![]() ![]() And sometimes why they have fought for it. In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. ![]() What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? ![]() A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth-how we make it, use it, and what it means to us.Ī New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice ![]()
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![]() This also puts the onus back on us to know our jobs and do them right to get precise, desired results. This guidance has given us the latitude to incorporate continuous process improvement and innovation into our daily operations-to work smarter and more efficiently. Air Force Secretary, Heather Wilson was clear in her Air Force directive publication message in August 2017, “We trust you can make the right decisions based on our values, your training, the mission and your experience … The focus will be identifying best practices and concentrating on values, mission and results.” ![]() We have been empowered by our most senior leaders to make the best decisions possible to get the job done. ![]() In the operational environment, the phrase really means “fake it ‘til you break it” and we can’t afford to accept this mindset. Rather than ask for help or admit a lack of knowledge, they wing it and hope that if it’s wrong, someone else will fix it or that it will not be caught until they are long gone. More often, it’s stated by someone who doesn’t know how to do a task or answer a technical question. When used to describe pretending to have an optimistic, confident mindset to get past self-doubt or insecurity, it can be right on target. – “Fake it ‘til you make it.” This is a popular saying I have heard throughout my Air Force career and it honestly scares me sometimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “In his paradigm-altering book, You Are the Placebo, Dr. ![]() Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse-or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. In You Are the Placebo, best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. Is it possible to heal by thought alone-without drugs or surgery? ![]() ![]() ![]() Tans, Xiangjun Tian, Hanqin Tian, Bronte Tilbrook, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Francesco Tubiello, Guido R. Sutton, Colm Sweeney, Shintaro Takao, Toste Tanhua, Pieter P. Shutler, Ingunn Skjelvan, Tobias Steinhoff, Qing Sun, Adrienne J. Rosan, Jörg Schwinger, Roland Séférian, Jamie D. Palmer, Naiqing Pan, Denis Pierrot, Katie Pocock, Benjamin Poulter, Laure Resplandy, Eddy Robertson, Christian Rödenbeck, Carmen Rodriguez, Thais M. 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Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O'Sullivan, Matthew W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For many years, The Improvisatore was the most widely read of all of Andersen's works. ![]() An immediate success and Andersen's breakthrough, the following year it was published in Germany and, in 1838, in France. It was published by Reitzels Forlag in 1835. Deeply impressed with everything he experienced and influenced by Madame de Staël's " Corinne ou l'Italie", he began writing his travel tale, The Improvisatore. In September 1833, with financial support from Danish well-wishers, Andersen embarked on a cultural trip to Italy. The story, reflecting Andersen's own travels in Italy in 1833, reveals much about his own life and aspirations as experienced by Antonio, the novel's principal character. First published in 1835, it was an immediate success and is considered to be Andersen's breakthrough. The Improvisatore ( Danish: Improvisatoren) is an autobiographical novel by Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). ![]() ![]() ![]() As I binged the series with my wife this past weekend, it helped stem meaningful conversations for us to practice “cognitive” and “affective” empathy listening techniques. Yet, her teachings are incredibly relevant in today’s “disembodied” reality. If this sounds like a self-help TED Talk, it essentially is one. And by the fifth and final episode, she provides a framework that will allow the audience to cultivate more meaningful connections with ourselves and others. In the show, Brené Brown builds on four solid episodes that each capture human emotion with the “empathy machine” (movie/TV). With that said, the above quote could easily be in ATLAS OF THE HEART. Instead, it was what I told my wife a few months ago when we started a new parenting strategy to teach my stepson responsibility. “I love it when a good framework yields results.” No, this is not a quote from Brené Brown’s new HBO Max TV series based on her book of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Received the title of lord from Prime Minister Tony Blair, 1998. Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1970, and Royal Television Society Honorary Fellow, Lancashire Polytechnic Domus Fellow, St. Univ.: Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 1988. Litt.: University of Liverpool, 1986 University of Lancaster, 1990 D. Musical, 1985 BAFTA Dimbleby award, 1987 W. Awards: Writers Guild award, for screenplay, 1966 Rhys Memorial prize, 1968 Northern Arts Association prose award, 1970 Silver Pen award, 1970 Broadcasting Guild award, 1984 Ivor Novello award, for Since 1969 member, and chairman, 1977-80, Arts Council Literature Panel president, Northern Arts, 1983-87, and National Campaign for the Arts since 1986. Since 1978 editor and presenter, South Bank Show Head of Arts, 1982-90, and since 1990 Controller of Arts, London Weekend Television since 1988 presenter, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4. Career: With BBC Television and Radio from 1961: general trainee, 1961-62 producer on Monitor, 1963 for BBC 2 editor on New Release (later Review, then Arena ), Writers World, and Take It or Leave It, 1964-70 presenter, In the Picture, Tyne Tees Television, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1971, Second House, 1973-77, and Read All About It, 1976-77, BBC, London. Family: Married 1) Marie-Elisabeth Roche in 1961 (died 1971), one daughter 2) Catherine Mary Haste in 1973, one daughter and one son. Education: Nelson-Thomlinson Grammar School, Wigton, Cumberland, 1950-58 Wadham College, Oxford, 1958-61, M.A. Born: Carlisle, Cumberland, 6 October 1939. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a fever dream of a book that vividly recreates the sights, sounds, and smells of 19th century London, while illuminating the final years of a great writer’s life. ![]() The mysteries surrounding Drood form the heart of an epic narrative encompassing ancient religious practices, subterranean cities, hallucinatory visions, madness, murder, and the limitless power of the creative imagination. ![]() The story concerns an otherworldly figure who calls himself “Drood,” and who moves through the wreckage like a pale, unholy apparition. He tells it, with typical Dickensian brio, to his friend and occasional collaborator, Wilkie Collins, the narrator of this magisterial novel. Dickens emerges from the carnage physically, if not mentally, unscathed. Shortly afterward, the train derails near the village of Staplehurst, toppling into an abyss. On June 9th, 1865, Charles Dickens, “the most popular novelist in England, perhaps the world,” boards a train bound from Folkstone to London, accompanied by his youthful mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "She is an activist who works against racism, who fights for diversity in society. This gave rise to the idea of taking an unusual approach at the publishing house and commissioning three people with different expertise and experience as a team of translators," he told Spiegel. In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel published on March 6, the head of Hoffmann and Campe, Tim Jung, said the translation of a poem of such "power and beauty" that has made such an impact "means a great deal of responsibility for a publisher." Gorman's poem was published in German on March 30 in a bilingual edition titled The Hill We Climb - Den Hügel hinauf by Hamburg-based publisher Hoffmann und Campe. Now, that poem has been or is being translated into a number of foreign languages, including German. US youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman stole the show at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration on January 20 when she read her powerful poem The Hill We Climb. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Becky has since featured in seven further bestselling books, Shopaholic Abroad (also published as Shopaholic Takes Manhattan), Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic & Sister, Shopaholic & Baby, Mini Shopaholic, Shopaholic to the Stars and Shopaholic to the Rescue. The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (also published as Confessions of a Shopaholic). Sophie Kinsella has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages. ![]() |