[PDF] An Extraordinary Experience eBook

Author : Bilinda Straight
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812209370

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The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, "this side" and inia bata, "that side." Cultural anthropologist Bilinda Straight, who has lived with the Samburu for extended periods since the 1990s, bears witness to Samburu life and death in Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. Written mostly in the field, Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya is the first book-length ethnography completely devoted to Samburu divinity and belief. Here, child prophets recount their travels to heaven and back. Others report transformations between persons and inanimate objects. Spirit turns into action and back again. The miraculous is interwoven with the mundane as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes these fantastic movements inside the cultural logic that makes them possible; thus she calls into question how we experience, how we feel, and how anthropologists and their readers can best engage with the improbable. In her detailed and precise accounts, Straight writes beyond traditional ethnography, exploring the limits of science and her own limits as a human being, to convey the significance of her time with the Samburu as they recount their fantastic yet authentic experiences in the physical and metaphysical spaces of their culture.

Author : Janis H. Jenkins
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520287118

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With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, revealing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and interpretation. Extraordinary Conditions illuminates the cultural shaping of extreme psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as nonhuman or not fully human. Jenkins contends that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture is central to all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Her analysis refashions the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the routine and the extreme, and the healthy and the pathological. This book asserts that the study of mental illness is indispensable to the anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness.

Author : David Earl Young
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN :

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Author : Denise Lee Yohn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 111861125X

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Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brands It's tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single visionary leader. However, these companies all adopted specific approaches and principles that transformed their ordinary brands into industry leaders. In other words, great brands can be built—and Denise Lee Yohn knows exactly how to do it. Delivering a fresh perspective, Yohn's What Great Brands Do teaches an innovative brand-as-business strategy that enhances brand identity while boosting profit margins, improving company culture, and creating stronger stakeholder relationships. Drawing from twenty-five years of consulting work with such top brands as Frito-Lay, Sony, Nautica, and Burger King, Yohn explains key principles of her brand-as-business strategy. Reveals the seven key principles that the world's best brands consistently implement Presents case studies that explore the brand building successes and failures of companies of all sizes including IBM, Lululemon, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and other remarkable brands Provides tools and strategies that organizations can start using right away Filled with targeted guidance for CEOs, COOs, entrepreneurs, and other organization leaders, What Great Brands Do is an essential blueprint for launching any brand to meteoric heights.

Author : Jon Sundbo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781004226

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This illuminating Handbook presents the state of the art in the scientific field of experience economy studies. It offers a rich and varied collection of contributions that discuss different issues of crucial importance for our understanding of the exp

Author : Mali Apple
Publisher : A Higher Possibility
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0984562214

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International Book Awards Gold Medal: Relationships Living Now Awards Silver Medal: Marriage Since it was first published, The Soulmate Experience has helped thousands of people around the world create relationships that are intimately connected on all levels—emotional, intellectual, sexual, and spiritual—and a continual source of love, inspiration, and joy. Whether you're single and searching for the love of your life—or want more connection and excitement in the relationship you already have—The Soulmate Experience will give you essential advice and practical techniques for • Attracting someone with soulmate potential—or bringing more of the soulmate experience into the relationship you’re in • Cultivating mutual and profound feelings of love, trust, and appreciation • Experiencing deep, meaningful intimacy on every level: physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual • Turning judgment and blame into compassion and understanding • Supporting each other in unlocking your full potential in every area of your lives • Transforming the energy of jealousy into passion and desire • Approaching even the toughest challenges in ways that bring you closer together • Keeping the love and passion in your relationship fully alive, every single day The life-changing ideas in this book—and the inspiring stories of real people putting them into practice—will guide you in creating your soulmate experience: a shared adventure of heart-centered connection, soulful intimacy, and lasting love.

Author : National Geographic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1426209592

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Features some of the world's most transformative locales, from Norway's western fjords and Cambodia's Angkor Wat to Kyoto's Moss Garden and the urban surprises of Denver, Pittsburgh, and Vancouver.

Author : Chip Heath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501147765

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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?) Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.

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Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780888821089

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A collection of over seventy gripping personal accounts of past and present Canadian experiences and events that can be regarded as supernatural or paranormal.