The Luxury Of Daydreams

Author : Amy McVay Abbott
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 144971949X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Luxury of Daydreams written by Amy McVay Abbott and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut book, Indiana writer Amy McVay Abbott offers thirty insightful and humorous essays about life transitions. In 2009, Abbott lost her job shortly after her only child left for college. Her mother was diagnosed with multi-infarct dementia, and what seemed logical for Abbott was to start writing it all down. Through humor, Abbott weaves together past and present with future hopes and dreams after turning fifty. Mothers, daughters, aunts,and nieces will enjoy this spiritual and comedic journey. Abbott also writes a bi-weekly newspaper column The Raven Lunatic for several Indiana newspapers. Visit her online at http://poetryfan.blogspot.com or contact her at [email protected].

Author : Amy McVay Abbott
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781449719487
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Luxury of Daydreams written by Amy McVay Abbott and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut book, Indiana writer Amy McVay Abbott offers thirty insightful and humorous essays about life transitions. In 2009, Abbott lost her job shortly after her only child left for college. Her mother was diagnosed with multi-infarct dementia, and what seemed logical for Abbott was to start writing it all down. Through humor, Abbott weaves together past and present with future hopes and dreams after turning fifty. Mothers, daughters, aunts,and nieces will enjoy this spiritual and comedic journey. Abbott also writes a bi-weekly newspaper column — The Raven Lunatic — for several Indiana newspapers. Visit her online at http://poetryfan.blogspot.com or contact her at [email protected].

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423645561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daydreams Coloring Book written by and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with Hanna Karlzon's Daydreams Coloring Book with intricate illustrations of delicate flowers, buzzing bees, storybook homes, underwater worlds, and more. A rearing unicorn, a strutting cat, stately sailing ship, an ornate crab, and other fanciful images await. . . . This 96-page hardbound edition lends a luxurious feel, encouraging artists to display their volume on a coffee table or bookshelf. Complete your collection with Daydreams Artist's Edition containing 20 oversized art card illustrations and Daydreams postcards to color and share with friends. More coloring book series available from Hanna Karlzon include Summer Nights and Magical Dawn. Let your imagination roam (inside or outside the lines)!

Author : Heather O'Neill
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711224
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daydreams of Angels written by Heather O'Neill and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors. She described the smallest of things—a stray cat or a second-hand coat—with an intensity that made them otherworldly. In Daydreams of Angels, O'Neill's first collection of short stories, she gives free reign to her imaginative gifts. In "The Ugly Ducklings," generations of Nureyev clones live out their lives in a grand Soviet experiment. In "Dear Piglet," a teenaged cult follower writes a letter to explain the motivation behind her crime. And in another tale, a grandmother reveals where babies come from: the beach, where young mothers-to-be hunt for infants in the surf. Each of these beguiling stories twists the beloved narratives of childhood—fairy tales, storybooks, Bible stories—to uncover the deepest truths of family life.

Author : Winsor McCay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930193560
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daydreams & Nightmares written by Winsor McCay and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerome L. Singer
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner World of Daydreaming written by Jerome L. Singer and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Froth on the Daydream written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renee Macalino Rutledge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942436270
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hour of Daydreams written by Renee Macalino Rutledge and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manolo Lualhati, a respected doctor in the Philippine countryside, believes his wife hides a secret. Prior to their marriage, he spied her wearing wings and flying to the stars with her sisters each evening. As Tala tries to keep her dangerous past from her new husband, Manolo begins questioning the gaps in her stories--and his suspicions push him even further from the truth. The Hour of Daydreams, a contemporary reimagining of a Filipino folktale, weaves in the perspectives of Tala's siblings, her new in-laws, and the all-seeing housekeeper while exploring trust, identity, and how myths can take root from the seeds of our most difficult truths.

Author : Jerome L. Singer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317697170
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daydreaming and Fantasy (Psychology Revivals) written by Jerome L. Singer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daydreaming, our ability to give ‘to airy nothing a local habitation and a name’, remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour. As children we explore beyond the boundaries of our experience by projecting ourselves into the mysterious worlds outside our reach. As adolescents and adults we transcend frustration by dreams of achievement or escape, and use daydreaming as a way out of intolerable situations and to help survive boredom, drudgery or routine. In old age we turn back to happier memories as a relief from loneliness or frailty, or wistfully daydream about what we would do if we had our time over again. Why is it that we have the ability to alternate between fantasy and reality? Is it possible to have ambition or the ability to experiment, create or invent without the catalyst of fantasy? Are sexual fantasies an inherent part of human behaviour? Are they universal, healthy, destructive? Is daydreaming itself destructive? Or is it a force which facilitates change and which can even be harnessed to positive advantage? In this provocative book, originally published in 1975, the product of the previous twenty-five years of research, the author debates the nature and function of daydreaming in the light of his own experiments. As well as investigating what is a normal ‘fantasy-life’ and outlining patterns and types of daydreaming, he describes the role of daydreaming in schizophrenia and paranoia, examines the fantasies and hallucinations induced by drugs and also the nature of altered states of consciousness in Zen and Transcendental Meditation. Among the many topics covered, he explains how it is possible to help children enlarge their capacity for fantasy, how adults can make positive use of daydreaming and how people on the verge of disturbed behaviour are often unconscious of their own fantasies. Advances in scientific methods and new experimental techniques had made it possible at this time to monitor both conscious daydreaming and sub-conscious fantasies in a way not possible before. Professor Singer is one of the few scientists who have conducted substantial research in this area and it is his belief that the study of daydreaming and fantasy is of great importance if we are to understand the workings of the human mind.

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143114741
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place of My Own written by Michael Pollan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace.” —Chicago Tribune A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work “A room of one’s own: Is there anybody who hasn’t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn’t turned those soft words over until they’d assumed a habitable shape?” When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. In A Place of My Own, he turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property—a place in which he hoped to read, write, and daydream, built with his own two unhandy hands. Michael Pollan's unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences—whether eating, gardening, or building—and the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining bestsellers The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan's realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his "shelter for daydreams"—built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.