Tobi Tobias's Books

A grandmother makes a series of wishes for the future of her grandchild.

A Hungarian man's accordion music disrupts the daily routine of the McGeorge family in the apartment next door.

In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating scientific or creative ideas, hyperfocus in sports, visualizations that impact entire civilizations, life-changing audience experiences, or meditations for self-transformation that may access states beyond trance, becoming gateways to transcendence. Artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows how creative trance not only operates in scientific inventions and works of art in all media, but is also important in creating and recreating the self. Drawing on insights from cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology and post-materialist psychology, this book investigates the diversity of the creative trance ranging from non-industrial societies to digital urban life, and its presence in people from all backgrounds and abilities. Finally, Zausner investigates the future of trance in our rapidly changing world.

A youngster decides to stand up to those horrible goblins that surround his bed nightly. He conquers his fears.

Mother and daughter vow to help each other give up respective habits--smoking and thumb-sucking.

Simple yet thought provoking questions which stem from one basic question--is it liquid or solid?

A mother and son take a leisurely walk to school.

A Chinese paper umbrella, lost in the big city, passes through the hands of many people, including a cleaning matron, street gang, alcoholic vagrant, and piano teacher, before it gets home to its loving little mistress again.

In seinem nur zwölf Jahre umfassenden Schaffen brach der iranische Theatermacher Reza Abdoh mit sämtlichen Parametern des Theaters und brachte seine Schauspieler und das Publikum oft an ihre Grenzen. Seine halluzinatorischen Traumlandschaften waren eindringlich, seine Inszenierungen adressierten sprachgewaltig die bitteren politischen Realitäten seiner Zeit – vom staatlich sanktionierten Rassismus über die Weigerung der Reagan-Regierung, sich der AIDS-Krise anzunehmen, bis hin zu den Kriegen der USA. Kurz vor seinem Tod verfügte er, dass seine Stücke nicht neu aufgeführt werden dürfen. Der Katalog enthält neben zahlreichen Abbildungen neue Essays über die Einflüsse und Rezeption seines Werkes, bereits publizierte und bisher unveröffentlichte Interviews mit Reza Abdoh, Gespräche mit Weggefährten sowie Skripte seiner Stücke und Presseberichte.

A biography of the Osage Indian girl from Oklahoma who became one of America's greatest ballerinas.

Rachel learns her grandmother's definition of "pot luck" when she helps Gram prepare dinner for an old friend.

Emily has enjoyed her pet gerbil for five years, but one day after school she finds Petey huddled up in a corner of his cage.

A small girl is involved in the excitement, turmoil, and sadness of moving from one house to another and keeps her toy bear close for reassurance.

A youngster decides to stand up to those horrible goblins that surround his bed nightly. He conquers his fears.

Trouble starts when a strange black and white cat wanders into a family's backyard but everyone finally agrees that she can stay and have her kittens--and a good home.

Simple yet thought provoking questions which stem from one basic question--is it liquid or solid?

Simple text and illustrations introduce a variety of things and situations considered quiet or noisy.

New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been enthusiastically greeted as heroes of the digital era. This thoughtful study casts a fresh light on the shaping of user participation in the context of, among others, popular discourse in and around new media. Schäfers groundbreaking research into hacking, fan communities and Web 2.0 applications demonstrates how the dynamic of innovation, control and interaction have shifted the boundaries of the traditional culture industry into the user domain. The media industry undergoes a shift from creating content to providing platforms for user driven social interactions and user-generated content. In this extended culture industry, participation unfolds not only in the co-creation of media content and software-based products, but also in the development and defense of distinctive media practices that represent a socio-political understanding of new technologies.

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