Alan Gordon

Alon Ziv

Rewire your brain, end your pain. From back pain to migraines, arthritis and sciatica, over 1.2 billion people worldwide suffer from regular or chronic pain, 28 million in the UK alone. It’s a global epidemic that regularly resists treatment and can totally derail people’s lives. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This is the revolutionary message from psychotherapist Alan Gordon who, frustrated by the lack of effective treatment for his own debilitating pain, developed a highly successful approach to eliminating symptoms without surgery or medication, offering a viable and drug-free alternative to existing – and often addictive – methods. Based on the premise that pain starts in the brain not the body, Gordon’s Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) enables you to rewire your neural circuits and turn off 'stuck' pain signals. In a ground-breaking study, PRT helped 98% of patients reduce their pain levels and 66% were completely cured. What's more, these dramatic changes held up over time. In The Way Out, Gordon provides an easy-to-follow guide to ending your pain with PRT. Drawing on cutting-edge research along with his own experiences as a chronic pain sufferer, he will help you: - Understand how the brain can unintentionally 'learn' chronic pain - Turn off pain signals that have become 'stuck' - these are false alarms - Use revolutionary techniques to break the cycle of fear that causes chronic pain - Develop long-term strategies for living pain-free Game-changing, practical and full of real-life stories from Gordon’s clinical practice, this book will change the way you think about pain forever - and give you a way out of your pain today.

The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

The Way Out

A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research. Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain. Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients. PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain feels like it's coming from the body, in most cases it's generated by misfiring pain circuits in the brain. PRT is a system of psychological techniques that rewires the brain to break out of the cycle of chronic pain. The University of Colorado-Boulder recently conducted a large randomized controlled study on PRT, and the results are remarkable. By the end of the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free. What's more, these dramatic changes held up over time. The Way Out brings PRT to readers. It combines accessible science with a concrete, step-by-step plan to teach sufferers how to heal their own chronic pain.

A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain

In 13th century Europe, political turmoil is the order of the day and the Fool's Guild and its agents - jesters, jugglers, and knaves to a man - works behind the scenes to manipulate events, trying to maintain a balance of power. Theophilos, a member of the Guild known by many names, is still recovering from his last mission during which he was severely wounded and nearly lost his life but, in the person of Viola, found himself an apprentice and a wife. But there is no rest for the wicked. While he is recovering on the Dalmatian coast, the Guild approaches him with another mission. A crusade is being launched, with Venice as the staging ground, but some believe that Venice means to turn it to it's own ends. At the same time, there is trouble in Byzantine throne - a pretender to the throne is gathering European backers. And to make matters worse, all of the Guild's agents in Constantinople have gone suddenly and mysteriously missing. So now, the newly married Theophilos and Viola must go to Constantinople to gather information, thwart the rivals of the Guild, stop the war, and maybe - just maybe - stay alive.

A Medieval Mystery

Jester Leaps In

Theophilos the Jester and his fellow citizens within the city of Constantinople are confronted by the Fourth Crusade and by the murder of a silk merchant, forcing Theophilos to race to solve the mystery and save Constantinople.

A Death in the Venetian Quarter

In twelfth-century Europe, the Fool's Guild becomes embroiled in a complex dispute over the crown of Denmark, sending one of their members--Terrence of York--to protect rvendil, one of the claimants, whose young son, Amleth, renames Terrence "Yorick," in an intriguing look at the story behind Shakespeare's Hamlet.

An Antic Disposition

In the wake of the Third and Fourth Crusades of the 1190s, Guild of Fools agent Theophilos works to restore order in the wake of several assassinations including those of Conrad, Henry of Champaign, and Theophilos's superior, Scarlett the Dwarf. 10,000 first printing.

The Widow of Jerusalem

Theophilos the jester travels to Toulouse to convince the old bishop to retire, but finds himself investigating the death of a moneylender to whom the bishop owed money.

A Fools' Guild Mystery

The Moneylender of Toulouse

In 1204, with the Fools' Guild in hiding and under attack by the forces of Pope Innocent III, jesters Theophilos and Claudia are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member, the minstrel Folquet, now a Cistercian abbot, to intercede with the pope, but a gruesome murder at the abbey forces them into a race against time, to solve the killing or become forever outcasts. 10,000 first printing.

The Lark's Lament

“Only a fool would pass this one up.” —Laurie R. King In 1205, Theophilos—a fool by trade, a family man by choice, and a spy by design—belongs, along with his family, to the Fools’ Guild, a group that secretly maintains the fragile order of society. In Toulouse, that order is threatened when, unexpectedly, a man claiming to be a full brother of the ruling count is found one morning in a local bordello next to a dead whore, killed with his own sword. Now, Theophilos and his family must uncover the truth.

The Parisian Prodigal

Featuring Theophilos of the Fool's Guild.

Lois G. Gordon

All the news, radio, television, movie, popular and classical music, theater, art, dance, literary, science and technology, sports, and fashion highlights of every year from 1920 to 1980 are recorded. Facts and figures, headlines, quotas, ads, fads, firsts, and anecdotes-- as well as more than 250 photographs--supplement the listings.

Six Decades in American Life, 1920-1980

American Chronicle

In 1204, with the Fools' Guild in hiding and under attack by the forces of Pope Innocent III, jesters Theophilos and Claudia are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member, the minstrel Folquet, now a Cistercian abbot, to intercede with the pope, but a gruesome murder at the abbey forces them into a race against time, to solve the killing or become forever outcasts. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about structures of power. It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities. The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "others" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy. Rather than acknowledging a single past, Montreal's many publics made and celebrated many public memories.

The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930

Making Public Pasts

A futuristic adventure with the ultimate survivor! A surprising new tale that drops the lord of the jungle into an unfamiliar setting--the future! Can Tarzan's vine-swinging skills serve him in the half-flooded ruins of a future London?

The Once and Future Tarzan

Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and national identity. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero � Jacques Cartier � to explore how notions about the past have been passed from generation to generation in English- and French-speaking Canada and used to present particular ideas about the world. Nineteenth-century celebrations of Cartier reflected a new understanding of history that accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This sensibility, in turn, influenced the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier may have been a point of contact between English and French Canada, but the nature of that contact, as Gordon shows, had profound limitations.

Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier

The Hero and the Historians

COM/COM+. and .NET will need to interoperate for a long time to come as companies undergo the migration to .NET. Gordon's book is a natural fit for anyone with COM applications that need to work with .NET, as it provides practical migration advice for developers moving their applications from COM/COM+ to .NET.

The .NET and COM Interoperability Handbook

Mind is your birthright, and you already possess the ability to harness and direct the infinite power of Mind to create any future you desire. By mastering the rhythm of the Mind's operation (mastering the Cycle of Mind), each of us may create our own future, a future of any design we can imagine. Mind has limitless potential, and it is within each of us to direct and control this awesome power. This book will help you understand the functioning of Mind and understand its rhythms. Then an easy five minute a day process allows you to work with the rhythm of the Mind. In other words, you will be able to put the Cycle of Mind to work for you to achieve your highest purpose and desires. The Cycle of Mind is a repeatable template you can use to define your perfect future, then embed it into your Subconscious Mind. Once accepted by the Subconscious Mind, the new reality begins to take shape. Turn your imagination to the life you want, to the world as you hope it can be. There is no limit, so turn up your imagination to its fullest power. Don't settle for anything less than the best and most meaningful life you can imagine. Now is the time to take control of your life. You can react to reality, or you can join a growing group of everyday people who are using the power of Mind - a power you can direct - to create the experiences you desire.

Mastering the Rhythm of the Mind?s Operation Unlocks a Doorway to Limitless Potential

The Cycle of Mind

In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople. Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city. The jester known as Feste, his wife Viola, and their compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe as the peace the Fool's Guild has worked so hard to maintain is about to be shattered. With such a disaster looming, the death of one silk merchant in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople seems insignificant. But Philoxenites, the Imperial Treasurer and one of the most power schemers at court, has taken a special interest in the case and wants Feste to investigate Venetian merchant's death. The merchant, of course, was not what he appeared to be and, if Constantinople is to have any hope of surviving the troops outside its gates, Feste must quickly uncover what forces were at work when the merchant lost his life.

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