David Shepard

This is a book about the most important discoveries in psychology. Not just the bleached bones of the studies in a textbook, but what has been left out of our textbooks. From Genius to Suicide Bombers, from Science to Sex, we will cover the most censored facts in psychology.How is it that the greatest minds in history were able to make some of the most astonishing discoveries of all time when others could not? How is it that others reacted with anger to the greatest discoveries of all time?Understanding how the mind works, gives us the potential to control our own mind. Only by coming to understand the forces that shape the human mind can we hope to change our psychology as effectively as science has changed our physical environment. We are way behind in that understanding.All of us want to read about the amazing, secret, hidden powers of the mind. This book is often about the opposite; not just the genius of the mind but the other 99.99% of reality, the part left out of our education. Psychology has been presented as if it is only a series of conflicting ideas (behavioral, developmental, cognitive, perceptual, neuropsychology, etc. etc.). All have found some important pieces. What we need is to put the known pieces together. Yet psychology has gone more toward a philosophy of differing opinions, instead of a unity of understanding. No other science does this. We cannot call ourselves a science if we are only a gaggle of conflicting opinions. We need a unified field theory.MIND is about what has been left out, what others have not told us, in our high schools, our colleges, our psychology textbooks, and our daily news. Albert Einstein, in his autobiography, spoke of the realization of how much is censored from us. This led Einstein to "...an orgy of freethinking" About life, freedom, and the ideas they forced him to memorize in his physics textbooks. MIND is not for the fainthearted, it is for those who, like Einstein, have already run slam into a reality they never knew existed and who want to know what they were not told. If you read each chapter to the end, I think you will see a unique insight from anything you have heard before, solely based on the evidence from psychology. Some of it may be liberating, some of it may painfully clash with what we have been told. Some of it may make you laugh at the extent of human stupidity. Let the chips fall...

Dr. Shepard's poems span many styles and themes. They explore life, aging and death, in terms alternately realistic and existential. Mortal Man's Journey Toward the Light encompasses both poems of introspection and poems looking out at the world, a duality that reflects the viewpoints of the prisoners he treated as much as it does his own reality.

This book shows you how to positively involve parents to raise student achievement. It offers 10 steps for designing a comprehensive parent involvement program to increase communication between students, parents, and schools. The authors offer practical strategies and activities for involving all parents, monitoring under-involved parents, balancing over-involved parents, and assisting parents in urgent situations.

We first met Jack Henry in the story 'They don't know Jack'. We saw how the Lottery changed not only his life but his family and friends lives forever. We followed him through his adventures in 'Summer Heat' as he got to know his new wife, Abigail as their families joined together. Now we follow Jack through the last chapter in his saga as around every corner, a surprise awaits. Watch how his faith changes not only the people he meets but an entire nation, as he takes us on an unlikely run for the Presidency. Jack shows America why our forefathers chose the motto "In God we Trust" as our national motto and what God can do when he's asked to get involved. This is not a book about religion but rather a book about a man that faces the same everyday issues we all face. He knows God but comes to realize he is never alone. God is always there in every event in your life if you just take a second and listen for him.

Money can't buy happiness, or can it? What would you do if you won the Lottery? Are you ever prepared to manage that much wealth? This is the story of Jack who's life was permanently influenced by a single lottery ticket.

The prefix “hyper” refers to multiplicity and abundance. More than a physical space, a hypercity is a real city overlaid with information networks that document the past, catalyze the present, and project future possibilities. Hypercities are always under construction.Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano put digital humanities theory into practice to chart the proliferating cultural records of places around the world. A digital platform transmogrified into a book, it explains the ambitious online project of the same name that maps the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. The authors examine the media archaeology of Google Earth and the cultural–historical meaning of map projections, and explore recent events—the “Arab Spring” and the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster—through social media mapping that incorporates data visualizations, photographic documents, and Twitter streams. A collaboratively authored and designed work, HyperCities includes a “ghost map” of downtown Los Angeles, polyvocal memory maps of LA’s historic Filipinotown, avatar-based explorations of ancient Rome, and hour-by-hour mappings of the Tehran election protests of 2009.Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes thick mapping: the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking. Ultimately, the digital humanities do not consist merely of computer-based methods for analyzing information. They are a means of integrating scholarship with the world of lived experience, making sense of the past in the layered spaces of the present for the sake of the open future.

This book shows you how to positively involve parents to raise student achievement. It offers 10 steps for designing a comprehensive parent involvement program to increase communication between students, parents, and schools. The authors offer practical strategies and activities for involving all parents, monitoring under-involved parents, balancing over-involved parents, and assisting parents in urgent situations.

Vidor recounts his early days in Texas, his years at the birth of Hollywood, and his rise through the MGM Studios to become a prominent film director.