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Author : Bruce Marsland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521627658
Lessons from Nothing provides 70 activities that encourage interaction and cooperation in classrooms with limited resources.
Author : Jenny Odell
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781612197500
** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Author : Celeste Headlee
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781984824745
“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington “This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert “A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can’t we just take a break? In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. We won’t find what we’re searching for in punishing diets, productivity apps, or the latest self-improvement schemes. Yet all is not lost—we just need to learn how to take time for ourselves, without agenda or profit, and redefine what is truly worthwhile. Pulling together threads from history, neuroscience, social science, and even paleontology, Headlee examines long-held assumptions about time use, idleness, hard work, and even our ultimate goals. Her research reveals that the habits we cling to are doing us harm; they developed recently in human history, which means they are habits that can, and must, be broken. It’s time to reverse the trend that’s making us all sadder, sicker, and less productive, and return to a way of life that allows us to thrive.
Author : Kaitlin Heller,Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781950192311
What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our "work reading" overlaps with our "pleasure reading," and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the shared pleasure that lies in this most solitary of acts - which is also, paradoxically, the act of most complete plenitude. Many of the contributors engage in academic writing, and several publish in other genres, including poetry and fiction; some contributors maintain an active online presence. All are engaged with reading's capacity to stimulate and excite as well as to frustrate and confuse. The synergies and tensions of online reading and print reading animate these thirteen contributions, generating a sense of shared community. Together, the authors open their libraries to us. This is how we read. Table of Contents // Suzanne Conklin Akbari / "Introduction: Practicing Reading, Reading Practice"Irina Dumitrescu / "Reading Lessons"Anna Wilson / "I Like Knowing What is Going to Happen"Suzanne Conklin Akbari / "Read It Out Loud"Jessica Hammer / "From When We Read"Lochin Brouillard / "De Vita Lochini, or Commentary on a Life of Reading"Chris Piuma / "How I Read"Stephanie Bahr / "How I Read, a History; or 'San Francisco Banking Contains No Trans Fats'"Alexandra Atiya / "Text to Speech"Jonathan Hsy / "Phantom Sounds"Kirsty Schut / "On Not Being a Voracious Reader"Kaitlin Heller / "Sleeping Under the Mountain"Jennifer Jordan / "Reading to Forget, Reading to Remember"Brantley Bryant / "Best Practice Tips and Strategies for Academic Reading to Maximize Your Time and Productivity"Kaitlin Heller / "Afterword: The Parlor Scene" KAITLIN HELLER is a postdoctoral fellow at Syracuse University and a former assistant editor at Del Rey Books. Between teaching courses on folklore and medievalism, Heller designs games, watches Midsomer Murders, and does the bidding of one large cat. SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, but would rather be working on her new project on medieval ideas of periodization, "The Shape of Time," and/or lying on the beach in North Truro. Her books include "Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory" (Toronto, 2004), "Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450" (Cornell, 2009), and four collections of essays, including "How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page" (punctum, 2015). She is also a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (4th ed.), and a master of structured procrastination.
Author : Phoebe Gilman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338208498
Joseph's grandfather transforms his blanket many times over the years, but what can be done when the final item is lost? Gilman's version of this Yiddish folk tale won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award. When Joseph was a baby, his grandfather made him a wonderful blanket. But as Joseph grows older, the blanket becomes tattered and worn. Throw it out! cries Joseph's mother. Luckily, Grandpa is an extraordinary tailor. He can fix anything! And so with a snip! snip! here, and a few stitches there, Grandpa transforms the treasured blanket into a jacket, a vest, a Sabbath tie, a handkerchief, and finally a beautiful button. But when the button is lost, even Grandpa can't help. After all, how can you make something from nothing?In a rich and loving portrait of shtetl life, Phoebe Gilman presents a traditional Jewish folktale about family love and ingenuity that will warm the hearts of readers young and old.
Author : Mark Mahaney
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781264274970
Find the winners, avoid the losers, and build a solid Tech portfolio for the long run—with proven methods from legendary analyst Mark Mahaney The Tech industry is the stock market’s hottest, most profitable sector, but it can be a roller coaster ride. Companies with great ideas can end up going nowhere, and some that dominate today will be sold at fire-sale prices in five years. “Sure things” can become “sore things” very rapidly. Nothing But Net provides the knowledge and insights you need to understand what’s really hot, to know what’s not, and to outperform other investors consistently and decisively. Famous for his smart, savvy and unique approach to Tech stock investing, Mark Mahaney provides his 10 proven rules for succeeding as a long-term Tech stock investor—explaining everything he’s learned during almost 25 years of analyzing internet stocks, including: Why revenue growth and customer metrics―not earnings―are what matter most to Tech investors How to invest―not trade―in the great growth opportunities that lie ahead How to determine when high valuations are a warning sign and when they signal an opportunity “I’ve watched the rise of some of the leading companies of today–Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google–and the fall of some of the leading companies of yesterday–Yahoo!, eBay, and AOL...,” Mahaney writes. “[F]iguring out which companies really are going to be dominant franchises is an extremely hard thing to do. But those who accomplished this were arguably able to generate some of the best portfolio returns in the stock market over the past generation.” Nothing But Net provides powerful advice for the next two decades―lessons you can start applying today and use for years to come.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547792178
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Author : Charles Gerrard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600034311
Author : Salim Khan Anmol
Publisher : Sakha Global Books, Inc.
Page : 1709 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-10
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9789355663849
English grammar: rules and usage is specially designed for learners of English as second or foreign language. This book is intended for undergraduate students who have little or no previous background in English grammar, students who need an introduction to English grammar as part of their curriculum in English or as preparation for teaching the language. This book can be used as a self-study book. Each grammatical rule is explained in simple English with several examples. This book is written in the classroom language so it can be used by a teacher to explain English grammar in the classroom. The relation between the concepts of English grammar and correct use of English is stressed is this book. Grammar can be learnt easily; it can be fun, so stop worrying, pick up this book and move ahead. This book will help you like a teacher, a guide. The features of this book include: ? A comprehensive index which makes it easy to use ? Simple step by step explanation of grammatical rules and patterns ? Practical examples ? Practical exercises ? List of collective nouns ? List of adjectives formed from nouns ? List of collocations with prepositions ? Lesson on spelling rules . The Oldman's English Lessons book is a recently launched book of Sakha Global Books publication to hold good command over English language. This is an is an excellent resource for all students who wish to learn, write and speak English language from zero level. Perfect for self-study, the series follows a guided-learning approach that gives students access to a full answer key with model answers. Developed by experienced IELTS tutors, the series takes into account the specific language needs of learners at this level. A lower-level exam practice book designed to improve the level of students who plan to take the IELTS test in the future. American English Idioms is a book that teaches essential and foundational idioms used in the USA. It is designed to be an easy-to-use guide especially for ESL students. With a unique Sorted-By-Meaning format, you can now look up idioms via their meanings rather than being limited to searching for them in alphabetical order. It also comes with guides to teach how and when to use the idioms; do you use them in informal, semi-formal or formal speech? What is informal, semi-formal or formal speech anyway? This book will help you with that. Packed with information, every idiom comes in its infinitive form; with at least 1 real-life subject pronoun example sentence. Created by a native American English speaker, you can now learn to speak English like an American and learn the idioms that American English speakers expect you to know. Also includes a brief overview of some of the most common Internet abbreviations. This book has been divided into sections and each section has been further divided into lessons. have been given, wherever necessary. Also, exercises are given at the end of every lesson for practice and solutions at the end of the book. Start speaking English in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Beginner English, a completely new way to learn English with ease! Beginner English will arm you with English and American cultural insight to utterly shock and amaze your English speaking friends and family, teachers, and colleagues. What you get in Beginner English: - 1750+ pages of English learning material - 25 English lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section - 25 Audio Lesson Tracks (over 4 hours of English lessons) - 25 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases) This book is the most powerful way to learn English. Guaranteed. You get the two most powerful components of our language learning system: the audio lessons and lesson notes. Why are the audio lessons so effective? - Powerful and to the point - Repeat after the professional teacher to practice proper pronunciation - Cultural insight and insider-only tips from our teachers in each lesson - Fun and relaxed approach to learning - Effortlessly learn from bi-lingual and bi-cultural hosts as they guide you through the pitfalls and pleasures of America and English. Why are the lesson notes so effective? - Develop and improve listening comprehension and reading comprehension by reading the dialog transcript while listening to the conversation - Master and correct English script by reading the lesson notes - Grasp the exact meaning of phrases and expressions with sample sentences and the expansion section - Expand your word and phrase usage with the expansion section - Master and learn to use English grammar with the grammar section Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning. Buy or sample this eBook now! And start speaking English instantly! Salient Features of the Book: • Self-Sufficient, Self-Study Book. • Detailed Explanation of English Grammar Topics. • Easy tools for Written and Spoken English. • Complete Guide to Error-free usage of English in day-to-day life. • Easy to Grasp Language for better understanding. This book has been designed to help you learn English in an easy and proper way. This is a clearly structured introductory English learning book intended to offer readers an advanced fluency in both spoken and written English. English pronunciations are given in easy way helping the readers to understand the complexities of English pronunciation. - Salim Khan Anmol
Author : J. G. Holland
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066165444
"Lessons in Life" is a collection of essays on moral topics by the American novelist and poet Josiah Gilbert Holland who also wrote under the pseudonym, Timothy Titcomb. In the essays, the author teaches the younger generation about different sides of human life, such as unnecessary burdens we accept in our lives, our undeveloped resources, faith in humanity, and many others. It is an exciting book on the philosophy of life which considers those sides of human personality that never change through time.
Author : Josh Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101623046
Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.
Author : Yogani
Publisher : AYP Publishing
Page : 1564 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781938594694
The AYP Plus Lessons eBook is offered as a resource for off-line study, covering nearly 1,000 lessons and additions on practices and experiences. Until now, this large amount of instructional content has only been available through the AYP Plus online service. Full Scope Yoga, consisting of eight limbs, opens the doorway between our outer and inner reality, leading us to Abiding Peace, Unity and Joy in all aspects of life. The Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP) Lessons provide detailed instructions on how to open the doorway of our nervous system - aiding us in unfolding our full potential and destiny in this life. Deep Meditation, Spinal Breathing Pranayama, and Yoga Asanas form the foundation of daily practice in a short routine compatible with modern life, with extensive refinements and many additional practices provided in the lessons as experience in human spiritual transformation advances over time. Prudent Self-Pacing of practices for comfort and safety is a core teaching throughout the lessons. The AYP Lessons began in 2003 as an online resource. Over the years, the teachings have expanded to populate several websites, more than 15 books, and translations into more than a dozen languages. The two original AYP Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living books, published in 2004 and 2010, cover nearly 500 lessons combined. As the writings continued, the AYP Plus online service was launched in 2015, eventually providing nearly 500 additions to the original lessons, expanding and refining the teachings based on the questions and experiences of hundreds of practitioners. Yogani is the author of ground-breaking books on highly effective spiritual practices, including the Advanced Yoga Practices lesson books, the concise AYP Enlightenment Series books, and The Secrets of Wilder spiritual adventure novel. Over the years, the AYP writings have been praised as one of the most comprehensive and accessible instructional resources on Full Scope Yoga - See hundreds of testimonials in the back of the book. With the publication of this large eBook, the full teachings contained in the AYP Plus Lessons are being made available in book form for the first time.
Author : Lorraine Monroe
Publisher : Greenwood Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1891620207
Leadership lessons from inside and outside the classroom.
Author : Lance Lambert
Publisher : Lance Lambert Ministries, Inc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683890560
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. Exodus 3:2-4 Within this book, Lance shares lessons God taught to Moses. God chose the most common thorn bush in which to meet Moses and this is just one step in his life of training.How much more does God desire to meet with us and train us as well?
Author : Tim Delaney,Tim Madigan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438461458
Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture. As the culture of the people, popular culture provides a sense of identity that binds individuals to the greater society and unites the masses on ideals of acceptable forms of behavior. Lessons Learned from Popular Culture offers an informative and entertaining look at the social relevance of popular culture. Focusing on a wide range of topics, including film, television, social media, music, radio, cartoons and comics, books, fashion, celebrities, sports, and virtual reality, Tim Delaney and Tim Madigan demonstrate how popular culture, in contrast to folk or high culture, gives individuals an opportunity to impact, modify, or even change prevailing sentiments and norms of behavior. For each topic, they include six engaging and accessible stories that conclude with short life lessons. Whether youre a fan of The Big Bang Theory or Seinfeld, the Beatles or Beyoncé, Charlie Brown or Superman, theres something for everyone.
