82 títulos para "Institute For Study Of Human Knowledge"

The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal

Shah, Idries / Rose Mary , Santiago

When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the townspeople terrified of something that—just because they have not seen it before—they mistake for a terrible, dangerous animal. With his own knowledge and by demonstration, he helps them overcome their fears.   This tale...

The Boy Without a Name

Shah, Idries / Caron, Mona

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Neem the Half-Boy

Shah, Idries / Mori, Midori

      The Queen of Hich-Hich fails to follow the instructions given to her by Arif the Wise Man, and, as a result, gives birth to a half-boy. Neem ma...

The Silly Chicken

Shah, Idries / Jackson, Jeff

              The Silly Chicken is a delightful and humorous tale about a chicken who learns to speak as we do - with surprising and unexpected conseque...

The Farmer's Wife / La esposa del granjero

Shah, Idries / Santiago, Rose Mary

The story of The Farmer's Wife tells how a woman first loses an apple into a hole in the ground, and then attempts a series of efforts to get it back. Children enjoy learning to repeat the sequence from memory, and when the story takes a sudden turn, contrary to all expectations, they also learn...

The Stranger's Farewell

Salam, Palwasha Bazgar / LaFrance, Marie

The Stranger's Farewell  is a very old story, one that has entertained people all over the world for hundreds of years. A stranger visits a young couple – he has been traveling for many days – and asks for a glass of water and a place to rest. The young couple make him welcome a...

Fatima the Spinner and the Tent

Shah, Idries / Delmar, Natasha

Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria. Adopted by a family of weavers, and beginning to prosper in her new life, she is captured and made to work mak...

Fatima the Spinner and the Tent - La hilandera Fátima y la carp

Shah, Idries / Delmar, Natasha

Fatima’s life is beset with what seem to be disasters. Her journey leads her from Morocco to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Turkey and, finally, to China. It is in China that she realizes that what seemed at the time to be really unfortunate events were an integral part of her eventual fulfillment....

The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah

Bazger Salam, Palwasha / Delmar, Natasha

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Great King Ahmad Shah Durrani ruled Afghanistan, and from there, a magnificent empire extending from eastern Iran to northern India, and from the Amu Darya to the Indian Ocean. Known to his people as Ahmad Shah Baba (Ahmad Shah, our father), the king was loved by...

The Shy Child

Zimbardo, Philip G. / Radl, Shirley

Two out of every five people in the U.S. regard themselves as "shy." Yet, shyness can be cured, says Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the nation's leading authority on shyness. With co-author Shirley Radl, Dr. Zimbardo presents a program for overcoming and preventing shyness from infancy to adulth...

Burnout

Maslach, Christina

This book shows how to recognize, prevent and cure burnout syndrome for nurses, teachers, counselors, doctors, therapists, police, social workers, and anyone else who cares about and for people. Christina Maslach, the leading pioneer in research on burnout, offers help using illustrative examples an...

The Old Woman and the Eagle

Shah, Idries / Delmar, Natasha

In this amusing story, an old woman encounters an eagle for the first time. Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, she decides to change it to suit her own ideas of what a bird should look like. Her efforts mirror a common pattern of human thought: altering the unfamiliar to make it acceptable. Thi...