The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.

A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.In this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 85th year. The stern father who built an empire of words; the solipsistic uncle whose hypnotic voice calmed millions: these are just early glimpses of Mathieu's memory. Soon he is crimped into an overhead baggage rack in Stan Kenton's t...

Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader on a journey through ordinary experiences to open our ears to the rich variety of music that surrounds us but that we are trained to ignore; such as the variety of pitches produced by different objects, like glassware, furniture, drums—anything you can tap; or sounds that ...

Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges mind and heart, self and other, and affirms our place in the world. Everyone uses the bridge of music, from casual listeners to devoted professionals. Mathieu's delightful and trenchant prose asks you to question what music is, how it works, and how to understand its value...

Publié sous le co-pilotage de Wladimir Andreff, Professeur honoraire, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne et Président du Conseil scientifique de l’Observatoire de l’économie du sport et Luc Arrondel, Professeur à PSE et Directeur de recherche CNRS, le numéro 154 de la Revue d’économie financière est consacré à « Finance et Sports ». Sujet particulièrement à l’ordre du jour dans la France de 2024 accueillant les Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques.Réunissant 27 auteurs et au...

"Come for a day or to stay!" beckons the maroon double-decker bus called The Peacemaker. One couple, searching for peace and a better life, did just that. In August of 2000, Tamara Mathieu and her husband gave up everything they had and joined the Twelve Tribes, a worldwide religious organization, with their 17-month-old son. They were just 23 years old. Fourteen years and three more children later, they fled back to "the real world." This is the story of Tamara's journey to freedom.

****An instant National Bestseller!**A July 2024 LibraryReads Pick!By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educators, a timely glimpse at today’s pressing school issues, and a tender character study, following a sprawling cast of teachers, administrators, and staff at a Texas high school**With its ensemble of warm and unforgettablecharacters, The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of sc...

Comment prie-t-on loin de chez soi, a fortiori lorsqu’on professe une foi minoritaire ? De Lyon à Alexandrie et de Hambourg à Tunis, cet ouvrage explore la place des églises « nationales » et des chapelles consulaires dans l’organisation du culte en terre étrangère entre le xvie et le xviiie siècle. Par-delà les enjeux confessionnels en situation d’interculturalité, il restitue cette pratique dans son contexte politique et juridique, mais également matériel et humain. Il porte une attentio...

The first statewide history of the Irish in the Prairie StateToday over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. In this concise narrative history, authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State. Short biographies ...

Conflits russo-ukrainien, israélo-palestinien, révolutions au Moyen-Orient, séquelles du colonialisme…la guerre balafre notre monde contemporain et sa violence nous pétrifie. Dans cet essai éclairant, l’économiste Mathieu Couttenier décortique, analyse et dénonce le système de pensée capitalistique à l’œuvre dans nos sociétés et qui "justifie" cette violence.

Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one. These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors is large enough, the results are usually better quality than if they were the result of the activity of a single person, even if it is a domain expert. This type of activity is done via online games.

'[A] page-turner of a novel . . . I couldn't put the book down' - New York Times'A multi-viewpoint panorama of thwarted aspirations, spiced with breathy sex scenes and nostalgic detail**.' - Mail on Sunday**August 1992. Fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to fight their all-consuming boredom on a lazy summer afternoon. Their simple act of defiance will lead to Anthony's first love and his first...