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Whose Mind Is It Anyway?

Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

By: Lisa Esile,Franco Esile

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Whose Mind Is It Anyway?

Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

By: Lisa Esile,Franco Esile

A sympathetic illustrated guide to learning to live with your mind--even when it tries to trick you. Most of us spend our lives trailing after our minds, allowing our brains to take us in directions that are safe and secure, controlled and conformed. Your mind doesn't want you to take that new job, sign up for that pottery class, or ask someone out. It wants you to stay unemployed, unfulfilled, and single because it enjoys routine and is resistant to change, no matter how positive the change may be. But more often than not, that's not what you want. Whose Mind Is It Anyway? will help you learn how to separate what you want from what your brain wants and how to do less when your mind is trying to trick you into doing more. In a colorful, funny, and nonthreatening way, it answers the difficult question of how we can take control of our self-defeating behaviors. Filled with charming illustrations, this book will be the friendly voice in your head to counter your negative thoughts, and it will teach you how to finally be at peace with all that you are.

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178

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Penguin

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ISBN 10

1101982632

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9781101982631

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures

Word and Image in the Work of Italo Calvino

By: Franco Ricci

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Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures

Word and Image in the Work of Italo Calvino

By: Franco Ricci

Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative. The book's main theme is the difficult interface between word and image that Calvino struggled with throughout his career, the act of perception that rendered visible that which was invisible and transformed what was seen into what is read. Ricci holds that Calvino's narrative has an 'imagocentric' program and that his literary strategy is 'ekphrastic' i.e. it is characterized by literary description of visual representation, real or imaginary. The book is interdisciplinary in nature and will interest not only scholars of literature but also those who work with the visual arts and with information technology.

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374

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University of Toronto Press

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ISBN 10

0802035078

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9780802035073

Il Protocollo di Almeda

By: Franco Bellanti

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Il Protocollo di Almeda

By: Franco Bellanti

La vicenda - mentre a Roma si sta riunendo il conclave per l'elezione del nuovo papa - è ambientata ad Almeda, un paese immaginario della Sicilia occidentale, in un tempo ambiguo, in un'atmosfera percorsa dal senso della fine e del male. Un umile impiegato di provincia, Taddeo Medina, attore dilettante di sacre rappresentazioni, improvvisamente durante la recita del Mortorio impazzisce, un suo amico, Temistocle Gasdia, che interpreta Giuda muore sulla scena. Tre loro amici, appassionati come i primi di funerali, sotto la guida di uno dei tre, Vargas, si prendono cura del folle. Partendo da una strana lettera trovata nel copione del Gasdia, in un cui si parla di un Protocollo per l'elezione del papa, mentre si occupa con gli amici del folle Taddeo che progressivamente si trasforma in poeta musico e infine in maestro e profeta (tra gli altri, Lao-tzu, Confucio, Krishna, Milarepa, Padmasambhava, San Francesco, Ahmed, Salomone, Y.), Vargas indaga.

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257

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Lulu.com

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1471644359

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9781471644351

The Censorship Files

Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

By: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

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The Censorship Files

Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain

By: Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

Investigates the role played by censorship in the Spanish-language publishing industry, which led to the Latin American Boom literature of the 1960s and 1970s.

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SUNY Press

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0791469859

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9780791469859

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Whose Mind Is It Anyway?

Whose Mind Is It Anyway?

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures

Il Protocollo di Almeda

Il Protocollo di Almeda

The Censorship Files

The Censorship Files

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