In the first of six books for his Moral Evolution Cycle, evolutionary systems scientist Loye vividly recaptures the lives, works, and times of great explorers of the better world including Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Jessie Bernard, Jean Baker Miller, and Riane Eisler.
Second in a series of six new books for a Darwin Anniversary Book Cycle, Measuring Evolution: A User's Guide to the Health and Wealth of Nations tells the inspiring story of the development, and provides a guide to the use, of the Global Sounding. This is a new instrument for measuring our local, national, and planetary health and well-being on 15 basic indicators of evolution. Of widespread prospective interest is the fact that, for the first time, this new measure bridges what both progressive scientists and progressive religious leaders increasingly view as a socially, economically, politically, and morally disastrous gap between science and spirituality. With hundreds of studies of evolution by natural, social and systems scientists behind it, the Global Sounding has been designed to provide a relatively simple new way of measuring the impact of our human actions, or inactions, on the range from cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution, through the evolution of the brain, into the spread of cultural evolution through personal, social, economic, political, educational, and technological into moral and spiritual evolution, capped by the evolution of consciousness and personal and social action to change our world for the better. The name for the new measure comes from Darwin's famous voyage of the Beagle-the ship originally commissioned to circle the world to obtain soundings indicating peaceful harbors and safe channels for navigation. The book is animated by colorful, engaging, and often humorous stories to illustrate how the new measure can be put to use by progressives during the customary behind-scenes battles with advocates for the status quo or regressives in key decision-making situations that determine whether we move ahead, are checked in place, or shoved backward in evolution. Along with illustrative test matrixes for each of the following situations, the Global Sounding has been designed to advance the successful advocation of and motivation for globally-responsible programs, practices, and policies by decision-makers in business, government, politics, science, education, foundations, religions, and the media. The author, David Loye, is an internationally known evolutionary systems scientist and author of the award-winning The Healing of a Nation. Titles for further books in the new series are Darwin's Lost Theory, Darwin on Love, The Derailing of Evolution, and Telling the New Story, first for a series of books by leading world educators on how to globally shift from the old to the new Darwinian model in schools and the media. In addition to more information on the Darwin Anniversary Book Cycle, the website for the publisher, www.benjaminfranklinpress.com, provides a marketing analysis of prospective appeal to readers in editions for other languages in Europe, Asia, and South as well as North America. The publisher has also launched an online Darwin Anniversary Report (www.darwinanniversary.com) to provide a central news source for scores of events now underway around the world during the current global buildup for the 200th Anniversary of Darwin's birth.
Charles Darwin was one of the great collectors and writers of both highly entertaining and scientifically meaningful animal stories. Loye uncovers a long-ignored treasure of delightful and often very funny tales of the love, sex, and family life of birds, apes, elephants, deer, earwigs, barnacles, grasshoppers, dogs, and cats--and humans--in Darwins works.
Grounded in the new field of evolutionary action science, Bankrolling Evolution outlines specific steps for a new Rhealing of the nationsS through progressive political action, money, science and education, and progressive morality and spirituality.
Biography/History/American Humor.The first of six books for an Entertainment and Humor Cycle by the award-winning author David Loye, Brave Laughter is the rousing, witty, and inspiring story of nine generations of an unusual American family. From wildly speculative roots among old European nobility to the booming electronic realities of the early 21st century, through the family stories they passed on from generation to generation unfolds the age-old alternation of comedy and tragedy in the lives of a family distinguished by a fierce independence of mind and a rare gift for story telling.The Early Years covers the stories of the family from a speculative beginning as far back as the Vikings, through colonial times in the New World, the founding and pioneering years for America, to the Civil War. The Lake Settlers focuses on the book's archetypal characters'the widowed wife and five children of the ?the bravest revenue officer? and legendary funny story teller, Moses Tully Sanders, as they move north out of Tennessee and Iowa to settle on a small lake in Minnesota. Though different, at the same time the setting, stories, and adventures of The Lake Settlers are sometimes uncanny real life analogues of Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone tales. A third section, The Children of the Lake, tells of the Jazz Age, Depression, World War II, and late 20th century years of the seven radically different children of Moses? son Clarence, the fiercely independent patriarch of his generation. Brave Laughter evokes a haunting sense of the America that once was, but also'through its powerful portrayal and analysis of the nature of humor'a statement of faith in the future. Through the evolution of American humor as a blend of the frontier perspective characterized by Mark Twain and the ancient tradition of Jewish humor that in the 20th century flowered again in America, Brave Laughter not only provides a pioneering tracking of the evolution of American humor but also a new theory for the powerful impact of humor on human evolution.Brave Laughter evokes a haunting sense of the America that once was. But also'through its portrayal and analysis of the nature of humor, pioneering tracking of the evolution of American humor, and a new theory for the impact of humor on human evolution'this book provides a powerful statement of faith in the future.
Updating the vivid moral and narrative power of classics like "Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, 1984, " and "Brave New World" for the 21st century, award-winning scientist and author Loye goes to the heart of the American and world problematique with a spellbinding mix of humor and sober scientific and spiritual fact.
Biography/ adventure/ social action?In this book I have brought together a private and a public story within the larger story of the lives of all of us. Some may say that, as convention dictates, I should have kept the three stories properly apart. I can only answer that love in its actuality, rather than the pale mirroring usually allowed us, knows no such boundaries. And surely, if ever stories of love across the boundaries that shut us off from one another are needed, it is in our world today.'So begins this remarkable story of the romance, return to Minoan Crete, and adventures in Greece, Italy, Germany, Africa, pioneering involvement in 20th and 21st century science and social action, and award-winning books of Riane Eisler and David Loye.We go behind the international best-seller The Chalice and the Blade, The Power of Partnership, and The Real Wealth of Nations into the drama of the holocaust survivor and thinker who has been called ?The New Renaissance Woman? and ?One of the most important visionaries of our time.'We go behind the award-winning The Healing of a Nation, recovery of ?the rest and best? of Darwin's theory of evolution in the new six-book Darwin Anniversary Cycle by a noted developer of the new field of evolutionary systems science, and the creative explosion of 20 new books by Loye at age 82.This dual-biography provides an unusually inspiring, humorous, and appealing guide to Eisler and Loye's work as writers to globally advance the women's, human rights, civil rights, progressive science, and partnership movements globally.3,000 Years of Love is the first book for the Benjamin Franklin Press publication of Loye's three book Love Cycle, with 1001 Days of Love and 100 Days of Love to follow.
The psychologist who helped pioneer chaos theory uses the findings of neurophysiology, psychology, parapsychology, and new discoveries of holographic theory to unlock the mysteries of the mind's unique powers of prediction.
Emerging out of the turbulence of the 1980s through the early years of the 21st century, with lyric overtones of Wordsworth, Blake, Yeats, and Whitman, here are poems Loye wrote to capture the love sustaining the romance of evolutionary action theorist Riane Eisler and himself.
The Sunday Times bestseller. David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming music, style and art for over five decades. David Buckley's unique approach to unravelling the Bowie enigma, via interviews with many of the singer's closest associates, biography and academic analysis, makes this unrivalled biography a classic for Bowie fans old and new. This revised edition of Strange Fascination captures exclusive details about the tours, the making of the albums, the arguments, the split-ups, the music and, most importantly, the man himself. Also including exclusive photographic material, Strange Fascination is the most complete account of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written.
Return to Amalfi" is about the improbable return of a native son to the old hometown and region. The story begins at the Monterey Peninsula and the tiny town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, then moves to Europe, Rome, and down through Campania to Amalfi, Ravello, and the sparkling string of towns and villages from Positano to Sorrento along the Amalfi coast.
In Tangled Tales evolutionary systems scientist David Loye jumps the customary tracks for sober social commentary that captures the peculiar thing that is time. This is the fourth of the five books of an entertainment and humor cycle by Loye.
In The Leadership Passion, David Loye has created a penetrating analysis of ideology and its function in both individual psychology and leadership styles. In his book, Loye discusses the historical sources of left-right motivations; reexamines the theories of Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx among others; and analyzes a wide range of historical and contemporary relevant research. Variables receiving attention include liberalism-conservatism, risk taking, alienation, anomie, extremism and activism. Results are then used to shape original studies of campus leadership elites and older men and women during an election campaign. Loyes findings suggest an important new model of ideological functioning and provides a framework for a dialectical theory of personality and social change.
The Healing of a Nation, winner of the 1971 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best scholarly book in the field of race relations, applies the insights of modern psychology and sociology to an exploration of the causes and cures of racism. Taking a fresh look at the works of such giants as Pavlov, Freud, Marx, Myrdal, and Kurt Lewin, David Loye shows us how their theories and findings can be used to help solve our racial dilemma.
Hal David: His Magic Moments: There is Always Something There to Remind Me by Eunice David Eunice and Hal David’s love for each other was legendary. For the first time, Eunice recounts her exciting life as the wife of one of the world’s most renowned lyricists. Memorable anecdotes include how Hal came to write some of his most iconic songs, such as the Academy Award-winning “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “What the World Needs Now is Love,” “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” and “The Four Winds and the Seven Seas.” All set within the span of their world-wide travels and historic events, this novel covers their magical twenty-five years of marriage, which all began with a simple game of tennis.
In The Leadership Passion, David Loye has created a penetrating analysis of ideology and its function in both individual psychology and leadership styles. In his book, Loye discusses the historical sources of left-right motivations; reexamines the theories of Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx among others; and analyzes a wide range of historical and contemporary relevant research. Variables receiving attention include liberalism-conservatism, risk taking, alienation, anomie, extremism and activism. Results are then used to shape original studies of campus leadership elites and older men and women during an election campaign. Loye’s findings suggest an important new model of ideological functioning and provides a framework for a dialectical theory of personality and social change.
The Knowable Future examines the science underlying futures prediction as a formal venture and as an informal activity. It explains how left brain rationality and right brain psychic abilities are both used in conjunction with forebrain governing capacities. Loye advances a theory of how the future is shaped by and predicted according to the “matrix impact” of liberalism, conservatism and five other major factors of ideology.
About the Book This book is an inside view and a passenger=seat to a ride through the life of a young man, rollin’ through a life of sex, drugs, violence and money in one of the coolest cities in the nation..., How he treated, trained and managed his women, and what bonded them to him. It explores the relationships between other players in the game, and the street culture that made very rich men of some, and brought death and destruction to others. This book is Real – it’s Raw, and it may change the way you see the world. About the Author Super Dave was born and raised in the south side of the cold streets of Chicago – an area called the Jeffry Manor – where pimpin’ was a common aspiration for a young man with the skills, heart and necessary equipment and temperament. He was a player before it was called pimpin’. David could have become anything he wanted to, given the opportunity, but opportunity was in very short supply where he came up. This is the true account of Super Dave – the Rise of a young King of the Streets in Chicago.
Von David Buckley. Der unverzichtbare Wegweiser durch die Musik von David Bowie. Album für Album informiert es detailreich über sämtliche Songs, die jemals von Bowie veröffentlicht wurden - von den ersten Demos und dem Debüt-Album 'David Bowie' über das legendäre 'Hunky Dory', mit dem ihm der Durchbruch gelang, bis zu 'Reality', seinem letzten Studioalbum. Zu allen Alben und Songs gibt das Buch Auskunft über die Entstehungsgeschichte der Platten, über die Orte, Daten und Produzenten der Aufnahmen, und es nennt die Autoren der Songs. Zusätzliche Kapitel informieren über Live-Aufnahmen, DVDs, Kompilationen und Neuveröffentlichungen. Mit 24-seitigem Fototeil.
The Sphinx and the Rainbow explores how the frontal brain may interact with the right and left brain in forecasting the future, how the new psychophysics may explain old questions about mind-brain relationships and the mystifying phenomena of precognitions. Loye’s book comprises a historic synthesis - of neuropsychology, psychology, parapsychology and physics. His book is a pioneering attempt to put together a coherent picture of the predicting mind.
Rudi Markovi is running for President - and he has the press clippings to prove it. Accompanied by his campaign manager, Slater Thompson, Rudi tours the country in his old, green van in search of votes and free publicity. But it's what he finds instead that makes life interesting. He finds Angela Cartwright, a cake froster who needs a life change. Joining a Presidential campaign is all the change she could hope for, especially since she's fallen in love with the candidate. He finds Phil Nixon, a talk radio DJ whose afternoon show is going down the tubes. Having Rudi on the air is a good way of killing time until the management kills his contract. He finds Leon Trotsky Butler, a would-be revolutionary who wants to change the world, if he could only get the world to pay attention. In Rudi, Leon sees someone he thinks could capture that attention - with the right plan. Politics, love, and revolutionary fervor prove an explosive mix as Rudi tries to change the world, and ends up changing a few lives instead. Political satire at its finest!
David Bowie: The Music and The Changes is the ultimate guide to the music of the genius, fashion icon and near-mythical rock god. Author, David Buckley, was awarded a PhD on David Bowie so is best placed to guide you through an album by album and track by track exploration of this incredible man's incredible music. The Music and The Changes kicks off with a timeline of Bowie's life, from his humble beginnings to his early albums to conquering the charts in the 1970s and 1980s and cementing his status as one of rock and pop music's most admired artists and icons. The real highlight for fans and those just getting into Bowie is the album by album and track by track analysis of every single one of his albums, up to and including his most recent release 'The Next Day'. Wonderfully engrossing and incredibly detailed, this is indisputably the most complete analysis of Bowie's music ever published. Boasting release information, biography, historical details, full track listings and fascinating comments on individual tracks, David Bowie: The Music and The Changes is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to one of rock's most intriguing figures.
A revealing collection of interviews with the shape-shifting, genre-bending, wildly influential musician and song writer David Bowie was an icon, not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same—the same as other trending artists, or even the same as himself. In this remarkable collection, Bowie reveals the fierce intellectualism, artistry, and humor behind it all. From his very first interview—as a teenager on the BBC, before he was even a musician—to his last, Bowie takes on the most probing questions, candidly discussing his sexuality, his drug use, his sense of fashion, his method of composition, and more. For fans still mourning his passing, as well as for those who know little about him, it’s a revealing, interesting, and inspiring look at one of the most influential artists of the last fifty years.
Darwin's Second Revolution" is the first book of a trilogy written to provide a new grounding in historical, political, economic, moral, spiritual, and environmental reality for the theory and story of evolution and an integrated new scientific vision for today's troubled times.
Covering nine generations of a family originally active in the American revolution and the early building of America, The Story of a Family tracks the lives throughout the 19th and 20th centuries of a family noted for unusual strength of character and a knack for telling funny stories. An original feature of the book is the author’s use of family life to probe the nature of humor. He shows how the distinctive American humor exemplified by Mark Twain and modern humorists such as James Thurber and Garrison Keillor rose out of the difference between the Old World and the New World and the new dream of liberation that the America revolution originally released throughout the world. A psychologist, historian, and evolution theorist as well as the author of the award-winning The Healing of a Nation, author David Loye also shows how contrary to the widespread impression of humor as something of no great importance in life, more generally it arises both as a way of transcending tragedy and advancing human evolution.
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