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  Retelling the Stories of Our...

  David Denborough

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  Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdoms from the field of narrative therapy, this book is designed to help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives.The book invites listeners to take a new look at their own stories and to find solutions to problems and predicaments in unexpected places. Listeners are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like externalizing problems—'the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem'—and the concept of "re-membering" one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises demonstrate how these ideas have helped many people overcome intense hardship and will help listeners make these techniques their own. The book also outlines practical strategies for reclaiming and celebrating one's experience in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging.

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  Curationism - How Curating Took...

  David Balzer

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  Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture?
   
  ‘Curate’ is now a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows and biennials in a way that can eclipse and assimilate the contributions of individual artists. Curatorial-studies programs continue to grow, and the business world is adopting curation as a means of adding value to content. Everyone, it seems, is a curator.
   
  But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture’s relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this vibrant, revelatory and original study, David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation, from superstar curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s war with sleep to Subway’s ‘sandwich artists.’ Recalling such landmark works of cultural criticism as Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word and John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Curationism will change the way you look at art – and maybe even the way you see yourself.
   
  ‘This is an unusual art book. It is a book you should read and one that you can. Balzer traces the history and current hegemony of curationism, a practice of jumped-up interior decorators who double as priests explaining the gospel to the unlettered masses. A good read, if you don’t mind reading things that you don’t want to know.’
   
  – Dave Hickey

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  The Outlaw Sea - A World of...

  William Langewiesche

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  Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon itEven if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.    With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. Forty-three thousand gargantuan ships ply the open ocean, carrying nearly all the raw materials and products on which our lives are built. Many are owned or managed by one-ship companies so ghostly that they exist only on paper. They are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth--many of them without allegiances of any kind, changing identity and nationality at will. Here is free enterprise at it freest, opportunity taken to extremes.  But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of two perfectly adapted pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism.   This is the outlaw sea--perennially defiant and untamable--that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.

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  How to Think Better in 7 Days -...

  M Salek

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  What's in it for me? 
  Learn how to improve the way you think, which is key to improving your life, in 7 days! 
  What's the book about? 
  The goal of the book is to help you improve your thoughts (i.e. your mindset). 
  The way you think affects and impacts everything in your life, big and small. So if there's one factor that can have a huge positive impact on the quality of your life, it's improving your mindset. And that's what you will learn about in this book.  
  What will you learn?The difference between good and bad thinking stylesThe basics of mindsetThe mindset you need to adoptHow to be positive no matter whatHow to uncover and deal with limiting beliefsAnd more... 
  Who's the book for? 
  Anyone interested in personal growth and self-improvement 
  Start the journey you need to get on to change your life.  
  Get your copy today. 

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  How to Make Your Money Work -...

  Eoin McGee

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  What kind of relationship do you have with money? Is it helping you make the most of your income? And if not, what if you could change that?
  We all differ in our money mindsets – in the ways we approach spending, saving and other financial decisions. In his second book, Eoin McGee provides a fascinating overview of these differing outlooks, and explains how understanding your own attitude towards money is the secret to effective financial planning and making the most of your income in order to close the gap between the money you earn and the lifestyle you want.
  Wherever you are on your financial journey, How to Make Your Money Work will change the way you approach spending and saving with priceless wisdom and practical advice for making your financial goals a reality.

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  One Without the Other - Stories...

  Shelley Moore, Leyton Schellert

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  In One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion, Shelley Moore explores the changing landscape of inclusive education. Presented through real stories from her own classroom experience, this passionate and creative educator tackles such things as inclusion as a philosophy and practice, the difference between integration and inclusion, and how inclusion can work with a variety of students and abilities. Explorations of differentiation, the role of special education teachers and others, and universal design for learning all illustrate the evolving discussion on special education and teaching to all learners. This book will be of interest to all educators, from special ed teachers, educational assistants and resource teachers, to classroom teachers, administrators, and superintendents.

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