THE UNEXPECTED SHAPE
Author: ESM WEIJUN WANG
Publisher:
Published: 2025-08-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781788166652
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The Collected Schizophrenias
Author: Esmé Weijun Wang
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0141991542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang's analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.
The Shape of My Name
Author: Nino Cipri
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1466886307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Design, User Experience, and Usability: Theories, Methods, and Tools for Designing the User Experience
Author: Aaron Marcus
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-16
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 331907668X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The four-volume set LNCS 8517, 8518, 8519 and 8520 constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability, DUXU 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June 2014, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1476 papers and 220 posters presented at the HCII 2014 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4766 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 256 contributions included in the DUXU proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this four-volume set. The 66 papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on design theories, methods and tools; user experience evaluation; heuristic evaluation; media and design; design and creativity.
Unexpected Influence
Author: Anne-Marie McCartan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781475828658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Students are well aware of the contributions of the men who served as college presidents, researchers, and national leaders in community college--but what women made significant contributions that have not before been brought to light? Their valuable stories are captured in this book.
Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected
Author: Tara McPherson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 0262134950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. Young people's use of digital media may result in various innovations and unexpected outcomes, from the use of videogame technologies to create films to the effect of home digital media on family life. This volume examines the core issues that arise when digital media use results in unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters. The contributors examine the complex mix of emergent practices and developments online and elsewhere that empower young users to function as drivers of technological change, recognizing that these new technologies are embedded in larger social systems, school, family, friends. The chapters consider such topics as (un)equal access across economic, racial, and ethnic lines; media panics and social anxieties; policy and Internet protocols; media literacy; citizenship vs. consumption; creativity and collaboration; digital media and gender equity; shifting notions of temporality; and defining the public/private divide. Contributors Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Justine Cassell, Meg Cramer, Robert A. Heverly, Paula K Hooper, Sonia Livingstone, Henry Lowood, Robert Samuels, Christian Sandvig, Ellen Seiter, Sarita Yardi
The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1470463555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, first published in 1969, contains columns published in the magazine from 1961-1963. This is the 1991 edition and it contains an afterword and extended bibliography added by Gardner at that time.
Payoff
Author: Dan Ariely
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-11-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1501120050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation—showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined. Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what we do can be defined as being “motivators.” From the boardroom to the living room, our role as motivators is complex, and the more we try to motivate partners and children, friends and coworkers, the clearer it becomes that the story of motivation is far more intricate and fascinating than we’ve assumed. Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation—how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives. Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust so crucial for successful motivation? What are our misconceptions about how to value our work? How does your sense of your mortality impact your motivation?
The Unexpected Everything
Author: Morgan Matson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1481404547
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Unexpected
Author: Ken L Roberts
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1614486557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On a routine trip to a womenÕs Bible study, KenÕs wife of twenty-five years was killed in a car accident. At the time of the accident, Ken was forty-seven years of age, the father of two adult children, and the pastor of a large and growing congregation. Using his own story, as well as his thirty plus years of experience in pastoring hundreds of others through adversity and tragedy, Ken in his new book Unexpected: Navigating LifeÕs Unforeseen Turns will help you navigate through your unexpected turns in life and in the process become the person you hope to become.
