Books with author Joel Levey

Get more out of meditation with this comprehensive guide to various techniques: “A skillful blend of time-proven antidotes to the stress of modern life” (Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence). With this inspirational book, Joel and Michelle Levey offer a complete guide to inner exploration, whether you’re new to meditation or an experienced practitioner. By breaking down mindfulness techniques into distinct categories, the Leveys offer readers an easy-to-use resource for getting more out of meditation. Seasoned experts on the topic of meditation, the Leveys were among the first to bring mind-fitness teachings into mainstream organizations. From NASA to Google, the Leveys have taught their techniques to people in leading corporations and government organizations, as well as at universities, medical centers, and more. This spiritual book is a treasury of the wisdom that they have amassed over the years. Through it, they share the mind-fitness disciplines necessary for personal mastery, wisdom, creativity, compassion, and resilience.

The simplest questions are sometimes the hardest to answer. Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why do we need sleep? Why are there 24 hours in a day? For each question, author Joel Levy provides a simple, single-line answer followed by more in-depth information about the scientific background on these essential topics. This book spans physics, biology, chemistry, geology, geography, meteorology, paleontology, and planetary science―allowing readers to wow friends and family alike with pithy answers to the obvious questions they never thought to ask.

PHOBIAPEDIA is an encyclopedia of all the things we fear the most, from more common fears like spiders (Arachnophobia), heights (Acrophobia), and confined spaces (Claustrophobia) to the strange and unusual like dust (Koniophobia) and the color yellow (Xanthophobia). From their fascinating names to their fearsome effects, PHOBIAPEDIA explores all aspects of the things that make us shiver and scream. You'll learn what makes us fear them and why sometimes it's not such a bad idea to be scared. Packed with amazing images and filled with facts and figures, here at your fingertips is the truth behind the scariest things on the planet.

Why? Answers to Everyday Scientific Questions gets to grips with concepts that appear simple and straightforward, but which most people, when asked, really can’t explain. Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why do we need sleep? Why are there 24 hours in a day? For each question, author Joel Levy provides a simple, single line answer followed by more in-depth information about the scientific background on these essential topics. The book spans physics, biology, chemistry, geology, geography, meteorology, paleontology and planetary science  - allowing readers to wow friends and family alike with pithy answers to the obvious questions they never thought to ask.

This highly intricate, illuminating, and informative text contains nuggets of knowledge, brain-teasing trivia, and mind-blowing facts for even the most committed know-it-all. Readers are treated to a generously over-stuffed, one-stop collection of useful information about the universe and everything contained within itincluding galaxies, planets, stars, geology, climate, the human body, plants, animals, nations of the world, and the dazzling history of human endeavor. This compact compendium also supports Common Core Standards for the reading of scientific texts and accounts and the analyzing of how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.