Living Screens
Living Screens

Author: Monique Rooney

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-08-28

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1783480483

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Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a “plastic” form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediation. Living Screens evokes the thrills, anxieties, and uncertainties accompanying our attachment to technologies that are close-at-hand yet have far-reaching effects. In doing so, it explores the plasticity of our current situation, in which we live with screens that melodramatically touch our lives.

Glow Kids
Glow Kids

Author: Nicholas Kardaras

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1250097991

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"In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology-- more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity-- has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain's pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person's developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can"--

Live Better Longer
Live Better Longer

Author: Joseph Dispenza

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-12-20

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0595163610

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Simple steps for getting well, staying well and gaining vitality for a long and healthy life based on the teachings of legendary holistic healer and pioneering nutritionist Hazel Parcells. Dr. Hazel Parcells, the revered “grand dame of alternative medicine,” who healed herself of “terminal” tuberculosis when she was 42 years old, inspired several generations of nutritionists, and lived to the age of 106 by following a dramatically effective set of straightforward nutritional practices. In this practical and motivating guide, Dr. Parcells’s longtime student Joseph Dispenza distills more than sixty-five years of her groundbreaking research on natural health and the chemistry of foods into seven practices that are remarkably easy to integrate into daily routines.

Embodiment and Disembodiment in Live Art
Embodiment and Disembodiment in Live Art

Author: Ke Shi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1000764702

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Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists. As live art covers both embodiment and disembodiment, many scholars have emphasized the former and interpreted the latter as the opposite side of liveness. In this book, the author demonstrates that disembodiment is also an inextricable part of liveness and presence in performance from both practical and theoretical perspectives. By applying phenomenological theory to live performance, the author investigates the possible realisation of aesthetic dynamics in live art via re-engagement with the notions of embodiment, especially in the sense provided by philosophers such as Gabriel Marcel and Morris Merleau-Ponty. Creative practices from leading performance artists such as Franko B, Ron Athey, Manuel Vason and others, as well as experimental ensembles such as Goat Island, La Pocha Nostra, Forced Entertainment and the New Youth are discussed, offering a new perspective to re-frame human-human relationships such as the one between actor and spectator and collaborations in live genres In addition, the author presents a new interpretation model for the human-material in live genres, helping to bridge the aesthetic gaps between performance art and experimental theatre and providing an ecological paradigm for performance art, experimental theatre and live art.

Daily Readings from Live Love Lead
Daily Readings from Live Love Lead

Author: Brian Houston

Publisher: FaithWords

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1455539961

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To experience the best life that God intends for you, you must learn to live fully, love completely, and lead boldly -- the hallmarks of Jesus' time on earth. Brian Houston now shares his transformative approach to the Christian life, through practical tools and inspiring teaching that will help you identify your unique gifts and reenergize your faith, no matter where you are in your relationship with God. Each daily experience includes: Today's Scripture: A Scripture to meditate on to recalibrate your mind and receive God's restoration. Today's Excerpt: A key truth about living, loving, and leading that will enable you to follow the greatest Guide ever to walk the path of life -- Jesus. Today's Thought: An uplifting, liberating, and meaningful thought to start the day with God. Today's Reflection: A place to journal your thoughts and reflections. Today's Prayer: A simple but powerful prayer to help you express your heart to God.

The Opportunity to Live Well
The Opportunity to Live Well

Author: Paul James

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1443893862

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What is the greatest, most precious, opportunity that life provides? It is not winning millions in a lottery. Money, fame, intelligence, beauty, a prestigious career, or mere existence will not simply provide us with a good life. We all have the potential to live well, to have a good life, but how can we do so? We can master complex subjects, attain advanced qualifications and demonstrate sound skills; we can become wealthy, and still make a mess of our lives. People can meet the accepted measures of success, yet still not live well. Gough Whitlam, Nelson Mandela, Pete Seeger, Luke Kelly and Ben of Kombi Life are used here to demonstrate the challenges and joyous rewards of living well. They inform, and teach us, that we can also live well when we cultivate awareness; altruism; wholeness of body, mind and spirit; resilience and persistence; passion; empathy; a sense of belonging; personal character; self-knowledge; and life-enhancing habits.

Where We Live Now
Where We Live Now

Author: Matthew Stadler

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1891241494

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The point of departure for this collection is a translation of excerpts from Zwischenstadt by Thomas Sieverts.

A K-pop Live
A K-pop Live

Author: Suk-Young Kim

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1503606007

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“A glittering glimpse into a pure realization of late capitalism, and . . . our collective future . . . .uncovers why K-pop is the global cultural phenomenon.” —Carol Vernallis, author of Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema 1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media. Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of "liveness" in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age. Observing performances online, in concert, and even through the use of holographic performers, Kim offers readers a step-by-step guide through the K-pop industry's variegated efforts to diversify media platforms as a way of reaching a wider global network of music consumers. In an era when digital technology inserts itself into nearly all social relationships, Kim reveals how "what is live" becomes a question of how we exist as increasingly mediated subjects. “Lively insights into the complexities of the artistry and the commerce, the manufactured and the impromptu, the virtual and the somatic, and the local and the global that propel the production [and] consumption of Korean popular music today.” —Hyung-Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia

Live Long, Live Strong: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care and PREVENTION
Live Long, Live Strong: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care and PREVENTION

Author: Dr. Mao Shing Ni

Publisher: Tao of Wellness Press/Dr Mao Shing Ni

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 188757557X

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A must-read book for anyone who is going through cancer treatment and the people who care about them, as well as cancer survivors and those who are interested in living a long life without cancer. It has been said that “aging is a major carcinogen!” Why is aging such a threat to you getting cancer? It’s pretty simple—the longer you live, the more errors your genes accumulate from infections and environmental carcinogens as well as a decline in your cancer-fighting immunity and frequent stress response. Over time, these mutations are duplicated repeatedly as your cells divide and it’s easy to see how it can eventually lead to cancer. If you desire to prevent cancer in your lifetime or perhaps you are currently battling cancer, you must start working on your healthy-aging program today. In Live Long, Live Strong: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care and Prevention, Dr. Mao shares his 30 plus years of experience in integrative oncology—working collaboratively with oncologists and thousands of cancer patients. Now in this groundbreaking book, with his associate Frances Lam, L.Ac. at the Tao of Wellness, they provide an overview of the latest information on the causes and mechanism behind cancer, current diagnostics as well as cutting edge treatments in conventional oncology and the collaborative model of care between Eastern and Western medicine. The authors present evidence-based treatment modalities, including acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, diet and nutrition, mind-body practice of qi gong and meditation that have been used effectively to reduce side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, boost energy and vitality, and restore healthy functions in patients’ immune system. Equally important, the book reveals preventive steps everyone can take to lower his or her lifetime cancer risks as well as decrease recurrence rate for cancer survivors. In addition, they share stories of some of their patients’ cancer journey in the hopes of inspiring the most important healing power within—the human spirit!

Live in Hope
Live in Hope

Author: Loretta Juras, SFO

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-01-09

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1450081509

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On July 22, 1993, the author’s fifty year struggle with clinical depression ended. She shares with the reader her honest and courageous search for peace. We go with her from a small farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Baltimore across the Bay, to life in a convent in Pennsylvania to Wilmington Delaware, where she still lives and enjoys her gift of peace. The author graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Delaware. She retired in 1990 after forty years as a health care worker. She continues to study, volunteers as a Eucharistic Minister to hospital patients and serves as minister to a local Fraternityof Secular Franciscans.