Download or read book The Friendliest Place in the Universe written by Hillary S. Webb and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismayed by the divisiveness of the Trump/Brexit era, anthropologist Hillary S. Webb began to fear that the better angels of our nature had deserted us entirely—if they had ever existed at all. In the Fall of 2017, Webb traveled to Berlin, Germany, for a week’s vacation. There, she found renewed hope in an unlikely place: Cosmic Comedy, an international stand-up venue described as “The Friendliest Comedy Club in Europe.” Down in that dark, beer-soaked basement, Webb watched with awe as the club’s eccentric-but-lovable co-promoters, Dharmander Singh and Neil Numb, gathered a group of culturally and demographically diverse comedians and audience members, transforming them over the course of an evening from strangers into allies through laughter. Convinced that Cosmic Comedy offered a model of togetherness that could help heal the divisions between us, Webb returned to Berlin a few months later with the intent of uncovering the club’s recipe for what is known in humanistic anthropology as communitas or “collective joy.” As with all journeys of the mind and heart, Webb’s investigations revealed more than she bargained for, including the unwelcome realization that collective joy has a dark side and that she, herself, was as susceptible to its intoxicating influence as anyone else. The result is a humorous, hopeful examination of the nature of human togetherness.

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Download or read book A User Friendly Universe written by Clifford Chalmers Cain and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written for Christian laypersons who want to think about their faith and be given creative and relevant suggestions about what it means to attempt authentic Christian living in todays world, and for religious professionals who want or need to reflect on various topics and issues of the Christian faith journey and desire mental stimulation and spiritual inspiration regarding them. The Rev. Dr. Cliff Cain, Harrod-C.S. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies at Westminster College, provides a compelling response to the question Can God be an effective and reliant participant in a user-friendly 21st century universe? This book is current, intellectually stimulating, and offers a multigenerational perspective to age-old questions that demand answers that enable deeper understanding. Set aside the time to read this marvelous book! Benjamin Ola. Akande, Ph.D. President, Westminster College This book should be required reading for any college course seeking to orient students to the issues that address meaning in their lives. It should also be used as a valuable resource for local church adult education courses. I know Cliff Cain to be a rare combination of scholar and pastor, and this blending allows the reader to catch his enthusiasm and passion for the Christian life. The reader will be drawn-in to an in-depth dialogue about the Christian journey and current Christian issues. I recommend it highly. The Reverend Erwin R. Bode, B.A., M.Div., S.T.M., D.D. Leader in Progressive Ecumenical Higher Education Ministries for 20 years In a fresh and engaging style, Professor Cain applies biblical values and stories in short reflections that give the reader a way to escape the daily rush and settle into the quiet of mindful reflection. Like Jesus own story-telling style, Cain takes language and images familiar to his audience, but turns them on their heads, reinterpreting them with Gospel values, and even connections to other faiths. A User-friendly Universe? is an enriching read for anyone connected to college as a place which celebrates the life of the mind and the cultivation of the spirit. Janice A. Thompson, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair Department of Theology Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Download or read book Immigrants in Prairie Cities written by Royden Loewen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The authors argue that intimate Prairie cities fostered a form of social diversity characterized by vibrant ethnic networks, continuously evolving ethnic identities, and boundary zones that facilitated intercultural contact and hybridity. Impressive in scope, Immigrants in Prairie Cities spans the entire twentieth century, and encompasses personal testimonies, government perspectives, and even fictional narratives. This engaging work will appeal to both historians of the Canadian Prairies and those with a general interest in migration, cross-cultural exchange, and urban history.

Download or read book Fatal Words and Friendly Faces written by Larry G. Ehrlich and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 19, 1998, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reported that more than 12,000 people had been injured in incidents of 'road rage.' In light of modernity's rapid strides forward in electronic communication and lagging efforts to explore human nature Larry G. Ehrlich's book focuses on the architecture of human communication behavior. It is divided into three sections, which deal with intrapersonal, interpersonal, and public communication. This readable book not only offers a discussion on the most recent research in information technology, and on relationships in a global community, but it is a truly inter-disciplinary approach to communication behavior.

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Download or read book Mindfulness Based Strategic Awareness Training written by Juan Humberto Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training: A Complete Program for Leaders and Individuals is the first book to link mindfulness training and positive psychology to the leadership, strategy and management issues faced by individuals and organizations. Sets out a complete program in Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT), a new form of strengths-based business mindfulness training which enhances participants’ ability to perceive opportunities, adapt and grow Draws on research from neuroscience, positive psychology, behavioural finance and management to show how leaders, managers and individuals can build and maintain more resonant relationships and adapt to constant change Includes real-life vignettes, specific instructions and a wealth of resources designed to guide experiential learning including background information, exercises, guidelines, hand-outs, graphics, and guided audio meditations Mindfulness training is increasingly used in organizational contexts – the author is a pioneer in designing and delivering training that applies mindfulness and positive psychology to the strategic challenges of management and business Reviews by Experts This book is important for all who seek to lead organizations, showing how mindfulness can be combined with the findings from positive psychology for the benefit of all. The book is not just good theory. It also provides a step-by-step practical program to cultivate a balance between motivation for outcomes on the one hand, and compassion toward self and others on the other. Here are skills that can be learned; skills that can truly inspire and sustain wise leadership. —Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, was also the Founding Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. Now Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry of Oxford University. Author of "Mindfulness: An Eight week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World", Co-author with Zindel V. Segal and John Teasdale of "Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression". In today's disruptive times, it is happy and loyal customers that count. This rich and practical book provides an exceptionally smart learning tool to help consumers make mindful decisions that lead to happiness. And for any leader and manager it is a key reading for making wise business and marketing decisions that create value.—Bernd Schmitt, Ph.D., Professor, Columbia Business School, New York. Author of "Experiential Marketing: How to Get Consumers to Sense, Fell, Think and Act, Relate to your Company and Brands" and "Happy Customers Everywhere: How Your Business Can Profit from the Insights of Positive Psychology." Juan Humberto Young is the first to integrate positive psychology and mindfulness with a results-oriented focus on business strategy. In today's ever-changing organizations, leaders need clarity and flexibility to adapt and succeed. Built on leading-edge science, this book offers a step-by-step program that will light your path not only to greater strategic awareness but also to greater well-being.—Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D., Kenan, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of the two bestsellers "Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life" and "Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection". Juan Humberto Young integrates mindfulness practices, positive psychology, and extensive business experience to design a practical training program that improves personal and professional decision-making. This book offers tools to make decisions that increase subjective well-being because the sources of much unhappiness are poor decisions. For business leaders, lawyers, negotiators, and everyone who wants to improve their quality of life, this book presents a path to achieve the capacity of strategic awareness, consisting of mental lucidity, emotional clarity, and bodily awareness, which results in skillful decision-making. This book provides readers an ideal way to find happiness, personal balance, and professional success.—Peter H. Huang, J.D. Ph.D., Professor and DeMuth Chair of Business Law, University of Colorado Law School. Author of numerous articles integrating Positive Psychology, Mindfulness and Law.

Download or read book Mindfulness based Strategic Awareness Training Comprehensive Workbook written by Juan Humberto Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness-based STRATEGIC AWARENESS TRAINING This comprehensive workbook provides training based on new findings in computational neuroscience. It will enhance your decision-making skills by increasing the precision of your perception and mental processing. This training will enable you to navigate these disruptive, uncertain times skillfully, and in good emotional and mental health. Part 1 provides a conceptual introduction into understanding the brain as a predicting organ. Part 2 leads you through 8 systematic training sessions to enhance your decision-making skills by enhancing your strategic awareness and belief updating capabilities. The practices are designed to fit in the busy schedules of active people. Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) has been tested by practitioners for over 10 years and is widely acclaimed. The government of Singapore, known for its outstanding commitment to the education of its population, has included MBSAT in its official skill-building program and subsidizes participation in MBSAT training. This is a remarkable book. On one reading, it is a scholarly and pragmatic guide to self-understanding and realisation—through making the right kind of decisions as embodied creatures in a social world. On another reading, it naturalises—or perhaps socialises—the free energy principle: an account of self-organisation and sentience grounded in statistical physics and applied widely in theoretical biology and computational neuroscience. This book liberates the fundaments of the free energy principle by applying them to the delicate practice of living in the 21st-century. This is achieved by starting from the academic foundations and artfully scaffolding the readers journey with intuitive, lived examples; sometimes, touchingly personal examples. If you commit to the epistemic program offered by this book, not only will you become a fluent practitioner of embodied Bayesian inference and decision-making, you will be able to answer Einstein’s existential question: “Is the universe friendly?” Karl J. Friston, MBBS, MA, MRCPsych, MAE, FMedSci, FRBS, FRS — Scientific Director: Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging — Professor: Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London Honorary Consultant: The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Download or read book Your Place in the Universe written by Paul M. Sutter and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy.How is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? In this exciting tour of a universe far larger than we can imagine, cosmologist Paul M. Sutter emphasizes how amazing it is that we are part of such a huge, complex, and mysterious place. Through metaphors and uncomplicated language, Sutter breathes life into the science of astrophysics, unveiling how particles, forces, and fields interplay to create the greatest of cosmic dramas. Touched with the author's characteristic breezy, conversational style--which has made him a breakout hit on venues such as The Weather Channel, the Science Channel, and his own popular Ask a Spaceman! podcast--he conveys the fun and wonder of delving deeply into the physical processes of the natural universe. He weaves together the past and future histories of our universe with grounded descriptions of essential modern-day physics as well as speculations based on the latest research in cosmology. Topics include our place in the Milky Way galaxy; the cosmic web--a vast web-like pattern in which galaxies are arranged; the origins of our universe in the big bang; the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy; how science has dramatically changed our relationship to the cosmos; conjectures about the future of reality as we know it; and more.For anyone who has ever stared at the starry night sky and wondered how we humans on Earth fit into the big picture, this book is an essential roadmap.

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Download or read book Developing Consciousness written by Nicholas Vesey and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment, nirvana, mystical union, there is an experience of eternal truth that has always been the goal of spiritual seekers.

Download or read book The Verdict of Decisions written by Pastor MacDonald Apreku and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every life has beginning. Your life began when two people a man and a woman or one of these two decided to cause an act. That act could be a well-thought-through event or a random one, by consensus addendum, or otherwise. What is certain is that either one or both parties made a decision, whether it was a good one or not, one thing is indisputably certain; you are a product of decision. Decisions are constant requirement, without which nothing can happen. However, decisions making is just the beginning of big things you will encounter. May it be known when you make decision; you are just stepping into the unpredictable waters that lead to unprecedented ends. These ends nonetheless may vary due to certain factors. When you were born, you were born into a complex school""the world. You are not the victim of the school; instead it is your decisions that make you a winner or a loser or yet still a victim. In the world of decisions, the only promising school principal is wisdom. In all your getting, get understanding and be cautiously guided by wisdom. Remember, your decisions on anything is your verdict on that thing. The decisions you make are your life's silver bullets You may make a personal decision nonetheless; the outcome will no longer be a personal one. Life is like a journey; how far you go and what you become is unquestionably marry to your decisions.

Download or read book The Bad Christian s Manifesto written by Dave Tomlinson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Tomlinson's book How to Be a Bad Christian was written for all those who want God without the guff - revealing that being a 'bad' Christian is perfectly good enough, and that it's possible to ditch religion without losing the faith. The Bad Christian's Manifesto continues the conversation, unpacking what spiritual intelligence - from an unapologetically Christian viewpoint - might look like for all the self-confessed bad Christians of the world. Join Dave as he explores how to befriend your inner sceptic, make a virtue of pleasure and find heaven in the ordinary things of life.

Download or read book The Friendly Green Alien A World Saving Adventure written by AQEEL AHMED and published by AQEEL AHMED. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "The Friendly Green Alien" tells the moving story of Zorg, a brave and caring alien from a faraway planet who comes to Earth to finish a very important mission. Twelve exciting chapters follow Zorg's quest to find an old diamond that can break a dangerous curse that threatens both Earth and his world. Every part of the story is a tribute to the kindness, friendship, and determination of young heroes. When Zorg gets there, he meets Timmy and Sarah. The two brave and curious kids decide to become friends with the alien. The trip they take together is about finding their own strength as much as it is about saving the world. The trip tries their resolve and makes their bond stronger. 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The crystal might be hiding in mountains, forests, seas, or deserts that Zorg had only read about in old books about his world. His home, on the other hand, gave him strength. To save Earth and his own world, Zorg chose to find the diamond. And the terrible curse was after all threatening all places of light and goodness. Earth, with its lush plants, clear waters, and wide range of animals, was worth protecting. When Zorg first set foot on Earth, he looked up at the stars he had come from. They seemed to glow in a positive way, as if to tell him that every journey starts with one step. Zorg set out on his journey excited to learn more about this new world, meet its people, and find the old diamond. His heart was full of hope, and the excitement of the unknown lit up his eyes. The night was quiet and beautiful, and it was the first time anyone could see Zorg's amazing plan. It was a mission that would bring challenges, bonds, and an experience like no other. 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Zorg was amazed at how kind and interested Timmy was in the universe. Zorg told Timmy why he was being sent to Earth. He talked about his home world and how it was in danger from a bad curse. He also talked about an old jewel that might be able to save it. That the crystal was not only strong, but also full of good things and light, Zorg said. It was his goal and Timmy's too to find it. Timmy listened carefully with wide eyes. The idea of going on a real trip to protect the earth made him think of stories he could tell. He quickly told Zorg that he would help him with his search. Although he knew it would be hard, the thought of starting such an important trip made him very determined. They made a plan. Zorg would have Timmy as his guide on Earth to help him get around in this strange place. They would look everywhere and follow any clues they could find until they found the lost jewel. They became friends because they both wanted to change the world and promised to be brave and have exciting adventures. Zorg saw many amazing things around the world thanks to Timmy's tour, like lush forests, vast seas, and a lot of different species. In return, Zorg told stories about his home world, using words to make pictures of beautiful skies and crystal flowers. When they met, it was the start of an unbelievable journey. That showed how strong friendships can be and how people from different backgrounds can work together for a good cause. Because of a good cause, Timmy and Zorg, the boy and the alien, became unlikely partners. Before they left on their trip, the world seemed full of potential, and the air was filled with the thrill of the unknown. Their friendship gave them strength and hope, and when they worked together, they were ready to face any problems that came their way.

Download or read book Wonders Of Science The A User Friendly Guide written by Nathan Aviezer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonders of Science reveals that the physical world is a far more complex and amazing world than it appears to be, so wondrous that it almost defies comprehension. Brilliant scientists have devoted their lives to uncovering these secrets. However, everyone should be able to share the joy of learning about these wonders. No detailed knowledge of science is required to understand these new discoveries, which include quantum theory, relativity theory, string theory, chaos theory, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, the multidimensional universe, quarks, and much more. These many topics are here described in a clear and accessible presentation that can be enjoyed by everyone.Even the greatest scientists sometimes make mistakes. Included in the book are some of the blunders made by leading scientists, including Nobel Prize winners.