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Author : Leesa McGregor
Release : 2021-01-12
Genre : Alphabet
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A New Alphabet for Humanity by : Leesa McGregor
Download or read book A New Alphabet for Humanity written by Leesa McGregor. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart based book that inspires children to be kind, compassionate, and loving to people and the planet.
Author : James R. Doty, MD
Release : 2016-02-02
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 025/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Into the Magic Shop by : James R. Doty, MD
Download or read book Into the Magic Shop written by James R. Doty, MD. This book was released on 2016-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
Author : Inger Christensen
Release : 2001
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Alphabet by : Inger Christensen
Download or read book Alphabet written by Inger Christensen. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation.
Author : Judith Flanders
Release : 2020-10-20
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 061/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Place for Everything by : Judith Flanders
Download or read book A Place for Everything written by Judith Flanders. This book was released on 2020-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Release : 2019
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 998/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by : Ursula K. Le Guin
Download or read book The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction written by Ursula K. Le Guin. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew. With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway. With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.
