Explore creative resistance with global activists and artists.Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1 presents a range of contemporary practices at the intersection of human rights and the arts. Activists, scholars, and artists from around the globe share personal stories, theories, and histories, revealing the richness and range of creative tools of resistance. Each chapter includes a Q&A with a live, international audience, enhancing the ...

Become a highly empowered, highly sensitive person with practical strategies and exercisesDo you experience more emotional intensity than others? Do you tend to be more easily overstimulated or process information more slowly? You may be an empath or a highly sensitive person (HSP). Functioning in a world not made for your sensibilities can be overwhelming, but The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person is full of practical, research-based exercises to help. Wi...

A complete, 365-day plan to help highly sensitive people practice self-careAs a highly sensitive person, self-care is an important tool for maintaining your overall well-being. Learning how to identify and respond to your needs will help you feel cool, collected, and ready to handle whatever life throws your way. This book is designed to inspire and support your self-care practice with a year's worth of reflections, exercises, quotes, and affirmations centered arou...

Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new exploratory essays by cultural writer and critic John Hartley.Hartley provides:

Ditch the stigma, celebrate your identity, and put yourself first with these 100+ exercises that reinforce the idea that neurodiversity is a strength and teaches you how to relax, destress, find your community, practice self-love, and more.When you’re autistic, it can be tough to prioritize wellness.Self-Care for Autistic People can help you engage in some neurodivergent self-care—without pretending to be neurotypical. You’ll find more than 100 act...

Would you like to be able to choose to be happier?Did you know that scientists and researchers have discovered:Why some people are much happier than others?Happier people are more successful, resilient, creative, productive, kind and energetic, plus they have better health and relationships?We all have a happiness set point (a level of happiness that we keep returning to)?That this set po...

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background. John Moss and Linda Morra chose the essays from a gathering of McLuhan’s academic d...

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures...

**2023 National Parenting Product Award Winner2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards FinalistTwelve practical strategies to experience more joy and feel less guilt as a working parent, drawn from ACT, the groundbreaking therapy technique that has helped countless people.**Dr. Yael Schonbrun calls out the myth of the work-life balance and offers practical strategies that can help us reframe our approach to working and parenting from the inside out. Based in Acceptanc...

Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:What counts as literature?Is analysis a dissection?How do gender, race, class and cu...

Both academic and industry research suggest that paying close attention to psychological safety has tangible benefits, not just to personal health and wellbeing, but to workplace productivity and performance.Psychological safety in the context of work teams is defined by Harvard Business School professor and researcher Amy Edmondson as:"a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes, and ...

Self-Help Tips To Help YourselfSelf-help, or self-improvement, is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.