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Unthink

Author : Chris Paley
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781444779721

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Your life is dominated by your unconscious mind: by thoughts you're unaware of and movements you don't realise you are making. Words, colours, mannerisms and other cues you don't realise are affecting you, change what you think. The confidence you have in your ability to reason and to consciously choose what to do is caused by a series of illusions that scientists are only just beginning to understand. The discovery of these illusions will change the way we see ourselves more than the discoveries of Darwin and Copernicus. Unthink explores the unconscious decisions we make, and covers a variety of topics, ranging from how we choose politicians and romantic partners to more abstract subjects such as whether we can consciously decide to move our fingers. The counter-intuitive observations that Chris makes in the book include: ? If you want someone to fancy you, wear red and meet them somewhere frightening. ? When waitresses repeat customers' orders back to them instead of just saying 'yes' they receive bigger tips. ? To reduce your shopping bill, start at the beer and snacks end of the store and work backwards. ? If you sit someone in an upright chair when you give them good news they will be prouder of their achievements. ? Having a picture of your family on your desk might make you work harder, but you'll be rattier when you get home! Chris Paley shows us how we can understand ourselves and others better, by having a greater understanding of the way that the unconscious mind has an impact of the way we live our lives.

Unthink

Author : Erik Wahl
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780770434021

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In the tradition of A Whole New Mind and The War of Art, graffiti artist and corporate thought leader, Erik Wahl explores the power of creativity to achieve superior performance. Somehow we’ve come to believe that creativity is reserved for the chosen few: the poets, the painters, the writers. The truth is creativity is in all of us and re-discovering it is the key to unlocking your fullest potential. Unthink pushes us beyond our traditional thought patterns. It will inspire everyone to realize that we are capable of so much more than we have pre-conditioned for. Creativity is not in one special place--and it is not in one special person. Creativity is everywhere and in everyone who has the courage to unleash their creative genius.

Pens are My Friends

Author : Jon Burgerman
Publisher : IdN
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 9789889959142

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Text by Harlan Levey, Peter Thaler, Lars Denicke.

Unthink Before Bed

Author : Kelly Croy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798670360319

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Unthink Before Bed is the perfect bedtime book with over forty, beautifully colored illustrations and a whimsical rhyme reminiscent of Dr. Seuss. Follow the bedtime adventure of a young boy and his dog as they learn how to prepare their mind for bedtime. Written and illustrated by a veteran educator of thirty years and a father of four. This is Kelly Croy's second book. Unthink Before Bed teaches children (and adults) how to slow down, build a routine, get to bed, and fall asleep. Woven into every stanza and illustration are the ten, secret lessons of mindfulness. Reduce anxiety, worry, and stress. Fall asleep happily. Get a peaceful night's rest.

The Child in Time

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809681

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Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone. With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts.

Chunk

Author : Tom Emison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736934619

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What's the difference between a company that thrives and one that barely survives? You know that your company is capable of doing so much more in this New Normal. There has been so much volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in your world. Now is not the time to develop a plain strategic plan, let it gather dust, and go back to business as usual. In Chunk, Tom Emison shows you how to create a strategic plan to boldly move your company forward and differentiate from your competition. He lays out how to have an epic strategic planning retreat that results in extraordinary change and growth for your company. This is not a boilerplate strategic plan template that will take you through the motions, without making any real changes. This is for the company leader who is ready to reimagine their business and reknit the leadership team together. In the pages of this book, you'll discover: The Strategic Clarity Roadmap to show you step-by-step how to create and implement a real strategy and concise strategic plan How to define your strategic essence that makes your company unique What you need to do before, during, and after your strategic planning retreat for long-term success Why creativity is an essential component of any strategic plan How to commit to a long-term vision for your company, yet remain flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances Throw away everything you think you know about strategic planning, and get ready for an epic retreat that will change your business forever!

The "Third" United Nations

Author : Tatiana Carayannis,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192597908

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The Third UN is the ecology of supportive non-state actors-intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, the for-profit private sector, and the media-that interacts with the intergovernmental machinery of the First UN (member states) and the Second UN (staff members of international secretariats) to formulate and refine ideas and decision-making at key junctures in policy processes. Some advocate for particular ideas, others help analyze or operationalize their testing and implementation; many thus help the UN 'think'. While think tanks, knowledge brokers, and epistemic communities are phenomena that have entered both the academic and policy lexicons, their intellectual role remains marginal to analyses of such intergovernmental organizations as the United Nations.

Flying Dinosaurs

Author : John Pickrell
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781742241760

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Dinosaurs didn’t die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic. The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the palaeontological world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating ritual, or a stepping stone in the evolution of flight? And just how closely related T. rex to a chicken Award-winning journalist John Pickrell reveals how dinosaurs developed flight and became the birds in our backyards. He delves into the latest discoveries in China, the US, Europe and uncovers a thriving black market in fossils and infighting between dinosaur hunters, plus the controversial plan to use a chicken to bring dinosaurs back from the dead.

Unthinking Social Science

Author : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1566398991

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Immanuel Wallerstein develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. We have to "unthink"-radically revise and discard-many of the presumptions that still remain the foundation of dominant perspectives today. Once considered liberating, these notions are now barriers to a clear understanding of our social world. They include, for example, ideas built into the concept of "development." In place of such a notion, Wallerstein stresses transformations in time and space. Geography and chronology should not be regarded as external influences upon social transformations but crucial to what such transformation actually is. Unthinking Social Science applies the ideas thus elaborated to a variety of theoretical areas and historical problems.

Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Author : Busani Mpofu,Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201772

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Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

Forget Photography

Author : Andrew Dewdney
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781912685813

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Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates. The central paradox this book explores is that at the moment of photography's replacement by the algorithm and data flow, photographic cultures proliferate as never before. The afterlife of photography, residual as it may technically be, maintains a powerful cultural and representational hold on reality, which is important to understand in relationship to the new conditions. Forgetting photography is a strategy to reveal the redundant historicity of the photographic constellation and the cultural immobility of its epicenter. It attempts to liberate the image from these historic shackles, forged by art history and photographic theory. More important, perhaps, forgetting photography also entails rejecting the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates, and in doing so opens up other relationships between bodies, times, events, materials, memory, representation and the image. Forgetting photography attempts to develop a systematic method for revealing the limits and prescriptions of thinking with photography, which no amount of revisionism of post-photographic theory can get beyond. The world urgently needs to unthink photography and go beyond it in order to understand the present constitution of the image as well as the reality or world it shows. Forgetting photography will require a different way of organizing knowledge about the visual in culture that involves crossing different knowledges of visual culture, technologies, and mediums. It will also involve thinking differently about routine and creative labor and its knowledge practices within the institutions and organization of visual reproduction.

Unlearning

Author : Charles L. Briggs
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646421022

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A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship. Eschewing narrow Eurocentric modes of explanation and research foci, Briggs brings together colonialism, health, media, and psychoanalysis to rethink classic work on poetics and performance that revolutionized linguistic anthropology, folkloristics, media studies, communication, and other fields. Beginning with a candid memoir that credits the mentors whose disconcerting insights prompted him to upend existing scholarly approaches, Briggs combines his childhood experiences in New Mexico with his work in graduate school, his ethnography in Venezuela working with Indigenous peoples, and his contemporary work—which is heavily weighted in medical folklore. Unlearning offers students, emerging scholars, and veteran researchers alike a guide for turning ethnographic objects into provocations for transforming time-worn theories and objects of analysis into sources of scholarly creativity, deep personal engagement, and efforts to confront unconscionable racial inequities. It will be of significant interest to folklorists, anthropologists, and social theorists and will stimulate conversations across these disciplines.

The Spark and the Grind

Author : Erik Wahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399564222

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We’ve been conditioned to think about creative genius as a dichotomy: dreamers versus doers, creativity versus discipline, the spark versus the grind. But what if we’re wrong? What if it’s the spark and the grind? We love people whose creative genius arrives in sudden sparks of inspiration. Think of Archimedes in his bathtub or Newton under his apple tree. But we also admire people who work incredibly hard and long for their creative breakthroughs. Think of Edison in his lab, grinding through hundreds of failed variations on the lightbulb. We remember his words in tough times: “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” Now Erik Wahl, a visual artist, speaker, and entre­preneur, helps us unite the yin and yang of creativity— the dynamic new ideas with the dogged effort. He shows why we won’t get far if we rely on the spark without the grind, or the grind without the spark. What the world really needs are the creators who can hold the two in balance. Fortunately, it’s possible to get good at both, as Wahl knows from experience. After his corporate career sud­denly ended, he pursued a spark—to paint photorealistic portraits—and ground it out until he got good enough to make very good art very quickly. That’s the basis of his riveting live shows, which have captivated skeptical audiences who never expected to be inspired by art—and taught them to embrace creativity in a whole new way. This book offers surprising insights and practical advice about how to fan the sparks and make the grind more productive. Wahl deftly synthesizes the wisdom of other artists, philosophers, scientists, and business visionaries throughout history, along with his own views. Here’s how he sums up his approach: The world needs people who enjoy swimming in ideas until they discover a great one. The world also needs doers who have a gift for activation, a.k.a. “getting s*** done.” But the most potent individual creators in any industry or environment have learned how to be both. They’ve learned how to spark their grind and they’ve learned how to grind their sparks. As a result, they not only make things happen, they make great things. If you want to ensure constant creativity in your life and produce your most innovative work—this is your guide.

Unthinking Eurocentrism

Author : Ella Shohat,Robert Stam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136121883

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This excellent book corrects eurocentric criticism from media studies in the past by examining Hollywood movie genres such as the western and the musical from a multicultural perspective.

A Whole New Mind

Author : Daniel H. Pink
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101157909

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New York Times Bestseller An exciting--and encouraging--exploration of creativity from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.