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Survival of the Fittest (Spanish Edition) Review

Survival of the Fittest (Spanish Edition) Overview

“FEVERISH IN PACE AND RICH IN CHARACTERS . . . THIS IS A CHILLING AND IRRESISTIBLE THRILLER.”
–People

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip–lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why?

Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life.

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Legendary L.A. psychologist-turned-novelist Kellerman raids real life when inventing the adventures of his psychologist sleuth, Dr. Alex Delaware, and some of the scariest parts of Survival of the Fittest are historical. Eugenicists lurk behind a murder spree Alex must solve, and he notes that the eugenics movement involved one elite U.S. college professor who advocated castration of ethnically lesser men, a forced sterilization ordered by Supreme Court Justice Holmes that Hitler used as a precedent to sterilize millions, and the pre-Holocaust coinage of the phrase "final solution."

Besides a truly horrifying theme, Survival of the Fittest boasts sharp but not arch dialogue; savvy psychological insights into stressed-out cops, suicides' loved ones, and malevolent therapists; and a sense of place so vivid that the Los Angeles Times has rated Kellerman the most evocative L.A. author since Raymond Chandler.

The plot's as twisty as a canyon road, and it's great fun to ride along with Dr. Alex and his sidekick, the burly, gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, as they dodge large red herrings and strive to find out why mildly handicapped kids are suffering "gentle strangulation" by killers who sign their handiwork with the mysterious letters DVLL, and what the devil this has to do with the high-IQ group Meta. Bonus for Kellerman fans: his Israeli serial killer catcher, Daniel Sharavi, star of his 1988 bestseller The Butcher's Theater, joins the sleuth team. But in the gory finale, Dr. Alex faces absolute evil all alone. --Tim Appelo

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TIGER MOTHER, DRAGON FATHER (Special Kindle Edition) Confucian Classic Secrets for Raising Disciplined, Respectful and Happy Children (Asian Secrets for Raising Children) Overview

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Recently, there has been much discussion on the best way to raise children. Amy Chua’s book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has brought this topic to national, and indeed, global attention. On the one hand, there is the permissive, self-esteem focused approach that is often practiced in modern day America. On the other, there is the discipline, respect and order based approach that is found in many Asian cultures such as China and Korea.

While the debate is often seen as one between the rise of Asia versus the decline of the U.S., in fact, this battle arises from two fundamentally different philosophical views. Indeed, this book is designed to help bridge this gap and to introduce to American readers the thoughts of China’s greatest philosopher, Confucius.
It was Confucius who first wrote down the intellectual foundations of this philosophical view. And yet, strangely enough, his writing are still not very well known in the U.S. Very few, even educated American have actually read Confucius even once. This is unlike the case in China, where Confucius is read and reread with the utmost reverence. By reading Confucius, we too can gain an appreciation for how to create disciplined, respectful and happy children as well as a disciplined, respectful and happy society.

The Confucian Sayings must be read by all who wish to understand the Asian approach to raising children and to building a respectful society. Should it be taken wholesale and simply grafted onto our own families as is? Of course not. Instead, it should be read, reread, understood and adapted, so that we can create the best of both worlds for our families and for our country ... one that combines the discipline of the East with the creativity and freedoms of the West.


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This book contains an introduction, the complete text of the Sayings of Confucius as well as a fully interactive table of contents specially formatted for Kindle.


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This edition contains special Kindle enabled features, including interactive table of contents, text-to-speech capabilities which enable audiobook features, as well as words that can be looked up on the Kindle supplied built in dictionary.

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