Author: Abné M. Eisenberg Ph.D. Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466979461 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 866
Book Description
This is the perfect book for an intellectually bored individual. In it, the author shares a serendipitous collection of his thoughts on a wide variety of conventional and unconventional topics. Professor Eisenberg has spent the past six decades challenging his students to think outside the proverbial box. Whenever he would ask them a question, and they answered, I dont know, he would say,I know that you dont know, but what do you think? Using this Socratic Method opened their minds and encouraged them to take risks. Convinced that a good question outweighs a hundred trite answers, the author has included a section of the book in which he asks himself a question and then proceeds to answer it. His favorite question is, What one word best describes your life? His answer was, Creative. The reader should come away from this book with a deeper understanding of why he chose the title, Welcome to my mind. He enthusiastically agrees with the following quotation. Whatever we possess becomes double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others. Jean-Nicholas Bouilly (1763-1842)
Author: G. Wall Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
Welcome to My Mind: Rap Short Story Verses By: G. Wall When writing these stories contained within Welcome to My Mind, G. Wall was provided with various topics selected for him to use in verifying authenticity as well as providing a competitive writing challenge to him and the writer he was put against. These verses were written in writing competitions in rap story and topical leagues that provided Wall a great creative outlet and a contest format that allowed all the writers to vote within these matches as they submitted their topical stories for that week. From comedy to tragedy and from love to war, as well as everything in between, Wall constantly pushed himself to cover a large and diversified group of subject matter and often won his matches. Open your mind to a journey, and you will feel the words as you read them within the characters Wall has developed.
Author: Kristy Burt-Hance Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1649523394 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 115
Book Description
This up-and-coming author has a style all her own. Welcome To My Mind is a collaboration of experience, opinion, humor, fiction, and bluntness rolled into a literary treasure for like-minded people. If you are easily offended, this is probably not the book for you. However, if you can relate to a chick that is a little crazy, kind of funny, has a potty mouth, and tells it like it is entertaining, then step right up and have a peek into her mind. She has no filter but a huge imagination, and weird is a side effect of awesome. Welcome!
Author: Jay Allen Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557088267 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 62
Book Description
This book contains the thoughts, memories, dreams, hopes, and desires that have been dwelling within my psyche for the greater portion of my life. With works spanning the last two decades, the myriad of emotions, through which you will be taken, will surely give rise to something inside each of you. Whether you are the hopeless romantic whose heart weeps daily for that which you may never have, or if you are the jaded and jilted lover whose heart has been shattered into countless pieces, or even if you are just the broken down pile of flesh and bones we all succumb to being eventually, you will relate to something inside. Each of these very words has been torn from my battered and beaten soul with one purpose, and that is to enlighten the world with an experienced perspective. If but one of my words can inspire change in a lone individual then I know my life has meaning.
Author: Julian Baggini Publisher: Granta Publications ISBN: 1847089194 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
This study of an ordinary town in Northern England is “a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life…essential reading” (Guardian). What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define England’s national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm—an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and single. He then spent six months living there, immersing himself in this typical English Everytown, in order to get to know the mind of a people. It sees the world as full of patterns and order, a view manifest in its enjoyment of gambling. It has a functional, puritanical streak, evident in its notoriously bad cuisine. In the English mind, men should be men and women should be women (but it's not sure what children should be). Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, Baggini's account of the English as represented by this particular spot on its map is both a portrait of its people and a personal story about being an alien in your own land. “Baggini turns out to be a sensitive observer who takes people and places on their own terms. He is also good at examining his own prejudices and fears.”—Independent “An insightful and often amusing investigation of what it means to be English.”—London Review of Books
Author: Richard Leviton Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595445136 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 688
Book Description
We now live in the time of the Gaian hierophant. This is the one who reveals and shows us how to relate to the sacred aspects of Gaia, our planet. Who is this hierophant? Each of us, when we join the campaign with Gaia against the desecration of our natural environment. But first we have to discover what the Earth really is. The Earth's thousands of sacred sites hold a secret: they are functional parts of the planet's geomantic body, consciousness nodes in the Earth's subtle body. Each veils a Light temple, each once known widely and remembered in myth, and Welcome to Your Designer Planet! documents 165 different kinds. The Earth is not an accident of the cosmos, but was designed specifically for humans as an extended Mystery temple primed to support and enhance our greater awareness. And the designers intended that humans help maintain it. Want to help the ecosystem and modulate global warming and climate change? Plug yourself into the Earth's Light grid through your nearest sacred site and start helping. Earth Mysteries researcher Richard Leviton presents a working model of the Earth's geomantic reality based on 24 years of research. The world's myths are the doorway into this fantastic domain of the Earth's visionary geography, showing us where to go and what to do and even what kinds of spiritual beings to expect to see. The future of the Earth is in our hands. Here are some pages from its design manual showing us how to fine-tune our wonderful host planet.
Author: Frederica Mathewes-Green Publisher: Paraclete Press ISBN: 1612614345 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 287
Book Description
Welcome to the Orthodox Church—its history, theology, worship, spirituality, and daily life. This friendly guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Orthodoxy, but with a twist: readers learn by making a series of visits to a fictitious church, and get to know the faith as new Christians did for most of history, by immersion. Mathews-Green provides commentary and explanations on everything from how to “venerate” an icon, the Orthodox understanding of the atonement, to the Lenten significance of tofu. It’s the perfect book for inquirers and newcomers, but even readers who have been Orthodox all their lives say they learned things they never knew before. Enjoyable, easy-to-read, and leavened with humor, Welcome to the Orthodox Church is a gracious guide to the ancient faith of the Christian East.
Author: Nino Ricci Publisher: Other Press, LLC ISBN: 1590513711 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 497
Book Description
Winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Fiction Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are flaring over the recent codification of French as the official language of Quebec. Hiding out in a seedy apartment near campus, Alex Fratarcangeli (“Don’t worry. . . . I can’t even pronounce it myself”), an awkward, thirty-something grad student, is plagued by the sensation that his entire life is a fraud. Scarred by a distant father and a dangerous relationship with his ex Liz, and consumed by a floundering dissertation linking Darwin’s theory of evolution with the history of human narrative, Alex has come to view love and other human emotions as “evolutionary surplus, haphazard neural responses that nature had latched onto for its own insidious purposes.” When Alex receives a letter from Ingrid, the beautiful woman he knew years ago in Sweden, notifying him of the existence of his five-year-old son, he is gripped by a paralytic terror. Whenever Alex’s thoughts grow darkest, he recalls Desmond, the British professor with dubious credentials whom he met years ago in the Galapagos. Treacherous and despicable, wearing his ignominy like his rumpled jacket, Desmond nonetheless caught Alex in his thrall and led him to some life-altering truths during their weeks exploring Darwin’s islands together. It is only now that Alex can begin to comprehend these unlikely life lessons, and see a glimmer of hope shining through what he had thought was meaninglessness.
Author: Grant Sturiale Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573681349 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
This Broadway hit is based on the Amphitryon myth. Jupiter comes to Earth in human form to woo beautiful Alcemene, wife of Amphitryon. He appears to her in the body of her absent husband and quickly wins her love. Things go swimmingly until the real Amphitryon shows up. The chorus consists of Tom, Dick, Horace and the delightfully dizzy Dolores (who is only in the show because she is the wife of its financial backer.) -- Publisher's description.
Author: Abné M. Eisenberg Ph.D.
Author: G. Wall
Author: Kristy Burt-Hance
Author: Jay Allen
Author: Julian Baggini
Author: Richard Leviton
Author: Frederica Mathewes-Green
Author: Nino Ricci
Author: Grant Sturiale
Author: Dana Sitar