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Dewey Decimal Number: 170.44 EAN: 9780060987435 ISBN: 006098743X Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: December 01, 2003 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: November 25, 2003 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Dear Patrick, For five years I have been witness to your struggles to grow up without a father. As a family friend, I can't make that up to you. What I can do is stand by you, and teach you how to be the kind of man you wish your father had been ... So begins the correspondence of two unlikely friends, Patrick Buckley, a sixteen-year-old New York City high schooler, and Jeffrey M. Schwartz, internationally renowned neuroscientist and the critically acclaimed author of Brain Lock and The Mind and the Brain. Inspired by Patrick's straight forward questions, Schwartz examines the moral teachings of our greatest spiritual leaders -- Jesus, Buddha, and Moses -- and filters them through the lens of his cutting-edge psychiatric research, as well as his own experiences of childhood loneliness and loss. With fierce certainty and love, Schwartz provides Patrick with a blueprint for breaking free from the culture of corrosive cynicism that threatens to destroy him, and for constructing a decent, meaningful, and fulfilling life. The result is a fascinating and revolutionary new code for living born of a man and a boy who sought honor and self-command in a culture of self-indulgence. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great BookA really great book, and a great explanation as to why these ideas (from Buddha, Jesus, Moses) are so important to our lives. Though technology has reshaped our physical lives, human nature has not changed, and we still have the same basic desires. I had the opportunity to meet the author and speak with him (and to thank him for writing this book), and was thoroughly impressed by his scope of knowledge on these subjects. This is the best book I have read in years, and has significantly ... Read More Rating:  - tour de forceSchwartz is a brilliant neuroscientist who here ranges far afield -- through Buddhism, Edmund Burke, Eliot, Moses and more -- with seamless erudition and not a trace of condescension as he teaches a troubled teenager some invaluable life lessons. Rating:  - obvious advice from arrogant author-- waste of time/money!!Blah blah blah... this guy is full of it! Not helpful-- this stuff is obvious. I think this kid is actually helping the author to feel better about himself, not the other way around. Basically, it's BORRRRRRRRING!!!! Rating: - Eloquent & contemporary....I'm not sure how many people would share this view, but I've often faced events that have made me wonder about whether it would be fair to call it merely a coincidence. Will not get into that line of thought here (would take too long!), sufficient to say that finding this book was one of those. For some years now, I've been thinking and wondering about what to make of what's happening in the world at large, and with the youth of today in particular. In a specific and selfish sense, this would come ... Read More Rating: - Eloquent & contemporary....I'm not sure how many people would share this view, but I've often faced events that have made me wonder about whether it would be fair to call it merely a coincidence. Will not get into that line of thought here (would take too long!), sufficient to say that finding this book was one of those. For some years now, I've been thinking and wondering about what to make of what's happening in the world at large, and with the youth of today in particular. In a specific and selfish sense, this would come ... Read More 
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