David Barlow: 31 books

For centuries scientists have used math to predict what they will observe next. Their accuracy is remarkable. Verse serves us similarly. Brought to the edge of ourself the view often defies description. Keep at it and these efforts to speak back an understanding can predict who we become. This collection...

These stories offer myriad view of ourselves. Men, women, children, teens, adults, oldsters, each with a certain self to face down. From a neo-noir gumshoe to the vast empties of a lost child, a dropped wallet to the end of our universe, Wilderness of Mirrors seeks to mix it up. Of course nobody ever...

You’re a hardworking family man in a tight spot. Your side-business is failing, as is your marriage, daughter Nora needs surgery, son Graham has college dreams you can’t afford. It chafes because you were raised to be a winner and never shook that expectation. The lengths a father goes to hold...

It’s not so far off as you suppose. In our looming future, marketing has finally turned the tables. Once upon a time their appeals were shaped to a target audience. In 2084 Americans strive for the mentality that ads hand down. Commercials are the favored part of any show, fieldtrips to the...

Cutbacks in federal funding force a dingy urban mental institution to shutter its doors. Bewildered patients are given a bag lunch and shown the door. A nameless man wanders the streets of this strange new world homeless and scared. For the first time in twenty years his meds are wearing off. This...

In 1970 when the Beatles broke up, a humble Brit named Harold Glaub begins to experience remarkable dreams. They will continue for ten years though he never recalls a one. A real bummer for each night our man becomes the fifth Beatle. John Lennon’s oldest mate, puckish bridge-builder Harry helps...

Shooting a period piece a film crew arrives at The Hornburg, a reclusive alpine German estate. Art-house movie hero Morgan Essex isn’t sure why the stately location troubles him. Maybe his reunion with bankable star Julie Beth Pohlter whose career has eclipsed his own. Maybe the vague familiarity...

With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewhat neglected, and even overlooked in sexual education. However, incidences of STIs such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea have been dramatically and silently...

This landmark work is indispensable for anyone studying anxiety or seeking to deliver effective psychological and pharmacological treatments. David H. Barlow comprehensively examines the phenomena of anxiety and panic, their origins, and the roles that each plays in normal and pathological functioning....

Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas. Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder occurs in approximately 4% of the population and is characterized by excessive uncontrollable worry about everyday things. The constant worry can be extremely impairing if left untreated, even to the point of causing physical symptoms. Written by the developers of an empirically...

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...