The Golden Milestone 4Th Edition, Russell R. Esposito

The Italian Heritage of Innovation and Contribution to Civilization

This highly acclaimed and comprehensive book offers readers over 2, 500 years of Italian and Italian-American accomplishments. The book’s 22 chapters cover every subject: art, architecture, music, fashion, science, law, culinary arts, economics, medicine, automobiles, the entertainment industry, sports, and much more. The author’s ability to blend facts with some humor and personal anecdotes make this book a joy to read. The book covers the wonders of ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy, as well as modern contributions and Nobel Prize winners. The book is illustrated and contains an astonishing collection of inventions and accomplishments. For example, Italian invented the piano, violin, opera, ballet, battery, telescope, radio, and telephone in NYC years before Alexander Bell. Discover how Enrico Fermi Ushered in the atomic age, and how Italian sculptors carved the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C. Explore the chapter on Literature to uncover the origins of many famous fairy tales (Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, etc). In the chapter on American Government, the author quotes John F. Kennedy who wrote in his book, “A Nation of Immigrants” that the great American principle, all men are created equal, originated with an Italian physician, Philip Maezzi, who was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Also learn how physicist Federico Faggin of Italy developed the world’s first computer microprocessor while working for Intel. Discover the lives of many other distinguished personalities: NYC Mayors, the President of the European Union, and the Director of the European Space Agency. The Golden Milestone has thousands of notable entries and fascinating facts. Critics agree. It is a must for anyone library.

This book also includes a unique ‘Italy Travel Guide’ supplement that combines history and attractions for over twenty cities and locations in Italy. A great virtual tour!

Words That Matter, The Oprah Magazine

A Little Book of Lessons

Oprah says she’s lived her life by quotations and saying, so to celebrate O’s 10th anniversary, the editor compiled a collection of insightful quotes drawn from the magazine’s first decade. You’ll find encouragement and advice on everything from dreaming big to aging brilliantly.

Here are some few quotes extracted from the book:

Dreaming Big, Becoming Brave.

“Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer.” –Cecil Beaton, Photographer

“Living life is a form of not being sure, not knowing what’s next or how….We guest. We might be wrong but we take leap in the dark.” –Agnes de Mille, Dancer

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” –Arthur Ashe, Tennis Champion

Connecting: Love, Sex, Friendship and Family

“All intimacy is rare – that’s what makes it precious.” –Amy Bloom, Author

“Being a good husband is like being a good stand up comic – you need ten years before you can even cal yourself a beginner.” –Jerry Siemfeld, Comedian

Honoring Your Body, Trusting Your Gut.

“Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup; it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.” –Valerie Monroe, Writer

Games People Play By Dr. Eric Berne

Games People Play
The Psychology of Human Relationships

In this book Games People Play, Dr. Eric Berne has put into context the unthinkable issues underlining the psychology of human relationships. He started the book by over viewing the human brain function, the ego states of mind, and different components of each individual’s personality before proceeding to the main menu “Games” or Transactions.

The human brain is the organ or organizer of the psychic life, and its products are organized and stored on the form of Ego States.

Psychic Attitudes: in a given individual a certain set of behaviour patterns correspond to one state of mind, while another set is related to a different psychic attitude, often inconsistent with the first. These changes give rise to the idea of the Ego States.

There are three categories of Ego states: Parent, Adult and Child

-Ego States, which resemble those of parental figure.

-Ego States which are autonomously directed toward objective evaluation of the reality.

-And Ego States, which represent archaic relics, still-active ego states which were fixated in early childhood.

These observations give rise to certain diagnostic statements, according to Dr. Berne

The complete personality of any person includes his/her Parental, Adult and Child ego states. They are carefully separated from each other, because they are often very inconsistent with each other.

Once the above roots of human behaviour are understood, the game playing or the situational part is much easier and fun to absorb. It is an excellent book, never went out of print for 40 decades straight.

Hippocrates' Quotes...

Hippocrates' Great Quotes on Health

Hippocrates of Coss was an ancient Greek physician and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the Western father of medicine in recognition of his lasting contribution to the field as the founder of Hippocratic School of Medicine.

"Rest, as soon as there is pain, is a great restorative in all disturbances of the body."
-Hippocrates

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
-Hippocrates

"Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure the patient with food."
-Hippocrates

"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
-Hippocrates

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."
-Hippocrates

"Walking is [hu]man's best medicine."
-Hippocrates

"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm."
-Hippocrates

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-Hippocrates

"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
-Hippocrates

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
-Hippocrates

"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
-Hippocrates

"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
-Hippocrates

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
-Hippocrates

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
-Hippocrates

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
-Hippocrates

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
-Hippocrates

"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
-Hippocrates

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
-Hippocrates

The Human Brain Book By Rita Carter

“The Human Brain is the CEO of the Company called the Human Body”

The human brain is referred to as Executive System by psychologists and neuroscientists, because of its responsibility for planning, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, rule acquisition, initiating appropriate actions and inhibiting inappropriate actions, and selecting relevant sensory information. Undoubtedly, the brain is an amazing and precious organ; it does all the work needed in order for our body to function accordingly, hence the need to raise our curiosity about it.

The Human Brain Book is a must own family’s book because it is easily, concisely and clearly presented in a language everyone can understand. It is a colourful book with 3-D images all along. Every single aspect of the human brain is displayed from its history to the newest break through in Neuroscience, from simplicity to complexity (nerve impulse – the bionic arm/eye function). This book serves as a proof of how hard neuroscientists are working to uncover the mysteries of the human brain.

I have no words to describe how much knowledge an ordinary person can get out of this book, because it illustrates all the structures, functions and disorders of the human brain. It is truly a satiable book; it will satisfy your appetite for knowing how your brain works and breaks.

Rita Carter is a science and medical writer who contributes to many publications, including New Scientist and many newspapers. She has twice been awarded the medical Journalists’ Association prize for her outstanding contribution to medical journalism. She is the author of several books that have been published internationally, including Consciousness, Multiplicity: the new Science of Personality, and Mapping the Mind, which was shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize [now the Royal Society Prize for Science Books]. Rita also lectures about the brain at seminars, conferences, and workshops around the world.

Psychiatric Power/Knowledge By Michael Foucault

Lectures at the College de France
1973 – 1974

This astonishing book conveys collections of lectures delivered by Michael Foucault during the period of 1973-1974 at the College de France. Foucault was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the seventies and eighties, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

In the terminology of the College de France, the professors do not have students but only auditors.

Michael Foucault’s courses were held every Wednesday from January to march. The huge audiences made up of students, teachers, researchers, and the curious, including many who came from outside France, required two amphitheaters of College de France. These lectures are overwhelmingly informative and insightful.

This is absolutely a must own book, because of its richer content. It provides any reader with element of biographical, ideological, and political context about this extraordinary and controversial discipline (Psychiatry).

Psychiatric Power, the course delivered in 1973 and 1974, is edited by Jacques Lagrange

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain; they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our