Today humanity faces unprecedented challenges. How can we apply advances in science and technology to ensure health and safety for all the world's people? Can we learn to tolerate and appreciate cultural diversity in an ever-shrinking global community? Can we learn to manage the planet's dwindling vital resources and basic life-support systems before it's too late?

Many worthy organizations address these issues in the political, cultural, and humanitarian spheres. But none focus, as does ISHK, on the root cause — our very nature as human beings. What do we know about the way our brains work, about the way we receive and process information from our environment, about how our mental and nervous systems evolved, which create these crises in the first place? What other capacities might be inherent in our nature to help us rise above our narrow-minded reactions and choose the most appropriate mindset for a given situation? How can we develop these new capacities in ourselves and in our children?

For more than thirty years, ISHK's programs have been addressing these questions, contributing to some major shifts in public thinking and public policy — such as in the recognition of the role of the mind in health. ISHK's efforts have been supported by renowned specialists in medicine, ecology, psychology, and education. Today some of our key programs focus on early education.

SUPPORT OUR PROGRAMS NOW AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANOTHER MATCHING GRANT OPPORTUNITY!
Donors who give to ISHK before the end of 2009 will again have their donations matched 1:1 up to $300,000 by the Will J. Reid Foundation! For more information this and on our current programs and our needs, click here.

NEW DECEMBER 2009!

Neem the Half-Boy/Neem el medio niño
English-Spanish bilingual editions

A SPECIAL OFFER FOR UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE LIBRARIES - FREE!
Cross-cultural understanding and background knowledge on the religion, philosophy and culture of the Middle East and Central Asia are essential for students. ISHK has received a substantial grant to enable us to provide university libraries, FREE OF CHARGE and with FREE SHIPPING, with a selection of titles that will provide this.

For more information on the set covering Comparative Religion, click here.
For more information on the set covering Cultural Studies: East & West, click here.

To order one or both selections, please send an email to ISHKLibrary @ aol.com. In your email include the set(s) you wish to receive, your name, your university library's name and shipping address, and a contact email address. All shipping will be via UPS ground. Since supplies on certain titles are limited, we may add alternative appropriate titles, if available.

SPECIAL OFFER ON FREE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES!
The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge is able to offer a limited selection of Hoopoe Books titles to school and children’s libraries, FREE OF CHARGE and with FREE SHIPPING, thanks to a grant from the Will J. Reid Foundation. These unique multicultural, universal teaching-stories are an ideal way to introduce young people to the cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East, showing them how much we share and can learn from each other. Now beautifully illustrated books, these ancient Teaching-Stories were originally designed not only to entertain, but to foster thinking skills and perception in children. They suggest, in their structure and in the movement of their characters, alternative ways of looking at difficulties and solving problems. They help children develop an understanding of themselves and the world around them.

For more information on a set of English hardbacks to choose from, click here.
For more information on a set of Spanish or Spanish-English Bilingual hardbacks to choose from, click here.

To order one or both selections, please send an email to ISHKLibrary @ aol.com. In your email include the set(s) you wish to receive, your name, your library's name and shipping address, and a contact email address. All shipping will be via UPS ground. Since supplies on certain titles are limited, we encourage you to act now.

BOOKS FOR AFGHANISTAN:
We have received official permission from Afghanistan's Minister of Education in Kabul authorizing us to provide Hoopoe books and complementary teaching materials to schools and children in Afghanistan. We plan to provide bilingual Dari and Pashto Hoopoe titles for distribution to schools, orphanages and libraries throughout Afghanistan. Read more…

HOOPOE BOOKS FOR PAKISTAN
Your donation is desperately needed. Hoopoe Books/Share Literacy is now collaborating with DIL (Developments in Literacy) to donate these beautiful children's books by Idries Shah to the children they serve. DIL runs 150 schools serving approximately 15,000 children, especially girls, in underdeveloped regions in Pakistan. For details, click here.

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