Beam

The author of To the End of June explains the purpose and practice of the transformative emotion while elucidating the myths, science, and power behind it.
Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated...

Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the...

In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her visit to Heaven and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease. Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and...

Space Viking is a science fiction novel written by H. Beam Piper and is set in his Terro-Human future history. It tells the story of one man's search for his wife's murderer and its unexpected consequences. Ten thousand refugees from the losing side of The Big War (The System States War of The Cosmic Computer) fled far beyond the boundaries of the Terran Federation and colonised the planet Excalibur. By the beginning of Space Viking, they had expanded...

Four-Day Planet Four-Day Planet . . . where the killing heat of a thousand-hour "day" drives men underground, and the glorious hundred-hour sunset is followed by a thousand-hour night so cold that only an Extreme Environment Suit can preserve the life of anyone caught outside.cFenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to...

Tyler faces the first-day jitters with more on his mind than most. His wheelchair sets him apart in a world of footsteps. But as the school doors loom ahead, will Tyler let his nerves steer his day, or can his boundless imagination propel him toward an unexpected journey? Join Tyler as he navigates the hallways and hearts of his new school, discovering that the wheels of courage and creativity can roll over any obstacle.

In Broken to Love Again: Unapologetically Me, Tammy Beam takes you on an extraordinary journey-from a shattered past plagued by sexual abuse, abandonment, and rejection to a future built on love, understanding, and healing. This book isn't just a memoir-it's a masterclass in overcoming the scars that life can impose. Weaved into the narrative is an incisive look at how culture and tradition can simultaneously shape and betray our understanding of...

By reading through the entire Bible, anyone can begin to see the consistent influence the first three chapters of Genesis have on the rest of the Bible. These three chapters begin the great doctrines of creation, grace, the virgin birth, marriag

Jonathan Williams' work of more than half a century is such that no one activity or identity takes primacy over any other-he was the seminal small press publisher of The Jargon Society; a poet of considerable stature; book designer; editor; photographer; legendary correspondent; literary, art, and photography critic and collector; early collector and proselytizer of visionary folk art; cultural anthropologist and Juvenalian critic; curmudgeon; happy...