Inner Vision

Beautifully illustrated and vividly written, "Inner Vision" explores how different areas of the brain shape responses to visual arts. 84 color illustrations. 8 halftones. 30 line illustrations.

Inner Visions, is an astonishing book about the reality of inner-city neighborhoods where it seems all hope and vision for a better future has been abandoned. Jan Thrope takes the reader on a tour through the most poverty stricken areas of Cleveland, Ohio, to show the despair and how some of the residents are pulling together to make positive changes with hard work and innovative thinking. This book is a testament to the human spirit and that despite the situations some people have been born into, they still want better for themselves and their community.

Inner Vision: The Sculpture of Michael Naranjo contains the complete works in bronze of sculptor Michael Naranjo from 1970 through 2010. The book contains over 160 images and various quotes from the artist about his life, his work with the clay, his service in the US Army, his injury and his recovery and the growth of his career to become one of the leading sculptors in America today.

“Couldn’t wait to get my hands on it...not just a good art book. It’s a classic tome of artwork. There is treat upon treat, lavished with praise by a lot of contemporary artists, who share many readers’ delight in what Walotsky has accomplished over the years. Those funky posters from the 1960s...Many reproductions here from a long career, spanning many book covers, magazine appearances, some real fine treats.”—True Review.

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life. Advaita Vedanta, the most iconoclastic and liberating of the classical Indian philosophies, profoundly altered the author’s experience of self and world. He found that the true self, as distinct from the individual ego, far exceeds the boundaries of individuality. It lies beneath sightedness or blindness and is absolutely unaffected by the latter. This welcome shift of perspective was reinforced by startling discoveries in contemporary physics, evolutionary biology, and developmental psychology that are fully consistent with Advaitic metaphysics. As for the practical applications of metaphysics, this book demonstrates step by step how Advaitic insight and practice significantly reduce physical and psychological tension. The most telling examples have to do with adjustments compelled by extreme circumstances. Thus Jones describes how he drew upon Advaitic mindfulness techniques to maintain his white cane mobility skills in the teeth of permanent spinal, nerve, and muscle pain. The arc of Beyond Vision moves from the claustrophobically personal to the openness of the transpersonal. It begins in a dysfunctional family background, breaking out into a full life encompassing an adventurous foreign service career, spiritual exploration, and an unconventional kind of marital love.

Sought-after speaker and master storyteller, Dwayne Bryant delivers a timely message in The STOP to improve police and community relations. With the recent increase of police officers involved in shootings during routine stops and police officers being shot, Bryant created this book to educate youth, parents, teachers and police officers to proactively create Mutual Respect, Shared Responsibility, and Accountability in an effort to Improve Police and Community Relations; thereby helping to heal our nation.Take a journey with Dwayne as he shares seven real-life personal encounters with law enforcement from his childhood into adulthood. Some light-hearted and humorous and some risky and dangerous. With compelling narratives, research and humor, The STOP will:* Teach youth how to interact with police.* Encourage thought-providing conversations and intelligent actions between families, communities and law enforcement.* Provide a framework for parents, teachers and community leaders to engage in meaningful dialogue with youth about their expectations in life.* Offer practical solutions to bridge the gap between the community and law enforcement creating a positive relationship.* Allow the Good in the community and law enforcement to join forces in order to expose the criminal element within both groups.The STOP will inspire and empower you to look beyond your initial thought and discover your own strength in resolving strained situations. You have to power to determine the final outcome. The STOP is guaranteed to have a positive impact on improving police and community relations.Learn more at www.AboutTheStop.com www.DwayneBryant.com

Decorating your lifespace begins with a vision. What is your decorating inner vision? How will you bring it into reality? A 52-week interactive guide to enlightenment on how to define your inner vision and create a decorating plan that brings it into full view! Activities to inspire inner vision are offered in planning a vision retreat, performing creative visualization or yoga, creating a mandala and inner vision collage. Throughout this journey, you are inspired to maintain a journal and inner vision board while applying insights offered through interactive on-line design assistance to help bring your decorating vision into reality. Along your vision journey are room-by-room inspirations in creating lifespace ambience, room themes, color schemes, furnishing ideas, lighting, interior accessories and furniture layout. You will gather ideas on how to establish a decorating budget, de-clutter and organize space with techniques for re-aligning energy and space cleansing. Insights are offered for applying the healing art of nature, creating seasonal makeovers, eco-green design, designing in Feng shui, Wabi Sabi, African, Zen, Native American and Vaastu room themes! Within the final phase of journey, inspiration takes you out to nature in creating Japanese Ikebana and designing a Feng shui, Medicine Wheel and Zen garden. At the end of journey you will have created an outer vision of a lifespace design that reflects the inner you! Journey to: Lifespacedesigns.com

Voted the World's Most Versatile Blind Athlete, ski champion Craig MacFarlane chronicles his life. "Craig captures his audience with an uplifting message of courage and determination through his positive attitude and zest for life".--David Glass, Chairman and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. "Craig's a credit to himself and to America. As you read his life story, you will appreciate much more what PRIDE means".--ex-President George Bush.

The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see. Illustrations.