‘The Theater of War’: Applying Greek Tragedies to Our Own and Myths of Mighty Women

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Click Here to Read: Review: ‘The Theater of War’: Applying Greek Tragedies to Our Own by Abigail Zuger in The New York Times on September 28, 2015.

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specifically myths about women from around the globe:

Click Here to Purchase:  Myths of the Mighty Women from IPBooks.net

Myths of Mighty Women: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy  Edited by:  Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira (Karnac, 2015) highlights the importance of ancient western and eastern myths to today’s women. Continue reading ‘The Theater of War’: Applying Greek Tragedies to Our Own and Myths of Mighty Women

The bridge between art and science

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Click Here to Read: The bridge between art and science by Juliana Kenny on the Bouin News website on October 1, 2015.

Christopher Moore, owner of Troubetzkoy Paintings, looks at a replica of Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’. Stephen Dunn/Hartford Courant/MCT via Getty Images

Click Here to Read:  The New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel in The New York Times on September 6, 2013. Continue reading The bridge between art and science

Books of Jewish Beauty

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Click Here to Read: Books of Jewish Beauty by Sara Lipton in The New York Review of Books on August 28, 2015.

The British Library: An image from volume 2 of The Tripartite Mahzor showing the revelation at Sinai; male protagonists have human heads, but women are given the heads of various animals, Germany, Lake Constance region, circa 1320

The Trotsky Paradox

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Click Here to Read:  The Trotsky Paradox by William T. Vollmann on The New York Review of Books on September 28, 2015.

Click Here to Read:  Trotsky’s murder remembered by grandson, 72 years on: Esteban Volkov recalls returning from school to find Stalin’s assassins had struck in the family’s Mexico City home by Jo Tuckman on the Guardian Website on August 19, 2012,

 

Click here to read “Jews, the Left and the Rest” by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012. Continue reading The Trotsky Paradox

On Sale Now at IPBooks: Jellyfish Have Eyes by Joram Piatigorsky

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Click Here to Read: Joram Piatigorsky’s Blog.

Joram Piatigorsky, an award-winning scientific researcher, established the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology in the National Eye Institute in 1981 and was its Chief until 2009, when he became an Emeritus Scientist. He has published extensively on eye research, gene expression and evolution, lectured worldwide, participated in national and international advisory and research funding panels, and trained a generation of scientists in eye research. He is presently on the Board of Directors of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland and focusing on writing.

Jellyfish Have Eyes, a novel, combines Piatigorsky’s scientific knowledge and story-telling imagination to delve into the conflicts and ensuing difficulties of a creative basic scientist in a society insisting on goal-oriented medical research. This character-driven novel has unexpected twists revealing the importance of chance and societal pressures in shaping destiny. Jellyfish Have Eyes is written for a diverse audience concerned with creativity, moral responsibility, and those simply wanting a good and thoughtful read. Continue reading On Sale Now at IPBooks: Jellyfish Have Eyes by Joram Piatigorsky