A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulness

A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulness
Author: Ton Mak
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre:
ISBN: 1452169624

It's OK to slow down. Take a pause and focus on your breath. Let the other animals run around, you do you. Follow a serene and smiley sloth through a series of light meditations and daily reflections with this unexpected and snuggable guide. From simple breathing exercises and guided visualizations to the benefits of chewing your leaves slowly and staying present while hanging from a tree, this little illustrated book of mindfulness will help readers discover the path to a peaceful, philoslothical life. With playful advice and delightfully charming illustrations, this no-sweat approach to enlightenment is a sweet reminder to take it slow and smile.

Book of Sticky Notes: Notepad Collection (Bohemian)

Book of Sticky Notes: Notepad Collection (Bohemian)
Author: New Seasons
Publisher: New Seasons
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781640301177

This hardcover notepad collection is convenient and attractive. Use it for lists, weekly schedules, project planning, reminders, marking pages, and inspirational notes. The set includes: - 1 large notepad (4" x 7-3/4") - 5 sticky notepads: 4 small sticky pads (2" x 1-15/16") & 1 long sticky pad (2" x 3-7/8") - 6 page-marker pads (2" x 3/4")

Sloth Wisdom

Sloth Wisdom
Author: Inc Peter Pauper Press
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781441319401

There's a lot to be said for taking life a little easier, like our sloth friends do. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, ''There is more to life than increasing its speed.''In rest, we find replenishment, and sometimes those leaps of brilliance that come only when we're relaxed and open to them. So, to quote Sylvia Boorstein, ''Dont just do something, sit there.'' And kick back with this little book of quotations from sages of slow, from Shakespeare to Charles M. Schulz, from Aesop to Maya Angelou.Charming illustrations of sloths throughout.Adorable mini book comes with cute 24K gold-plated charm, which may be kept on the ribbon bookmark or worn on a bracelet or necklace.80-page full-color hardcover mini book with dust jacket.Invitingly priced!Book measures 3-1/4 inches wide by 4 inches high.

Sloths Desktop Flipbook

Sloths Desktop Flipbook
Author: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9781441329493

You'll flip for this fun flipbook, packed with sloth wisdom for the slow life! Let its adorable characters add a little laid-back ambiance to your home or workplace, and declare your love of the slow lane! Selections include ''You can't rush perfection,'' ''Going nowhere fast,'' ''Can't pull a fast one on me,'' and many more! Use it brighten your desk or shelf, at home, or at the office! Full color throughout. 48 pages. Matching wire-o binding. Built-in display for your desk or shelf. Magnetic closure. Flipbook measures 4-1/4'' square.

The Urban Planning Imagination

The Urban Planning Imagination
Author: Nicholas A. Phelps
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509526285

Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done. This critical introduction uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative potential. Nicholas A. Phelps explores the key themes and driving questions in the circulation of planning ideas and methods over time and across spaces, identifying the contrasts and commonalities between urban planning systems and cultures. He argues that the tools for inclusive urban planning are today, more than ever, not solely restricted to the hands of planning bodies, but are distributed across citizens, a variety of organizations (what Phelps calls ‘clubs’) and states. As a result, the book sets the ground for the new arrangements between these groups and actors which will be central to the future of urban planning. By unsettling standard accounts, this book compels us towards more critical and creative thinking to ensure that the imagination, wisdom and methods of urban planning are mobilized towards achieving the aspiration of shaping better places.

Can't Remember Sh*t Reminder Book

Can't Remember Sh*t Reminder Book
Author: Peter Pauper Press
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781441319449

Are you forever forgetting birthdays, passwords, the name of the eatery you liked so much on vacation, where you stashed the gold necklace, etc., etc.' Join the club -- the growing ranks of those of us who cant remember sh*t. But take heart! Here's a little reminder book that will help you keep track of everything you need to know but forgot to remember. Organized by tabbed categories, it includes: A Perpetual Calendar to note dates to remember.A section for Internet Passwords.On Loan, to help you remember things lent or borrowed.Entertaining, in which you can record gifts given and received and notes about social occasions (menus, guests, what you wore, etc.).Travel, with packing lists, places for notes about your trip, and more.A Home section, in which you can note ''What to Do When'' and repair and maintenance information.Health, in which to note health histories, allergies, bloodtypes, and more. Extra tips and checklists to help you stay organized.An elastic band attached to back cover keeps your place or keeps your organizer closed. Hardcover volume measures 6-1/4 inches wide by 8-1/4 inches high. 144 pages.

Auravana Decision System

Auravana Decision System
Author: Auravana
Publisher: Travis A. Grant
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This publication is the Decision System for a community-type society. A decision system describes the formal structuring of decisions involving a comprehensive information system that resolves into a modification to the state-dynamic of the material environment. A decision system is a collection of information-processing components -- often involving humans and automation (e.g., computing) -- that interact toward a common set of objectives. This decision system is designed to coordinate and control the flow of resources for global accessibility to all goods and services. To navigate in common, humanity must also decide in common. Herein, individuals maintain a relationship to resources that focuses on access rather than possession, maximizing the advantages of sharing, and incentivizing cooperative, rather than competitive, interest. All requirements relevant to human fulfillment and ecological well-being are factored in to the allocation of resources, optimizing quality-of-life for all, while ensuring the persistence of the commons. The standard’s decision processes produce tasks that are acted upon by an intersystem (a.k.a., “interdisciplinary”) team involving the coordinated planning and operation of projects. Through this comprehensive and transparent decisioning process individuals know precisely what needs to be accomplished to sustain and evolve their fulfillment. Herein, through formalized decisioning and cooperation humanity may continuously restructure society toward a higher potential dynamic of life experience for all. The use of a common social approach and data set allows for the resolution of societal level decisions through common protocols and procedural algorithms, openly optimized by contributing users for aligning humanity with its stated values and requirements.

Building and Dwelling

Building and Dwelling
Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2023-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300274769

A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future “Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking.”—Jonathan Meades, The Guardian In this sweeping work, the preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, and others; and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of Medellín, Colombia, to Google headquarters in Manhattan. Through it all, Sennett laments that the “closed city”—segregated, regimented, and controlled—has spread from the Global North to the exploding urban centers of the Global South. He argues instead for a flexible and dynamic “open city,” one that provides a better quality of life, that can adapt to climate change and challenge economic stagnation and racial separation. With arguments that speak directly to our moment—a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before—Sennett forms a bold and original vision for the future of cities.

Regions and Powers

Regions and Powers
Author: Barry Buzan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2003-12-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521891110

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.