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with visual illusions and misinformation, positive mindsets and
negative thoughts, social anxiety and personal constructs, the
modern landscape of the human mind is an intriguing place to
explore. But how are you expected to navigate this hidden world?
Short Cuts: Psychology provides the map you need to start exploring
seriously big ideas. Fifty quickfire questions lead to 'short cut'
answers written by experts in their field, with each one the
setting-off point for clear directions to help you plot your route
through an essential concept. With one-stop graphics presenting a
memorable image for each idea, and route-map glossaries explaining
key words and their connections, Short Cuts: Psychology will lead
you through a world of intellectual wonders.
This little book invites people to try out a way of prayer that has
been used down the centuries. It is compact and easy to use: no
need to find different material in different places - all you need
is on the page. It can also be useful for prayer away from home as
the bible readings and psalms are included in each office.
The first decades of the twentieth century were pivotal for the
historical and formal relationships between early cinema and
Cubism, mechanomorphism, abstraction, and Dada. To examine these
relationships, Jennifer Wild's interdisciplinary study grapples
with the cinema's expanded identity as a modernist form defined by
the concept of horizontality. Found in early methods of projection,
film exhibition, and in the film industry's penetration into
cultural life by way of film stardom, advertising, and
distribution, cinematic horizontality provides a new axis of
inquiry for studying early twentieth-century modernism. Shifting
attention from the film to the horizon of possibility around,
behind, and beyond the screen, Wild shows how canonical works of
modern art may be understood as responding to the changing
characteristics of daily life after the cinema. Drawing from a vast
popular cultural, cinematic, and art-historical archive, Wild
challenges how we have told the story of modern artists' earliest
encounter with cinema and urges us to reconsider how early
projection, film stardom, and film distribution transformed their
understanding of modern life, representation, and the act of
beholding. By highlighting the cultural, ideological, and artistic
forms of interpellation and resistance that shape the phenomenology
of a wartime era, The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema,
1900 1923 provides an interdisciplinary history of radical form.
This book also offers a new historiography that redefines how we
understand early cinema and avant-garde art before artists turned
to making films themselves.
Some people can get over anything. Doctors diagnose them with a
rare form of cancer and they recover. They are viciously attacked
and blinded yet pull through to start a successful business
improving other people's lives. They survive injury in the
military, and campaign across the country to raise awareness about
the emotional difficulties linked to combat service. These people
bounce back from horrendous trauma that would emotionally and
physically cripple most people. They flourish with renewed resolve
to face any problem with grace and ease. Knowing how people in
challenging circumstances such as these transition from ordinary to
extraordinary gives us the knowledge to transform our own lives
without first suffering trauma. Be Extraordinary reveals a
life-changing formula that will lead us on the path to being
extraordinary even when we encounter setbacks along the way.
Jennifer Wild has discovered that overcoming adversity and becoming
extraordinary tap the same factor. People who flourish with or
without trauma as their catalyst naturally draw on seven key
processes - the unwavering belief in recovering against all odds,
the conviction to reach one's goals, the courage to focus on the
future rather than the past, and the invaluable, necessary
conscious and continuous process of updating out-dated memories and
self-concepts. These factors drive people to overcome adversity.
They drive people to become extraordinary. Some people have them.
Some people don't. This book is about what those factors are, how
to get them and why they work. Linking science to achievable
transformation, Dr Wild reveals the seven processes and gives
inspiring real-life examples of how ordinary people have used them
to come through astonishing adversity. Offering an accessible,
practical no-nonsense plan of how to overcome everyday setbacks,
this is the essential guide if you want to Be Extraordinary.
The first decades of the twentieth century were pivotal for the
historical and formal relationships between early cinema and
Cubism, mechanomorphism, abstraction, and Dada. To examine these
relationships, Jennifer Wild's interdisciplinary study grapples
with the cinema's expanded identity as a modernist form defined by
the concept of horizontality. Found in early methods of projection,
film exhibition, and in the film industry's penetration into
cultural life by way of film stardom, advertising, and
distribution, cinematic horizontality provides a new axis of
inquiry for studying early twentieth-century modernism. Shifting
attention from the film to the horizon of possibility around,
behind, and beyond the screen, Wild shows how canonical works of
modern art may be understood as responding to the changing
characteristics of daily life after the cinema. Drawing from a vast
popular cultural, cinematic, and art-historical archive, Wild
challenges how we have told the story of modern artists' earliest
encounter with cinema and urges us to reconsider how early
projection, film stardom, and film distribution transformed their
understanding of modern life, representation, and the act of
beholding. By highlighting the cultural, ideological, and artistic
forms of interpellation and resistance that shape the phenomenology
of a wartime era, The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema,
1900 1923 provides an interdisciplinary history of radical form.
This book also offers a new historiography that redefines how we
understand early cinema and avant-garde art before artists turned
to making films themselves.
This ecumenical collection of prayers, liturgies and rituals seeks
to illustrate the impressive creativity fo liturgy from the ground
up - from congregations, groups and individuals struggling to come
to terms with change and all the celebration and loss which that
involves. A wealth of human experiences is explored and expressed
through experimental rituals: expressions of god, namings,
affirming relationships, separating, dying, grieving, healing,
retirement, abortion, miscarriage, and much more. It is hoped that
this anthology will imspire and enable others to construct their
own liturgies, rituals, blessings and prayers. Hannah Ward and
Jennifer Wild are former members of Anglican religious orders. They
are co-founders of Womanpsace, a spritituality programme. Their
book Guard the Chaos: Finding Meaning in Change was published in
1995.
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