Screwing Up Love is a "wild romp through the brambles of love." It's written from the point of view of Dr. Bob, The Love Coach, a literary creation of Jim Downton. Dr. Bob is a former stand-up comedian who has a sense of humor and also keen insights into the different ways that people make a mess of love. Each chapter covers an important issue, for example, how a couple can mess up love by constantly digging into each other with harsh criticisms. The subtitle of the book is "How to Make Love Growth and Last." How to do that? Dr. Bob adds love coaching tips at the end of each chapter. By following the tips, people will quit screwing up love and, instead, will make it grow. Dr. Bob is direct, honest, and with a lively sense of humor, so the book is not only full of insights about love; it's fun to read.
The Life Gardening Project is designed to help people cultivate change in themselves and their lives. Based on the ancient Taoist principle of "wu wei, " which means living in harmony with the Tao as the fullness of life, Jim Downton uses the playful adaptation "Woo Way" to develop learning processes that enhance the lives of people today. He has been developing and teaching the principles of The woo Way for many years at the University of Colorado in Boulder and in community workshops. The Woo Way is an experiential journey that opens greater access to personal freedom and leads to more balance and wholeness. Automatic patterns are replaced with conscious choices. Personal suffering and stress are significantly redued while happiness, contentment, and wisdom expand. It is mind and life altering work. Like digging the ground to plant a garden, the work takes effort. By cultivating new thinking and behavior, you discover that life doesn't have to be such a struggle. It can be easier and more fun. As you nourish that ease and playfulness, you realize the words of the Woo Master: "Reduce burden on mind and watch feet do little dance.
Some people think that they are not creative. Some recall a teacher or a parent who communicated this message which they embraced as the truth. Others developed the belief they weren’t creative by comparing themselves to sisters or brothers who were recognized as creative, or to people whose talents they used as a standard against which they evaluated their own. Other peoples’ opinions, but most importantly their own, led them to turn off creativity they expressed freely as children. Believing they weren’t creative, life lost some of its vitality. What is "creativity?" Playful Mind establishes a starting point that is embellished as the reader continues through the book. It’s the ability to imagine, to courageously pursue ideas and goals, and to think and live with a playful mind. Playful Mind is the free spirit within our thinking that loves flexibility and the adventure of exploring new ideas. It’s the part of our creative spirit that can surprise and shift our thinking. It’s a character we can cultivate and use. Imagine it and give it a name. Invite it to inspire your thinking and your life. Let Playful Mind start you on a journey that will change your life.
As part of The Life Gardening Project, Awakening Minds brings the power of creativity to teaching. By working through experiential exercises that expand your awareness, lead to new choices, and cultivate change, you will become a more creative teacher. Learn to think with a more playful mind, so novel ideas for teaching come quickly. Realize your gifts for teaching and how to use them as "creativity tools."Motivate your students to learn and participate by creating experiential exercises that awaken and engage their minds. Discover the power of "deep listening" and "strategic questioning" to foster understanding, compassion, and change. Learn the value of being "coachable" and how to effectively coach your students. Cultivate more balance and wisdom so teaching becomes easier, more compelling, and more satisfying. As your creativity expands, it will affect how you think, teach, and live. Teaching will become more interesting and fun. Your enjoyment and effectiveness as a teacher will grow as you find creative ways to inspire your students to learn.
The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook. This book analyses eight of these dramas - Spooks, Foyle's War, Hustle, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and Broadchurch - which have all proved popular with audiences and in their different ways represent the thematic and formal paradigms of post-millennial drama. James Chapman locates new British drama in its institutional and economic contexts, considers their critical and popular reception, and analyses their social politics in relation to their representations of class, gender and nationhood. He demonstrates how contemporary drama has mobilised both new and residual elements in re-configuring genres such as the spy series, cop show and costume drama for the cultural tastes of modern audiences. And it concludes that television drama has played an integral role in both the economic and the cultural export of 'Britishness'.
Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader’s mind and eyes to the way in which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for, and managed in order to make our towns and cities healthier places to visit and in which to live and work. The authors examine how nature can improve our physical and mental health, the air we breathe and the waters we use, as well as boosting our enjoyment of parks and gardens. Urban Ecology sets out the science that underlies the changing natural scene and the tools used to ensure that cities become both capable of adapting to climate change and more beautiful and resilient. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of urban places and the role of nature in towns and cities. Part 1 looks at the context and content of urban ecology, its relationship to other foci of interest within ecology and other environmental sciences, and the character of city landscapes and ecosystems. In Part 2 the authors set out the physical and chemical components of urban ecosystems and ecological processes, including urban weather and climate, urban geomorphology and soils, urban hydrology and urban biogeochemical cycles. In Part 3 urban habitats, urban flora and fauna, and the effects of, deliberate and inadvertent human action on urban biota are examined. Part 4 contains an exploration of the identification and assessment of ecosystem services in urban areas, emphasising economic evaluation, the importance of urban nature for human health and well-being, and restoration ecology and creative conservation. Finally, in Part 5 the tasks for urban ecologists in optimising and sustaining urban ecosystems, providing for nature in cities, adapting to climate change and in developing the urban future in a more sustainable manner are set out. Within the 16 chapters of the book – in which examples from around the world are drawn upon - the authors explore current practice and future alternatives, set out procedures for ecological assessment and evaluation, suggest student activities and discussion topics, provide recommended reading and an extensive bibliography. The book contains more than 150 tables and over 150 photographs and diagrams.
This unique book encompasses in a single volume data including lists of ships and ship types in the service of King James I and Charles I, as well as the East India Company. The bare facts are enlivened by logs and narratives from shipwreck survivors relating the perils of seeking the Northwest Passage or sailing to India. The author has found that many facts have been distorted on informative websites as a result of incomplete and embellished information. This book attempts to correct those errors. For each of the wrecks contained in this book, Mr. Taylor has attempted, if the wording of the documents is ambiguous, to determine the fate of these ships based on only the facts as they were recorded at the time. If in doubt, he would explain his reasoning. In his efforts to collect and share all sailing and wreck-related data in this volume, Mr. Taylor has reviewed hundreds of electronic and hard-copy manuscript archival collections and travelled to view rare and wonderful, sometimes hand-illuminated, manuscripts that have not been digitized. However, as much as he would like to believe he has uncovered everything, it is easy to imagine that more details could come to light at some time. Treasure has different meanings to different people. Some of these wrecks contain Spanish reales (“pieces of 8”), jewels, gold and silver bars that could not be recovered at the time and have since been forgotten. Written records of such events were reviewed by fewer people over the centuries and ended up buried in dark archives, until now. But some of us define treasure as knowledge, ensuring that facts are presented correctly to future generations. This is the goal Mr. Taylor strives for in these volumes.
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