![]() Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness, unlock our potential, and greatly improve the quality of our lives. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi ("the leading researcher into ‘flow states’" -Newsweek) demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow, is sorta like the Godfather of positive psychology. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. ![]() The bestselling classic that holds the key to unlocking meaning, creativity, peak performance, and true happiness. T he manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is i lluminating.” -Los Angeles Times Book Review That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. ![]() ![]() “Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. ![]()
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![]() He also served on the committee that wrote the Kansas state constitution.Īt the start of the Civil War in 1861, Blunt was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Second Kansas Volunteer regiment. During a confrontation with the Kansas pro-slavery state government, Blunt joined a militia force that included abolitionist John Brown and his followers. Putnam in 1850, and they had two children.Īn ardent abolitionist and a Republican, he moved to Kansas in 1856 and became involved in the bloody border conflict over slavery. In 1845, he moved to Columbus, Ohio, and enrolled at Starling Medical College. ![]() He became captain of his own vessel in just five years. ![]() The young Blunt satisfied his wanderlust by becoming a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of fifteen. He was the son of John Blunt, a local farmer, and Sally Gilpatrick Blunt. Blunt was born in Trenton, Maine, on July 21, 1826. In 1864, Blunt’s troops were a part of the Union forces that repulsed General Sterling Price’s raid into Missouri. In Arkansas, he led his troops to victory at the battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Devil’s Backbone, Boston Mountains, and Van Buren. Blunt’s command saw fighting principally in the border region of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). James Gilpatrick Blunt had several careers and titles during his lifetime, including doctor, ship’s captain, and major general of volunteers in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to help him get to the bottom of it all.Īnd with his attention finally on me, I want to tell him how I feel. Pity I’ve never been more than an afterthought to him.īut when rumors start to circulate about hazing, and the sources lead back to my house, it puts me square on Zeke’s radar. The appointment was made easier, though, when none other than Zeke Ariston took over Sigma house. I never wanted to become Kappa President. I need to find out who’s driving the lies. Now, instead of dialing back the stress, we’ve broken the number one rule on the row: Don’t get the dean’s attention. I might not know where they’re coming from, but I know they’re total BS. Idiot brothers, epic pranks, a list of organizational duties long enough to make my eyes bleed.īut senior year is almost over, and I’m ready to take a step back. One hell of a happy ending.īeing President of a frat house means everything is on my shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's an asshole, but it's not that because sometimes assholes can be interesting (I might want to rewrite that sentence later). And that's before we've got to Kennedy, Moran and the ferocious Antoinette Conway. I will probably never get over Frank and Rosie from Faithful Place. I shipped Rob and Cassie so hard in In the Woods, and Cassie herself made the implausible plot of The Likeness actually okay. The crimes are whatever the detectives - their voices, quirks, passions and personal histories - are what make her books so damn addictive. To start with, I feel like my love for French is centred around her awesome, snarky, flawed, messy, human detectives. It's definitely not a bad book, but The Witch Elm - French's first standalone outside of her Dublin Murder Squad series - just didn't contain a lot of the stuff I've loved from this author. I keep trying to convince myself to bump this up a star because it's hard to believe Tana French can write anything that isn't amazing. ![]() I just knew I jinxed it by writing that first paragraph in my review of The Secret Place. I actually didn't love a Tana French book. ![]() ![]() ![]() She died at her home in Newcastle in 2010, aged eighty-five. Despite her late literary start, Eva went on to write more than twenty books for children and won the Smarties Prize for her novel Journey to the River Sea in 2001. Eva didn’t start writing until she was in her thirties and her first children’s book, The Great Ghost Rescue, was published in 1975 when she was fifty years old. After realising a career in science wasn’t for her she retrained as a teacher. Eva attended the prestigious Dartington Hall School, before studying Physiology at Cambridge University. Other members of Eva’s family also escaped Vienna and settled in England, and their shared experiences later influenced Eva’s writing, with the themes of home, refugees and immigration running through her books. Born to Jewish parents in Vienna in 1925, at nine years old Eva moved to London to join her mother, a successful novelist and playwright, who had fled Vienna in 1933 after her work was banned by the Nazi authorities. When wealthy Larina Trottle decides she wants a child, she snatches the first baby that comes along, leaving distraught royal parents on the other side of an ancient gate (Platform 13, in an old Tube station) that opens once every nine years. Eva Ibbotson’s life was as adventurous as those of the characters she created in her mystical middle-grade stories and sweeping young adult romances. Old magic breaks loose in modern London to rescue a kidnapped prince in this droll, if formulaic, farce from Ibbotson. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all. ![]() What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. ![]() Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. ![]() ![]() Now, the four of them are a family, although life is far from plain sailing. ![]() With Tony, a single, gay man, under intense scrutiny due to the ensuing custody case and not wanting to lie about their relationship, Mac faced some incredibly difficult decisions, which culminated in his coming out at work, then moving in with Tony and Ben and bringing his five-year-old daughter, Anna, to live with them. In Breaking Cover, Tony and Mac were faced with a number of difficult choices after Tony became the legal guardian of six-year-old Ben, the boy to whom he’d been a father in all but name since his birth. This is a series that should be listened to in order and there are spoilers for the story so far in this review. Home Work is the third book in Kaje Harper’s fabulous mystery/romance Life Lessons series, and as it’s a continuation of Tony and Mac’s story, is not a standalone. Especially when life refuses to give them a break. It’ll take everything these men can give to create a viable balance between home and work. ![]() It’s what they dreamed of.īut daughter Anna struggles with the changes, Ben is haunted by old secrets, Mac’s job in Homicide still demands too much of his time, and Tony is caught in the middle. ![]() ![]() They’re together openly as a couple, sharing a home and building a life with their two kids. Mac and Tony thought the hard part was over. Murder, trauma, and raising children-who said love was easy? This title may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon ![]() ![]() Grimwood of Pensacola, a sister and a brother. Grimwood’s novels have been printed in 13 languages and are especially popular in Japan, his agency said. ![]() The 1995 book involved telepathy between children and dolphins cooperating to save the environment. His other books were “Breakthrough” in 1976, which also dealt with time travel “Elise” in 1977, a study in immortality and eternal youth and “The Voice Outside” in 1982 and “Into the Deep” in 1995, both dealing with telepathy. In his fantasy fiction, Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, Replay (1986). Brought up in Pensacola, Fla., the author attended Emory University and Bard College, and once worked as a news director at KFWB-AM (980) news radio in Los Angeles. Kenneth Milton Grimwood (Febru June 6, 2003) was an American author, who also published work under the name of Alan Cochran. Grimwood shared some traits with the fictional Winston. ![]() challenges us to take fresh views of that inexorable force, time.” When the book appeared in paperback in 1988, novelist David Brin reviewed it for The Times, commenting: “ ‘Replay’ features one of the more thorough explorations of a theme one might ever hope to find. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Providing a history of knowledge from the Enlightenment to Postcoloniality, she also discusses the fate of concepts such as "discovery", "claiming", and "naming" through which the west has incorporated and continues to incorporate the indigenous world within its own web. ![]() Extending the work of Foucault, she explores the intersections of imperialism, knowledge and research, and the different ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and methodologies as "regimes of truth". In the first, the author critically examines the historical and philosophical base of Western research. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.'įrom the vantage point of the colonized, the term "research" is inextricably linked with European colonialism the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. 'NOW AVAILABLE- FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION OF DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES. ![]() |