The Continuum Concept...
About the Book
Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years deep in the South American jungle with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.
( From the back cover of the American edition. )
If you haven’t read the book...
Though not written as a child-rearing manual, The Continuum Concept has earned a reputation as an excellent resource for parents and parents-to-be who intuitively feel that the parenting “techniques” of the modern era are inherently misguided. It has also been helpful to many adults — parents and non-parents alike — who hope to recover the natural state of happiness lost as a result of the modern child-rearing practices of their (well-meaning) parents.
This website will provide enough information to give you a good idea of just what the continuum concept is and how to apply it to your life; but if you want to restore more fully your natural instincts — especially for parenting — we heartily suggest you get your hands on a copy of the book and let it transform your consciousness. Jean Liedloff’s writing combines vivid storytelling with articulate reasoning in such a way that it jars the reader’s mind free of the entrenched, “civilized” way of thinking which obscures the inner knowing of what she calls the continuum sense.
The Continuum Concept has been translated from its original English version into several other languages and has sold more than a million copies throughout the world. For the most part, the success of the book has been the result of readers not just recommending it to people they care about, but actually giving them the book as a gift. We’ve heard from readers who bought copies of The Continuum Concept by the dozen!
Translations & Worldwide Availability
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| Language | Title links to buy online |
Publisher Country, ISBN |
| English/US | The Continuum Concept amazon.com (US), amazon.CA |
Da Capo / Hachette United States 9780201050714 |
| English/UK | The Continuum Concept amazon.co.UK, amazon.com.AU, amazon.IN |
Arkana / Penguin United Kingdom 9780140192452 |
| Chinese |  also: 富足人生的原動力 amazon.com, ruten.com.tw |
Third Nature Taiwan 9576965063 |
| Czech | Koncept kontinua dharmagaia.cz, luxor.cz, pantarhei.sk |
DharmaGaia Czech Republic 9788086685793 |
| Danish | Kontinuum Begrebet hansreitzel.dk |
Hans Reitzels Denmark 9788741277103 |
| Dutch | Op Zoek Naar Het Verloren Geluk uitgeverij-pantarhei.nl, amazon.NL |
Panta Rhei Netherlands 9789076771571 |
| French | Le Concept du Continuum editions-ambre.fr, amazon.FR |
Édition Ambre France/Switzerland 9782940500468 |
| German | Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Glück amazon.DE |
Germany 9783406708657 |
| Hebrew | עקרון הרצף (Ikaron HaRetzef) alternativot.co.il |
Alternativot Israel — |
| Hindi | सातत्य की अवधारणा banyantreebookstore.com |
Banyan Tree India 9788192095769 |
| Hungarian | Az elveszett boldogság nyomában — ketezeregybolt.hu, pantarhei.sk |
Kétezeregy Kiadó Hungary 9789639904101 |
| Italian | Il concetto del continuum lameridiana.it, amazon.IT, kindle |
La Meridiana Italy 9788861535305 |
| Japanese | 野生への旅 (Yasei e no tabi) amazon.co.JP, google search |
Shinyosha Japan JP番号 85024363 |
| Polish | W głębi kontinuum mamania.pl, amazon.PL |
Mamania Poland 9788365796431 |
| Russian | Как вырастить ребенка счастливым Publisher: print, ebook Retail: litres.ru, books.apple.com |
LitRes Russia 9785985634495 |
| Serbian | Појам континуума also: Pojam kontinuuma clio.rs |
CLIO Serbia |
| Spanish | El Concepto del Continuum obstare.com, amazon.com, amazon.ES |
Editorial OB STARE Spain 9788412310658 |
| Swedish | Kontinuumkonceptet bod.se |
Kveru Sweden 9163948718 |
| Turkish | Dokunmanın Mucizesi google search |
Kuraldışı Yayınları Turkey 9789756744246 |