David Margolis: 10 books

Can you become more creative? British author David Margolis answers emphatically, “Yes! I can’t promise that you will—but I assure you that you can.” In The Billion-Dollar Creative, Margolis shows you how to build the best environment and conditions to nurture creativity, reduce unproductive...

A collection of stories and poems based on the life of gastroenterologist and award-winning humorist David Margolis MD, Looking Behind include vignettes from his early years growing up in Canada, his experiences in training, and his years as a practicing gastroenterologist both at home and at the office....

Howard Studt is a beefy, awkward kid: not handsome, not brilliant, not popular, but a good-natured boy. He believes that there is a benevolent Almighty watching over him who will guarantee his happiness. Unfortunately his path to manhood is strewn with one calamity after another. His father deserts...

The Greek god Zeus is depressed for no one has worshiped him for almost two thousand years. At the same time, he suffers from gastrointestinal maladies which have not been remedied by the mythological methods of the physician-god Asclepius and his four physician daughters. He subsequently sends Hercules...

Sexy, funny, painful, and wise—The Stepman probes a broken family and a modern marriage. At its unusual and disturbing conclusion, it pins an ordinary man in the trap of his own personality.

Buddy Jones is a redneck baby boomer, from Middleberg MO, a fictitious hamlet south of St Louis. He’s an alcoholic, a liar, a misogynist and a bigot; and yes, he’s a Donald Trump supporter. Buddy sets out for Atlanta to visit his estranged daughter, April, whom he has not seen for twenty-five...

Bawdy and wild, Change of Partners is a moving love story and an affectionate portrait of 1960s communal living.

The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health. "For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...

Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust,...

Inspiring portraits of gay men and their families from all across America. An evolution has quietly been occurring in the world of parenting. Recent surveys reveal that millions of children have found loving homes either by being born to, or adopted by, gay men. This book is a celebration of...