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Putnam Adult. Good. 24 x 15cm. Hardcover. 2004. 448 pages. Ex-library.<br>A former senior military analyst with t he U.S.Naval War College offers a thought-provoking analysis of t he United States and global security that utilizes recent militar y history and strategy; economic, political, and cultural factors ; and foreign policy and security issues to examine the future of war and peace, as well as America's role in the international co mmunity. 100,000 first printing. 100,000 first printing. Editori al Reviews Amazon Review This bold and important book strive s to be a practical strategy for a Second American Century. In th is brilliantly argued work, Thomas Barnett calls globalization th is countryÂ's gift to history and explains why its wide dissemina tion is critical to the security of not only America but the enti re world. As a senior military analyst for the U.S. Naval War Col lege, Barnett is intimately familiar with the culture of the Pent agon and the State Department (both of which he believes are due for significant overhauls). He explains how the Pentagon, still i n shock at the rapid dissolution of the once evil empire, spent t he 1990s grasping for a long-term strategy to replace containment . The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Barnett argues, re vealed the gap between an outdated Cold War-era military and a ra dically different one needed to deal with emerging threats. He be lieves that America is the prime mover in developing a future wor th creating not because of its unrivaled capacity to wage war, bu t due to its ability to ensure security around the world. Further , he believes that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to create a better world and the way he proposes to do that is by bringing all nations into the fold of globalization, or what he calls conn ectedness. Eradicating disconnectedness, therefore, is the defini ng security task of our age. His stunning predictions of a U.S. a nnexation of much of Latin America and Canada within 50 years as well as an end to war in the foreseeable future guarantee that th e book will be controversial. And that's good. The Pentagon's New Map deserves to be widely discussed. Ultimately, however, the mo st impressive aspects of the book is not its revolutionary ideas but its overwhelming optimism. Barnett wants the U.S. to pursue t he dream of global peace with the same zeal that was applied to p reventing global nuclear war with the former Soviet Union. High-l evel civilian policy makers and top military leaders are already familiar with his vision of the future?this book is a briefing fo r the rest of us and it cannot be ignored. --Shawn Carkonen From Publishers Weekly Barnett, professor at the U.S. Naval War Colle ge, takes a global perspective that integrates political, economi c and military elements in a model for the postâ?September 11 wor ld. Barnett argues that terrorism and globalization have combined to end the great-power model of war that has developed over 400 years, since the Thirty Years War. Instead, he divides the world along binary lines. An increasingly expanding Functioning Core of economically developed, politically stable states integrated int o global systems is juxtaposed to a Non-Integrating Gap, the most likely source of threats to U.S. and international security. The gap incorporates Andean South America, the Caribbean, sub-Sahara n Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and much of southwest Asi a. According to Barnett, these regions are dangerous because they are not yet integrated into globalism's core. Until that process is complete, they will continue to lash out. Barnett calls for a division of the U.S. armed forces into two separate parts. One w ill be a quick-strike military, focused on suppressing hostile go vernments and nongovernment entities. The other will be administr atively oriented and assume responsibility for facilitating the t ransition of gap systems into the core. Barnett takes pains to de ny that implementing the new policy will establish America either as a global policeman or an imperial power. Instead, he says the policy reflects that the U.S. is the source of, and model for, g lobalization. We cannot, he argues, abandon our creation without risking chaos. Barnett writes well, and one of the book's most co mpelling aspects is its description of the negotiating, infightin g and backbiting required to get a hearing for unconventional ide as in the national security establishment. Unfortunately, marketi ng the concepts generates a certain tunnel vision. In particular, Barnett, like his intellectual models Thomas Friedman and Franci s Fukuyama, tends to accept the universality of rational-actor mo dels constructed on Western lines. There is little room in Barnet t's structures for the apocalyptic religious enthusiasm that has been contemporary terrorism's driving wheel and that to date has been indifferent to economic and political factors. That makes hi s analytical structure incomplete and more useful as an intellect ual exercise than as the guide to policy described in the book's promotional literature. Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookli st It has been generally recognized that the end of the cold war and the emerging threat of international terrorism presented new challenges in planning American diplomatic and military strategy. What has often been lacking is a coherent, integrated vision tha t assesses the new threats to American interests and provides a c omprehensive plan for coping with them. Barnett, a senior strateg ic researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval War College, presen ts his operating theory, which sees the principal threat to Ameri can security arising from dysfunctional or so-called failed state s, which provide fertile ground for the recruitment and sustenanc e of terrorists. On the other hand, as such past adversaries as R ussia and China are integrated into global economic and political systems, they are less threatening. To counter these threats, Ba rnett suggests some bold, even revolutionary, changes in our mili tary structure and in the dispersion and utilization of our force s. Of course, both his analyses and remedies are open to debate, but Barnett's compelling assertions are worthy of strong consider ation and are sure to provoke controversy. Jay Freeman Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review His w ork should be read not only by policy makers and pundits, but by anyone who wants to understand how the world works in the Age of Terror. -Sherri Goodman; Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Thomas Barnett is one of the most thoughtful and original think ers that this generation of national security analysts has produc ed. -John Petersen, President, the Arlington Institute Barnett puts the world into context. -Esquire About the Author Thomas P. M. Barnett is a senior adviser to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Central Command, Special Operations Command, the Joi nt Staff and the Joint Forces Command. He formerly served as a se nior strategic researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval War Col lege and as Assistant for Strategic Futures in the OSD's Office o f Force Transformation. He is a founding partner of the New Rule Sets Project LLC, and his work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and Esquire , where he is now a contributing editor. Excerpt. ® Reprinted b y permission. All rights reserved. Preface An Operating Theory of the World WHEN THE COLD WAR : ED, we thought the world had ch anged. It had-but not in the way we thought. When the Cold War e nded, our real challenge began. The United States had spent so m uch energy during those years trying to prevent the horror of glo bal war that it forgot the dream of global peace. As far as most Pentagon strategists were concerned, America's status as the worl d's sole military superpower was something to preserve, not somet hing to exploit, and because the future was unknowable, they assu med we needed to hedge against all possibilities, all threats, an d all futures. America was better served adopting a wait-and-see strategy, they decided, one that assumed some grand enemy would a rise in the distant future. It was better than wasting precious r esources trying to manage a messy world in the near term. The gra nd strategy...was to avoid grand strategies. I know that sounds incredible, because most people assume there are all sorts of mas ter plans being pursued throughout the U.S. Government. But, amaz ingly, we are still searching for a vision to replace the decades -long containment strategy that America pursued to counter the So viet threat. Until September 11, 2001, the closest thing the Pent agon had to a comprehensive view of the world was simply to call it chaos and uncertainty, two words that implied the impossibilit y of capturing a big-picture perspective of the world's potential futures. Since September 11, at least we have an enemy to attach to all this chaos and uncertainty, but that still leaves us desc ribing horrible futures to be prevented, not positive ones to be created. Today the role of the Defense Department in U.S. nation al security is being radically reshaped by new missions arising i n response to a new international security environment. It is tem pting to view this radical redefinition of the use of U.S. milita ry power around the world as merely the work of senior officials in the Bush Administration, but that is to confuse the midwife wi th the miracle of birth. This Administration is only doing what a ny other administration would eventually have had to do: recast A merica's national security strategy from its Cold War, balance-of -power mind-set to one that reflects the new strategic environmen t. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 simply revealed the yawning gap between the military we built to win the Cold War and the differe nt one we need to build in order to secure globalization's ultima te goal-the end of war as we know it. America stands at the peak of a world historical arc that marks globalization's tipping poi nt. When we chose to resurrect the global economy following the e nd of World War II, our ambitions were at first quite limited: we sought to rebuild globalization on only three key pillars-North America, Western Europe, and Japan. After the Cold War moved beyo nd nuclear brinkmanship to peaceful coexistence, we saw that glob al economy begin to expand across the 1980s to include the so-cal led emerging markets of South America and Developing Asia. When t he Berlin Wall fell in 1989, we had a sense that a new world orde r actually was in the making, although we lacked both the words a nd the vision to enunciate what could be meant by that phrase, ot her than that the East-West divide no longer seemed to matter. In stead of identifying new rule sets in security, we chose to recog nize the complete lack of one, and therefore, as regional securit y issues arose in the post-Cold War era, America responded withou t any global principles to guide its choices. Sometimes we felt o thers' pain and responded, sometimes we simply ignored it. Ameri ca could behave in this fashion because the boom times of the new economy suggested that security issues could take a backseat to the enormous changes being inflicted by the Information Revolutio n. If we were looking for a new operating theory of the world, su rely this was it. Connectivity would trump all, erasing the busin ess cycle, erasing national borders, erasing the very utility of the state in managing a global security order that seemed more vi rtual than real. What was the great global danger as the new mill ennium approached? It was a software bug that might bring down th e global information grid. What role did the Pentagon play in thi s first-ever, absolutely worldwide security event-this defining m oment of the postindustrial age? Virtually none. So America drif ted through the roaring nineties, blissfully unaware that globali zation was speeding ahead with no one at the wheel. The Clinton A dministration spent its time tending to the emerging financial an d technological architecture of the global economy, pushing world wide connectivity for all it was worth in those heady days, assum ing that eventually it would reach even the most disconnected soc ieties. Did we as a nation truly understand the political and sec urity ramifications of encouraging all this connectivity? Could w e understand how some people might view this process of cultural assimilation as a mortal threat? As something worth fighting agai nst? Was a clash of civilizations inevitable? Amazingly, the U.S . military engaged in more crisis-response activity around the wo rld in the 1990s than in any previous decade of the Cold War, yet no national vision arose to explain our expanding role. Globaliz ation seemed to be remaking the world, but meanwhile the U.S. mil itary seemed to be doing nothing more than babysitting chronic se curity situations on the margin. Inside the Pentagon, these crisi s responses were exclusively filed under the new rubric military operations other than war, as if to signify their lack of strateg ic meaning. The Defense Department spent the 1990s ignoring its o wn workload, preferring to plot out its future transformation for future wars against future opponents. America was not a global c op, but at best a global fireman pointing his hose at whichever b laze seemed most eye-catching at the moment. We were not trying t o make the world safe for anything; we just worked to keep these nasty little blazes under control. America was hurtling forward w ithout looking forward. In nautical terms, we were steering by ou r wake. Yet a pattern did emerge with each American crisis respo nse in the 1990s. These deployments turned out to be overwhelming ly concentrated in the regions of the world that were effectively excluded from globalization's Functioning Core-namely, the Carib bean Rim, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Mi ddle East and Southwest Asia, and much of Southeast Asia. These r egions constitute globalization's ozone hole, or what I call its Non-Integrating Gap, where connectivity remains thin or absent. S imply put, if a country was losing out to globalization or reject ing much of its cultural content flows, there was a far greater c hance that the United States would end up sending troops there at some point across the 1990s. But because the Pentagon viewed all these situations as lesser includeds, there was virtually no reb alancing of the U.S. military to reflect the increased load. We k new, Putnam Adult, 2004, 2.5, Broadway. Good. 1.25 x 6.75 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 2000. 398 pages. Ex-library.<br>From the authors of the classic text Ov ercoming Depression, here is the first book about early-onset bip olar disorder. Bipolar disorder--manic depression--was once thou ght to be rare in children. Now researchers are discovering that not only can bipolar disorder begin very early in life, but also that it is much more common than ever imagined. Yet the illness i s often misdiagnosed or overlooked. Why? Bipolar disorder manife sts itself differently in children than in adults, and in childre n there is an overlap of symptoms with other childhood psychiatri c disorders. As a result, these kids may be given any number of p sychiatric labels: ADHD, Depressed, Oppositional Defiant Disorder , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or Separation Anxiety Disorder. Too often they are treated with stimulants or antidepressants--me dications that can actually worsen the bipolar condition. The Bi polar Child demystifies this disorder of childhood. Drawing upon recent advances in the fields of neuroscience and genetics, the P apoloses convey what is known and not known about the illness. Th ey comprehensively detail the diagnosis, tell how to find good tr eatment and medications, and advise parents about ways to advocat e effectively for their children at school. Included in these pag es is the first Individual Education Plan--IEP--ever published fo r a bipolar child. The book also offers critical information abou t the stages of adolescence, hospitalization, the world of insura nce, and the psychological impact the illness has on the child. The Bipolar Child is rich with the voices of parents, siblings, a nd the children themselves, opening up the long-closed world of t he families struggling with this condition. An invaluable resourc e for parents whose children suffer from mood disorders, as well as the professionals who treat and educate them, this book will p rove to have major public health significance. Editorial Reviews Amazon Review For any caregiver experiencing life with a bi polar child, Demitri and Janice Papolos's The Bipolar Child will be an indispensable reference guide. The material is presented cl early, with lots of helpful charts and lists to aid in receiving proper diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care. All medical info rmation is relayed with the aim of helping parents to ensure effe ctive treatment for their children and includes journal-tracking formats to help caregivers provide accurate information to person al physicians. Importantly, many pages are devoted to discussions about the emotional upheavals that living with a bipolar child c an bring, and how parents and children can cope most effectively. The book is filled with families' stories that do a beautiful jo b providing comfort and inspiration to others. A detailed chapter on hospitalization covers everything from insurance to types of treatments. The authors provide excellent information regarding i mproved educational practices, with step-by-step instructions for goal-setting with your child and communicating your child's need s to school personnel. The Bipolar Child is a satisfying and wise read. --Jill Lightner From Publishers Weekly Demitri, associate professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine i n New York, and his wife, Janice (authors of Overcoming Depressio n), present a comprehensive view of early-onset bipolar disorder, focusing on how this complicated illness evolves in children. Th e authors warn that nearly one-third of children diagnosed with a ttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may actually be bi polar (previously called manic depression), and they stress the i mportance of getting early diagnosis and treatmentAespecially sin ce ritalin, which is commonly prescribed for ADHD, may worsen the bipolar child's condition. The authors dispel the myth that bipo lar disorder occurs only in adolescents and adults and note that cases of bipolar disorder are increasingly occurring at a younger age. While the book sounds several alarms, it also offers suppor t to parents (Demitri is the adviser for an online support group for parents of bipolar children, from which the authors culled mu ch of their anecdotal information). In addition to diagnosis and treatment, the authors discuss practical ways to deal with the co ndition itself, as well as the impact it has on the entire family . This is an important guide for parents seeking ways to cope wit h this potentially devastating disorder. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 R eed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In their fri ghtening yet supportive book, Papolos (psychiatry, Albert Einstei n Coll. of Medicine) and his wife (coauthor, with her husband, of Overcoming Depression) describe life with a bipolar child in gre at detail. These authors write for real people with very real day -to-day crises, laying out in generalists' terms the psychopathol ogy and genetics of bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-dep ression). They emphasize the importance and difficulties of findi ng the correct diagnosis and drug therapies. Their empathetic dis cussions of the extended family, school-related problems, hospita lization, insurance companies, welfare, and adolescence suggest w hat to expect, what to say, and how to advocate for bipolar child ren. A listing of helpful organizations and web sites as well as resources, questionnaires, and an extensive bibliography are all provided. Highly recommended, especially for teachers and familie s of bipolar children. -AMargaret Cardwell, Georgia Perimeter Col l., Clarkston Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Re view Advance Praise for The Bipolar Child: Demitri and Janice P apolos have broken important new ground by taking on the challeng ing problem of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder in children an d adolescents. . . . Their new book balances scientific and clini cal knowledge with moving personal accounts of experiences of rea l families. Their efforts are welcome. --Ross J. Baldessarini, M. D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical S chool, Director of the Bipolar & Psychotic Disorders Program, McL ean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital The Bipolar Child is a well-organized, practical, and authoritative book by highly knowledgeable authors. As the first book on this subject it fill s a huge void and will be extremely helpful for families --E. Ful ler Torrey, M.D., Executive Director, The National Alliance for t he Mentally Ill Research Institute The Papoloses have somehow ma naged to climb into the minds of the parents of bipolar children and answer our tremendous number of questions. . . . Finally, par ents of bipolar children have a book that will help them find hop e! --S. M. Tomie Burke, Founder, Parents of Bipolar Children and the BPPARENT Listserv This book should make the public as well a s the field of psychiatry rethink their perceptions of this devas tating illness of childhood. It is a book whose time has come. -- Victoria Secunda, author of When Madness Comes Home The Bipolar Child will help families understand the out-of-control child. It includes moving, well-written, and sensitive accounts from many f amilies who have experienced early onset of this very disabling d isorder. The good news is, however, that there is treatment and i t works. --Laurie Flynn, Executive Director, The National Allianc e for the Mentally Ill Research Institute From the Inside Flap F rom the authors of the classic text Overcoming Depression, here i s the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder. Bipolar dis order--manic depression--was once thought to be rare in children. Now researchers are discovering that not only can bipolar disord er begin very early in life, but also that it is much more common than ever imagined. Yet the illness is often misdiagnosed or ove rlooked. Why? Bipolar disorder manifests itself differently in c hildren than in adults, and in children there is an overlap of sy mptoms with other childhood psychiatric disorders. As a result, t hese kids may be given any number of psychiatric labels: ADHD, De pressed, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Diso rder, or Separation Anxiety Disorder. Too often they are treated with stimulants or antidepressants--medications that can actually worsen the bipolar condition. The Bipolar Child demystifies thi s disorder of childhood. Drawing upon recent advances in the fiel ds of neuroscience and genetics, the Papoloses convey what is kno wn and not known about the illness. They comprehensively detail t he diagnosis, tell how to find good treatment and medications, an d advise parents about ways to advocate effectively for their chi ldren at school. Included in these pages is the first Individual Education Plan--IEP--ever published for a bipolar child. The book also offers critical information about the stages of adolescence , hospitalization, the world of insurance, and the psychological impact the illness has on the child. The Bipolar Child is rich w ith the voices of parents, siblings, and the children themselves, opening up the long-closed world of the families struggling with this condition. An invaluable resource for parents whose childre n suffer from mood disorders, as well as the professionals who tr eat and educate them, this book will prove to have major public h ealth significance. About the Author Demitri Papolos, M.D., is a n associate professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and the codirector of the Program in B ehavioral Genetics. He is the medical advisor for Parents of Bipo lar Children, an on-line support group, and the chair of the prof essional advisory board of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Found ation. Janice Papolos is the author of three books, all recognize d as definitive in their field. The Papoloses live in Westport, C onnecticut. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reser ved. Voices from the Front In 1992 Tomie Burke, a young mother i n Pullman, Washington, developed a listserv (called BPParents) fo r parents of children with bipolar disorder. She was motivated to do so because when her six-year-old son first began experiencing the baffling and frightening symptoms of the illness, she search ed community and university libraries, bookstores, databases, and Internet pages in her desperate desire to become educated about the illness and to help her child. She found little to check out, purchase, or download. But eventually she did become extremely knowledgeable about the illness, and she wanted to reach out to o ther families--to provide information and assure them that they w ere not alone. She soon had an address on the World Wide Web call ed Parents of Bipolar Children. The site consisted of a home page , links to information about the disorder, and a guest book where parents could describe how they found the site, note whether the y had a boy or girl with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and com ment a bit about their situations. The messages left by parents who visited convey a desperate need for information and sheer rel ief when they discover that they are not alone-that the illness i s not uncommon and that it isn't caused by bad parenting. That fi rst year thousands of parents came to the site seeking help for t heir children. What is early-onset bipolar disorder, and why is it such a little-known illness? Most people have never heard of t he expression, but it is actually psychiatry's phrase for manic-d epression that occurs early--very early--in life. (Adults who use d to be diagnosed manic-depressive are now also referred to as ha ving bipolar disorder.) Bipolar disorder in children is a neglec ted public health problem. It is estimated that one-third of all the children in this country who are being diagnosed with attenti on-deficit disorder with hyperactivity are actually suffering fro m early symptoms of bipolar disorder. Since close to 4 million ch ildren were prescribed stimulants such as Ritalin in 1998, that's over 1 million children who eventually will be diagnosed as bipo lar. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Ps ychiatry, a third of the 3.4 million children who first seem to b e suffering with depression will go on to manifest the bipolar fo rm of a mood disorder. Researchers in the field of early-onset bi polar disorder peg that figure closer to 50 percent. Amid all the dry statistics stand several million suffering children as well as their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and grandparents. This illness is as old as humankind, and has probably been conser ved in the human genome because it confers great energy and origi nality of thought. People who have had it have literally changed the course of human history: Manic-depression has afflicted (and probably fueled the brilliance of) people like Isaac Newton, Abra ham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Johann Goethe , Honoré de Balzac, George Frederic Handel, Ludwig von Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, E rnest Hemingway, Robert Lowell, and Anne Sexton. But until recen tly, manic-depression was thought to affect people in their early twenties or older. It was not viewed as an illness that could oc cur among children. This has proven to be myth. The temperamenta l features and behaviors of bipolar disorder can begin to emerge very early on--even in infancy. But because a vast majority of bi polar children also meet criteria for ADHD (and the focus of drug treatment strategies becomes the symptoms of ADHD), the bipolar illness is typically overlooked. As a result, drugs are prescribe d to deal only with the symptoms of hyperactivity and distractibi lity. And, since many, many children initially develop depressive symptoms as the earliest manifestation of the illness, bipolar d isorder may again be discounted as the primary diagnosis. Childh ood bipolar disorder can overlap or occur with many disorders of childhood other than ADHD or depression: panic disorder, generali zed anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and To urette's syndrome, to name a few. And this mixed-symptom picture can be perplexing and confound diagnosis. Moreover, only in the p ast few years has bipolar disorder become the focus of research i nquiry. The Illness in Adults Bipolar disorder in children pres ents very differently from how it presents in adults. Adults typi cally experience a more classical pattern of mood swings. In the manic phase, the person experiences an increased rate of thinking , has surges of energy, and describes him- or herself as feeling more active, creative, intelligent, and sexual than he or she eve r, Broadway, 2000, 2.5, Broadway Books. Very Good. 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches. Paperback. 2008. 306 pages. <br>A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. A bove all, a life that matters-so that when you leave this world, you'll have changed it for the better. If science said you could have all this just by altering one behavior, would you? Dr. Step hen Post has been making headlines by funding studies at the nati on's top universities to prove once and for all the life-enhancin g benefits of caring, kindness, and compassion. The exciting new research shows that when we give of ourselves, especially if we s tart young, everything from life-satisfaction to self-realization and physical health is significantly affected. Mortality is dela yed. Depression is reduced. Well-being and good fortune are incre ased. In their life-changing new book, Why Good Things Happen to Good People, Dr. Post and journalist Jill Neimark weave the growi ng new science of love and giving with profoundly moving real-lif e stories to show exactly how giving unlocks the doors to health, happiness, and a longer life. The astounding new research incl udes a fifty-year study showing that people who are giving during their high school years have better physical and mental health t hroughout their lives. Other studies show that older people who g ive live longer than those who don't. Helping others has been sho wn to bring health benefits to those with chronic illness, includ ing HIV, multiple sclerosis, and heart problems. And studies show that people of all ages who help others on a regular basis, even in small ways, feel happiest. Why Good Things Happen to Good P eople offers ten ways to give of yourself, in four areas of life, all proven by science to improve your health and even add to you r life expectancy. (And not one requires you to write a check.) T he one-of-a-kind Love and Longevity Scale scores you on all ten w ays, from volunteering to listening, loyalty to forgiveness, cele bration to standing up for what you believe in. Using the lessons and guidelines in each chapter, you can create a personalized pl an for a more generous life, finding the style of giving that sui ts you best. The astonishing connection between generosity and health is so convincing that it will inspire readers to change th eir lives in ways big and small. Get started today. A longer, hea lthier, happier life awaits you. Editorial Reviews Review Advan ce Praise for Why Good Things Happen to Good People In writing s o compellingly about the importance of lifelong giving, Stephen P ost and Jill Neimark have actually modeled their own principle by giving all of us a gift. Bringing together a summary of new scie ntific data on altruism, a compendium of moving stories of human compassion, and a new survey tool to assist in self-examination, this book convincingly demonstrates that 'love your neighbor as y ourself' can indeed provide a joyful path towards a fulfilled lif e. --Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director, Human Genome Project and author of The Language of God Stephen Post and Jill Neimark make the scientific case for generosity eloquently, humanely, and compellingly. This book meets Nietzsche's criterion for good phi losophy: 'Change your life!' --Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD, Fox Le adership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness: Using the Ne w Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfi llment In my entire lifetime I have never read a book that prese nts the benefits of giving for the giver as well as this one does , and using such powerful science in the process. --Robert H. Sc huller, founder of The Crystal Cathedral Stephen Post and Jill N eimark have brought together the main findings from the new scien ce of genuine love and translated them into helpful, practical ad vice that the reader can easily apply. Those who take this book t o heart will surely make their lives better, and will help to mak e the world a better place as well. --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph D, professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University, and au thor of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience This book is chock-full of good stuff. Read, enjoy and be uplifted! --Millard Fuller, founder and president of the Fuller Center for Housing an d founder of Habitat for Humanity About the Author Stephen Post, PhD, is a professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve Univers ity's School of Medicine. He is president of the Institute for Re search on Unlimited Love, and his work has appeared in top journa ls such as JAMA, Science, and The Lancet. Jill Neimark is a jour nalist, novelist, and former features editor for Psychology Today whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, an d Discover. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserv ed. One Find the Fire If I could take one word with me into ete rnity, it would be give. For the past eighteen years I've taught medical ethics at Case Western University Medical School, and si nce 2001 I've run a research institute dedicated to exploring the extraordinary power of giving. We've funded over fifty studies a t forty-four major universities. I have one simple message to of fer and it's this: giving is the most potent force on the planet. Giving is the one kind of love you can count on, because you can always choose it: it's always within your power to give. Giving will protect you your whole life long. Most of us can recall wit h radiant clarity those moments when giving was receiving, when a nother's happiness was our own. After fifty-five years on this ea rth, I, like you, hold those moments as my most precious. But I a lso know about the power of giving because, as head of the Instit ute for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL), I've funded studies an d seen scientific proof. Pioneering scientists across many discip lines are pursuing a whole new topography of research focused on the traits and qualities that create happiness, health, contentme nt, and lasting success in life. These scientists are discovering the deep, remarkable impact of benevolent behavior on mental and physical health. Personally, I am now convinced that giving is t he answer to the malaise that corrodes many lives today, a malais e born of too much bowling alone, as the sociologist Robert Putna m describes our fragmented lives. You wish to be happy? Loved? S afe? Secure? You want to turn to others in tough times and count on them? You want the warmth of true connection? You'd like to wa lk into the world each day knowing that this is a place of benevo lence and hope? Then I have one answer: give. Give daily, in smal l ways, and you will be happier. Give and you will be healthier. Give, and you will even live longer. Generous behavior shines a protective light over the entire life span. The startling finding s from our many studies demonstrate that if you engage in helping activities as a teen, you will still be reaping health benefits sixty or seventy years later. And no matter when you adopt a givi ng lifestyle, your well-being will improve, even late in life. Ge nerous behavior is closely associated with reduced risk of illnes s and mortality and lower rates of depression. Even more remarkab le, giving is linked to traits that undergird a successful life, such as social competence, empathy, and positive emotion. By lear ning to give, you become more effective at living itself. As psy chiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger wrote, Love cures--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. This book will show you why giving is scientifically sound advice, and by the time you're fi nished reading these pages, you'll have many tools for embarking on a healthier, more giving lifestyle yourself. Romance of a Dif ferent Kind This book has one purpose: to inspire you to a healt hier, more giving lifestyle. It offers: *The latest scientific f indings connecting generous behavior and happiness, health and lo ngevity, as well as a look toward future science *A practical ro admap detailing the distinctly different ways of giving available to all of us every day that will allow you to think about daily giving concretely, chapter by chapter *Stories of giving, for wh at is life but a tapestry of stories? We are meaning-making creat ures, and stories inspire us *A new and unique Love and Longevit y Scale, developed by top scientists, with which you can self-rat e your own strengths and gifts *Simple, practical suggestions an d exercises to help you shift easily and gradually to a life of g reater giving You'll notice, as you read this book, that when I speak of giving and love, I rarely mention romantic infatuation. What of the face that launched a thousand ships? The rose that, b y any other name, would smell as sweet? The troubadours, music, p oetry, art, and wars waged because of love? Romantic attraction is a pleasure-driven passion that carries its own unique brain ch emistry, marked by fevered highs and, at times, wrenching lows. W hen we fall in love, infatuation propels us to ride a tidal wave of overwhelmingly positive feelings, so that we see our beloved a s perfection incarnate. This early bliss helps propagate the spec ies--but it tends to be fleeting. Though falling in love is an ex perience we all cherish, it is not the kind of love that does the heavy lifting in life. Staying in love requires the many express ions of generous behavior that are the core of this book. I have been married for twenty-five years. It's fair to say that my marr iage began with romantic infatuation. Friendship emerged because it had to. After the birth of our daughter, cooperation and toler ance became essential; in fact, the transition to parenthood was one of the most maturing events of my life. But even the new, coo perative friendship that developed as we became parents would not have been enough to hold us together over the decades. A deeper kind of love emerged, one grounded in compassion, hope, forgivene ss, loyalty, tolerance, respect. In every marriage that begins w ith the dizzying highs of romance, it is the deeper, quieter ways of love that ultimately sustain it. The Harvard psychiatrist Geo rge Vaillant, who has followed the lives of Harvard graduates for half a century, gives the example of a judge who met his wife in high school. At age sixty-five, he reported that his love was mu ch deeper than at the beginning. At age seventy-seven, he said, A s life gets shorter, I love Cecily even more. This book is about that kind of love. And it is giving that renews and sustains love over time. How Did a Bioethicist End Up Running an Institute on Love? One evening in the year 2000, at Duke University, a phila nthropist named Sir John Templeton sat with me over a friendly cu p of tea and suggested that I start an institute to study love, a nd love alone. Sir John is legendary in the investing world for c reating one of the most successful mutual funds of the last centu ry. His specialty was to identify emerging markets so that stimul ating business could benefit the local economy. Knighted in 1987 for his achievements, Sir John retired to the Bahamas and began a unique kind of philanthropy. His foundation gives away $60 milli on a year for both spiritual and scientific endeavors and achieve ment. His annual Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities offers about $1.5 million a year and has been awarded to everybody from Mother Teresa to Ale ksandr Solzhenitsyn to the physicist Paul Davies. I was a bit fl oored by Sir John's suggestion. When I came to Case Western Reser ve University School of Medicine in 1988, I chose to focus on the needs of Alzheimer's sufferers and their families. I was drawn t o these people I call the deeply forgetful because I had seen my own grandmother die of Alzheimer's. I knew that even in the haze of dementia, she could still give and receive love--in fact, it w as the only language left to her. These patients revealed to me t he simple truth that love is our core. I learned a lot about givi ng from the deeply forgetful and their families as I traveled aro und the country holding focus groups. Sir John knew this, and he himself had long been captivated by the idea of unselfish love. A few months after we'd shared tea, Sir John wrote me to continue the conversation; he asked that I establish a first-class scient ific institute to study the impact of love and giving on our live s. Soon after, I sat down with the dean of Case Medical School, N athan A. Berger, to discuss it. Nate, I said, public health is ab out more than the flu and lead paint and obesity. It's also about benevolence and generosity and hope. Love is actually powerful m edicine. We all know that--Harry Harlow told us that half a centu ry ago--but we don't study it enough. In 1951 the psychologist H arry Harlow had offered an extraordinary presidential address to the American Psychological Association. Harlow was one of the fir st scientists to bring love into the lab. His controversial studi es of baby monkeys clinging to cloth-and-wire moms are unforgetta ble--they showed us how deep and hardwired the need for affection and warmth is. Love, Harlow said, is a wondrous state, deep, ten der and regarding . . . [and yet] psychologists tend to give prog ressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire li ves. He challenged the entire audience of his peers, asking why w e study hatred, violence, fear, pornography, but not positive emo tions. Nate got my point. Visionaries like Nate Berger and Sir J ohn Templeton are rare. And so, in 2001, with a generous start-up grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the Institute for Rese arch on Unlimited Love was founded as an independent entity locat ed at Case Medical School. Many colleagues of mine, even good fr iends, have been amused by the name of the Institute. When you ac cept a challenge like Sir John's, you've got to shore up a lot of nerve to push it forward. And so I embrace the skepticism I enco unter. It's one of the delightful challenges of this kind of work , and increasingly, people have come to take the Institute seriou sly. When people ask me what the Institute does, I have three an swers. The first: we fund pioneering, high-level, empirical resea rch on unselfish love in every aspect from human development and genetics to positive psychology and sociology. The second: Rememb er what Mr. Rogers said after the September 11, 2001, terrorist a ttacks? 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