by John Barrett ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2017
A successful guide to maintaining one’s passion, peace, and happiness in a demanding environment.
A debut nonfiction guide to surviving the modern corporate lifestyle that offers a strong set of guiding principles and stress-relieving practices.
Barrett, an acupuncturist and scholar of Chinese medicine, knows that busy corporate lifestyles and tight schedules can lead to illness, stress, sedentary habits, and a plethora of negative emotions. However, he argues that humans, despite their primal instincts, don’t have to be held hostage by ever changing work environments or the anxieties of traffic, family obligations, and a hectic work life. The book outlines his strategies to help readers become more aware of stressors, time-wasters, and familiar ruts that lead to bad habits. For example, he points out that deadlines and warnings at work are often designed to instill fear in order to encourage efficiency and focus. However, this can cause a fight-or-flight response, which he says can “compromise your health” if left uncontrolled. Barrett explains the various parts of the nervous system and how they work together to read one’s environment and send signals to the brain to react. He suggests daily practices that he says can result in calm, focused decision-making as well as ways to minimize stress through diet and various exercises. These practices, he says, are key to navigating an inevitably stressful world. Throughout the book, Barrett effectively emphasizes that a sense of peace is crucial to maintaining one’s focus and well-being. In one section, for example, Barrett suggests the “PAD” approach: naming a “Problem,” formulating an “Action” in response, and setting a “Date” or time span to complete that action. In this way, he says, a person can feel relief by taking a step toward resolution, thus reducing stress. Overall, the book is well-organized and conversational in tone, making it almost effortless to understand the theories and practices at hand. Whether readers have corporate positions or demanding roles as caregivers, this manual will offer them practical ways to work toward inner peace.
A successful guide to maintaining one’s passion, peace, and happiness in a demanding environment.Pub Date: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9987823-1-7
Page Count: 236
Publisher: TAWC, Inc.
Review Posted Online: Nov. 13, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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