Thick Air brings together a new body of work by Hungarian-born artist Eva Beresin in which she offers a radical and intimate exploration of her life. The paintings can be seen as the culmination of a decade in which Beresin's art has gained both speed and inventiveness. Her paintings of the carnivalesque are animated by a genuine interest in the intricacies of the soul. Grotesquely uneasy and playfully bold, the compositions capture her personal history as well as universal human ...

Why does truth matter? Why can greedy and deceitful leaders still manipulate us? What motivates people to turn away from unethical leaders? Governance, commerce and exclusive beliefs still dominate society. Time changes the context; yet not the struggle. Pilgrims Passage: Darkness to Light is a riveting story of how committed leaders boldly move from a dark, greed-filled maze to a lighted pathway. Today this timeless story continues to ring true and the message is even more urgent. Stories...

Why does Pilgrims’ Passage matter? Why can greed and deceit still manipulate us? Why do people choose power over family? Working to address these questions and more, Pilgrims Passage: Rebuilding the Past is a journey brimming with adventures through turbulent times during the transition into the twenty-first century. For Paul Bardeck and Claudia Weiss, discovering a thousand-year-old monk’s journal fuels their quest to rebuild a mysterious ancient monastery perched upon the foothills in th...

Betrayal, exploitation and manipulation cast the shadow on this adventure in Slovakia and the East Coast of the United States. Governments collude to experiment with children’s minds, a Nobel Scientist plagiarized his pregnant wife’s work, and deception on individual and organizational level abounds. Yet, revenge is not the victims’ go-to. Instead, InterMission emerges as their Phoenix. It’s truths are captured within the Book of ONE. Claudia and Richard share these bare truths at an inter...

Why does Pilgrims Passage matter? Why can greed and deceit still manipulate us? Why do people choose power over family? Working to address these questions and more, Pilgrims Passage: Into a New Millennium and Rebuilding the Past are journeys brimming with adventures through turbulent times during the transition into the twenty-first century. For Paul Bardeck and Claudia Weiss, discovering a thousand-year-old monks journal fuels their quest to rebuild a mysterious ancient monastery perched ...

This book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives and places. When affect manifests, it can ‘take shapes’ in the form of emotions such as fun, joy, fear, anger and the like. When it remains a visceral force of latent bodily responses, affect ove...

Disruptive and creative research methodologies proposed in this book are designed to dismantle neoliberal narratives deployed in tourism studies and wider social sciences. Progressing criticality in tourism studies, this volume showcases cutting-edge contributions ranging from reflexivity, subjectivities, and dreams; to messy emotions in auto-ethnographic accounts of fieldwork; ‘motherhood capital’ accessing Inuit communities; collective memory work; ethnodrama and creative non-fiction, am...

Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism.Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often leaves academics grasping for terminol...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops Nemesis, UrbReas, SoGood, IWAISe, and Green Data Mining, held at the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2018, in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018.The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 32 submissions.The workshops included are:Nemesis 2018: First Workshop on Recent Advances in Adversarial Ma...

Boredom and the occult make strange bedfellows.The popular kids of Tenafly High School were bored with upper middle class life. With a few months left before graduation, they made a decision to spice things up. What they intended quickly got away from them.Aiden is the shy one. The one who follows along quietly. But now he will find himself forced to stand up to his tormentors. Or die.Will the secret society devour the band of friends? How can the m...

The Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path, classically taught by the Buddha in the Dharmacakra Pravartana S?tra, read by Emma Hignett