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04/25/2022

Dr Alexander Kofinas, one of America’s leading high-risk pregnancy experts, and author of The Working Womb, invites you to participate in a question and answer session hosted by The Star Legacy Foundation.

“I look forward to getting some tough questions and will try help you uncover the truth behind the horrifying “unexplained” diagnosis,” says Dr Kofinas.
The mission of the Star Legacy Foundation is to increase awareness, support research, promote education, and encourage advocacy and family support regarding stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and neonatal death. Jeanine Sabatino of the foundation will interview Dr Kofinas in this live, zoom session on Friday, April 29th at 7:30 PM EST. Here’s the link to join the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84249618502?pwd=bWZtS1JjemtDdWh1ZzExMDVrMytoZz09
You’re welcome to submit any question regarding the following:
· Fetal demise prevention
· The role of placenta in fetal health and disease
· Unexplained recurrent miscarriage
· Unexplained infertility
· Unexplained recurrent IVF failure
· The role of endometriosis in recurrent implantation failure
· The role of the coagulation and immune system in implantation
· Premature ovarian failure
We hope you’ll join the session and get the answers you need.

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10/31/2021

UPCOMING: THE SOUL OF THE INVENTOR

Technology's transformation of our world prompts the question: Are technologies gifts or curses? This book answers by explaining the difference between science and technology. It argues cogently that confusing them has created many false beliefs, and that a clearer understanding of their respective roles is essential to address our 21st-century challenges.

10/24/2021

NEW FROM MONTAGU HOUSE: MIGHTY WOMAN WITH A TORCH

Taking its title from Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, this inspiring, moving book tells of a remarkable act of transatlantic compassion at a time when the US was seen as a beacon of hope and moral leadership for the world. A companion volume to Evangelos Louizos's powerful memoir of WW2 Greece, My Father Had This Luger.

10/15/2021

THE FALL OF SCIENCE

The United States was born when the intellectual prestige of science swept the world, and in time the new republic became a standard-bearer of global scientific advancement. By the early 21st century, however, a significant number of Americans and their political leaders had become science deniers. This provocative work calls for a scientific renaissance and traces the academic origin of science's fall.

10/13/2021

COMING SOON: THE MASK & THE MAGIC

Before Stan Lee, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and the Avengers, Lee Falk launched the superhero age by giving the world Mandrake, the caped illusionist, and The Phantom, first hero to combine a secret identity, eyeless mask, a crusade for justice, and a skin-tight costume. Mr Falk’s widow looks back on her years with a pioneer of an American art form.

10/11/2021

UPCOMING: THE VISIONS OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE

The convergence of science fiction with reality obsessed one of the 20th century’s most influential writers, whose writings on science fact and possibility gave him a prophetic place among those who have imagined the human future. In this challenging volume, scholars around the world use Clarke's ideas as a window on our tomorrow among the stars. Includes commentary by Sir Arthur published here for the first time in book form.

10/08/2021

COMING SOON: THE 21ˢᵗ-CENTURY MYTHOLOGY

Over millennia, civilizations evolved out of mythic traditions. Ancient Greece, Rome, Asia and cultures elsewhere produced stories that shaped the world’s imagination. Now, as old influences recede, popular culture and powerful entertainment technologies are creating a new vocabulary of myth, explored here by an international array of scholars.

10/04/2021

COMING SOON: THE AGE OF TELECOMMUNITY

Prior to the pandemic, computerized telecommunications began altering workplaces. As distance work evolved, it became clear that telework wasn’t just an option to let employees work at home periodically: a bigger change was under way. The Coronavirus confirmed this dramatically. In this volume, an international panel of academics discusses what comes next.

10/01/2021

UPCOMING: CYBER CENTURY

The pivotal events of our time include the Soviet Union’s fall, our planet’s movement into a critical phase of climate change, and the rise of Internet technologies, which have ushered us into an era of universal digital infrastructure. In this searching symposium, philosophers in several countries assess the digital revolution’s profound implications for the human prospect.

09/29/2021

THE INTELLECTUAL VERSUS THE CITY

Produced in association with the Einstein Legacy Society at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where Professor Morton White, one of the 20th century’s leading pragmatist philosophers, spent much of his career, this timely volume updates and recontextualizes a major philosophical study of our anxiety about the concept of the city and its future.

09/27/2021

UPCOMING: SHAPING THE CITY IN PEN & INK

A combination of text and images that shows how, over decades, a columnist for a great American newspaper has used his cartooning talent to sharpen his criticism and commentary on cityscapes and the structures we choose to build within them. A witty, instructive and incisive look at both the recent history of urban thought and the power of cartoon art.

09/27/2021

The US has failed pregnant women for years, resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of babies. This information is part of the message of New York pregnancy care professor Dr. Alexander Kofinas, in his new book, THE WORKING WOMB.

Dr. Kofinas holds the medical establishment to account for “shrugging off” America’s high rate of miscarriage, which he attributes to “placenta science illiteracy” among health insurers and doctors. And he urges women to lobby for a Placenta Bill of Rights guaranteeing adequate placenta care.

American women, he reports, are receiving pregnancy care based on obsolete placenta science, including a trimester concept that divides pregnancy into three stages, of which the first — a crucial phase for healthy placenta development— is generally neglected.

“This has disastrous consequences for women and their babies,” he argues. “Of all human embryos conceived in the US, 65% don’t survive past four weeks. Of those that do, one in four miscarry. The medical establishment shrugs off these shocking numbers, apparently finding them acceptable, just as it avoids publicizing the fact that every year more American women die of cardiovascular disease than from cancer, accidents, Alzheimer’s and respiratory diseases combined. What all these illnesses have in common is the placenta. But the medical establishment is to a large degree placenta-science illiterate.”

THE WORKING WOMB is filled with practical details that will arm you to:

1. ANTICIPATE pregnancy obstacles with foreknowledge

2. MINIMIZE the chances of their worsening

3. CORRECT them in good time BEFORE they get big enough to threaten your pregnancy with disaster!

The information in this book can replace high-risk
pregnancy stress with a new, hopeful, science based understanding of:

WHY pregnancies fail ...

HOW to avoid problems that arise from ignorance of the placenta's needs ...

WHAT can be done when things go wrong!

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09/27/2021

THIS FALL: WHY NOTHING SEEMS TO MATTER ANY MORE: A Philosophical Study of our Nihilistic Age confronts what is arguably the most important philosophical issue of our era: nihilism, the withering of established beliefs and their replacement by no new beliefs that seem to fulfill a similar role in human imaginations, priorities and emotions.

09/27/2021

NOW AVAILABLE: My Father Had This Luger...

An enthralling, moving and true story of the N**i occupation of Greece, it leaves you with a fresh understanding of the indomitability of the human spirit, delivering suspense, surprises, sharp characterizations, insights into human nature and a fascinating historical education along the way. The descriptions of war are frightening, but soldiers of all sides, as well as civilians, are drawn with humanity and compassion. The book opens when Greece is invaded by Mussolini, who calls in his ally, Hi**er. Jackboots march through Athens, the sw****ka rises over the Acropolis, Wehrmacht troops are stationed across the road from the home of a small boy who acquires a ringside view of the coming and going of the Luftwaffe amid tragedy, comedy and terror. When the Allies eventually arrive, their presence turns out to be shockingly different from the liberation that the besieged Greeks had expected. An eye-opening picture of war’s impacts on ordinary people. Throughout it all, the small boy Evangelos slips through the neighborhood like a ghost, watching events from the unique vantage point of an invisible witness. An unforgettable portrait of the potential for heroism dwelling within ordinary people, and an eloquent testimony to the power of human endurance, laughter and the will to survive. Every age group, from young adults up, will find its own layers of meaning.