Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future― he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking. Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments, the literary equivalent of optical illusions, tricks of perspective.

The Best of Philip K. Dick

Literature & Fiction

Dick,Philip K

Short Stories & Anthologies

Echo Point Books & Media

With more than 55 years of experience between them, master couple’s therapists David Olsen and Douglas Stephens know where most relationships go awry. Based on their knowledge of those danger zones, they have created targeted, practical exercises that help you successfully navigate those areas. The goal is to turn problems or potential problems into opportunities for greater communication and intimacy.
Olsen and Stephens also know that often only one half of a couple is ready to make real changes. The Couple’s Survival Workbook is designed to work even if your partner isn’t committed to the process. By skillfully changing yourself, you’re likely to find your whole relationship improving.
Whether you’re a therapist seeking practical, effective exercises for the couples you work with clients or you are part of a struggling couple looking to make your relationship work, The Couple’s Survival Workbook can help.

The Couple's Survival Workbook: What You Can Do To Reconnect With Your Partner and Make Your Marriage Work

Self-Help

OLSEN, David

Stephens Ed.D., Douglas

Relationships

If you are one of the millions of people with adult attention deficit disorder, you've probably noticed its adverse effects on your romantic relationships. For example, your spontaneity, which was so attractive at the start of your relationship, may later seem like a lack of dependability, straining the patience of your partner. Or maybe your partner is frustrated by your inability to communicate clearly. Or perhaps you suspect that your irritability and lack of interest in your partner's needs are the result of the difficulty you have staying focused. Psychotherapist Michael Bell understands. A professional counselor specializing in adult ADD, Bell has the disorder himself and has designed the skills-building steps in The ADHD Marriage Workbook especially for short attention spans. This concise and engaging workbook contains an array of solution-focused techniques that will help you stop avoiding the problems that sabotage your relationships, face the intimacy issues that frustrate your partner, and begin to do the work you need to do to build a happy, lasting love.

You, Your Relationship & Your ADD: A Workbook

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bell Ed.S., Michael T

Mental Health

As featured on the TODAY Show. Here’s the fitness solution you’ve been waiting for: a workout designed to build strength, endurance and flexibility in a gentle way – right from your own bed. The series of forty-two exercises draw upon yoga, Pilates, karate, and stretching. The routines are easy to follow and grouped into three sections: exercises to be done lying on your back, sides, and stomach. Regular practice will tone muscles, increase strength and endurance, calm the mind, and, yes, even improve sleep. Each exercise is described in detail, fully-illustrated with step-by-step photographs, and accompanied by modifications for special conditions and limitations.

Get Fit in Bed: Tone Your Body & Calm Your Mind from the Comfort of Your Bed

Tartell, Genie

Kavanau, Ted

Exercise & Fitness

The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture

The Awakening of the West is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western culture. As anyone familiar with the work of Stephen Batchelor (best-selling author of Buddhism Without Beliefs) would expect, The Awakening of the West is presented in a fresh and lively way and backed by thorough research. Using the innovative approach of starting with the present and working back in time, Batchelor makes it easy to connect familiar contemporary Buddhist teachers to their historical roots. He breathes life into history by capturing the personalities and times of famous and lesser-known but important Buddhist figures. After absorbing these stories and their context, readers will not only have a greater appreciation of Buddhism as a religion but can gain insights that can help them develop their own discerning wisdom. The Awakening of the West is a unique, engaging and important book for anyone seeking a greater understanding of Buddhism.

Religion & Spirituality

BATCHELOR, STEPHEN

Buddhism

After hitting bottom during his rough-and-tumble life, former brawler Ed Carlson decided to take his life in a totally new direction. He found his mission walking along America's roadways, traveling penniless and without an agenda-except to spread peace, goodwill, and love. Walking over 250,000 miles, Ed had many meaningful encounters; some were dramatic, others simple, but nearly all moving in the way only kindness shared between strangers can be. For days after finishing I Walked to the Moon and Nearly Everyone Waved, I felt transformed. What was curious about the effect is that it wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't tell myself, "You should be more like Ed." I simply felt a spontaneous deep trust and calm, a letting go of worries. Ed lives and acts from such a kind, generous, and trusting place, he has that effect on everyone he meets, even readers. I invite you to enjoy some surprisingly inspiring time in Ed's presence. --Marshall Glickman, author of Beyond the Breath (Tuttle Publishing) and The Mindful Money Guide (Random House/Ballantine).

I Walked to the Moon and Almost Everybody Waved: The Curiously Inspiring Adventures of a Free Spirit Who Changed Lives

Gerus, Claire

Ed Carlson

New Age & Spirituality

Michael T. Bell, Ph.D has been working with couples affected by ADHD since 1999. He also has ADHD himself. In The ADHD Marriage Workbook, he draws from his own successful problem-solving as an ADHD adult and husband. "A very useful book for professionals and consumers! The many exercises that are included in this book permits couples to tackle their joint concerns in a planful, systematic manner . . . I highly recommend this book to couples who are willing to take a serious look at their behavioral patterns and to develop a plan of corrective action!" Mickey DeCarr, LPC (Staunton, VA) "An excellent resource for couples. This workbook is full of helpful strategies that will enable intimate partners understand and negotiate the confusion . . . highly recommended!" William F. Wilson, Licensed Professional Counselor/Psychotherapist (Ashburn, VA) "The author has ADD himself and offers very helpful and sound advice in an ADD-friendly format . . . This workbook has been indispensable in helping repair my relationship." Randy A. Bruns (Mukwonago, WI) Stop the frustrations... get organized... and get the love back! Reawaken new love, appreciation, and respect with The ADHD Marriage Workbook. Your relationship will benefit dramatically when the ADHD spouse redirects the energy and spontaneity back into your marriage... and the non-ADHD spouse receives the love, consideration, and understanding that's been missing. Broken up into short, practical exercises (appropriate for any attention span), this is immediate help and healing that will transform your relationship forever. "Full of great tools and exercises to help both the ADD and non-ADD partners in their relationship . . . very 'ADD Friendly.'" Tara McGillicuddy (South Shore, MA) Get the advice that will bring healing to your marriage, from an expert who made the changes in his own life. The ADHD Marriage Workbook is your practical and compassionate guide to new sanity and happiness in marriage. Buy it now! This book was formerly published as You, Your Relationship, and Your ADD.

The ADHD Marriage Workbook: A User-Friendly Guide to Improving Your Relationship

If you were to imagine your ideal guide to a book of word games, who would you picture? Does an urbane, witty writer come to mind? How about a widely recognized authority and historian of games? Perhaps you'd want someone who successfully creates games himself and has written extensively on a wide variety of games? And—oh what the heck—let's make him British to add a bit of extra charm. Well, if that sounds like the ideal game guide, look no further. David Parlett is an internationally recognized master of games. The author of many books, including the Oxford History of Board Games and The Penguin Book of Card Games, he has also created many games including Hare &amp; Tortoise, which has sold over 3 million copies. In The Book of Word Games Parlett presents a practical and entertaining guide to word games and how to play them. He offers clear and witty introductions to over 150 word games, indicating degree of difficulty, appropriate number of players, and age range (many of the games are great for the classroom or to give your kids some fun while improving their language skills). Parlett also gives a wealth of interesting etymological knowledge, including word origins, phonetic facts and interesting tidbits like the longest word in the English language. There is something for everyone, from new readers to sophisticated word connoisseurs. From well-known favorites such as Boggle and Consequences to lesser-known but equally enjoyable games such as Bacronyms and Aesop's Mission, The Book of Word Games presents a wide-ranging collection of word games for verbivores of all ages.

The Book of Word Games: Parlett's Guide to 150 Great and Quick-To-Learn Word Games

Humor & Entertainment

Parlett, David

Puzzles & Games

Every meeting leader has faced groups that stagnate creatively, or worse turn acrimonious-a dullness or negativity stemming from the group's inability to pursue ideas productively and beyond their obvious limits. The Practice of Creativity offers a bold and time-tested approach to this problem, an approach both dependable and dynamic; one that uses a unique method of metaphorical thinking to stimulate creative response. Written by the former president of Synectics, Inc., this book provides detailed instructions on how to use a method already proven successful in many organizations, including some of the largest and most successful in the world. It explores the process of facing and understanding problems, eliminating inadequate ideas, and unifying the entire group to concentrate its collective intelligence and imagination on fresh solutions. The leader's role is also discussed. Showing leaders not only how to enhance and encourage imagination and flexibility, but to insure that the personal interactions remain open and constructive, that the discussion retains healthy momentum, and that the fear of being "wrong" will not inhibit open, creative expression. An invaluable book for business, government and other organizations, The Practice of Creativity is unique in the field of meaningful communications. George Prince was the co-founder and president of Synectics, Inc. Educated at Exeter and at Williams College, he lived in Winchester, Massachusetts until his death in 2009 at age 91. His work has appeared in many prominent publications, including the Harvard Business Review, which lists his article on running meetings as one of its all-time most requested reprints.

The Practice of Creativity: A Manual for Dynamic Group Problem-Solving

Business & Money

Prince, George M.

Management & Leadership

Clinical versus Statistical Prediction is Paul Meehl's famous examination of benefits and disutilities related to the different ways of combining information to make predictions. It is a clarifying analysis as relevant today as when it first appeared. A major methodological problem for clinical psychology concerns the relation between clinical and actuarial methods of arriving at diagnoses and predicting behavior. Without prejudging the question as to whether these methods are fundamentally different, we can at least set forth the obvious distinctions between them in practical applications. The problem is to predict how a person is going to behave: What is the most accurate way to go about this task? Clinical versus Statistical Prediction offers a penetrating and thorough look at the pros and cons of human judgment versus actuarial integration of information as applied to the prediction problem. Widely considered the leading text on the subject, Paul Meehl's landmark analysis is reprinted here in its entirety, including his updated preface written forty-two years after the first publication of the book. This classic work is a must-have for students and practitioners interested in better understanding human behavior, for anyone wanting to make the most accurate decisions from all sorts of data, and for those interested in the ethics and intricacies of prediction. As Meehl puts it, "When one is dealing with human lives and life opportunities, it is immoral to adopt a mode of decision-making which has been demonstrated repeatedly to be either inferior in success rate or, when equal, costlier to the client or the taxpayer."

Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence

Science & Math

Meehl, Dr Paul E

Mathematics

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