She explains how we can cultivate new powers of recovery and resilience in everyday life simply by adopting a more "gameful" mind-set. In this book, McGonigal reveals a decade's worth of scientific research into the ways all games-including videogames, sports, and puzzles-change how we respond to stress, challenge, and pain. Today nearly half a million people have played SuperBetter to get stronger, happier, and healthier.īut the life-changing ideas behind SuperBetter are much bigger than just one game. These rules led to a digital game and a major research study with the National Institutes of Health. What started as a simple motivational exercise quickly became a set of rules for "post-traumatic growth" that she shared on her blog. But rather than let herself sink further, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: she turned her recovery process into a resilience-building game. Unable to think clearly or work or even get out of bed, she became anxious and depressed, even suicidal. In 2009, internationally renowned game designer Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion. An innovative guide to living gamefully, based on the program that has already helped nearly half a million people achieve remarkable personal growth
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The doll house fiona davisSheila, the wrangler who runs the green room, also narrates her side of the story. The story is told from the perspectives of three men - Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600 - as they wait in the queue for their turn in front of the camera. If anything it sends it up, pokes fun at the ridiculous nature of it and highlights how warped you would have to be to participate in a gang-bang that is being filmed for public consumption. And before long you realise that this isn’t a novel glorifying pornography. I wasn’t sure I would be entirely comfortable reading about an aging porn star attempting to break the world record for serial fornication with 600 men on camera.īut Palahniuk delivers such an extraordinarily funny story that you can’t help but laugh your way through it. I’ll be perfectly frank: I did not expect to like Chuck Palahniuk‘s latest paperback release because of the sordid subject matter. Fiction – paperback Vintage 208 pages 2009. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Andrew larson rent(The space has since become the ballroom of a boutique hotel.) That production was in turn based on an autobiographical solo musical that Larson had written (and occasionally performed) before Rent. The film is based on the three-character show of the same name, originally mounted in June 2001 at the 280-seat Jane Street Theatre in the West Village. 19 on Netflix, it will be the first time that Hollywood has tackled the life of the brilliant composer, whose sudden death on the day of Rent‘s first off-Broadway preview remains, 25 years later, one of theater’s most tragic and poignant legends. When Tick, Tick … Boom! - Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut that stars Andrew Garfield as Rent creator Jonathan Larson - premieres Nov. Learn how it can be a positive contribution to your life and to the lives of billions of people worldwide. The Rainbow Bridge is a vision of peace and unity that comes from deep inside the heart of humanity. This book also reveals how the mainstream Rainbow Bridge is spontaneously appearing around the world in the form of physical bridges, stores, hotels, music festivals, Hollywood films and more. They can also be used in concrete ways to help create a bridge to a peaceful harmonious world that works for all via a comprehensive Road Map to World Peace. The sixty easy-to-use universal principles can be used to help guide us to experiencing deep inner peace. The book illuminates the common ground in the world's major wisdom traditions, also known as universal principles. the Dalai Lama, New York Times Bestselling Authors, Doctors, Lawyers, Ambassadors, Astronauts, Olympians, an Academy Award-Winning Actor and a growing chorus of prestigious global luminaries. The Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace, recipient of 21 literary awards/recognitions (see below), has been endorsed by H.H. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Books like the sympathizer"What is to be done?" - the question that Nguyen poses in both novels - is a timeless inquiry into the forces that shape our moral worldview. The Committed also reiterates the ideas first articulated in The Sympathizer. From a satirical James Bond-esque spy story in The Sympathizer, the author shifts to James Baldwin's intersectional politics in The Committed to address greed, prejudice, and violence. More intimate in setting than The Sympathizer's transcontinental scope, The Committed employs the motif of organized crime as linkage between the various demimondes populated by disaffected Algerian immigrants, maternal Cambodian prostitutes, and nostalgic Vietnamese thugs all living in France. That our hero arrives four days after Bastille Day is significant, for the ideals of liberté, egalité, and fraternité have proven elusive in France's former colonies, and it would take a visionary of Mandela's stature to give them new life. Having survived a communist reeducation camp, a perilous sea crossing, and a long sojourn in an Indonesian refugee center, he arrives in Paris on Jthe birthday of Nelson Mandela - to become, once again, a refugee. With smoke-and-mirrors panache, The Committed - Viet Thanh Nguyen's sequel to The Sympathizer - continues the travails of our Eurasian Ulysses, now relocated to France and self-identified as Vo Danh (which literally means "Nameless"). 6/27/2023 0 Comments Doomflight by Guy N. SmithIn addition to working under his actual name, he also uses the pseudonym� Edward Miller� to paint in a different style and to overcome restrictions placed on him by his association with horror. Les Edwards� (born 1949) is a British illustrator known for his work in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres, and has provided numerous illustrations for book jackets, posters, magazines, record covers and games during his career. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Noah harari sapiensSapiens has sold more than 21 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. His answer: We are the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in our imagination, such as gods, states, money, human rights, corporations and other fictions, and we have developed a unique ability to use these stories to unify and organize groups and ensure cooperation. Harari's 2011 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, explores what made homo sapiens the most successful species on the planet. Harari regularly connects broad historical questions to current global events in mainstream media, and has written and spoken extensively on the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relationship between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded? These topics are explored in his books, which have sold more than 40 million copies in 65 languages. Yuval Noah Harari lectures as a professor of history at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he specializes in world history, medieval history and military history. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Scars cherylFor a skin treatment to do its job, you need to get pass the stratum corneum which prevents particles from invading the skin But there are limits to facials because topical applications can only do so much, and you won’t be able to go beyond the first five layers of skin cells. On the other end of the spectrum, there are those that just sign up for facials. Joshua (J): In the aesthetics market, there will always be people who choose the invasive route – such as going for surgery, injections and lasers etc. What was your motivation behind starting SkinPhysio? Ahead, we speak to Grace and Joshua about what it’s like to make a mid-career pivot into the world of aesthetics, the rewards of the job, and why their treatments are a great option for people who are interested in venturing into effective, and pain-free, non-invasive treatments. The two steps away from the state of grace: Man's evolved ability to make an intellectual choice & civilized man's derailment from the continuum The blind search for the missed expenences in every corner of life The kind of assistance required of his EdlersįIVE : Deprivation of Essential Experiences / 109 The assumption of innate sociality and its implications The innate Talent for Self-Preservation, the growth of self-reliance, and the Importance of respecting the child's responsibility for himself The experience of infants and babies within the continuum, and without The in-arms phase and its consequences in the rest of one's life The expectations and tendencies of the infant How the continuum works, in the individual and in the culture What a human being is evolved to expect from life Seeing first, understanding later, then going back to confirm my observations ONE : How My Ideas Were So Radically Changed / 3 INTRODUCTION : Some Reports and Thoughts for the New Edition / ix 6/26/2023 0 Comments Bluets goodreadsIn 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. As a Book Woman, Cussy Mary is highly regarded, but as a Blue, she is feared and reviled, and experiences racism, discrimination and violence. Cussy Mary is also a "Blue" - the last of a line of blue-skinned people, whose skin appears the unusual shade due to a rare genetic disorder. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" - one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression, from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek |