropologically more familiar, but less differentiated societies. He goes to the heart of the ideology of relations among relatives in America by locating the underlying features of the definition of kinship—nature vs. law, substance vs. code. One of the most significant features of American Kinship , then, is the explicit development of a theory of culture on which the analysis is based, a theory that has since proved valuable in the analysis of other cultures. For this Phoenix edition, Schneider has written a substantial new chapter, responding to his critics and recounting the charges in his thought since the book was first published in 1968.

A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by the discipline's most dynamic, pioneering doctors.

Linked, fictional, short stories, set in Zen centers and Tibetan vajrayana meditation communities. What happens when Westerners-young, earnest, often amorous women and men-set out on the Buddhist spiritual path? What happens when scores of them end up living together in the same building or neighborhood for meditation? In these uncensored tales of the practice world, such seekers often have to make it up as they go, integrating classical wisdom with modern reality. This includes their own playful or unruly energies. Guided by (mostly) Asian teachers, they do what they can to faithfully live the tradition, learn about themselves, and about one another. What results is comedy of manners.

Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience brings together the life's work of David Olds, pioneering psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, philosopher, and key figure in neuropsychoanalysis.

LEKTURA OBOWIĄZKOWA dla wszystkich, którzy chcą zrozumieć, CZYM BYŁA, JEST I MOŻE SIĘ STAĆ MEDYCYNA. Jakich niezwykłych odkryć dokonano w Wolsztynie pod Poznaniem? Kto był pierwowzorem głównego bohatera serialu The Knick? W jaki sposób medycyna ocaliła rozgrywki futbolu amerykańskiego? Jaka przyszłość czeka medycynę w dobie sztucznej inteligencji? Doktor David Schneider – jeden z najlepszych chirurgów barku i łokcia na świecie – odkrywa przed czytelnikami niezwykłą historię medycyny i jej związki z nauką, filozofią i polityką. W fascynujący sposób przedstawia kolejne punkty przełomowe: pierwsze badania anatomiczne, wynalezienie chirurgii, narodziny antyseptyki i anestezji, odkrycie antybiotyków czy skonstruowanie rozrusznika serca. Opowiada też fascynujące losy tych, którzy doprowadzili do tych przełomów – Johna Huntera, Josepha Listera, Roberta Kocha, Williama Halsteda czy Earla Bakkena. Schneider nie tylko ukazuje barwne życiorysy i niezwykłe odkrycia, ale też zadaje ważne pytania o przyszłość medycyny. Przez 295 pokoleń człowiek, który zachorował, musiał polegać przede wszystkim na sobie. Dopiero od pięciu pokoleń możemy liczyć na prawdziwą pomoc ze strony lekarzy. Ta książka opowiada historię ludzi, którzy stworzyli współczesną medycynę. „Zuchwała i zniewalająca, błyskotliwa i pełna informacji. Znakomita zawsze, a często pełna czarnego humoru”. „The Wall Street Journal”