![]() ![]() The ability to see and identify color can be traced back to our evolution millions of years ago, as an essential trait for survival in the wilderness. Despite this modern theory of “good” taste, scientific research has shown that brighter hues stimulate, inspire, and motivate us fundamentally as human beings. ![]() Today, limited use of bright colors signify restraint against childishness and our emphasis on rational, adult design. The first aesthetic, energy, is defined in this book as “vibrant color and light”. Lee introduces to us the ten aesthetics of joy which we can easily incorporate into our own lives-gifting ourselves joyful moments every single day. ![]() Joyful shows the reader that joy can be won easily, every day, in the places and things we’ve always unthinkingly interacted with. In today’s society, with the prioritizing of efficiency over emotions, it is easy to forget to seek joy for ourselves. ![]() Joyful is a book that guides the reader through stories, questions, and scientific researches, to discover joy through an appreciation of aesthetics. No matter how dominant joy is in your life, this book will open your eyes to the little pools of joy which have been sitting all around you this whole time. Perhaps you can’t remember the last time you felt joyful. Perhaps it was a few minutes ago, or yesterday, or a week ago, or a month, or a year. When’s the last time you felt a true, unfettered moment of joy? That’s what Joyful, by Ingrid Fetell Lee, asks first. ![]()
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![]() Speaking to the lack of imagination the AI community has in envisioning the future of their own research and development, Russell writes: The profound and mostly unanswered question at the foundation of AI researcher Stuart Russell’s new book on those efforts is “What if we succeed?” It is a question he has been asking, in publication, since he wrote his first textbook on artificial intelligence in 1995.īy 2013, I became convinced that the issue not only belonged in the mainstream but was possibly the most important question facing humanity. The prospect of conveying the culmination of that knowledge and information to intelligent machines is both incredibly exciting and potentially catastrophic. The result in our very human civilization. We have stood on the shoulders of giants, used and built upon the knowledge of our ancestors first through the word of mouth, and then through written language-mostly in the form of books. ![]() What human beings have been able to achieve has been the result of our unique ability to communicate and convey knowledge to each other and onto successive generations. ![]() Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, Viking ![]() ![]() Good thing I’m not as helpless as I look. ![]() Kidnappers, slavers, pirates and yakuza - no matter where I go, trouble always seems to find me. Hoping to survive all the awful things that can happen to a girl on her own in space. Now I’m on the run, hoping against hope that the Matrons won’t try too hard to find me. What would they do, if they realized the Adjustments that were supposed to make me a meek little herd animal didn’t do anything? Even as a kid I knew not to trust the Matrons. When I was younger, I used to spend the evenings scaling the house tree’s tallest branches to observe the starships landing at the orbital stations above. I learned fast to downplay my abilities, keep my mouth shut and try to blend in. Perilous Waif Books Like Perilous Waif My name is Alice Long, and I have always understood that I am unique. There were other kids with mods at the orphanage, but nothing like that. ![]() It all seemed perfectly natural at the time. ![]() Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. ![]() ![]() Nanette: My most favourite book is Wait for you by J Lynn! I think Cam is just abso-freaking-lutely the best! Great story… I HIGHLY reccommend it!Ĭathenerine: Wait for You and Trust in Me were awesome books!!! Cam and Avery are amazing if you love this genre. Lynn…BEST I after Beautiful Disaster! Closest I have found. ![]() Jill: Just finished this book and I, too, found it fabulous! I read a lot of bad bay/alpha male books because they’re my favorite, but this was a wonderful change of pace. ![]() Both with similar subjects, a college vibe, great book boyfriends and a great weekend read! Lynn and it was so awesome! very similar to ‘My favourite Mistake’ by Chelsea Cameron. Renate: …just finished ‘Wait for You’ by J. ![]() (You can read my review right here).Īnd now that it’s been “picked up” by a publisher, a second book has just been released and a third is already on it’s way!!! A chance at a new start (in a new school… in a new city)! But… not if her enemies have anything to say about it. This one took us by storm back in the day when it was still “indie” (and continues to do so, now)! Great “new adult” novel with plenty of angst and romance, potential heartache and “secret pasts” that comes back to haunt her as she tries to navigate her new world at college.
![]() First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these asoulsa as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. 'Dead Souls' is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. ![]() He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() One Day is such a book even though it took me a couple of Has been a long time since I came across a book which has me looking forward to And as the true meaning of this oneĬrucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and Missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and Twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day – And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two. ![]() As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate lives – lives very different from the people they once dreamed they’d become. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. Below is the authentic review of this book and a little advice of mine. ![]() The author of this amazing book is David Nicholls. In this blog, you will get One day book review. ![]() ![]() After college and a brief career with IBM, he returned to graduate school to complete a degree in theology. In his youth he worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, and singing cowboy. Robert Fulghum was born in 1937, and grew up in Waco, Texas. His writing has been adapted for the stage in two theater pieces: All I Really Need to Know, and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas, and performed in more than 3,000 national and international productions – scripts are available from the Dramatic Publishing Co. He was a Grammy nominee for the Spoken Word Award, has performed in two television adaptations of his work for PBS, has been a speaker at numerous colleges, conventions, and public events across the United States and Europe, and has authored a nationally-syndicated newspaper column. More than 17 million copies of his books are in print, in 31 languages, in 103 countries. ![]() ![]() The 25th anniversary edition of All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, revised and updated, and including 25 new stories, is now available in hardcover and paperback. ![]() Robert Fulghum has published eight New York Times best-sellers, including All I Really Need and What On Earth Have I Done? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.Īs the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. ![]() To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.īut then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. That’s his gift’ Los Angeles Timesīack when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. ‘It’s hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris’ The Times ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Under such circumstances, these are some of the predictable patterns of behavior that tend to occur: M: Multigenerational trauma together with continued oppressionĪ: Absence of opportunity to heal or access the benefits available in the society leading to This was then followed by institutionalized racism which continues to perpetuate injury, t hus resulting in M.A.P. It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery–a form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites. is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. The book addresses the residual impacts of generations of slavery and opens up the discussion of how the black community can use the strengths we have developed in the past to heal in the present. DeGruy has developed her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, publishing her findings in the book " Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing ”. As a result of twelve years of quantitative and qualitative research, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK. Much like Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of ‘pillow book’ about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laingīluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. ![]() |