Feinberg: 85 books
What Is Life Worth?
The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and Its Effort to Compensate the Victims of September 11th
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Soon to be a major motion picture: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to the enduring power of family, grief, love, fear, frustration, and courage.
Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the...
by John S. Feinberg,Paul D. Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
This updated and expanded second edition analyzes the current literature regarding various ethical issues. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book Brave New World foresees a world in which technological advances have obliterated morality and freedom. John Feinberg and Paul Feinberg, in the first edition of...
Altered Egos
How the Brain Creates the Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
It may be the deepest mystery of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience: how does the brain unite to create the self, the subjective "I"? In Altered Egos, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents a new theory of the self, based on his first-hand experience as both a psychiatrist and neurologist. Feinberg...
by Paul D. Feinberg, John S. Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book Brave New World foresees a world in which technological advances have obliterated morality and freedom. John Feinberg and Paul Feinberg, in the first edition of Ethics for a Brave New World, noted how Huxley landed frighteningly close to the truth. Their book responded...
The Young Leonardo
Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his career as an artist. While celebrating...
The Ancient Origins of Consciousness
How the Brain Created Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.
How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which...
Hungry for God
Hearing God's Voice in the Ordinary and the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
In your heart you feel the longing—an emptiness that can’t be satisfied by food, or friendships, or entertainment, or success, or anything this world can offer. Only God can fill the void. More than you know, you hunger for God. In Hungry for God, critically acclaimed author Margaret Feinberg...
Curtain of Lies
The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism...
by Samuel Totten, Stephen Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
(Originally Published in 2000 by Allyn & Bacon) Teaching and Studying the Holocaust is comprised of thirteen chapters by some of the most noted Holocaust educators in the United States. In addition to chapters on establishing clear rationales for teaching this history and Holocaust historiography,...
by Melissa Clark, Andrew Feinberg, Francine Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A Brooklyn favorite with a national following, Franny's is known for its simple, seasonal Southern Italian dishes and exceptional pizza. Alice Waters says it best in her foreword: "This book captures the beating heart of what makes Franny's so beautiful: its simplicity, its ability to make the...
Open for Business
Building the New Cuban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
An expert guide to Cuba’s economic opening to the outside world.
Ninety miles across the Straits of Florida, an exciting new revolution is afoot. This time, instead of guerillas marching down the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will upend Cuba. Now opening to the world, what...
Who Gets What
Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath—each required compensation for lives lost, bodies maimed, livelihoods wrecked,...
Time to Tell
An Activist's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This dramatically revealing memoir follows Barry Feinberg's 45 years of activism, travel, relationships, and creative expression. While the twin narratives of private life and political doings are equally absorbing on their own, it is the relationship between the two—and the story of this relationship's...
The Devil's Book of Culture
History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the 1950s, the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, has drawn a strange assortment of visitors and pilgrimsschoolteachers and government workers, North American and European spelunkers exploring the region's vast cave system, and counterculturalists from hippies (John Lennon and other celebrities...