Everything on this planet is toxic and contributes to chronic inflammation, which is responsible for nearly all known chronic illness. Thankfully, the root cause of inflammation can be successfully treated naturally by following the basic laws of nature. Whether you're suffering from chronic illness, feeling like you're not living your life to your full potential, or simply would like to learn the secret to living a long, happy, fulfilling, healthy life, this book is a must read.

You will learn:

- What chronic inflammation is and why it's creating a widespread, insidious epidemic in America and throughout the world
- Why optimizing your body's cellular communication is so important for maintaining optimal health, vitality, and performance
- The top ten principles for reversing aging and degeneration
- Practical tools, techniques, and resources to reduce inflammation; clear old, unwanted cellular memory patterns; and restore balance to your body
- A new way of looking at how your body works and how your cells communicate and interact with your surrounding environment to slow the biological hands of time and help create a happy, healthy life

Praise for Primal Resonance

This book transcends modern science and ancient wisdom beautifully. -Dr. Joe Vitale, Bestselling Author of The Attractor Factor and Featured Teacher in The Secret

Finally, a healthcare practitioner who sees the importance of inflammation and how it pertains to the body as a cause for the disease process. -Dr. Aubry Tager, DC, CAFNI, BCIM

'Primal Resonance' is a must read for anyone who wants better health in their life. -Greg S. Reid, Bestselling Author, Acclaimed Speaker & Filmmaker

After reading just 'The Age of Convenience' chapter in Dr. Schwartz's treasure chest, I want to share this with everyone I know. This book could very well be the 21st century version of the fountain of youth. Excellent work. Get two-one for you and one for your best friend. -Bob Proctor, Author and Featured Teacher from the movie, The Secret

Praise for Madagascar

A collection to be held up as evidence that the short story not only endures but also flourishes.--Booklist, starred review

Steven Schwartz's masterly Lives of the Fathers mines our deepest feelings toward parents, time, memory, and forgiveness.--Chicago Tribune

Schwartz delineates with admirable and diverting finesse the timeless spectacle of parents and offspring locked in tenderly shattering combat.--Publishers Weekly

These eight stories reveal Schwartz's remarkable ability to create a range of very believable characters. --Publishers Weekly

From Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction and O. Henry Prize winner Steven Schwartz comes this indispensable collection spanning nearly four decades of artistic mastery. These compelling, deftly crafted narratives about fathers and sons, loss and separation, sorrow, comic happenstance, and the vagaries of romantic and familial love offers a resonating testament to the depth and promise of human connection.

Steven Schwartz is the author of two novels and three collections of short stories. A two-time recipient of the Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction, he has also received the Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, two O. Henry Prize Story Awards, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and is Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University.

In Little Raw Souls, award-winning author Steven Schwartz writes of loss and replenishment in eleven suspenseful and affecting stories.

Set in the contemporary American West, the stories take on the identity of a place where tradition is still a work in progress and acts of self-discovery arise for characters at any age. In Stranger, a woman falls asleep in an airport, only to become the victim of a crime by a man who robs and kisses her at the same time. A divorced man in Bless Everybody, winner of the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, finds himself threatened by the young couple he tries to aid. And in Absolute Zero, a seventeen-year-old boy, needing his dying mother's permission to join the Marines, experiences a startling encounter with the promiscuous teenage daughter of a Marine sergeant he looks up to.

Steven Schwartz's stories never stand still. With pathos and humor, they probe ahead, searching out the tender souls of his characters.

What is the American Way? What is the American Dream? What is your vision of America at its best? How close is your vision to reality?Like any country, the United States of America is far from perfect. More than 200 years ago, however, a handful of men developed and shared a set of ideas that has served as the bedrock for this country and this society. Those ideas, like all ideas, created an outcome. And that outcome has saved more lives from tyranny, poverty, fascism, and socialism than any other country in the history of civilization.Imagine if you could develop and share a thought with such a remarkable and enduring outcome? You can. You have the power to begin doing so today.Using a professionally developed process called High Consciousness Thinking, literally anybody can hone their ability to think and create an emotion, which drives behavior which leads to an outcome.If you, like so many people, wish to unlock the full potential of the American experiment, the keys are here for you in these pages. Begin a selfless journey that will help you inspire other Americans to create a movement that empowers citizens to succeed based on their own set of skills while dismantling the false premise that we should look to the government for solutions.You are the solution.

In search of a new life, Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children move from Chicago to the small town of Welton, Colorado, looking for all the hope that the burgeoning West has to offer--its abundance of jobs, space, sunshine, prosperity, and the promise of reinvention. Reuben, a former copyeditor at the Chicago Tribune, purchases the local town paper, the Welton Sentinel. Ardith stays home and copes with the task of fixing up an older house, which suffers such disrepair that on Halloween it's mistaken for part of a haunted house tour. Teenaged Harry continues his life as a troubled loner, skipping school and losing his tooth in a mysterious encounter. Meanwhile, Reuben, unaware that Ardith is having an affair, worries about his wife's growing unhappiness and distance from the family. One night, after a cookout at some friends' dairy farm, a fatal hit-and-run occurs that shocks the community, exposes a secret, and begins to rip apart the Rosenfeld family. The Tenderest of Strings is a riveting, full-hearted story of what it takes to survive as a family in a small Western town that beckons from afar but will put its newcomers to the test of their lives.

Lawton Cliff is a gigolo, a killer, and a pretty nice guy. His mad romps around the great cities of Europe in search of willing victims becomes a strange voyage of discovery. Featuring a bizarre cast of characters, this roiling adventure races through the French Riviera, Athens, Istanbul, Newcastle, and London. Through London's winter season and onto the Greek dictatorship, Lawton continues to ply his wiles in search of a little security. International hi-jinks ensue with an outcome that our erstwhile anti-hero never saw coming. Speed across the continent with Lawton and visit the places most tourists never knew existed. Sexy, funny, and full of cool dialogue. There is never a dull moment when the Cheeky Monkey comes on the scene.

Thorny, A Chicago P.I. who is not strictly legit, meets a woman who changes his life in ways he could never have imagined. What ensues is a fast-paced tale of mob violence, secrets revealed, Polish food, and hot jazz. From Chicago to Milwaukee to Peru to Mexico, this tale has more twists and turns than a snake on speed. International intrigue, assassinations, fast cars, and hot sex fuel Thorny's new life. Hop on board but make sure to fasten your seat-belts.

Three lives intersect as they search for meaning in a world of urban angst. Three lost souls on a collision course with destiny. A young ex-con, a black murderer, and an aging one-time model and junkie cross paths in a desperate last ditch struggle for a better life. The lost, the damaged, and the bitter souls who haunt the faceless streets of an uncaring Chicago float by unseen. Choices are made and lessons are learned while the constant clatter of the EL trains screech by.

Decision making is the physician's major activity. Every day, in doctors' offices throughout the world, patients describe their symptoms and com- plaints while doctors perform examinations, order tests, and, on the basis of these data, decide what is wrong and what should be done. Although the process may appear routine-even to the physicians in- volved-each step in the sequence requires skilled clinical judgment. Physicians must decide: which symptoms are important, whether any laboratory tests should be done, how the various items of clinical data should be combined, and, finally, which of several treatments (including doing nothing) is indicated. Although much of the information used in clinical decision making is objective, the physician's values (a belief that pain relief is more important than potential addiction to pain-killing drugs, for example) and subjectivity are as much a part of the clinical process as the objective findings of laboratory tests. In recent years, both physicians and psychologists have come to realize that patient management decisions are not only subjective but also prob- abilistic (although this is not always acknowledged overtly). When doc- tors argue that an operation is fairly safe because it has a mortality rate of only 1 %, they are at least implicitly admitting that the outcome of their decision is based on probability.

Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume, including the leading figures in experimental psychopathology, were largely concerned with deducing the behaviour of schizophrenics from general psychological theories of language, learning and cognition. Their emphasis on deduction reflected a modern reliance on laboratory experimentation, and, taken as a whole, the chapters cover the breadth and variety of current approaches of the time to the study of schizophrenic language and cognition.

The first part of the volume is concerned with recent developments in the study of schizophrenic language. The second part deals with various aspects of schizophrenic cognition. The final chapter, by the editor, attempts to review and integrate what was currently known about schizophrenic cognition and language. This chapter contrasts the various experimental methodologies used to validate theories by pointing out areas of agreement and disagreement as well as possible directions for future theory and research. Here is a book that at the time presented the most up-to-date overview available on language and thought in schizophrenia. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Psychology Library Editions: Psycholinguistics brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1970 and 1990. From a variety of academic imprints this set reflects the growth of psycholinguistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. It provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.

Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume, including the leading figures in experimental psychopathology, were largely concerned with deducing the behaviour of schizophrenics from general psychological theories of language, learning and cognition. Their emphasis on deduction reflected a modern reliance on laboratory experimentation, and, taken as a whole, the chapters cover the breadth and variety of current approaches of the time to the study of schizophrenic language and cognition.

The first part of the volume is concerned with recent developments in the study of schizophrenic language. The second part deals with various aspects of schizophrenic cognition. The final chapter, by the editor, attempts to review and integrate what was currently known about schizophrenic cognition and language. This chapter contrasts the various experimental methodologies used to validate theories by pointing out areas of agreement and disagreement as well as possible directions for future theory and research. Here is a book that at the time presented the most up-to-date overview available on language and thought in schizophrenia. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Short stories showing the various forms of the genre. From crime to fantasy to romance, these stories bring fresh new voices that cover a broad range of styles and subject matter. It features an introduction by the great American writer, James Sallis and illustrations by Jacinda Power. The collection has 23 contributions from 11 different writers. The stories range from the long to the very short. Included are Kurt Reichenbaugh, Robert Anglen, Merle McCann, Clark Lohr, Kevin Lynn Helmick, Steve Shadow, Scott McDonald, Karen Renner, Timothy W. Moore, Jacinda Power and Jeff Kronenfeld writing as Brian Black. The cover and book design is the work of Scott Carpenter of Cold Forge Press.