Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

• 

  The Biophilia Effect - A...

  Clemens G. Arvay, PhD Marc Bekoff

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Biophilia Effect celebrates our interconnection with nature and shows how to deeply engage the natural world wherever you live to dramatically improve your health. This unabridged audio presentation shares fascinating biomedical research into nature’s healing effects on our bodies, practical tools and activities, and inspiring stories about the remarkable benefits of being in nature. This translation of the German bestseller explores:   • Biophilia—psychotherapist and philosopher Erich Fromm’s term for people’s love for nature • How nature alleviates pain and accelerates recuperation • Yards and gardens as a source of inspiration, happiness, and health • How landscapes interact with the human psyche • Nature’s influence on the mind, heart, and other vital organs of the body   “The biophilia effect happens when we connect with our roots,” writes Arvay. “The biophilia effect stands for wilderness and the conception of nature, for natural beauty and aesthetics, and for breaking free and healing. That is what this book is about.” The Biophilia Effect is your guide to accessing the sacred bond we share with nature, wherever you call home. Narrated by Kyle Hebert.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Quiver Don't Quake - How...

  Nadim Sadek

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In Quiver, don't Quake, Nadim Sadek shows how to partner with Allied Intelligence to amplify - not replace - your imagination. With a maker's voice and a psychologist's clarity, he reframes AI as a creative collaborator, liberating the creativity of all 8 billion people on Earth. 
  Sadek gives you the tools to dance with it. 
  Frameworks: the Spark-Draft-Polish creative loop; the Three C's (Context, Constraint, Conversation); Calibrated Trust. 
  Playbooks and examples from publishing, film, music, games, architecture, medicine, advertising, and education. 
  Processes to avoid slop: bias checks, provenance, ethics, authorship. 
  Tactics to raise your RODE (Ratio of Dream to Effort). 
  A hands-on sandbox project to build a live brand concept in hours. 
  From studios to classrooms and city halls, he shows how The Panthropic – the distilled wisdom of us all - unlocks new voices, workflows and industries. Clear-eyed about bias, ethics and jobs, Sadek offers tools, cases and mindsets to create with confidence. 
  If you create anything, this is your field guide to the new creative alliance.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Vintage Verse Rhapsody: A Poetry...

  Various Authors

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selections from the epics of Homer and Hesiod. The contemporary rhapsode performs the classical poetry of his or her language, culture, and tradition. Any particular collection and arrangement of poems for performance I term a “rhapsody.” In general terms, a rhapsody is an ecstatic expression of feeling and enthusiasm. In music, a rhapsody is an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation. The poems in this rhapsody comprise a number of poems that I have performed in public and known for much of my life as well as several recent additions to my repertory. They are arranged in chronological order from the 16th century to the early 20th century. Some of the poets represented here are Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Frost. (Summary by Bob Gonzalez)

  Mostra libro

• 

  An Engineer Imagines

  Peter Rice

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The long-awaited reissue of the autobiography of Peter Rice, one of the main structural engineers behind the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, the Menil Collection and Lloyd's of London.
  
  'I am an engineer. Often people will call me an 'architect engineer' as a compliment. It is meant to signify a quality of engineer who is more imaginative and design-orientated than a normal engineer... To call an engineer an 'architect engineer' because he comes up with unusual or original solutions is essentially to misunderstand the role of the engineer in society.'
  An Engineer Imagines is a rare look into the professional creativity and philosophy of Peter Rice, who was widely acclaimed as the greatest structural engineer of his generation. He was a man who, in Renzo Piano's words, could design structures 'like a pianist who can play with his eyes shut'. Working with many of the world's greatest architects on buildings that became icons of contemporary architecture, he brought a uniquely poetic feeling to his work.
  Joining Ove Arup & Partners in 1956, Rice had heard that 'it was a place where an oddball could fit in.' Taking on Arup's theory of Total Design to heart, Rice writes about the role of the engineer in society, and how he himself applied his creativity to various projects. He admits he became an engineer by accident, tentatively feeling his way through a career without a natural instinct. But as he takes you through each of his projects, one-by-one, you can trace his development from graduate to veteran.
  Written in clear and poetic language, Rice's autobiography is perfect for those who want to better understand postwar buildings, our concrete environment, or are budding students of engineering and architecture.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Psychedelics For Everyone - A...

  Matt Zemon MSc

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In Psychedelics for Everyone, a #1 Amazon Best Seller in 19 categories,Matt Zemon provides readers with an inspiring foundation for understanding the profound transformational power of psychedelics. As psychiatric methods and medicines have advanced over the past fifty years, there is an entire group of possible treatment methodologies that the United States—and much of the Western world—has chosen to ignore and demonize. Despite this, there is a wide breadth of medical practitioners and indigenous healers who recognize the benefits of psychedelic treatment. In Psychedelics for Everyone, Matt Zemon shares personal stories of his use of psychedelics, as well as presents curated, medically reviewed information from experts in the clinical use of psychedelics that is certain to make anyone reevaluate all they’ve been taught about drugs.In this book, you’ll learn:How to microdoseWhere and how you can take psychedelics legallyTechniques for psychedelic preparation and integrationAnd much, much more….

  Mostra libro

• 

  Tsunami Days

  John Barnie

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  "We need more writers with bite. We have lived in the flatlands too long," writes John Barnie in one of his 'observations' ('Art in the Flatlands'). And bite he delivers.
  
  Ranging across politics, history, culture, ecological disaster, the meaning of truth, poetry, what we mean by identity and more… Barnie shares a window onto the world that is both erudite and particular. Leaning towards pessimism in a darkening world, these observations are often provocative, not from any bullish desire to antagonise, but as the result of mining a rationalist line of thought with an honesty and consistency that is applied as much to the author as to his subjects. There is a clarity here that some may find uncomfortable, but the aim is always dialogue above agreement; intellectual engagement above cheap solutions and sentimentality.
  
  Barnie asks us to think, consider and dig deeper, but most of all he asks that we "…live richly among our secondary self-created meanings, while recognising them for what they are. To face without flinching the nullity of the great void." ('Varieties of Meaning')
  Tsunami Days is a vital collection of essays for those prepared to engage with its unflinching observations.

  Mostra libro