Thomas Cowan

Can we raise healthy children in a toxic world? Yes, we can Modern life, with its conveniences and technologies, has had mixed results. With great gains come also losses. For better or for worse, as certain types of knowledge have increased, others, which were not perhaps knowledge in the modern sense, but rather types of wisdom, which were once innate, have grown faint. Just as the wisdom of traditional diets faded and gave way to a haphazard, increasingly toxic, industrialized, "modern" diet--the hazardous results of which many are now waking up to--so, too, did older, likely innate wisdom for guiding a growing human being from birth through childhood and adolescence into adulthood all but vanish, with predictable results.It falls to those who are willing to step outside the box of today's widely unquestioned orthodoxies to honestly assess where we've come from, where we are, and how to go forward in ways that not only restore sanity (though that's a necessary first step), but also reclaim something of the wisdom of being human, but in new ways. While it's true that we can't go back to how things once were, wisdom is also possible going forward. A living, contemporary, and conscious approach to raising children, born of both commonsense and love, is both achievable and necessary. This is the path that Dr. Cowan outlines in this book. With friendly humor and out of his keen observation of children through the years, as a physician, a parent, grandparent, and friend, Dr. Cowan offers hope and guidance for the parents of today's youngest generation, that they may raise up a cohort of free, healthy, happy, caring human beings. While rearing children in the twenty-first century entails facing certain challenges that were either unknown or insignificant even a generation ago, Dr. Cowan demonstrates that the door is wide open to meet these challenges with new thinking and a renewed commitment to the sacredness of the growing human being.

Puer Papers, edited by James Hillman, examines the archetype of the puer aeternus, the radiant, aloof, sensitive, and eternal youth, in myth and poetry. Nine papers by James Baird, Thomas Cowan, James Hillman, Thomas Moore, Henry A. Murray, and Randolph Severson are examining the full range of puer phenomena. This eminently practical book grounds the archetype in the real earth of the human condition, where the puer's flights and problems are relevant to diagnosis, dream analysis hermeneutics, societal movements, and literary criticism.This newly revised and emended edition serves both as a stand-alone reader on the psychology of the puer archetype and as a companion to Senex & Puer, vol. 3 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman.

In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment, and transfer state power to private sector actors. Much of this development has taken place on the outskirts of the traditional metropoles, in the territorially flexible urban frontier. At the forefront of these processes in India, is Gurgaon, a privately developed metropolis on the south-western hinterlands of New Delhi, that has long been touted as India's flagship neoliberal city. Subaltern Frontiers tells a story of India's remarkable urban transformation by examining the politics of land and labour that have shaped the city of Gurgaon. The book examines how the country's flagship post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped and filtered through agrarian and subaltern histories, logics, and subjects. In doing so, the book explores how the production of globalised property and labour in contemporary urban India is filtered through colonial instruments of land governance, living histories of uneven agrarian development, material geographies of labour migration, and the worldly aspirations of peasant-agriculturalists.

Why the War on Cancer Has Failed and What That Means for More Effective Prevention and Treatment A groundbreaking look at the role of water in living organisms that ultimately brings us closer to answering the riddle of the etiology of, and therapy and treatment for, cancer When President Nixon launched the War on Cancer with the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 and the allocation of billions of research dollars, it was amidst a flurry of promises that a cure was within reach. The research establishment was trumpeting the discovery of oncogenes, the genes that supposedly cause cancer. As soon as we identified them and treated cancer patients accordingly, cancer would become a thing of the past. Fifty years later it’s clear that the War on Cancer has failed—despite what the cancer industry wants us to believe. New diagnoses have continued to climb; one in three people in the United States can now expect to battle cancer during their lifetime. For the majority of common cancers, the search for oncogenes has not changed the treatment: We’re still treating with the same old triad of removing (surgery), burning out (radiation), or poisoning (chemotherapy). In Cancer and the New Biology of Water, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues that this failure was inevitable because the oncogene theory is incorrect—or at least incomplete—and based on a flawed concept of biology in which DNA controls our cellular function and therefore our health. Instead, Dr. Cowan tells us, the somatic mutations seen in cancer cells are the result of a cellular deterioration that has little to do with oncogenes, DNA, or even the nucleus. The root cause is metabolic dysfunction that deteriorates the structured water that forms the basis of cytoplasmic—and therefore, cellular—health. Despite mainstream medicine’s failure to bring an end to suffering or deliver on its promises, it remains illegal for physicians to prescribe anything other than the “standard of care” for their cancer patients—no matter how dangerous and ineffective that standard may be—and despite the fact that gentler, more effective, and more promising treatments exist. While Dr. Cowan acknowledges that all of these treatments need more research, Cancer and the New Biology of Water is an impassioned plea from a long-time physician that these promising treatments merit our attention and research dollars and that patients have the right to information, options, and medical freedom in matters of their own life and death.

If you have gotten this far, and are now reading this, you are probably trying to figure out why in the world I would waste my time writing out scales and arpeggios. That's an easy one - I need them for myself, and think some of you may need them too. (We all know that you are supposed to memorize them - but how do you memorize Strauss 1 without the music?)I have been playing horn for a long time - probably longer than some of you have been alive - but I have yet to find scales written out for our instrument in a meaningful and lasting way - two, three, and four octaves for instance. There were a couple of great scale books I used years ago, but they are sadly now out of print. There are others that I know about that do fit the bill - but unfortunately, they are not widely available to our global horn community.So, where did I get the ideas on how to write out these scales and arpeggios? The great teachers and performers have told us what to do for a long time, either in lessons, writing, or videos. Those who have had the most influence on my thinking about this subject are Hermann Baumann, Kendall Betts, Dennis Brain, Bill Caballero, Lukas Christinat, Vince DeRosa, William Robinson, Gabor Tarkovi, Barry Tuckwell, and Radovan Vlatkovic - and to them, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.So, if you - like me - could benefit from having scales and arpeggios written out, this book is for you.

You are likely a CEO, or maybe a CIO, CTO, CFO, or other C-Suite leader. You may be on a Board of Directors. You may be a divisional or functional leader, manager, or supervisor. Regardless of where you sit, you need to deal with the emerging technologies in your job on a daily basis - and not just the technologies themselves, but also the societal, organizational, and ethical issues surrounding them. I've been in your position, as a CEO who has built companies, a Board member for technology start-ups, and a manager trying to run a business in the face of the disruption and transformation that technology can create. Now, at Columbia University's Center for Technology Management, I work with leaders to develop and implement the decisions, plans, and strategies related to technology and the complications of that environment. I've been thinking deeply about leadership in an age of rapid technological change and its accompanying disruption, and want to share my thinking with you. This short book presents an overview of my current thinking about the environment we are living in and the challenges, opportunities, and risks we face. I want to illuminate the situation and lay the groundwork for you as you think through your strategies, plans, and execution. This is an exciting time for the CEO, entrepreneur, and technologist. My job is to help you navigate these murky but exciting waters.

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