"This course provides a theoretical and practical survey of the ideas behind and the practices of effective communication. It helps you become aware of the automatic processes involved that influence every day talk, of how face-to-face talk really works in the most common three recognized modes: connect talk, control talk, and dialogue talk. Effectiveness is measured by three things: getting what one wants, being understood from our point of view,...

Twenty terrifying stories plus the original Pilot movie.

Examines the troubled life of the nineteenth-century writer whose poetry and short stories broke new ground in American literature.

In the last thirty years of his life, he agreed to the request of bnei Torah to give private lectures to small groups and individuals in the matters of self-awareness, chinuch and avodas Hashem. These lectures were eventually organized and published in Hebrew. Now the English-speaking public can also be a part of the amazing influence this sefer has had across the Torah world. Volume one deals with anxiety over sin and failure. Rav Hoffman shows how...

A survey of the 3,000 years of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to the death of Cleopatra.

Discover the majestic cultures and astonishing history of the Middle East, looking behind the headlines to understand this significant region.

Presents sixty lectures by Professor Robinson, tracing the origins of philosophy and its history across the centuries.