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Author: Alexandra Horowitz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1471126226 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 365
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You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. It enables us to not just notice the shapes on the page, but to absorb them as intelligible words, phrases, ideas. Alas, we tend to bring this focus to every activity we do. In so doing, it is inevitable that we also bring along attention's companion: inattention to everything else. This book begins with that inattention. It is not a book about how to bring more focus to your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask, attending to two or three or four tasks at once. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a public lecture, or at your grandfather's tales of boyhood misadventures. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary'. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. This book is about that walk around the block, and how to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities.
Author: Alexandra Horowitz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1471126226 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 365
Book Description
You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. It enables us to not just notice the shapes on the page, but to absorb them as intelligible words, phrases, ideas. Alas, we tend to bring this focus to every activity we do. In so doing, it is inevitable that we also bring along attention's companion: inattention to everything else. This book begins with that inattention. It is not a book about how to bring more focus to your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask, attending to two or three or four tasks at once. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a public lecture, or at your grandfather's tales of boyhood misadventures. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary'. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. This book is about that walk around the block, and how to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities.
Author: B.J.D. Publisher: La Republica Populorum della Capibara Grande ISBN: 8397068945 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 112
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About the book (from the review) This book is a fairy tale of the type that is addressed to adults rather than children (except perhaps adolescents). Someone once said that the look at the meadow expressed in the title is as if from the depths of the box with the lamb, as we know it from The Little Prince. Blue box is a story about friendship, love and hope. It is also about longing and searching. The most important things in this story are the events that occur during the journey of the two main characters, Maria and Abyss. Which of the places they visited is the most important? Is it a lake with little Pola in a boat? Maybe a field with a Giant and growing lettuce? Everyone must answer this for themselves. For me, it was an angel under the tower of stopped time, and pigeons were going to the scaffold. A special kind of this place is a home. Whatever home is, when you want to travel into the unknown. J. K.
Author: Diana Laurence Publisher: Living Beyond Reality Press ISBN: 0979274176 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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A British psychologist with a mysterious past and strange powers. A former monk with the voice of an angel and untamable vanity. A jazz performer who derives her confidence from a secret lover. A college student obsessed with becoming someone's "Lolita." These four haunted characters take separate paths to meet in 1991 Milwaukee, and the alchemy of their union creates thrilling, bizarre, magical and deadly results. Looking on Darkness is Diana Laurence's first full-length work outside the romance genre, and draws heavily from the psychoanalytical theory of Carl Jung. It is a mainstream novel of psychological vampirism that explores the deepest caverns of the mind and the darkest corners of the heart.
Author: Jill Colella Publisher: Lerner Publications TM ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 28
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Elmo and other familiar friends from Sesame Street learn about positivity and how our thoughts impact us. Kids will discover that all feelings are valid, what it means to be an optimist, and how to look on the bright side. About the Sesame Street ® Character Guides series: Elmo, Abby, Big Bird, and their Sesame Street friends join this positive introduction to character traits and social and emotional wellness. Hands-on activities help kids model each topic, while simple text and a colorful design keep things engaging and fun.
Author: Betty Miles Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780394825977 Category : Identity (Philosophical concept) Languages : en Pages : 196
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Fourteen-year-old Rosalie has difficulty facing the reality of her own life and finds herself increasingly caught up in the lives of the newly-married couple next door.
Author: Jill Colella Publisher: Lerner Publications ISBN: 9781728423791 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Elmo and other familiar faces from Sesame Street learn about positivity and how thoughts impact us. Kids will discover that all feelings are valid, what it means to be an optimist, and how to look on the bright side.
Author: L.M. Rostedt Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1643504282 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 546
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Reeling from a personal tragedy, science engineer Derek Hexum relocates his work from Southern to North Central California at a laboratory and military complex. Soon after his arrival, while hiking in the nearby woods one day, he stumbles into a brief encounter with a juvenile bigfoot. From that unexpected encounter between human and animal, an uneasy friendship begins to evolve. Already caught up in a murder investigation downstate in the LA area, Hexum becomes a further person of interest after an act of terrorism rips across the military base. Then a series of horrific killings begin to occur, first with livestock and later against area residents. The scientist is certain the gentle creature he's befriended isn't responsible. But if it isn't, what is? Local police are investigating the murders. The FBI is doggedly pursuing the specters of both domestic and foreign terrorists. Certain elements in the military are attempting to shelter base black ops programs from the general population. And the scientist is trying to protect his newly found "friend" from a Special Forces unit hunting down a shadowy assassin moving through the surrounding forests. Through it all, a titantic battle between Science and Nature begins to emerge. Which one wins may determine the safety of the local area and the invulnerability of the nation's defenses. It's a breathless race to the end, where any possibility may become the reality.
Author: Mike Robertson Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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Like some people recently retired, Mark had taken on a diversion that pretty well takes up much of his time. At one time, he collected baseball cards, a pastime that required him to acquire cards through trades with fellow enthusiasts or winning cards through arcane competitions when the application of Facebook allowed him to accumulate cards more easily. Several years later, on an airplane flight from Montreal to New York City, Mark glimpses a television show being shown on a computer laptop belonging to a woman sitting in a seat across the aisle of that flight. Mark thinks and then becomes convinced that one of the actresses playing a woman in that show is in fact his first girlfriend. That realization results in a search for the identity of that woman though a variety of methods and sources, an effort that culminates in a rendezvous with his memory.
Author: Susie Dumond Publisher: Dial Press ISBN: 0593596285 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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“A sweet and spicy story about found family, taking chances on love, and getting through your Saturn return.”—Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign in this rom-com from the Lambda Literary Award–nominated author of Queerly Beloved. Reeling from a breakup with her long-term partner, Gray—an optimistic lesbian Aries—relocates to New Orleans for a new job. Gray wants to meet someone, settle down, and build the loving, accepting family she’s always wanted, but having been out of the dating scene for a decade, she has no idea where to start. After visiting an iconic astrologer, Gray and her best friend, Cherry, draw up a dramatic scheme: Gray will go on a date with someone of each zodiac sign to test their compatibility and get a jump start on creating the queer family of her dreams—all before her twenty-ninth birthday, when Saturn will usher in a major turning point in her life. Gray’s got her hands full getting to know her new city, proving herself at her new job, wooing twelve new paramours—cue bathroom hookups, ghosts, getting ghosted, incredible macchiatos, and celesbians—and making some surprising discoveries about her needs and desires. Even when the dating challenge throws a few curveballs that make Gray question what she believes that she’s destined for, she’s determined to finish what she’s started while the planets are still on her side.
Author: Darth Vaden Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 149696473X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 362
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The book is a real thrill ride. So as I said many times, assume you are on the adventure with me, and try and experience of what I did. The cover and pictures in the middle of the book will sell it! Flip through these pictures as you read, and it will all come together for you. The book will sell the title, so dont get confused. I made this adventure for teens through as old as you get! So come along with me for the ride of your life!
Author: Alexandra Horowitz
Author: Alexandra Horowitz
Author: B.J.D.
Author: Diana Laurence
Author: Jill Colella
Author: Betty Miles
Author: Jill Colella
Author: L.M. Rostedt
Author: Mike Robertson
Author: Susie Dumond
Author: Darth Vaden