**Now an acclaimed documentary from Screen Media, the New York Times bestselling account of the story behind one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of television: Sesame Street.“Davis tracks down every Sesame anecdote and every Sesame personality in his book . . . Finally, we get to touch Big Bird's feathers.” —The New York Times Book Review**Sesame Street is the longest-running-and arguab...

In recent years, the field of cognitive psychology has begun to explore the rootedness of rational thinking in subrational inspiration, insight, or instinct—a kind of prediscursive hunch that leaps ahead and guides rational thought before the reasoning human being is even aware of it. In The Music of Reason, Michael Davis shows that this "musical" quality of thinking is something that leading philosophers have long been aware of and explored with great depth and subtlety. Focusing...

When presentation pressure rises, your success doesn't depend on polish or slides. It needs three stories. In this book, you'll discover The Story Power Trio, the narratives that shape every high-stakes communication:• Identity Story. The belief you hold about yourself.• Perspective Story. The story your audience is already telling themselves.• Message Story. The story you share that builds trust and action.When these stories align...

The official companion book to the feature-length documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, featuring previously unpublished photographs from the earliest seasons of Sesame Street and interviews with cast and crewThis official tie-in book to the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street supplements the film’s exploration of the origins and legacy of Sesame Street with exclusive interviews and unseen photogr...

In the most original interpretation of Aristotle's Politics in years, Michael Davis delivers many memorable and provocative formulations of Aristotle's messages concerning the constitutive tensions of political life. He traces the uncanny parallel between politics and philosophy in Aristotle, arguing that their connection is much deeper than it is ordinarily understood to be and that, for Aristotle, understanding either requires understanding the other. Davis presents his interpre...

The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of figures who appear in the dialogues as distinct “others” against whom Socrates is contrasted—most obviously, the figure of the sophist, but also the tragic hero, the rhetorician, the tyrant, and the poet. Each of the individual essays shows, in a different way, that the harder one tries to disentangl...

Nineteen-year-old John is a nobody. He's a punk-rock, anarchist orphan living in a condemned Chicago apartment building. He has no idea why he can generate heat with his hands or feel other people's heartbeats. Now a terrifying vigilante known as the Chameleon has locked him in a dark basement. To The Chameleon, John isn't just a punk; he is a weapon against a shadowy organization intent on using disasters to seize global control.Meanwhile, former secret agents Phineas, Charlie and...

While this book begins with the analysis of engineering as a profession, it concentrates on a question that the last two decades seem to have made critical: Is engineering one global profession (like medicine) or many national or regional professions (like law)? While science and technology studies (STS) have increasingly taken an “empirical turn”, much of STS research is unclear enough about the professional responsibility of engineers that STS still tends to avoid the subject, leaving en...

Are you suffering from PTSD, depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues? Maybe you are suffering from alcoholism or addiction. Perhaps you merely want to grow spiritually.Inside The Cure, you will learn the quick and easy steps to break the cycles of depression and addiction. Plus, you get to feel great and have fun while healing. Interested? The Cure can help our sick nation. It even contains a reasonable approach to addressing our national epidemic of mass shootings, with...

Life isn't easy, especially for young men growing up without a role model that offers encouragement and direction. Most of these young men never find a safe place to go for straight answers that will help them find the direction and courage to be the man they want to become.Straight Up! is filled with sound fatherly advice for a fatherless generation. It's the kind of candid, sometimes in-your-face, straight talk that will help readers not just to get by in life but get ahead!...

Kingston is anything but a normal seal. He lives with his best friend, Jake, and gets to go on all kinds of crazy adventures. This time, he gets to meet a group he has heard so much about from Jake! Who is he about to meet? Come along and follow Kingston as he makes new friends on a new adventure.

The original Struts project revolutionized Java web development and its rapid adoption resulted in the thousands of Struts-based applications deployed worldwide. Keeping pace with new ideas and trends, Apache Struts 2 has emerged as the product of a merger between the Apache Struts and OpenSymphony WebWork projects, united in their goal to develop an easy-to-use yet feature-rich framework. Struts 2 represents a revolution in design and ease of use when compared to classic Struts. It adds e...