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The Man Who Craved Silence
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Craved Silence by : Clive Webster
Download or read book The Man Who Craved Silence written by Clive Webster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Grant Trent came up to the big Five-Oh he experienced something of a life change - he began to be obsessed by noise. It was everywhere; from the noisy tourists who shared a coach with him to the 21st century pell-mell of life. Even his apartment block was plagued with buzzing aircraft and noisy neighbours. All he wanted was some peace and quiet. So he decided to take matters into his own hands - and from the comfort of his own front room. But when things started to go wrong he ended up getting more than he could ever have imagined.
Download or read book Silence written by Erling Kagge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is silence? Where can it be found? Why is it now more important than ever? In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experiences and discussing the observations of poets, artists, and explorers, Kagge shows us why silence is essential to sanity and happiness—and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude. (With full-color photographs throughout.)
Download or read book How to Disappear written by Akiko Busch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice. In our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but from vast and pervasive technology companies that want to profit from patterns in our behavior. A lifelong student and observer of the natural world, Busch sets out to explore her own uneasiness with this arrangement, and what she senses is a widespread desire for a less scrutinized way of life—for invisibility. Writing in rich painterly detail about her own life, her family, and some of the world’s most exotic and remote places, she savors the pleasures of being unseen. Discovering and dramatizing a wonderful range of ways of disappearing, from virtual reality goggles that trick the wearer into believing her body has disappeared to the way Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway finds a sense of affiliation with the world around her as she ages, Busch deliberates on subjects new and old with equal sensitivity and incisiveness. How to Disappear is a unique and exhilarating accomplishment, overturning the dangerous modern assumption that somehow fame and visibility equate to success and happiness. Busch presents a field guide to invisibility, reacquainting us with the merits of remaining inconspicuous, and finding genuine alternatives to a life of perpetual exposure. Accessing timeless truths in order to speak to our most urgent contemporary problems, she inspires us to develop a deeper appreciation for personal privacy in a vast and intrusive world.
Book Synopsis William the Silent by : Frederic Harrison
Download or read book William the Silent written by Frederic Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis He Speaks in the Silence by : Diane Comer
Download or read book He Speaks in the Silence written by Diane Comer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Speaks in the Silence is about Diane Comer’s search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And He did. But first He took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf. Using vivid parallels between her deafness and every woman’s struggle to hear God, this book shows women not only how Diane, as a deaf woman, hears in everyday life, but also how she can learn to listen to God in the midst of her own loud life, finding intimacy with God and the deep soul satisfaction she longs for.
Book Synopsis The Art of Mindful Silence by : Adam Ford
Download or read book The Art of Mindful Silence written by Adam Ford and published by Ivy Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Mindful Silence explores our existential search for mindful solitude, what it can mean, and how we can all benefit from peaceful solace. Silence-seeker Adam Ford wisely interrogates the quiet spaces and pauses in life, drawing upon the spirtual use of solitude in religious traditions from Native American intitiation ceremonies to Christian hermitages. He examines the creative power of silence as a source of inner strength and self-knowledge, and also reveals its darker side when used as a political or relationship weapon. Through personal anecdote and practical daily meditations, The Art of Mindful Silence shows how we can all find moments of soothing peace to nourish our spirits in an increasingly chaotic world.
Book Synopsis Atmospheric Turn in Culture and Tourism by : Michael Volgger
Download or read book Atmospheric Turn in Culture and Tourism written by Michael Volgger and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining ideas of sustainable development, strategic marketing and branding with space design and architecture, this volume offers contemporary perspectives on the development and impact of 'atmospheric quality' in tourism and hospitality service situations. Topics discussed include: silent airports, ambient odours and, co-created atmospheres.
Download or read book Crave The Moon written by Lori Handeland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared to hate the man who has bought her family's ranch, Gina O'Neil instead finds herself powerfully drawn to archaeologist Mateo Mecate when he needs her help in destroying a centuries old evil he unwittingly released while researching her family's past.
Book Synopsis Willem the Silent by : Frederic Harrison
Download or read book Willem the Silent written by Frederic Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Silent Knight by : Kimberly Ranee Hicks
Download or read book Silent Knight written by Kimberly Ranee Hicks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence Knight, a filmmaker who is making it big out in Hollywood, is suddenly uprooted from his city life when his best friend, Reggie Dunn, summons him to come back home because Reggie's father is dying. After all, Mr. Dunn played an intricate part in Clarence’s upbringing. He unwillingly returns to his old stomping grounds of Woodland Heights, the Projects. Once he arrives, he discovers that his old hood isn't quite the way it used to be when he and his family moved there twenty years ago. While visiting with his best friend and catching up on old times, Clarence figured he could make the best of the trip by surprising his friend with a camera crew that is in the process of making a documentary about their lives in Woodland Heights, the way it was in the 70s. But he also has another motive for this documentary; he longs to know what has happened to a kid named Marcus Paige they used to hang with. As the camera starts rolling, secrets—dark and shocking ones—also begin to unravel. Clarence discovers that his old neighborhood some extremely harsh realities he will have to face. After all is revealed, will Clarence still remain friends with his old crew? Or better yet, will what Clarence learns keep him silent forever? Find out in this fast-paced, breathtaking mystery-suspense, Silent Knight.
Book Synopsis Through the Shadows of Forever by : James Patrick Krach
Download or read book Through the Shadows of Forever written by James Patrick Krach and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Shadows of Forever is a supernaturally dark commentary on society, and the world in which we live. Follow one man's horrifying journey to survive in a world he chooses to live apart from. Follow another man's twisted journey through madness, as he searches for the answers to his own life forgotten. Watch as the two collide in an enlightenment of insanity. Welcome to the shadows.
Book Synopsis In Pursuit of Silence by : George Prochnik
Download or read book In Pursuit of Silence written by George Prochnik and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
Download or read book The Silent Partner written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silent Six written by Austin J. Small and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mona Lisa Craving written by Sunny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante, the warrior son of a healer, was cursed by a high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death. Someone shares one of his past lives. Back then, she was his victim. Today, she is his savior. Her name is Mona Lisa.
Book Synopsis The Path Through Unhappiness To Happiness by : Stephanie L. Mckay
Download or read book The Path Through Unhappiness To Happiness written by Stephanie L. Mckay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells how you can find a peace and happiness that will not leave you, even at moments when it seems that the entire world is against you. This book is for those who are searching for themselves, and who are prepared to take the great step of sacrificing the "I".
Book Synopsis Loneliness & Company by : Charlee Dyroff
Download or read book Loneliness & Company written by Charlee Dyroff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, beautifully observed debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who finds herself tangled in a secret Government project combating loneliness. Lee knows she's the best. A professor favorite and fellowship winner, there's no doubt she'll land one of the coveted jobs at a Big Five corporation. So when, upon graduating, Lee is instead assigned to an unknown company in the dead city of New York, her life goals are completely upended. In this new role, Lee's task is to gather enough research to train an AI how to be a friend. She begins online and by studying the social circle of her clueless, outgoing roommate Veronika. But when the company reveals it's part of a classified government mission to solve loneliness-an emotion erased from society's lexicon decades ago-Lee's determination to prove herself kicks into overdrive, and she begins chasing bolder and more dangerous experiences to provide data for the AI. How far will Lee go to teach the algorithm? As the mysterious affliction spreads, Lee must decide what she's willing to give up for success and, along the way, learn what it means to be a true friend. Loneliness & Company is an enchanting, gorgeously written novel about finding meaning and connection in a world beset by isolation.
