The Listening Book

The Listening Book
Author: W. A. Mathieu
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1991-03-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0834827670

The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.

Seeing Silence

Seeing Silence
Author: Mark C. Taylor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 022669352X

“To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the restlessness that makes creative life possible and the inescapability of death acceptable.” So writes Mark C. Taylor in his latest book, a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age. How do we find silence—and more importantly, how do we understand it—amid the incessant buzz of the networks that enmesh us? Have we forgotten how to listen to each other, to recognize the virtues of modesty and reticence, and to appreciate the resonance of silence? Are we less prepared than ever for the ultimate silence that awaits us all? Taylor wants us to pause long enough to hear what is not said and to attend to what remains unsayable. In his account, our way to hearing silence is, paradoxically, to see it. He explores the many variations of silence by considering the work of leading modern and postmodern visual artists, including Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, James Turrell, and Anish Kapoor. Developing the insights of philosophers, theologians, writers, and composers, Taylor weaves a rich narrative modeled on the Stations of the Cross. His chapter titles suggest our positions toward silence: Without. Before. From. Beyond. Against. Within. Between. Toward. Around. With. In. Recasting Hegel’s phenomenology of spirit and Kierkegaard’s stages on life’s way, Taylor translates the traditional Via Dolorosa into a Nietzschean Via Jubilosa that affirms light in the midst of darkness. Seeing Silence is a thoughtful meditation that invites readers to linger long enough to see silence, and, in this way, perhaps to hear once again the wordless Word that once was named “God.”

Eyes Open Level 3 Student's Book

Eyes Open Level 3 Student's Book
Author: Ben Goldstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107467624

Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, Eyes Open features stimulating global topics to motivate students and spark their curiosity. Guided, step-by-step activities and personalised learning tasks lead to greater speaking and writing fluency.

He Died with His Eyes Open

He Died with His Eyes Open
Author: Derek Raymond
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847655785

When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station. Working from cassette tapes left behind in the dead man's property, our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What he doesn't expect is that digging for the truth will demand plenty of lying, and that the most terrible of villains will also prove to be the most attractive. In the first of six police procedurals that comprise the Factory series, Derek Raymond spins a riveting, and vividly human crime drama. Relentlessly pursuing justice for the dispossessed, his detective narrator treads where few others dare: in the darkest corners of London, a city of sin plagued by unemployment, racism and vice, and peopled by a cast of low-lifes, all utterly convincing and brought to life by Raymond's pitch-perfect dialogue.

Dream With Your Eyes Open

Dream With Your Eyes Open
Author: Ronnie Screwvala
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788129139948

In Dream With Your Eyes Open, first-generation entrepreneur and UTV-founder Ronnie Screwvala details his vast experiences and the myriad lessons learnt from more than two decades of building some successful (and some not-so-successful) businesses, bringing clarity to a quickly changing business landscape and making an impassioned case for the role of entrepreneurship in India's future. If you've ever had an impactful, disruptive product or business idea, been curious about owning your own business, or have already taken the first steps on your entrepreneurial journey, this is the book for you. If you've been running your own company for the last seven-odd years, and scale, brand and value-creation are some of the crossroads for you now, keep reading. If you think your parents or family would freak out if you dared to suggest ditching your safe haven-your professional job-to pursue your dreams of owning your own business, relax. Better yet, share this book with them. If you're an experienced professional ready to take the plunge into starting your own business or committed to growing into an effective leader in the company you work for, read on. This book hopes to demystify failure, inspire success, raise ambitions and help you think big. Dream With Your Eyes Open shares failures and triumphs, thoughts and anecdotes in a simple narrative that could help you gain better insights into entrepreneurship and give you a fighting chance when it comes to realizing your dreams in a David-versus-Goliath world. Only then will we succeed in harnessing the country's enormous entrepreneurial potential with the most energetic and passionate people in the world, alive with fresh mind-sets, optimism and hope. This book is about 'it can be done', not 'I did it'. It's all possible. Just dream your own dream-and when you do, dream with your eyes open.

Eyes Open Level 4 Student's Book

Eyes Open Level 4 Student's Book
Author: Ben Goldstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107467802

Eyes Open features a captivating Discovery Education(TM) video and stimulating global topics that will spark curiosity and engage teenage learners. Developed in partnership with Discovery Education (TM), Eyes Open features captivating Discovery Education(TM) video and stimulating global topics to motivate students and spark their curiosity. Four videos in every unit make learning relevant and create opportunities for deeper understanding. Guided, step-by-step activities and personalised learning tasks lead to greater speaking and writing fluency. Progress monitoring tools and flexible teaching support, including graded tests and extra practice activities, ensure that every learner can achieve success. Student's eBooks and a version of the Student's Book with access to the online learning management platform and online Workbook are also available.

Eyes Wide Open

Eyes Wide Open
Author: Isaac Lidsky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0143129570

In this New York Times bestseller, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn’t external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality. Fear has a tendency to give us tunnel vision—we fill the unknown with our worst imaginings and cling to what’s familiar. But when confronted with new challenges, we need to think more broadly and adapt. When Isaac Lidsky learned that he was beginning to go blind at age thirteen, eventually losing his sight entirely by the time he was twenty-five, he initially thought that blindness would mean an end to his early success and his hopes for the future. Paradoxically, losing his sight gave him the vision to take responsibility for his reality and thrive. Lidsky graduated from Harvard College at age nineteen, served as a Supreme Court law clerk, fathered four children, and turned a failing construction subcontractor into a highly profitable business. Whether we’re blind or not, our vision is limited by our past experiences, biases, and emotions. Lidsky shows us how we can overcome paralyzing fears, avoid falling prey to our own assumptions and faulty leaps of logic, silence our inner critic, harness our strength, and live with open hearts and minds. In sharing his hard-won insights, Lidsky shows us how we too can confront life's trials with initiative, humor, and grace.

One Eye Open

One Eye Open
Author: Alex Grecian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952203600

TKO Studios presents "One Eye Open" by New York Times Bestselling author Alex Grecian (THE YARD) After her mother’s sudden passing, Laura and her daughter Juniper return to her childhood home in the rural outskirts of Denmark. In the scenic village amidst seas of wheat fields, Laura hopes they have finally let tragedy behind them. Then, Juniper begins to notice something strange about the people she encounters, the same people who have worked in these fields for centuries. In tracing her lineage back through her mother and beyond, Juniper makes a horrifying discovery. This town is alive with more than just nature, and the endless fields of wheat demand to be harvested, whether the hands that do so are alive or dead… An occult thriller about coming home and the monsters that await us there. By NY Times Bestselling Author Alex Grecian (The Yard) with illustrations by Andrea Mutti

Eyes Open Level 2 Student's Book Thai Edition

Eyes Open Level 2 Student's Book Thai Edition
Author: Ben Goldstein
Publisher: Cambridge Discovery Education
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781316600276

Captivating Discovery Education video and stimulating global topics spark curiosity and engage teenage learners. Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, Eyes Open features captivating Discovery Education video and stimulating global topics to motivate students and spark their curiosity. The course offers four videos in every unit making learning relevant and engaging. Guided activities and personalised learning tasks develop greater speaking and writing fluency. This version of the Student's Book includes access to the online learning management platform with full Workbook content online as well as extra resources, games and interactive video activities. Teachers can use the platform to track students' progress and ensure more effective learning. Student's eBooks and eWorkbooks are also available."

Dead Eyes Opened

Dead Eyes Opened
Author: Clayton Taylor
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595860613

The book tells the story of two different men. One story involves Rick Stanton, an air traffic controller who also works part time as a flight instructor and charter pilot. When Ricks best friend is killed in an airline training accident, he is outraged when the NTSB rules the crash a result of, pilot error. He sets out to prove the NTSB wrong and encounters opposition at every turn. Not only is he driven to find the truth, but he must also battle the demons from within. The second story is told first person, is a story about a man who works in the Department of Defense as a, not your typical spy. He frequently finds himself in over his head dodging death and bullets. These two men share a past. Although they each lead separate lives, they are both searching for the same things: happiness and meaning. Events outside their control will bringthe two together. In a strange twist of fate, while they each pursue a vendetta, they find they have quite a bit in common. Not the least of which is; they are both looking for the same person.