Richard Grossinger - Bibliography

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Abu Ghraib: The Politics Of Torture

Richard Grossinger; Meron Benvenisti; John Gray; Barbara Ehrenreich; Charles Stein; Mark Danner; David Matlin; David Levi Strauss; Brooke Warner

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On the Integration of Nature: Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes

Richard Grossinger

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Planet Medicine: Modalities

Richard Grossinger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995

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Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life

Richard Grossinger

The basis for biology is embryogenesis — a method of organizing the matter responsible for the creation of life. This book brings attention to the gap between science’s description of life as random and mechanical, and the depth of human experience. Other sections discuss genetic determinism; embryonic models of healing; the Islamic critique of Western science; and theories of consciousness and language. Offering Buddhist, phenomenological, and indigenous systems of thought as alternatives to neo-Darwinism, the cultural, philosophical, political, and ecological ramifications of embryos, genes, and evolution are explored.

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Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity

Richard Grossinger

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Homeopathy: The Great Riddle

Richard Grossinger

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Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's

Richard Grossinger

This dual story about Jewish families and Grossinger's Resort bridges the generations from before World War II to the rise of the counterculture -- A blend of novel, memoir, and oral history reveals the complete insider's tale of the rise and fall of Grossinger's Resort in the Catskills, and of several generations of Jewish families in America This ingenious book fuses literary genres to paint a fascinating double portrait. The first canvas captures the famed resort in the Catskills, sweeping from 19th-century Poland to Manhattan's Lower East Side to Ferndale, New York. It traces the rise and fall of Grossinger's from the 1920s through the '80s. The second tableau takes a closer look at some of the prominent Jewish families who frequented Grossinger's. The author branches out to the family of his stepfather, Robert Towers (born Reuben Turetsky), an early New York City impresario. Towers's son, Jonathan, becomes a focal point as his life declines from high-school quarterback and track star to street person and mental patient. A peculiarly American story, Out of Babylon is the author's voyage of self-discovery, the story of North Atlantic Books and alternative publishing, and of Berkeley in the '70s. Though not a sequel to New Moon, one of the author's earlier works, it provides a broader backdrop to many of the same characters and events. "This is a strong, deeply moving book. I can't think of another example in which the details and particularities of childhood have been evoked so fully, with such painstaking care and precision". -- Paul Auster, author of Moon Palace, Mr. Vertigo, and Smoke

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New Moon

Richard Grossinger

In this nonfiction novel, Richard Grossinger leads the reader into the world of one child in New York of the 1950s and 1960s. Beginning from his earliest memories, he traces a path through grade school at P.S. 6, "group" in Central Park, and high school at Horace Mann, while recalling Freudian psychoanalysis, his father's hotel in the Catskills (Grossinger's), rebellion against Color War at Camp Chipinaw, and the mysterious world of tarot cards. In the second half of New Moon he traverses the stages of adolescence and young manhood: college, summer jobs, dating, marriage, graduate school, and the birth of a first child. Grossinger's tale ends with anthropology fieldwork among Maine fishermen. An epilogue then describes how events of the subsequent two decades led to the writing of this book. New Moon is the most classic sort of tale, a simple narrative of a writer's life, but one so compelling and sincere that readers will find themselves experiencing their own forgotten selves. Grossinger evokes old comics, day camp in Central Park, the Yankees of the 1950s, rock and roll, college fraternities, the Mets' and Jets' 1969 championship seasons, lobsterfishing wharves, and the Hopi Indians of the Third Mesa. Beneath this shifting, cinematic landscape he unveils layers of internal dialogue, dreams, self-witnessing, and personal myth-making, exposing the mechanism of an act we all do (whether publicly or silently) and rarely acknowledge - telling our own story to others and to ourselves. At the same time, he summons the mystery of life itself - the many trances through which consciousness travels in its journey toward self-awareness.

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Planet Medicine: Origins

Richard Grossinger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995

Homeopathy: An Introduction for Skeptics and Beginners

Richard Grossinger

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The Night Sky: The Science & Anthropology of the Stars & Planets

Richard Grossinger

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Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life

Richard Grossinger; Lisa Conrad

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Into the Temple of Baseball

Richard Grossinger

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Planet Medicine: From Stone Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing

Richard Grossinger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1982, 1980

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Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams

Richard Grossinger

Explores a full range of New Age phenomena including channels, past-lives, shamans, healing, sacred sites, and much more. Grossinger distinguishes New Age marketing from real phenomena, and looks closely at both scientific and fundamentalist debunkers of New Age.

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Waiting for the Martian Express: Earth Warriors, Cosmic Visitors, Luminois Dreams

Richard Grossinger

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The Night Sky

Richard Grossinger

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1981

Embryogenesis: From Cosmos to Creature The Origins of Human Biology

Richard Grossinger

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Embryogenesis, from Cosmos to Creature: The Origins of Human Biology

Richard Grossinger

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Planetary Mysteries: Megaliths, Glaciers, the Face on Mars, and Aboriginal Dreamtime

Richard Grossinger

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Other editions: Softcover - 1986

Embryogenesis

Richard Grossinger

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Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior: Faces of Mars and Shiva in the Crisis of Human Survival

Richard Grossinger

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Other editions: 1984

Baseball Diamonds: Tales, Traces, Visions, and Voodoo from a Native American Rite

Richard Grossinger; Kevin Kerrane

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Alchemy: Pre-Egyptian Legacy, Millennial Promise

Richard Grossinger

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Ecology and Consciousness

Richard Grossinger

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