Download or read book Translucent Thoughts written by James Drummond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translucent Thoughts, is a window into my mind, exposing my emotions, trials and tribulations. I invite you to embark on this journey with me. But be warned! You will experience emotions that lay dormant within your subconscious. Verses will induce a sense of nostalgia. And you will find yourself starting over from the beginning to read again.Come, the journey begins...
Download or read book The Opacity of Mind written by Peter Carruthers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we have introspective access to our own thoughts? Peter Carruthers challenges the consensus that we do: he argues that access to our own thoughts is always interpretive, grounded in perceptual awareness and sensory imagery. He proposes a bold new theory of self-knowledge, with radical implications for understanding of consciousness and agency.
Download or read book Atomic Habits written by James Clear and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.
Download or read book Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess written by Dr. Caroline Leaf and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety--our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's just our new normal. There's hope and help available to us--and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think. Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a scientifically proven five-step plan to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health. In just 21 days, you can start to clean up your mental mess and be on the road to wholeness, peace, and happiness.
Download or read book How to Think written by Tom Chatfield and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about thinking. Engaging and down-to-earth, it captures the habits and practices that are fundamental to clear thinking and effective study. In his warm and friendly style, Tom Chatfield shows you how to: Identify and examine your biases Engage in lively, curious skepticism See the value in emotion and use rhetoric persuasively Know when to say ′I don′t know′ Construct reasoned arguments and explanations Think critically about how you engage with technology. Short and punchy, the book views critical thinking as a skill to be continually practiced and developed. It equips you with a toolkit for clearer thinking, describing ten key concepts that help you to apply what you have learned. Including regular reflective exercises, key concepts, further readings, each chapter also offers recommendations for how to put the ideas it discusses into practice. This book is for undergraduate students and anyone looking to understand the core ideas behind critical thinking. Celebrating both self-reflection and collaboration, this book empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well.
Download or read book Clear Thoughts from a Deep Black Man written by William E. Oliver and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My poems ponder the meaning of life. Some in a whimsical form, some in a serious form. They ask, "How can this be?," "Why can't they be?," and "If this exist, why does that not exist?"
Download or read book The Bhagavad Gita written by Veeraswamy Krishnaraj and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gita teaches man the essentials of living in this world and beyond: Your soul is eternal and indestructible; the body beautiful is only a garment; beings and universe arose from an act of sacrifice by God; the burden of samsara (cycle of births and rebirths) can be shed by devotion to God; man by his conduct creates his own dharma and karma, which control the present and the future; plants, animals and men have souls, some sentient and some insentient; our roots are in heaven; doing one's dharma(duty)by itself is yoga; liberation is the only goal of man; there are many ways and means to attain God and nobody is excluded.
Download or read book Ancient History written by Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to the chief disciplines, methods and sources employed in 'doing' ancient history, as opposed to 'reading' it. The book: Encourages readers to engage with historical sources, rather than to be passive recipients of historical tales Gives readers a sense of the nature of evidence and its use in the reconstruction of the past Helps them to read a historical narrative with more critical appreciation Encourages them to consider the differences between their own experience of ancient sources, and the use of these objects within the everyday life of ancient society A concise bibliographical essay at the end of each chapter refers to introductions, indices, research tools and interpretations, and explains scholarly jargon Written clearly, concisely and concretely, invoking ancient illustrations and modern parallels as appropriate.
Download or read book Gratitude written by Insight Editions and published by Mandala Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Center your life around positive thoughts with this guided gratitude journal! Celebrate each moment, big or small, and preserve important memories with everyday mindfulness. This 90-day reflection journal gives you a path to developing a habit of daily gratitude that you can carry throughout your life. Cultivating thankfulness is a potent exercise, proven to have a positive effect on a person's mental health and general well-being. Each spread of this positivity journal includes space to record expressions of gratitude, personal affirmations, memories of positive interactions, and commentary on the significance of it all. The perfect self-care or mindfulness gift for women and men, this happiness log creates a personal diary of positive experiences and wonderful reflections that can be a source of inspiration for years to come. Additional details: Ideal 5.75” x 8.25” size and durable flexibound format offer plenty of writing space while being small enough to travel easily Easy to write on archival paper takes pen and pencil nicely with 184 lined, acid-free pages Deluxe design with vegan leather cover, foil accents, removable cover band, and helpful ribbon marker make for a lasting keepsake Beautiful illustrations encourage a calming mindset and lovely backdrop for deep reflection Journal simply with guided prompts and lists that make it easy to check in with yourself morning and night, relieve stress, and promote mindfulness Build your collection: Gratitude is part of Insight Editions’ successful line of Inner World guided journals, including Mindfulness, Meditation, Calm, Self-Care, Recharge, Connection, and more
Download or read book Sex Objects written by Jennifer Doyle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The declaration that a work of art is “about sex” is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring. Sex Objects examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the “boring parts” of Moby-Dick, the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, “bad sex” and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature of desire. In Sex Objects, Doyle offers a creative and original exploration of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a piece of art “about sex” reveals surprisingly little about the work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory, she reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to better understand how the two meet-and why it matters. Jennifer Doyle is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is coeditor, with Jonathan Flatley and Jos Esteban Muoz, of Pop Out: Queer Warhol.
Download or read book Mind written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly review of philosophy.
Download or read book Critical Thinking written by Richard Paul and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth Ñ and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.
Download or read book Aerial written by Glenn High Schoo John Glenn High School and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aerial is a collection of high school (grades 9-12) students' fiction, prose, drama, poetry and art. This literary-art magazine is entirely students' work, including the layout and design.
Download or read book Creative Writing for Critical Thinking written by Hélène Edberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative writing, and details how learning through writing is linked to new discoursal identities which are trialled in the writing process. In doing so, she analyses the processes of expansion and change that result from the negotiations involved in learning through writing. This volume offers a completely new approach to creative writing, including useful practical advice as well as a solid theoretical base. It is sure to appeal to students of creative writing and discourse analysis as well as applied linguistics and language as identity.
Download or read book Early Modern German Philosophy 1690 1750 written by Corey W. Dyck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian Thomasius, Christian Wolff, Christian August Crusius, and Georg Friedrich Meier, as well as texts by consequential but less familiar thinkers such as Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Theodor Ludwig Lau, Friedrich Wilhelm Stosch, and Joachim Lange. The topics covered range across a number of areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics (the immortality of the soul, materialism and its refutation, the pre-established harmony), epistemology (the principle of sufficient reason, the limits of reason with respect to matters of faith), and logic (the role of prejudices in cognition and the doctrine of truth). These texts are intended to showcase German philosophy in the early Modern period as a far richer tradition than it is typically given credit for, and indeed as much more than either a footnote to Leibniz or merely a step on the way to Kant. This collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the early modern German tradition and the often neglected works that enlightened it.
Download or read book Insomnia written by Shane Cuthbert and published by Shane Cuthbert. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During most stages of our life, sleep is a natural process that we do without having to put in any effort, its like breathing, our body just seems to know how to do it without having to learn the steps. So for that reason, most people take it for granted. That is, until we reach a stage where sleep no longer happens as easily as we would like it to. It becomes even harder to sleep when we have been depressed, anxious or even irritable. Eventually, it can turn into a vicious cycle. For example, if we don’t get enough sleep, we go to work unrested. As a result, we have a terrible day. Because we have a terrible day, we go to bed with unresolved feelings that circulate negative thoughts around our mind. As a consequence, we struggle to sleep that night too. Thus the cycle continues. Another problematic pattern can occur when we sleep in the next day to make up for our missed sleep the night before. This disrupts the sleep cycle, making it difficult to get into a predictable routine. The hurdle we often face in getting to sleep happens when we find ourselves alone with thoughts that swirl around in our mind. Sometimes they can be seemingly pointless. But often they can be worrisome anxieties that we persistently ruminate about. The most common rumination stems from feelings of doubt in our ability to handle a situation we feel uncertain about or powerless to control. And so in order to help wind down the thoughts that keep us awake, we often turn to numbing habits. The simplest numbing habits are listening to music or staring at a screen. Some people watch movies, TV or browse the internet for hours to drown out thoughts and wind down. Some people even turn to chemical ways of numbing thoughts such as sleeping pills, drugs or alcohol. These unhealthy habits are not the way we should be treating an unhealthy problem. In this guide you will find the answers, tips, tricks and tools you need to start getting a better sleep, its all got to do with the mind.
Download or read book Sublime Drama written by Elzbieta Iwona Baraniecka and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British drama of the 1990s is most commonly associated with the term in-yer-face theatre, which was coined by Aleks Sierz to describe the shocking and provocative work of emerging playwrights such as Mark Ravenhill or Sarah Kane. Taking a cue from Sierz’s own suggestion that what still remains to be researched more thoroughly in this field is the particular relationship between the stage and the audience, this monograph undertakes precisely that task. Rather than use the term offered by Sierz, however, the study proposes a different concept to account for the dynamics of communication within the particular theatre of the 1990s, namely the aesthetic category of the sublime. Coupled with elements of Reader Response Theory, the sublime proves to be a more fruitful term, as it provides more precise tools for the analysis of the audience’s aesthetic response than does in-yer-face theatre. With the help of four representative plays by four key playwrights of that time, Closer by Patrick Marber, Normal by Anthony Neilson, Faust is Dead by Mark Ravenhill and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, the book details the consecutive stages in the process of the plays’ reception that the members of the audience go through while forming their aesthetic response to them. Looking through the prism of the sublime, the study not only offers a detailed analysis of each play but also suggests an entirely new approach to British drama of the 1990s.
