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Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

The Way To a Rich and Deeply Satisfying Life

By: Peta Morton

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Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

The Way To a Rich and Deeply Satisfying Life

By: Peta Morton

Is your life fulfilling? Do you feel loved and valued? Are you full of energy, happy and healthy? Are your days inspiring and fun? This remarkable book shows you how to stop the struggle and embrace life. Peta Morton shares the timeless spiritual wisdom of the ages in a modern, non-religious context and invites you on a journey of self-discovery. 'Peta Morton elegantly weaves together practical wisdom from a diverse array of traditions to provide a 'one stop shop' for anyone interested in personal development and well-being. This synthesis of important teachings and modalities, ranging from the power of breathing, thoughts, gratitude, and beyond, has the potential to shift the reader's perspective and clears the path for a happier, more peaceful life. Mark Gober, author of An End to Upside Down Thinking

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789042429

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Forms of Emotion

Human to Nonhuman in Drama, Theatre and Contemporary Performance

By: Peta Tait

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Forms of Emotion

Human to Nonhuman in Drama, Theatre and Contemporary Performance

By: Peta Tait

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect, which make up a spectrum of ‘emotion’, to illuminate theatrical knowledge and practice and reflect the distinctions and debates in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines. This study asserts that specific forms of emotion are intentionally unified in drama, theatre, and performance to convey meaning, counteract separation and subversively champion emotional freedom. The book progressively shows that the dramatic and theatrical representation of the nonhuman reveals how human dominance is offset by emotional connection with birds, animals, and the natural environment. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in the emotions and affect in dramatic literature, theatre studies, performance studies, psychology, and philosophy as well as artists working with emotionally expressive performance.

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Routledge

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1000464431

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Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

The Way To a Rich and Deeply Satisfying Life

By: Peta Morton

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Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

By: Peta Mitchell

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Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

By: Peta Mitchell

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping. While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.

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Routledge

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1135913935

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9781135913939

Misreading Anita Brookner

Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century

By: Peta Mayer

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Misreading Anita Brookner

Aestheticism, Intertextuality and the Queer Nineteenth Century

By: Peta Mayer

Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner's solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes.

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Liverpool English Texts and St

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1789620597

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On Surface and Place

Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

By: Peta Carlin

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On Surface and Place

Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography

By: Peta Carlin

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Adopting weaving as its overarching metaphor, it departs from Gottfried Semper’s discussion of correspondences between architecture and textiles, and emerges from the reading of photographs, a swatch of Harris Tweed and curtain wall façade juxtaposed. In juxtaposing the fabric of the city with the weave of Harris Tweed the book charts an original course across a range of connected ideas and questions, combining many different themes, writers and disciplines. It presents integrated and innovative rethinkings on a number of fundamental relationships, including correlations between body and building, word and image, and between the rural and the metropolitan, and the hand-crafted and the mass-reproduced. In doing so, it seeks to foreground the very interrelationship of surface and place, as it makes a claim for the relational nature of the world in which we live.

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Routledge

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1317085809

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9781317085805

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

By: Peta Tait

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

By: Peta Tait

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, Brecht and Caryl Churchill, theatre reveals and, informs but also warns about the emotions. The term 'emotion' encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these concepts are embodied and experienced within theatrical practice and explained in theory. Since emotion is artistically staged, its composition and impact can be described and analysed in relation to interdisciplinary approaches. Readers are encouraged to consider how emotion is dramatically, aurally, and visually developed to create innovative performance. Case studies include: Medea, Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ibsen's A Doll's House, and performances by Mabou Mines, Robert Lepage, Rimini Protokoll, Anna Deavere Smith, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Marina Abramovic, and The Wooster Group. By way of these detailed case studies, readers will appreciate new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'emotion' as a performance component. Online resources to accompany this book are available at https://www.bloomsbury.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-emotion-9781350030848/.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350030872

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9781350030879

Fighting Nature

Travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows

By: Peta Tait

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Fighting Nature

Travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows

By: Peta Tait

Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty to animals. Apart from reflecting human capacity for fighting and aggression, and the belief in human dominance over nature, these animal performances also echoed cultural fascination with conflict, war and colonial expansion, as the grand spectacles of imperial power reinforced state authority and enhanced public displays of nationhood and nationalistic evocations of colonial empires. Fighting nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th-century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. "Peta Tait brings to the book an impressive scholarly command of the documentary material, from which she draws a range of vivid examples and revealing analyses of human–animal confrontation in popular entertainments ... The book is written with verve and clarity, and will be of interest to a wide readership in performance studies and cultural history." Professor Jane R. Goodall, Western Sydney University Peta Tait FAHA is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University and Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, and author of Wild and dangerous performances: animals, emotions, circus (2012).

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Sydney University Press

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1743324308

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9781743324301

Women's Work, Men's Property

The Origins of Gender and Class

By: Stephanie Coontz,Peta Henderson

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Women's Work, Men's Property

The Origins of Gender and Class

By: Stephanie Coontz,Peta Henderson

“To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and sexual inequality, but share a belief that these phenomena did have social origins, origins that must be sought in sociohistorical events and processes.” In this way Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson introduce a book which fills a yawning gap in Marxist and feminist theory of recent years. Women’s Work, Men’s Property brings together specialist historical and anthropological skills of a group of American and French feminists to examine the origins of the sexual division of labor, the nature of pre-state kinship societies, the position of women in slave-based societies, and the specific forms taken by the oppression of women in archaic Greece. Men’s Work, Women’s Property will be welcomed by teachers and students of women’s studies and anyone with an interest in the biological, psychological and historical roots of sexual inequality.

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Verso Books

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178478799X

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Circus Bodies

Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

By: Peta Tait

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Circus Bodies

Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

By: Peta Tait

Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.

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Routledge

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1134331215

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Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System

An Afrocentric Analysis

By: Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana

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Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System

An Afrocentric Analysis

By: Jean-Louis Peta Ikambana

This study shows that the failures and misdeeds of Mobutu's system were clear evidence that it lacked an African-centred vision and did not put the interests of the African people of Congo (formerly Zaire) at the centre of this political project.

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113586151X

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Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire

History, Trivia, and Tales, Including Caligula, Marcus Aurelius, Aqueducts, Assassinations, and More!

By: Peta Greenfield,Fiona Radford

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Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire

History, Trivia, and Tales, Including Caligula, Marcus Aurelius, Aqueducts, Assassinations, and More!

By: Peta Greenfield,Fiona Radford

Discover the wild and fascinating true stories of the Roman Empire that are rarely taught in history class with this ultimate collection of notorious emperors, scandalous love affairs, rebellion, and more! Whether you think about the Roman Empire every day or not, the legendary stories and fun facts in this book of ancient Roman history are sure to shock you. Discover the lengths Romans would go to please the gods, the most torrid love affairs, the fun that emperors had to create to keep themselves entertained, and the never-ending scandals that caused serious outrage in ancient Roman society. This collection of trivia and history includes: The fall of Crassus, one of the most powerful Romans in his day The tale of the goddess Vesta, who saved Tuccia, a priestess wrongly accused of losing her chastity The story behind the Romans developing a cult for the goddess Cybele, also known as the "Mother of the Gods" And much more! Whether you’re a Roman Empire enthusiast or someone whose knowledge only comes from the movie Gladiator, this book has facts and trivia that will be sure to both educate and entertain you!

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Simon and Schuster

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1646047222

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9781646047222

Every Woman Devotional

By: Peta Gayle Oates

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Every Woman Devotional

By: Peta Gayle Oates

The Devotional is designed to empower, motivate, equip and transform women so that they can fulfill their God given purpose/ potential. Women will be taken on a Journey of three phases that will boost their confidence, their spirituality, their relationship with God, themselves and others and will empower them to excel in all areas. Each phase will have 25 Devotional that consists of a scripture from the Holy Bible, a song, the Devotional and a short prayer. Each page will have a "power pebble". * The first phase of the journey will consist of Devotionals that will help women to understand God as their source (creator, provider, guide etc.). It will inspire women to seek God and get to know Him on a deeper spiritual level hence giving them the drive needed to start the journey and to maintain. * The second phase will have Devotionals that will help women to become better aware of who they are in God, understand their God given role as women and to identify their God given purpose. * The third and final phase of the journey will provide Devotionals that depicts what is needed for fulfilling their purposes, role and God given potential.

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Author House

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149695257X

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9781496952578

Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger

The Revolutionary 8-week Fitness Plan for Men

By: Matt Roberts,Peta Bee

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Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger

The Revolutionary 8-week Fitness Plan for Men

By: Matt Roberts,Peta Bee

The revolutionary fitness plan for men. Are you ready to feel younger, fitter and stronger? Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger is a ground-breaking fitness manual designed for mid-life men. Follow this targeted, testosterone-boosting 8-week fitness plan to lose your gut, tone your body and feel 10 years younger. Drawing on more than 20 years of personal training experience with thousands of clients, Matt Roberts brings you a powerful combination of cutting-edge science and transformative workouts. The benefits and results speak for themselves: boosted energy, improved muscle mass, a revitalised sex drive, more restful sleep – even better-looking skin and hair. You'll look and feel as good – or better – than you did in your 20s. The day-by-day 8-week plan is based on ground-breaking recent studies that have discovered the anti-ageing benefits of boosting testosterone and human growth hormone (HGH) levels through the targeted use of exercise and diet. Raising levels of these hormones is key to maintaining health and fitness in mid-life, and it can be achieved.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472964470

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Book's by Peta Morton

Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

Forms of Emotion

Forms of Emotion

Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

Ancient Teachings for Modern Times

Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

Misreading Anita Brookner

Misreading Anita Brookner

On Surface and Place

On Surface and Place

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

Fighting Nature

Fighting Nature

Women's Work, Men's Property

Women's Work, Men's Property

Circus Bodies

Circus Bodies

Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System

Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System

Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire

Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire

Every Woman Devotional

Every Woman Devotional

Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger

Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger

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