New Releases by Michael White

De Stijl is by far the most easily recognisable of all European avant-gardes. The radically geometrical construction and the cheery colourfulness of the art of Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, Bart van der Leck and their companions have become a trademark. This book brings it back to life with many historical documents, photographs, anecdotes and newspaper clippings that make clear the importance and influence of the Dutch movement.

"A blue print on the steps that must be taken to make America great again."--Page viii.

Elizabeth Moynihan, a young journalist, has hit the jackpot. It''s 1992 and a chance remark has sent her to a small farm in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. There resides Russia''s most notorious sniper-turned-spy, the one-time beautiful assassin, Tat''yana Levchenko, and she''s ready to tell her story.During the Second World War, Tat''yana was Russia''s secret weapon. After the Germans killed her daughter, aged four, she enlisted as a sniper for the Russian army. Having finally achieved her goal of killing three hundred Germans, she was badly injured in a siege and shipped back to Moscow. She was presented to Stalin, paraded among the ranks of high society and before the world''s press.Her duty to her country not yet over, she was sent to America, to befriend Eleanor Roosevelt, touring the nation with her, securing support for the war. And all the while, she was to send vital information about American armament and troop plans back to her homeland. Before long, Tat''yana was ready to defect, putting her own life - and that of the man she loves - in more grave danger than ever before.

The story of the trial of visionary philosopher Giordano Bruno. “A nice overview of the conflict between religion and philosophy in the Renaissance.” —Publishers Weekly Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured, and, after eight years, burned at the stake in 1600. The Vatican “regrets” the burning yet refuses to clear him of heresy. But Bruno’s philosophy spread: Galileo, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, and Gottfried Leibniz all built upon his ideas; his thought experiments predate the work of such twentieth-century luminaries as Karl Popper; his religious thinking inspired such radicals as Baruch Spinoza; and his work on the art of memory had a profound effect on William Shakespeare. Chronicling a genius whose musings helped bring about the modern world, Michael White pieces together the final years—the capture, trial, and the threat the Catholic Church felt—that made Bruno a martyr of free thought. “White’s book is exemplary for its discussions of the period’s intellectual beliefs and social structure and for its vivid detail and illuminating look at Bruno’s trial and subsequent death.” —Library Journal “Riveting.” —Birmingham Post

Extraordinary Teachers; Teaching for Success generates thoughtful reflection and discussion about how effective teachers teach and all students learn. The book is intended to help new and inexperienced teachers to find assistance within their community, within their students, and within themselves.

Seamlessly blending past and present storylines, The Borgia Ring is a compulsive crime thriller. When builders dig up an ancient skeleton in the City of London, they have no idea of the poisonous legacy they have just unleashed. For on the skeleton''s finger is a beautiful emerald ring that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia, the most powerful - and most evil - woman of the Renaissance. Hours later the skeleton has vanished and one man is dead. For DCI Jack Pendragon - newly transferred from Oxford to Brick Lane - it''s a first case he could have done without. And with two more gruesome deaths in quick succession, it''s clear there''s a killer out there with a deadly compulsion. A killer drawing his murderous inspiration from a 15th-century family whose cruelty and depravity knew no limits.

..".[This is] the kind of book that inspires and invites change... the ''tipping point'' that students need to become more aware, involved, and engaged in their schools, communities and societies." -Jennifer Klein, DePaul UniversityThis Second Edition of The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting the Classroom to the Community brings the public sociology movement into the classroom by showing students how to use the tools of sociology to become effective participants in our democratic society. Through exercises and projects, authors Kathleen Korgen and Jonathan M. White encourage students to apply these tools to get hands-on training in sociology and to develop their sociological imaginations as they work for a more just and civil society. *10% of the proceeds from this book will be donated to Free the Children*New and Retained Features *new* Updated and additional exercises and projects, including more global activities, allow students to connect the sociological knowledge they are learning to their campus and the larger community. Each chapter contains both hands-on data collection exercises (surveys, interviews, observations) and library-based research. *new* Increased connection to theory helps students see how their practical efforts are grounded in sociological research and theory. *new* Enhanced "Sociologist in Action" sections include powerful examples of how sociology students and professional sociologists use sociology in efforts to improve society. More examples of student "Sociologists in Action" have been added to this edition. *new* More material on the environment, including expanded discussions of Hurricane Katrina and its outcomes as well as of global warming, provides more coverage of a hot-button topic of concern to many students, engaging their interest and encouraging them to act to improve environmental issues. Discussion questions challenge students to ponder and converse about what they''ve learned and to use their sociological imagination to relate the issues covered in each chapter to their individual lives. Ancillaries - *new* Instructors'' Resources on CD-Rom, featuring a test bank, are available to qualified instructors by contacting Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) between 6 am - 5 pm, PST. - *new* A new student study site at www.pineforge.com/korgen2study features Web addresses that link to helpful organizations; additional exercises for several chapters; a survey, a scoring sheet, and interview guidelines for the last chapter; and resources for job and volunteer opportunities. Intended Audience: This is an ideal supplement or affordable, brief stand-alone, core text for courses in which the instructor wishes to include a public sociology component, particularly Introduction to Sociology, Principles of Sociology, Social Problems, or Applied Sociology. "The Engaged Sociologist will help students connect their own lives to the larger society, as they learn about the ''sociological imagination'' and the power it has to positively affect the community."-SirReadaLot.org

In the crypt of the Medici Chapel, palaeopathologist, Edie Granger, and her uncle, Carlin Mackenzie, discover something out of place about the mummified remains of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. This novel meshes past and present, cryptic clues and constant menace to produce a fast-paced thriller.

A giant of science, Galileo''s achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein, and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his Church and his refusal to back down turned him into a martyr for many. Here, bestselling author Michael White gets to grips with the man and the world he challenged. Both biography and exploration of a time when religious and scientific understanding had become deeply and dangerously intertwined, Galileo Antichrist traces the path that led to its subject''s denunciation as a heretic. While it is perfectly possible to view Galileo''s collision with the Catholic Church as near inevitable, White draws on evidence recently discovered in the Vatican archives to question the accepted reasons for his trial. In doing so he shows why Galileo became such a contentious figure that, centuries later, the Pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, felt driven to declare the process against the father of science as “reasonable and just.”

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2005. Michael White''s poetry is unusual for its loving patience in imagining how human predicaments feel. Using a striking variety of measures, his meditations attempt to re-enact the grain of consciousness as it plays out, from elegy to simple joy.

Isaac Asimov dominated science fiction for over half a century. He wrote over 400 books during the course of his career and was honored with every prize and award the science fiction community could give him. By his late teens, he had already embarked upon the works that would make him world-famous: the Robot stories, in which he laid down the Three Laws of Robotics, which are still accepted today by researchers into artificial intelligence; "Nightfall," arguably the best science fiction short story ever written; and the Foundation novels, where he established the idea of warring galactic empires, changing the face of science fiction forever. Bestselling author Michael White''s probing first-ever biography of this extraordinary writer takes us from Asimov''s troubled childhood in New York to his ascendancy to the rank of "Grand Master," the highest honor in the science fiction world. With the success of last summer''s hit film I, Robot and more Asimovian movies in the works, the founding father of science fiction is as influential and popular today as he was in the 1950s.

Michael White presents an erudite yet accessible biography of C.S. Lewis - acclaimed academic, renowned Christian thinker and apologist, yet perhaps best known for his children''s writing, including ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' and ''The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe''.

White''s thesis is that the greatest advances in science come about through the stress of rivalry, whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists, institutions or even international communities of scientists. Not in this book do we have the thunderbolt of divine inspiration, or the placid, sterile and rather dull world in which it is popularly imagined the scientist lives: for White, great scientific advancements often find their origin and progression into the wider world through the very human battles for supremacy among the experts in any particular field, battles which can be born of jealousy, pettiness and simple personality clashes, as well as more noble instincts. The book deals with eight instances in the history of science and technology which changed the world, all of which have acute rivalry at their heart: Newton and Leibniz, Lavoisier and Priestley, Darwin and Wallace, Edison and Tesla, the race for the Atom Bomb, Crick and Watson, the Space Race and Gates and Ellison.

Explores the life and career of the British fantasy writer, including his childhood, his role a professor at Oxford, his experiences as a soldier in World War II, and his relationship with his publisher.

En tres importantes ensayos y una serie de diálogos animados y estimulantes, el conocido terapeuta familiar Michael White expone con gran claridad sus experiencias con los problemas terapéuticos que tradicionalmente se consideran más difíciles de superar, como la esquizofrenia, la anorexia nerviosa o la depresión a causa de abusos. White rechaza todas las etiquetas psiquiátricas y, sobre todo, los tópicos de la psicología popular como la ''integridad'', ''el crecimiento personal'' y otras formas de ''gimnasia mental'' para ser como ''se debe ser'' según los cánones de la cultura dominante.

Discusses the art of Dondi White, a pioneer in the graffiti art movement in New York City.

This well-respected professor of early Christianity delves into what preceded the Gospels of the New Testament, which documents were written first and why, and what debates and personalities influenced what was ultimately chosen for inclusion in the Bible.

In 1982, a week after graduating, Michael White and his fiancee Jan joined the Thompson Twins pop group as they stood on the brink of international fame. But what should have been a fairy-tale success story turned sour when she fell in love with the band''s manager. This is the story of how Michael transformed himself from Essex schoolboy-with-guitar to a member of one of the most successful bands of the early 1980s, whose hits included ''Doctor, Doctor'', ''Hold Me Now'' and ''We Are Detective''. It is also an insider''s tale of life in a pop group and a memoir of the decade that gave us the Filofax, power suits and Big Hair. Highly personal yet of universal appeal, THOMPSON TWIN is a funny and moving tale of boy meets girl, boy and girl become international pop stars, boy loses girl . . .

Based on data collected in 1997 and 1998 from 669 participants in guidance and 1015 non-participants.

Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White''s Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.

From alien abduction to Zombies, taking in earth magic, alchemy and psi powers, Michael White has written a book for the millennium and beyond, which taps into our interest with anything humanity doesn''t understand or can''t explain. An intelligent, easily understandable look at the paranormal, from the author of THE SCIENCE OF THE X-FILES.

Practical advice on writing assessment, using evaluations, and creating assignments and tests.

Partisan or Neutral? critically examines the Rawlsian ideal of a public, supposedly neutral, political theory meant to justify contemporary constitutional democracies. Placing this ideal-appealed to by neo-natural law theorists and advocates of "public theology" as well as by political theorists-against the background of the history of political liberalism, White shows its contradictory nature. He argues that any such legitimating theory will be ''partisan,'' in the sense of appealing to convictions concerning the human good that will not be universally accepted. He concludes that all politics must be imperfect-a matter of pragmatism and prudence in forming the most workable compromises possible and in acquiescing, where our principles allow us to do so, in situations that are often far from optimal.

Exploring the truth of the science behind The X-Files, this book examines aliens, telepathy, spontaneous combustion, firewalking, possession and many other supernatural phenomena.

Today it is commonplace to hear therapists speak of experiences of demoralisation, burden, fatigue and despair. This book proposes that this is significantly an outcome of how therapy is conceived of and practised, and draws out alternative conceptions and practices of therapy, supervision and training that provide a powerful antidote to despair. Readers will be provided with options for taking narrative practices unto their own lives - options that will reinvigorate and renew.