Books by Richard Cohen

A history of historians that demonstrates how the telling of history is inevitably influenced by the life and beliefs of the storyteller - 'Grave and witty, suave yet pointed - erudite yet engaging and full of energy' Hilary Mantel

¿Por qué las personas heterosexuales necesitan ser sanadas?Entre el 12% y el 55% de personas a nivel mundial se divorcian.Las investigaciones indican que el 33-75% de los hombres y el 26-70% de las mujeres son infieles en su matrimonio.El mayor sitio web de porno en el mundo (Pornhub) tuvo alrededor de 33,5 billones de visitas en 2018.Cada segundo hay un gasto de 4000 dólares en porno.Pastores, sacerdotes, políticos y actores están siendo acusados de abuso sexual a niños, jóvenes y adultos.La investigación sobre el consumo de drogas a nivel mundial, World Drug Report 2019, señala que 35 millones de personas en el mundo están afectados por el consumo de drogas.Todos necesitamos amor. No podemos vivir sin amor. Somos tantos los que estamos hipersexualizados porque estamos mal nutridos. Como a diario no recibimos suficiente contacto físico sano, muchas veces nos vemos haciendo aquello que no queremos hacer, sexo con uno mismo, masturbación y sexo fuera del matrimonio. El contacto físico sano ayuda a sanar el cuerpo, la mente, el corazón o el espíritu sediento.Sanando la Heterosexualidad: Tiempo, Tacto y Trato (TTT) Es una guía para la sanación y restauración de la humanidad y un camino para recuperar una vida mucho más sana y feliz.Si estás frustrado en tus relaciones y contigo mismo, Sanando la Heterosexualidad tiene respuestas. La gran diferencia entre este libro y otros es que este contiene muchas soluciones prácticas para resolver aspectos presentes y pasados de tu vida.TTT te enseñará cómo sanar tu corazón y tu mente y a establecer relaciones íntimas más duraderas y afectivas.TIEMPO: Herramientas de cambio para tu sanación personal, la de tu familia y tu comunidad.TACTO: Ejercicios esenciales sobre el contacto físico sano para transformar tu vida y la de aquellos a los que quieres.TRATO: Competencias de comunicación para fomentar una mayor intimidad en tus relaciones personales y profesionales.

Why do heterosexuals need to be healed?Why is there a 50% divorce rate? Why does research indicate that 33 to 73 percent of men and 26 to 70 percent of women are sexually unfaithful in marriage? Why are men and women getting hooked on porn, spending $4,000 a second?Why are more and more men being exposed for sexually abusing children, adolescents, and/or adults? Why does the USA, with 5% of the world's population, consume 80% of the world's opioids?Porn, affairs, and addictions are illegitimate attempts to meet legitimate needs for love.Are you looking for love? Longing to be held? Perhaps settling for sex instead? If you want to experience greater love in your life, Healing Heterosexuality: Time, Touch, and Talk (TTT) will provide you with the keys to fulfill your heart's desire. TTT has solutions that will change your life for good!Each of us needs to belong - family, friends, faith, work, and community. If you did not connect or securely attach with your primary caregivers in childhood, you may need more touch as an adolescent or adult. Perhaps you have used sex to fulfill those primal needs for connection. The problem is that sex never fulfills the basic need because it is that of a child, not an adolescent or adult. In fact, sex obstructs the very thing that you may be looking for - bonding, belonging, and just to be loved for who you are, not what you do, or how you look. All unwanted behaviors are driven by Unhealed Wounds and Unmet Love Needs.TTT will teach you how to heal your heart and create more loving, intimate relationships.TIME: Life-changing skills for your personal healing, family healing, and community healing.TOUCH: Essential exercises for healthy touch to transform your life and the lives of your loved ones.TALK: Communication skills to foster greater intimacy in your personal and professional relationships.

This landmark study of economic history since World War II systematically explores why postwar trade and payments have evolved as they have, the prospects for their future evolution, and the range of policy adjustments likely to be required.

For anyone who has ever identified with a character from fiction, been seduced by a first sentence or been profoundly moved by a storys end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a wonderful and illuminating journey into the minds and imaginations of the worlds greatest writers.What made Nabokov choose the name Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald tell The Great Gatsby in the first person? How did Kerouac, who raged against revision, finally come to revise On the Road? Why did Martin Amis give up on writing about sex? Veteran editor Richard Cohen draws on a vast and eclectic reservoir of knowledge to reveal what makes good prose soar. From plot and character development to dialogue and point of view, the motivations, obsessions, tricks and talents of a host of great novelists are brought to the fore, their published works mined and private beliefs unearthed. Theres the nature of originality as plagiarism is discussed, and a weighing of the odds when trying to write about physical intimacies. And how to beginOr end? From first page to last, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing, one which enriches our experience of reading both the

Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "e;Splendid Vision Sutra,"e; a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value, cosmic truth, and existential meaning. The ancient author of the "e;Splendid Vision Sutra"e; promises every imaginable reward to those who heed its words and rites, whether one's desire is to become king, enjoy heavenly pleasures for thousands of millennia, or attain the spiritual summit of advanced bodhisattvahood. Richard S. Cohen carefully analyzes this religious rhetoric, developing a heuristic model of "e;scripture"e; that extends beyond Buddhist literature. In his framework, a text becomes sacred scripture when a community accepts it as a receptacle of extraordinary value, an authoritative source of cosmic truth, and a guide for meaningful action. While clarifying these points, Cohen untangles the discursive skein through which the "e;Splendid Vision Sutra"e; expresses its authority, inspires readers to accept that authority, and promises superior power and accomplishments to those who implement its teachings. Exploring ways of living and reading a text, Cohen draws on Marcel Duchamp's theory of found art, Jerzy Grotowski's idealization of the holy actor, and other formulations, identifying contingencies, uncertainties, and incompleteness in the lived present and its determination of our reception of the past. More than a mere introduction to an important work, The Splendid Vision opens a window into religious experience and practice in contemporary environments as well as in the world of the sutra.