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Did you know that meditation can help you feel better - both
mentally and physically - starting right now? No matter how busy
you are, wherever you are, your age, or what you are going through,
meditation offers simple, fast relief and can support you in your
day-to-day life. Through science-backed, practical and accessible
guidance, this book will show you how meditation can work for you.
Balm your soul and body with over 50 can-do meditation techniques
to build into your daily routine. Whether you want to practise on a
mat or take your experience elsewhere - when walking, running and
swimming; using sound and music; with art and creativity - discover
which method works best for you, and find new ways to answer your
specific needs. Meditation for the Real World will also address
specific moments of need, such as how to find calm before a
stressful situation such as a flight; to enhance focus before a big
presentation; to reduce inflammation and pain; and much more, each
backed with science-based research.
The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar
and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined
with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication
narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive
practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value
as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild
reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of
domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from
Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages
and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal
husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push
beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how
situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the
politics of human difference-and, conversely, how politics are
intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume
promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that
radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative.
Contributors. Inger Anneberg, Natasha Fijn, Rune Flikke, Frida
Hastrup, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Knut G. Nustad, Sara Asu Schroer,
Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Mette Vaarst, Gro B.
Ween, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live.
This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and
scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and
transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As
human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies
livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold
proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick
descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays
by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art,
literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative
tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene.
The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as
the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by
the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and
intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy,
and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen,
rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud
volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the
wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen
Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland,
Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter
Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M.
Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz;
Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne
Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa
Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U
of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U
of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales,
Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego;
Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar
and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Intertwined
with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication
narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive
practices. Contending that domestication retains considerable value
as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild
reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of
domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from
Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages
and South African colonial townships. Challenging idioms of animal
husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push
beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how
situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the
politics of human difference-and, conversely, how politics are
intertwined with plant and animal life. Ultimately, this volume
promotes a novel, decolonizing concept of domestication that
radically revises its Euro- and anthropocentric narrative.
Contributors. Inger Anneberg, Natasha Fijn, Rune Flikke, Frida
Hastrup, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Knut G. Nustad, Sara Asu Schroer,
Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Mette Vaarst, Gro B.
Ween, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme
Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development
and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly
shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared
Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts
to make the new Japanese nation-state more legibly "modern." In
doing so, they engaged in non-conforming modes of thinking that
reached out to diverse places, including the American West and
southern Chile. Today, the comparisons made by Hokkaido fishing
industry professionals, scientists, and Ainu indigenous groups
between the island's forests, fields, and waters and those of other
places around the world continue to dramatically affect the
region's approaches to environmental management and its physical
landscapes. In this far-ranging ethnography, Heather Anne Swanson
shows how this traffic in ideas shapes the course of Hokkaido's
development, its fish, and the lives of people on and beyond the
island while structuring trade dynamics, political economy, and
multispecies relations in watersheds around the globe.
Explore the biomechanics of 30 key yoga asanas, in-depth and from
every angle, and master each pose with confidence and control.
Introducing Science of Yoga - an all-encompassing science book to
help you better understand yoga anatomy in order to perfect your
practice and poses Did you know that yoga practice can help treat
age-related memory loss better than brain-training games? Recent
scientific research now supports what were once anecdotal claims
about the benefits of yoga to every system in the body. Science of
Yoga provides a detailed insight into variations of key yoga poses
and the specific benefits of different styles of yoga on the human
body, system by system. Dive right in to discover: -Specially
commissioned CGI artworks show 30 asanas in depth and detail the
physics of the pose - 16 spreads of clear, easy-to-understand
scientific facts and research answering key questions around
ancient and modern claims - Illustrated section on the benefits of
yoga on the human body system by system - Easy-to-understand
research is presented in an easy-to-understand format with
illustrated pullouts, debunking the myths and explaining the
scientific facts, from breathing techniques to mindfulness Science
of Yoga is a riveting read, and reveals how your blood flow,
respiration, muscles and joints work below the surface of each yoga
pose, whilst teaching you to achieve technical excellence in your
practice, from the comfort of your own home. The first yoga book on
the market to combine detailed anatomical drawings, pose mechanics
and key scientific research, Science of Yoga is a must-have volume
for yoga beginners and professionals alike, seeking an accessible
and easy-to-read guide on the effects of yoga on the human body
from a scientific standpoint. Whether you're looking to take up
yoga this New Year, or your yoga poses are already perfect, this
science book sets out to separate the facts of yoga from the myths,
with proven scientific research.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and
fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped
by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's
landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the
new Japanese nation-state more legibly "modern." In doing so, they
engaged in non-conforming modes of thinking that reached out to
diverse places, including the American West and southern Chile.
Today, the comparisons made by Hokkaido fishing industry
professionals, scientists, and Ainu indigenous groups between the
island's forests, fields, and waters and those of other places
around the world continue to dramatically affect the region's
approaches to environmental management and its physical landscapes.
In this far-ranging ethnography, Heather Anne Swanson shows how
this traffic in ideas shapes the course of Hokkaido's development,
its fish, and the lives of people on and beyond the island while
structuring trade dynamics, political economy, and multispecies
relations in watersheds around the globe.
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Missing (Paperback)
Sheila Ann Swanson
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R424
Discovery Miles 4 240
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Tiverton General Hospital at the dead of night... In a side room
off the Maternity Ward a terrible crime is in progress, and
Detective Sergeant Jim Rainford is soon probing the case of a
missing baby. Can he allow himself to enlist the help of Vance, a
smooth-talking private detective hired by the baby's distraught
mother, Lorna Wells? A personality clash seems likely, and Lorna is
also concerned at the behaviour of two of her friends living in a
row of cottages in the village of Cheggswold: two young mums with
their very own babies... or are they? When a wife-beating
drunk-driver wraps his car around a telegraph pole, a result for DI
Rainford seems on the cards, but the lout's battered ex seems to
have a few very personal issues of her own. Can a twist in the tale
allow Lorna to find baby Jonathan - and true happiness? This
exciting read will stretch your sympathies first one way, then the
other, before you discover yes or no!
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