Build High-Performing Teams for Extraordinary Business ResultsImagine a workplace where team members not only excel individually but thrive collectively—where collaboration is an expectation deeply ingrained in a culture that drives success. That’s the goal of transformational people leader and team-building expert Ed Cohen and his expert contributors—Rahul Andrews, Nandini Darsi, Emily King Grandinetta, Sheina Laws, Priscilla Nelson, and Anil Sant...

From the risks of having goddesses walk among us to surviving a fall from space with an improbable flying pig, Pen-Ultimate II brings you a new collection of tales from the imaginations of alumni from the Boston area Ultimate Science Fiction Writing Workshop.Journey with us as we explore inhuman dreams of love, perplexing alien lifeforms, time and matter manipulation, the divine and not-so-divine consequences of our choices and more in worlds like and unlike our own.This sp...

Fans of What My Bones Know will enjoy this story of triumph as one successful man finally breaks the silence and faces the demons of his past . . .For decades, Ed Cohen was one of those silent voices. He built a life that, from the outside, looked like success—leading organizations around the world, earning respect, and creating impact. No one saw the burden of his truth; no one knew the cost. For more than fifty years, Ed survived behind a mask shaped by ...

Most of us would agree that we want to live a successful life. But what constitutes a successful life? How do we measure a life well lived?Mining for Gold: Essays Exploring the Relevancy of Torah in the Modern World focuses on these questions of lifes values. Editor Rabbi Daniel Cohen has compiled essays from twenty leading rabbis in North America and Israel to reveal how the gold standard of living well can be reached in the modern world. Their conclusions find that ultim...

At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility. In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” deeply affects...

Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years “immunity,” a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. “Self-defense” also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War, when Thomas Hobbes defines it as the first...

As an emerging discipline, data science broadly means different things across different areas. Exploring the relationship of data science with statistics, a well-established and principled data-analytic discipline, this book provides insights about commonalities in approach, and differences in emphasis.Featuring chapters from established authors in both disciplines, the book also presents a number of applications and accompanying papers.

Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century.

Build High-Performing Teams for Extraordinary Business ResultsImagine a workplace where team members not only excel individually but thrive collectively—where collaboration is an expectation deeply ingrained in a culture that drives success. That’s the goal of transformational people leader and team-building expert Ed Cohen and his expert contributors—Rahul Andrews, Nandini Darsi, Emily King Grandinetta, Sheina Laws, Priscilla Nelson, and Anil Sant...

Fans of What My Bones Know will enjoy this story of triumph as one successful man finally breaks the silence and faces the demons of his past.The truth about male abuse remains hidden. Not because it is rare, but because it is rarely spoken**.**For decades, Ed Cohen was one of those silent voices. He built a life that, from the outside, looked like success—leading organiza...

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.But there are more stories loved by the Hugo v...

Practical Keys to Transforming the World around YouIn a world where evil dominates the headlines, we are often left wondering, Will good really triumph over evil? Or are we hurtling toward oblivion?It's here, during this very hour--when political chaos seems to reign and the media persecutes anyone who disagrees with them--that God is searching for men and women who long for an infusion of boldness that possesses their souls, who will take a stand ...