Life Takes Place

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351212494
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Takes Place written by David Seamon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies."

Author : Auma Obama
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250010594
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Then Life Happens written by Auma Obama and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama. While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which lead to travels together in Kenya, research into their family history and finally Auma's support for her brother's political career and eventual bid for the U.S. presidency. Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany, moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter there. The tension between her original and chosen worlds and cultures was a constant challenge, and eventually Auma returned to Africa and worked to support young men and women in shaping their futures. In And Then Life Happens, her candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother, who says about their first encounter: "I hugged her, we looked at each other, and laughed. I knew right then that I loved her."

Author : William Jackson
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781483591896
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Life Happens written by William Jackson and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life. We all want to know how to make the best of it. We all want to know how to get the most out of it. We all want to have the best possible outcome with the least amount of opposition. The tools within these pages will help real people with real issues matriculate through real life, successfully. The riveting and thought provoking, material will help anyone, no matter what stage of life they are in, become better at handling LIFE when it happens.

Author : Connie Schultz
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812975685
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Happens written by Connie Schultz and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 2005 Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all her own, Connie Schultz comes out of the heartland of America to get you seeing, feeling, and thinking more deeply about the lives we lead today. “You might spot someone you know in the stories here,” writes Connie. “Maybe you’ll even find a glimpse of yourself. Yes, each of us is unique, but life happens in ways that bind us like Gorilla Glue.” In Life Happens, Connie shares sharp, passionate observations, winning our hearts with personal thoughts on a wide range of topics, from finding love in middle age to the meaning behind her father’s lunch pail, from single motherhood, to who really gets the tips you leave and why as the war in Iraq, race relations, gay marriage, and wwhy women don’t vote. In a more humorous vein, Connie shares her mother’s advice on men (“Don’t marry him until you see how he treats the waitress”) and warns men everywhere against using the dreaded f-word (it’s not the one you think). Along the way, Connie introduces us to the heroic people who populate our world and shows us how just one person can make a difference. Charming, provocative, funny, and perceptive, Life Happens gives us, for the first time, Connie Schultz’s celebrated commentary in one irresistible volume. Life Happens challenges us to be more open and alive to others and to the world around us.

Author : Janet Donohoe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786600315
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place and Phenomenology written by Janet Donohoe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an accessible presentation of phenomenological approaches to place that draws valuable connections between different disciplines that focus on and investigate questions of place.

Author : Amy J. Markstahler
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781720226147
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Happens on the Stairs written by Amy J. Markstahler and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie Richardson's world crumbles when her dad suffers a seizure throwing the 17-year-old aspiring artist and her family into intense hardship, with Elsie trying to balance the duties of family, education and work, while exploring the joys of young love.

Author : Rev. Paul S. Gould
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300492538
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Life Happens written by Rev. Paul S. Gould and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathalie Brisebois
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475988044
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Happens written by Nathalie Brisebois and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathalie Brisebois has lived through many difficult challenges, but has found a path to health and happiness. In Life Happens, she shares the story of her experiences battling multiple sclerosis. For years, living with remittent-recurrent multiple sclerosis dictated who she was and what she did. Brisebois describes her journey battling the many devastating physical and mental effects of this chronic, degenerative disease and the ways that it influenced her work, her family, and her entire being. But in Life Happens, she tells how she began looking for options and a way to heal herself, addressing alternatives such as nutrition, yoga, meditation, vegetarianism, and living a simple life. Filled with tips, suggestions, and ideas for living with and battling a chronic illness, Life Happens communicates a message of inspiration and hope, of looking for what you want in life, of never giving up, and of finding and being at peace with your life.

Author : Alivia Cahill
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 9781452558929
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Happens written by Alivia Cahill and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Alivia Cahill learned that people are not merely reflections of their life experiences; theyre reflections of their perceptions of, and reactions to, those life experiences. Henry David Thoreau said, Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see. Whats more, the response to what is seen can change life forever. This compilation of personal experiences illustrates how Alivias unhealthy responses to a harsh environment shaped her life in many ways. Years of stewing quietly and bottling up negative emotions about lifes adversities led to decades of self-abuse and devastating physical dis-ease. Fortunately, experiencing unconditional love and acquiring profound knowledge about the mind-body connection eventually led her on a path to wellness. Life Happens follows Alivias agonizing journey of creating dis-ease and working towards healing, which sparks the motivation to make better choices in the face of hardship. The traumas described and lessons learned encourage a positive view of lifes obstacles to be adoptedto grow from them and allow them to positively shape the body, mind, and spiritso that wellness may be experienced, instead of simply dreamed about!

Author : Auma Obama
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250010055
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And Then Life Happens written by Auma Obama and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Barack Obama's half-sister writes a moving memoir of her life in a remote village in Kenya, her years in England and Germany, and her relationship with her brother.