Packed with original stories and visualisations, this is a must-buy resource for teachers, trainers and therapists who are looking for new approaches to group work, or are simply story-telling enthusiasts. " An essential part of our professional development library and widely consulted" Fiona Balloch, Principal, Oxford House College, London; This unique book combines the power of metaphor and the dynamics of story telling. Tracing techniques of story telling back to their original roots, i...

A collection of stories and ballads that comprise a corpus of shamanic storytelling and praxis, as told by Michael Berman, a leading expert on storytelling as a tool and as an artform.Michael Berman BA, MPhil, PhD, works as a teacher and a writer. Publications include A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom and The Power of Metaphor for Crown House, and TheNature of Shamanism and the Shamanic Story for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Shamanic Journeys through Daghe...

A poignant, funny, and, above all, honest look at obesity from the inside out. Is it the goal of life to be thin? Or to be happy? In this inspiring story, those two elusive goals become one, as a fat man learns acceptance, loses the guilt, and gains the wisdom to manage his weight.You can hardly pick up a magazine or turn on the TV today without encountering a torrent of talk on weight. But all too rarely do we hear from overweight people themselves—especially men—about how life fe...

The President’s teenaged son is threatened by a potentially fatal illness that is rooted in dark secrets from a long-buried past.President Geoffrey Hilliard and his family live in the ever-present glare of the political limelight, with relentless scrutiny of their daily lives. The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the President’s son Cam, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent ou...

This exciting volume offers an up-to-date tour of current trends in the neurobiology of memory while saluting Raymond Kesner's pioneering contributions to the field as a theorist and researcher, teacher and mentor. Starting with his signature chapter introducing the Attribute Model of Memory, the first half of the book focuses on the central role of the hippocampus in processing dimensions of space and time, and branches out to memory system interactions across brain structures. Later chap...

The ELT Grammar Book, 2nd Edition offers a refreshingly human approach to understanding and teaching English grammar. Written specifically for teachers, this book moves beyond dry rules and dense charts to explain how English grammar actually works—and why learners struggle with it. Author Richard Firsten combines clear, teacher-friendly explanations with humor, comics, historical insights, and a conversational narrative style that makes complex grammar topics approachable and memorable. E...

The Word Combination Card is a powerful visual tool that helps English learners write with greater fluency, precision, and academic control. Designed for intermediate to advanced students, this full-color reference card presents the key sentence patterns and grammatical structures used in academic and professional writing. Clear visual sections guide students through constructing cause-and-effect sentences, comparisons and contrasts, examples, reports, topic sentences, and thesis ...

Movie magic, family drama, and the man who helped shape Hollywood.From humble roots as the son of Jewish immigrants, Pandro S. Berman rose to become one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. Alongside boyhood friends Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick, Pandro helped transform early cinema into a cultural force, shaping not just the studio system, but the very essence of America's image at home and around the world. His films didn't just reflect the 20...

Collection of poems in cycles. The names of the cycles: "Love", "No what to do with that", "People", "I", "Moon, stars, night", "Rain", "Trees", "You know?". The poems in these cycles one way or another reflect the title/topic of the cycle.

Michael P. Berman’s Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the Hollow examines issues in the philosophy of religion through the phenomenological and existential writings of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961). Merleau-Ponty addressed issues like the nature of faith, the problem of evil, and the love and judgment of God. Throughout the book Berman explains and critically interrogates the religious perspectives articulated in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Merleau-Ponty cha...

Michael Berman has spent most of his sixty-plus years "living large." Though his weight has gone up and down dramatically a number of times, he estimates that he has gained and lost well over a thousand pounds. Yet even with a healthy and loving family and an accomplished career, Berman felt the humiliation and the sadness which often accompanies life for the overweight.

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