David Shapiro: 36 books
A Psychodynamic View of Action and Responsibility
Clinical Studies in Subjective Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This new book by David Shapiro, author of the classic Neurotic Styles, throws light, from a clinical standpoint, on a subject of importance, both theoretically and for therapeutic practice, for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as for those with general interests in philosophy or psychology....
Something to Live For
Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom, as well as modern research, Richard Leider and David Shapiro provide insightful ways of thinking and being that help us find meaning and purpose in the second half of life. This deeply reflective book uses a safari, (referencing a trip the authors took to...
Work Reimagined
Uncover Your Calling
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
**DISCOVER WHAT YOU'RE HERE TO DO
It's the end of work as we know it. Career paths look nothing like they did in the days before phones got smart. We work more hours at more jobs for more years than ever before. So it's vital that we know how to find work that allows us to remain true to who...
by David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"One of the finest compact books on sumo today."-Sumo World
Completely updated by the well known sumo authority David Shapiro, Sumo: A Pocket Guide describes the history, rules, rituals and techniques of sumo, the wrestlers' training and even their diets. Covering such topics as "life...
Claiming Your Place at the Fire
Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2004
Richard Leider and David Shapiro helped hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people discover the true purpose of their lives with their classic bestseller Repacking Your Bags. Now they focus their attention on the second half of life, showing readers how to claim their rightful place as new elders,...
Whistle While You Work
Heeding Your Life's Calling
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Calling is natural. We all possess it. It needs only to uncovered, not
discovered. *Whistle While You Work makes the uncovering process inspiring and fun. Featuring a unique “Calling Card” exercise—a powerful way to put the whistle in your work—it is a liberating and practical guide that will...
by Peter David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
BOSTON 1896. Renowned psychic Ignatius Jones commissions his portrait to be painted by one of the leading artists of his time. He promises his followers that he will communicate with them through his portrait after he passes to spirit.
On the day that he is murdered in 1903, his portrait is...
by Peter David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Fearful of wide scale disaster after a dangerous buffoon takes over the White House, Jacob Morais stocks his basement with emergency supplies and buys a gun. When the dangers he faces turn out to be directed at him specifically rather than the collapse of public order that he expected, Jacob realizes...
by Richard J. Leider, David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
People everywhere feel overwhelmed today-weighed down by countless responsibilities and buffeted by never-ending changes in their personal and professional lives. Repacking Your Bags shows readers how to climb out from under these burdens and find the fulfillment that is missing in their lives. With...
Plato Was Wrong!
Footnotes on Doing Philosophy with Young People
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This book is a compendium of lesson plans for classroom exercises designed to foster philosophical inquiry with young people. It introduces the reader to a wide range of activities for exploring philosophical questions and problems with children from pre-school age through high-school. There are lessons...
Uncontrollable Beauty
Toward a New Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.
Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection...
Blunderbuss Wanderlust
Being an Account of the Temporal Travels of Colonel Victor Von Vector and the Eras of His Ways
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Readers are taken on a journey through 600 million years of evolution and Earth history. With his time-travel inducing Blunderbuss gun, the Colonel ventures through geologic time. He visits the Trilobite-filled seas of the Cambrian period, the steamy jungle of the Carboniferous, and the first flower-laden...
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Clinical and Social Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This text provides a complete overview of the applications of psychology to the law. Incorporating the contributions of social and clinical psychology, this new text presents the material with an objective view towards the complete scope of the subject matter. In its clear coverage of the fundamentals...
by Peter David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Consultant Harry West is hired by the government in Hong Kong to evaluate a business deal promoted by the son of one of the richest men in Asia. But after Harry arrives in Hong Kong, he discovers the assignment is not what he expects. His client wants him to find evidence of money laundering and corruption,...