As you prepare to become a mother, you face an experience unlike any other in your life. Having a baby will redirect your preferences and pleasures and, most likely, will realign some of your values.As you undergo this unique psychological transformation, you will be guided by new hopes, fears, and priorities. In a most startling way, having a child will influence all of your closest relationships and redefine your role in your family's history. The charting of this remarkable, new realm is the subject of this compelling book.Renowned psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern has joined forces with pediatrician and child psychiatrist Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern and journalist Alison Freeland to paint a wonderfully evocative picture of the psychology of motherhood. At the heart of The Birth of a Mother is an arresting premise: Just as a baby develops physically in utero and after birth, so a mother is born psychologically in the many months that precede and follow the birth of her baby.The recognition of this inner transformation emerges from hundreds of interviews with new mothers and decades of clinical experience. Filled with revealing case studies and personal comments from women who have shared this experience, this book will serve as an invaluable sourcebook for new mothers, validating the often confusing emotions that accompany the development of this new identity. In addition to providing insight into the unique state of motherhood, the authors touch on related topics such as going back to work, fatherhood, adoption, and premature birth.During pregnancy, mothers-to-be talk about morning sickness and their changing bodies, and new mothers talk about their exhaustion, the benefits of nursing or bottle-feeding, and the dilemma of whether or when they should return to work. And yet, they can be strangely mute about the dramatic and often overwhelming changes going on in their inner lives. Finally, with The Birth of a Mother , these powerful feelings are eloquently put into words.

Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) gets separated from his family at Christmas time again. This time, they're in Florida and he's in New York, and the two bumbling gangsters from 'Home Alone' (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) are out of jail and on Kevin's trail.

Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant development and psychiatry brings us closer than ever before to penetrating a your child's consciousness. In alternating sections of evocative prose, representing the baby's own voice, and explanatory text, Daniel Stern draws on the latest research findings to recreate the baby's world."

The wryly amusing and revealing story of one man's journey into the swinger lifestyle that "transcends most of the usual boundaries of sexuality...and leaves the vanilla world behind" ("The New York Times Book Review").
An estimated fifteen million strong worldwide, swingers are everywhere--a huge community hiding in plain sight, whose erotic pastime remains a complete mystery to the rest of us. In "Swingland," Daniel Stern outs himself and the secretive society he loves, recounting his ten-year transformation from a lonely guy who couldn't get a date into a veteran sexual adventurer.
With wit and infectious enthusiasm, Stern shares all the hard-earned wisdom he's acquired in America's swinging underground. He encounters plenty of bumps and bruises along the way, including countless rejections, missed opportunities, and one particular AARP orgy. But slowly and surely, through an impressive series of threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, this "Vanilla" newbie becomes a much sought-after partner for couples looking to spice up their relationships. Travel with Stern on his exploits, learn a whole new lexicon (there aren't many single women swingers, or "Unicorns," but plenty of MFMs, FMFs, MMFMs, and MMMFMs), and gain free, invaluable advice should you decide to take the plunge (be honest, sensitive, and hygienic ).
"Equal parts memoir and guide book" ("New York Post"), "Swingland" is much more than a "unique, voyeuristic expose" ("Kirkus Reviews"). Lovingly written, with a keen sensibility regarding the sensitive and often misunderstood subject, Stern's narrative is as improbably safe as it is fun--and impossible to put down.

Cover painting by the author, depicting a moment of time in his vision. this trip into the lower parts of hell will open your eyes to a new way of looking at everyday life. the trip takes you to parts of a living hell that few have seen and been allowed to write about the experience. now you too can see through the eyes of Daniel the pain and victory of walking in the Court of the Crimson King.

Amidst the lights and glamour of the New York theater district during the 1950s, two Holocaust survivors confront each other in order to reckon with a common past--one that hides an awful secret. Jud Kramer, a successful stage director, is in the midst of mounting his most painful and person play while tryng to enjo the happiness he has found with his beautiful actress wife and baby daughter. Into his life comes Carl Walkowitz, a brooding, charismatic drifter who displays the scars of his concentration camp past in his wounded leg and half-closed eye.
It is the relationship of these two men, one who lives in the past and the other trying to grasp hold of the present, that drives the story of "Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die" to its terrifying conclusion. Step by step, inexorably, Walkowitz strips Jud of everything dear to him, until finally standing on an empty stage, the two men, with a woman between them, come face to face in a life-and-death struggle only one of them can survive.