Visual Meetings

Visual Meetings
Author: David Sibbet
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470945400

Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation, the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups. Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work. This dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders, presenters, and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools, including Graphic recording, visual planning, story boarding, graphic templates, idea mapping, etc. Creative ways to energize team building, sales presentations, staff meetings, strategy sessions, brainstorming, and more Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups Unlocking formerly untapped creative resources for business success, Visual Meetings will help you and your team communicate ideas more effectively and engagingly.

Imaginary Friend

Imaginary Friend
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538731347

From a New York Times bestselling author, a young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "epic horror" novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will). Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night. At first, the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. Days later, he emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on. One of The Year's Best Books (People, EW, Lithub, Vox, Washington Post, and more)

Invite Only

Invite Only
Author: Jane Njogu Ssebugwawo
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2023-10-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

CAN YOU REALLY RE-AUTHOR THE STORIES YOU TELL YOURSELF? Most of us are living unfulfilled lives. We are trapped in the stories we tell ourselves. These stories manifest themselves in beliefs and as thinking patterns. We shy away from exploring opportunities due to biased judgment, resulting in unfulfilled decisions and substandard choices. These stories represent the gap to living a fulfilled and happier life. What can we do to bridge this gap? Join the author, Jane, as she shares the story of Daniella. Daniella struggles with a nightmare that represents the gap to living a fulfilled life. How does she understand her nightmare, bridge the gap, and re-author the stories she's been telling herself? This journey will evoke emotions within you. You will learn how to handle common situations that represent the gap. Bridging this gap will help you thrive. Daniella's story will resonate with each of us, as we all go through this, at different phases in life. Are you ready to re-author your story?

Imaginary Meetings

Imaginary Meetings
Author: Riitta Päiväläinen
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Art, Finnish
ISBN: 9783868280807

Finnish photographer Riitta P iv l inen's work could be defined as the emotional archaeology of the ordinary. Using old clothes she finds in second-hand shops and flea markets, P iv l inen creates landscapes and photographs them. For P iv l inen, the clothes are vestiges of human beings, retaining traces of the history of the person who wore them long after being discarded.The garments represent both the presence and the absence of their former owners.

Imagining Home

Imagining Home
Author: Anamaria Falaus
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 144386577X

In an age of shifting social and political landscapes, there is one constant challenge individuals and groups have to face: that of internalizing the tension between the two opposing tendencies that rule the world today, homogenization and heterogenization. People transgress the limits of nationality, ethnicity, and culture in order to become citizens of the world, while at the same time longing for stability and certainty. Imagining Home: Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives interprets the polymorphous development of two exiled writers’ identities, from the point of view of their “migrant” condition. Their restless, nomadic existence, perfectly reflected in the geographical territories mapped by the books under discussion, involves crossing boundaries, negotiating difference, and the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture. The outcome provides an insight into the concepts of Romanianness and Americanness, analysing them through the notions of alo-images and infra-images, while at the same time developing a context and a reading approach for Eastern European immigrant narratives.

Understanding the imaginary war

Understanding the imaginary war
Author: Matthew Grant
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526101335

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.

My Life is Art

My Life is Art
Author: Emmanuel Jal
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1786789035

Drawing on lessons from his remarkable life, former child soldier turned activist, author, entrepreneur, and international recording artist Emmanuel Jal provides his eleven pillars for overcoming adversity and living a life of purpose. "Who owns your mind?" Beginning with this provocative question, Emmanuel Jal invites readers to claim ownership over the narratives that define their lives in order to become a force for good in the world. As a child growing up in South Sudan, Jal witnessed atrocities perpetrated against his family and community. These actions drove him to become a child soldier in a vicious civil war. Hunger, isolation, and the ever-present specter of death in battle attended his every moment. Yet his greatest challenge did not come from outside; it arose from within, from the corrosive nature of hopelessness, trauma, and narratives of victimization. Rather than succumb to these forces of negativity, Jal turned his life's challenges into opportunities by utilizing a comprehensive framework he developed around eleven pillars of support: Meditation Yearning Leading Ideas Focus Endurance Intuition Sagaciousness Action Read Train These pillars can be utilized individually or as a unit to help build a durable internal structure that allows anyone to overcome adversity, regain joy and gratitude, and live a life of purpose that enriches the greater community.

Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination

Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination
Author: Rodanthi Tzanelli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351470442

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and cultural rhythms, when the eyes of the world are turned on it? Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination examines ephemeral and solidified atmospheres in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the handover ceremony to Tokyo for the 2020 Games. Indeed, highlighting the various social and cultural implications upon these Olympic Games hosts, Tzanelli argues that the ‘Olympic City’ is produced by aesthetic "imagineers", mobile groups of architects, artists and entrepreneurs, who aesthetically ‘engineer’ native cultures as utopias. Thus, it is explored as to how Rio and Tokyo’s "imagineers" problematize notions of creativity, cosmopolitan togetherness and belonging. Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination will appeal to postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professionals interested in fields such as: Globalization Studies, Mobility Theory, Cultural Sociology, International Political Economy, Conference and Event Management, Tourism Studies and Migration Studies.