Download or read book Into the Magic Shop written by James R. Doty, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 290 pages. 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.
Download or read book The Alphabet of the Human Heart written by Matthew Johnstone and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for the happy, and a bible for the broken-hearted, The Alphabet of the Human Heart is an enchanting and enriching journey through the upside and the downside of what it means to be human - our hopes and our fears, our strength and our weakness, our highs and our lows. The Alphabet of the Human Heart is a book of literally two halves. Firstly there is upside A-Z, which is full of the happy and hopeful aspects of our lives, such as A is for Adventure, through G is for Gratitude, S is for Smile to Zen is the Place to Be. The other downside half examines the negative parts of our character lives and how we can overcome them to lead more positive and fulfilling lives. From A is for Anger, through H is for Hate, T is for Temptation to once again end on Zen is the Place to be. Matthew and James have been friends for over 30 years and they've experienced both sides of life - the upside and the downside - and they've turned their experience of life - and of friendship - into a book that combines words and pictures to tell a bigger story. Praise for I Had a Black Dog: 'I Had a Black Dog says with wit, insight, economy and complete understanding what other books take 300 pages to say. Brilliant and indispensable.' - Stephen Fry 'Finally, a book about depression that isn't a prescriptive self-help manual. Johnston's deftly expresses how lonely and isolating depression can be for sufferers. Poignant and humorous in equal measure.' Sunday Times Praise for Living with a Black Dog: 'Moving and thoughtfully written ... a must-have' Daily Mirror 'Comprehensive and very helpful ... brilliant' Guardian Weekend
Download or read book The Heart of the Alphabet written by Erica Anderson and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My inspiration for this book arose from a situation when my son, who is diagnosed PDD/NOS, came home from school and wrote me a letter using negative words to describe himself. He was initially hesitant to talk with me about his letter, so I wrote him a letter back using positive words to describe what an amazing person he is. At the time of the incident I was enrolled in classes to complete my teaching degree, and one assignment given was to create an ABC book. While thinking about the letter my son had written, I began to think of other words I could have used to describe him. I realized I could turn this assignment into a gift, a little something to help him get through difficult days. I enlisted my friend and classmate Katie Wendt to help complete and illustrate this book. It was never our intention to publish this book, but after completing it, we had friends and co-workers urging us to do so, believing that it could benefit other children. After this book was completed, my son took the letter that I wrote him and hung it on his wall. He then asked me to find more positive words from the book to add to his letter. I hope that other children can find a bit of themselves in the pages of this book as well.
Download or read book The Alphabet of the Human Heart written by Matthew Johnstone and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabet of the Human Heart written by James Kerr and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book. A handbook for the happy, and a bible for the broken-hearted, The Alphabet of the Human Heart is an enchanting and enriching journey through the upside and the downside of what it means to be human - our hopes and our fears, our strengths and our weaknesses, our highs and our lows.
Download or read book Alphabet of the Heart written by Daniel Winter and published by . This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pure Geometric Self Organizing Origin of our Alphabet, The Self-Organizing Golden Mean Spiral on the Donut creates alphabet & ideal recursion. Embedding our spin into world is the function of symbol. By teaching us where to grab vortices by their throats, we get leverage on more worlds. The heart's symmetry is designed to nest these pressures - which are like everything, discrete, & then not so discrete, elements of spin. Nesting donut fields, one inside the other makes "recursion" or "self-embeddedness" when their arrangements is GOLDEN MEAN. This makes the wave forms fractal: able to phase lock information between large & small systems. Sonic Analysis Imaged for Lettersounds, Pictorial History of the Heart Spectra Research, Flowform Pictures, The pictorial article: Braiding DNA/Is Emotion the Weaver?, Heart's EKG power spectra during emotional coherence affecting a tree's magnetic field, Cathedral as Body; Gateway to Earth's Grid Memory Structure, Interpreting the Fractal: Grail Myth, The Role of Mind Among Waves, The Shape of the Pressure Wave You Make When You Hug Someone You Love... Accompanying CD & video availability. To order Crystal Hill Multimedia, 137 Biodome Drive, Waynesville, NC 28786. Phone: 704-926-2200, FAX: 704-926-9041.
Download or read book Waldorf Alphabet Book written by Famke Zonneveld and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (From the forward) We are confronted by demands for social reconstruction. These pose grave problems with far-reaching implications. This books is written with the conviction that their solution must be looked for along lines not yet considered. Its aim is to show what has to be done in order that social demands coming from a larger part of mankind may be turned in the direction of conscious social purpose. Welcome or unwelcome, the facts of social life are present and must be reckoned with. Those who may object to the author's way of discussing proletarian demands should bear this in mind. He wants to present life as it really is. He is aware of the fatal consequences that will result if people refused to look at the facts. These facts have arisen out of the life of modern mankind.
Download or read book Alphabet of the Heart written by Daniel Winter and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Alphabet for Humanity written by Leesa McGregor and published by Impact Humanity Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 34 pages. 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.
Download or read book Inventing the Alphabet written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
Download or read book Once Upon an Alphabet written by Oliver Jeffers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for gift-giving, here isTHE alphabet book to top all others, an over-sized work of brilliance from the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit! If words make up the stories and letters make up the words, then stories are made up of letters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made FOR all the letters. The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, Once Upon an Alphabet is a creative tour de force from A through Z. Slyly funny in a way kids can't resist, and gorgeously illustrated in a way readers of all ages will pour over, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet in a way that will forever raise the bar. In Once Upon an Alphabet, #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers has created a stunning collection of words and artwork that is a story book, alphabet book, and gorgeously designed art book all in one. Praise for ONCE UPON AN ALPHABET: An Amazon Best Book of 2014! A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year! A New York Times Bestseller! * "The silly, spare, slightly surreal text occasionally rhymes and endlessly surprises. An utterly delightful alphabet book."–Kirkus Review, starred review * "With wry humor, equally droll ink illustrations, and a solid dose of alliteration, Jeffers creates delightful mini-narratives for each letter of the alphabet."–Publishers Weekly, starred review * "An altogether stimulating, surprising, and satisfying reading experience."–School Library Journal, starred review * "Whimsical, funny, occasionally tragic, and highly entertaining, this collection of (sometimes) interlocking tales is brilliantly inventive."–Horn Book, starred review "Jeffers knows how to catch the attention of his young audience while challenging their imagination, intellect and vocabulary. This whimsical exploration of letters and language begs to be read over and over again."–BookPage "Handsome, humorous and clad in bright tomato-red, [this] is the sort of book you may want to rush into the arms of imaginative, good-natured children between 4 and 10 years old. [T]his is no traditional abecedarian exercise.The stories are wonderfully varied, sometimes philosophical and often end surprisingly; the drawings are just as quirky and unpredictable."–The Wall Street Journal "[W]itty from A to Z . . . no one would blame you for having a copy even if there are no kids in the house. Think of it as Edward Gorey for the preschool set — and their hip parents."–The Washington Post
Download or read book My Spiritual Alphabet Book written by Holly Bea and published by H J Kramer. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four youngsters lead the way in a lively, colorful romp through the letters of the alphabet. Lighthearted rhyming verse and joyful illustrations combine to teach children the alphabet and introduce them to their spiritual world. With an emphasis on positive interaction with all creatures and the natural environment, this book will invite discussion and inspire the imaginations of children of all faiths.
Download or read book ABC written by Jane Pollio and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABC: a heart rock alphabet is an imaginative and charming book with prints of animals, fantasy creatures and objects collaged from heart-shaped rocks, in an ABC format.The book's art inspires one to get out for a walk to collect from nature. Suitable for children and adults alike. It fosters a love of nature and teaches the alphabet with clever images. Kids can learn their uppercase and lowercase ABCs with the accompaniment of fun artwork. Each page is devoted to a letter of the alphabet and pictures drawn with heart-shaped rocks to depict animals and objects starting with that letter of the alphabet. Adults will love the visual uniqueness of this alphabetical tour. This is a perfect fit for younger children just learning the alphabet. In this book, readers will find an ABC that's unlike any other. Here is a great gift for a new baby or a crafty friend!
Download or read book I Love the Alphabet written by and published by Brown Dog Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals introduce the letters of the alphabet with colorful pictures and rhyming text.
Download or read book Amazing Alphabet written by Annie Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ave fun with the amazing alphabet! Bold pictures to touch and enjoy. A beautiful book for adults and children to share"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Samoan Alphabet written by Lori Phillips and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and childrens' artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each hardcover book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations. The series was co-published with Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, a non-profit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education across the Pacific.
Download or read book The Alphabet of the Human Heart written by Matthew Johnstone and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for the happy, and a bible for the broken-hearted, The Alphabet of the Human Heart is an enchanting and enriching journey through the upside and the downside of what it means to be human – our hopes and our fears, our strengths and our weaknesses, our highs and our lows.
