Product Description Moving Moments explores the insights and wisdom that energy healer and intuitive coach Karen Lang has gathered since the death of her nine-year-old son in 2001. Following on seamlessly from her first book Courage, Karen guides readers into a deeper understanding of life and death, revealing how our daily choices can lead us into either suffering or freedom. Her book challenges the reader to question life's adversities, and it offers daily practices to move us through the heavy emotions of anxiety, grief and loss. Karen's second book explores how life is made up of precious moments. To be present for each one, we need to embrace both the joy as well as our moments of suffering and pain. The book's gentle reminders give the reader space to see that adversity can also bring healing and freedom. She shares her own experiences, analogies and the healing power of being in nature. Moving Moments is rich in wisdom and spirituality, and delivers practical rituals that bring us closer to ourselves and to the abundance of life.Her book inspires change and transformation, and this helps us to experience each moment fully. Review Moving Moments is the second offering by Karen Lang and within its pages, the reader will again find the gift of her gentle, compassionate wisdom. Having experienced tragically losing her 9-year-old son Nathan twenty years ago, this volume will undoubtedly speak directly to the hearts and minds of those living with grief. Yet Moving Movements has lessons for us all. It provides practical guidance to support the reader in creating a quiet, still space for silence as well as nurturing a curiosity of self. With Karen's tender yet probing questions as a guide, we are asked to turn inwards and unpack our past and present motivations as well as future intentions. Moving Movements is the ultimate guide for holding an internal dialogue with Karen, equipping the reader with the background necessary for each question, while providing all the tools for any encountered scenario. Despite the universality of the grief experience, and as a community unaccustomed to interrogating same, Karen's book is for anyone needing direction to navigate the oft fraught complexity of modern living. Alyson Gundry, Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) & Graduate Certificate in Bereavement Counselling and Intervention/Paediatric Palliative Care Services/Children's Health Queensland HospitalMoving Moments is a very personal story about the wisdom Karen has gained from facing her grief. Unlike other stories of loss, this unique book of hope offers the reader practical ways to navigate and move through the dark valleys of their suffering and up into the mountains of their potential. Karen's story is medicine for the soul and a pathway to our freedom. Illundi, Ancestral Healer, Sydney, AustraliaIn Moving Moments, Karen Lang shares with us both her experience of grieving the loss of her son, and the powerful, transformative lessons and tools she learned and developed as she went through her grieving and healing process. In addition, at the end of each chapter, the author provides the reader with Questions to Ask in Stillness, that is, tools for the reader to do their own introspective, emotional healing, and spiritually transformative work. There is also a chapter specifically on meditation exercises for furthering our personal growth. Moving Moments is both moving and inspirational, and I would recommend it to my spiritual counselling clients in a heartbeat. Julianne Victoria, Spiritual Counsellor & Author, California, USAMoving Moments begins with a devastating reality. Death and grief. The name of the book itself should not be underestimated, however, because the answers to many of life's questions can be found here. Death breaks into our lives like a thief and often when we are completely unprepared. Death robs us of those we hold dear, and we feel lost when it comes to coping with its aftermath. As each page delicat

Moving Moments: Transform your suffering into freedom

Self-Help

Lang, Karen

Death & Grief

Karen Lang

Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power of art to resist the pressures of the transcendental vantage point-history. Uncovering the intellectual and cultural richness of the early years of academic art history in Germany―the period from the 1880s to 1940―she explores various attempts within art history to transform aesthetic phenomena―chaos―into the cosmos of a systematic, unified field of inquiry.Lang starts by examining Panofsky's approach to aesthetic phenomena in his early theoretical essays alongside Ernst Cassirer's contemporaneous publications on the substance and function of scientific concepts (and on Einstein's theory of relativity). She then turns to the subject of aesthetic judgment through a rereading of Kantian subjectivity and Kant's uneasy legacy in art history. From here, Lang considers the different organizing theories of symbolic form proposed by Aby Warburg and Cassirer, as well as Goethe's inspiration for both; Alois Riegl's notion of age value and Walter Benjamin's conceptions of the aura; concluding with an extended examination of objectivity and the figure of the art connoisseur.Extensively illustrated with works of art from the Enlightenment to the present day, this venturesome book illuminates an intellectual legacy that has profoundly shaped the study of the history of art in ways that have, until now, been largely unacknowledged. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, Lang traces shifts in point of view in art history and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Cornell University Press

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" 
In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power of art to resist the pressures of the transcendental vantage point-history. Uncovering the intellectual and cultural richness of the early years of academic art history in Germany―the period from the 1880s to 1940―she explores various attempts within art history to transform aesthetic phenomena―chaos―into the cosmos of a systematic, unified field of inquiry.
Lang starts by examining Panofsky's approach to aesthetic phenomena in his early theoretical essays alongside Ernst Cassirer's contemporaneous publications on the substance and function of scientific concepts (and on Einstein's theory of relativity). She then turns to the subject of aesthetic judgment through a rereading of Kantian subjectivity and Kant's uneasy legacy in art history. From here, Lang considers the different organizing theories of symbolic form proposed by Aby Warburg and Cassirer, as well as Goethe's inspiration for both; Alois Riegl's notion of age value and Walter Benjamin's conceptions of the aura; concluding with an extended examination of objectivity and the figure of the art connoisseur.
Extensively illustrated with works of art from the Enlightenment to the present day, this venturesome book illuminates an intellectual legacy that has profoundly shaped the study of the history of art in ways that have, until now, been largely unacknowledged. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, Lang traces shifts in point of view in art history and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge.

Liat Yossifor’s first artist monograph focuses on a series of ever-evolving grey paintings she produced from 2011-2016. Employing a time-based process to create these works, she continuously scrapes, sculpts, and re-works the paint until it hardens on the surface. Of the works here, Yossifor has said, The grey is so much more for me. The grey is the result of color being consumed, of constant editing. The grey is the result of a thousand paintings that got destroyed in the process of making a single one.” Yossifor was recently profiled by Modern Painters as an artist to watch for 2016 and this year has exhibitions in New York; Frankfurt, Germany; Guadalajara and Chicago. The book includes essays by Karen Lang, Christopher Michno, Stella Rollig and Ed Schad and was designed by award-winning Vienna-based graphic artist Peter Duniecki.

Movements: Liat Yossifor

Schad, Ed

Rollig, Stella

Michno, Christopher

DoppelHouse Press

DESIGN, BUILD AND SHARE YOUR OWN APPS - NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!\nDesign, build and share your own apps with the official guide from MIT App Inventor. Follow simple step-by-step instructions for six different projects using MIT's free App Inventor website, and you can make a maze game, a translation game and even a personalized chat app! Use what you've learned to come up with your own ideas, then download your new apps to a phone or table, and share them with friends!\nAlong the way, you'll hear stories of young app inventors from all over the world, who are using MIT App Inventor to create amazing apps that solve real-life problems. Learn, invent and change the world!

Become an App Inventor: The Official Guide from MIT App Inventor: Your Guide to Designing, Building, and Sharing Apps

MIT App Inventor Project

Tezel, Selim

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Science & Math

MITeen Press

My Fair Weather Friend

Have you ever checked the weather before getting dressed in the morning? What if you had someone else to do it for you every day and they were more accurate than the weather forecasters out there? Well you are in luck, Miss Priss is the best out there for helping you to plan your day; and she will also be your best friend. She is cute, cuddly, and she can tell you the weather without a single word!

Storey, Connie

Children's Books

Constance M. Storey

With a foreword by Gitanjali Rao, Time Magazine’s inaugural Kid of the Year, this engaging guide from MITeen Press teaches anyone to design and publish their own apps—no experience necessary!—and introduces young app creators from around the world.\nHave you ever wanted to build your own mobile apps? App Inventor, a free and revolutionary online program from MIT, lets you do just that. With the help of this companion guide chock-full of colorful graphics and easy-to-follow instructions, readers can learn how to create six different apps, including a working piano, a maze game, and even their own chat app to communicate with friends—then use what they’ve learned to build apps of their own imagination. User-friendly code blocks that snap together allow even beginners to quickly create working apps. Readers will also learn about young inventors already using their own apps to make a difference in their communities, such as the girls from Moldova whose app helps alert residents when local well water is contaminated. Or the boys from Malden, Massachusetts, whose app lets users geotag potholes to alert city hall when repairs are needed. With this inspiring guide, curious young dreamers can become real inventors with real-world impact.

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Inte

Humor & Entertainment

* Published to accompany the first solo exhibition of Philip Guston at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 23 November 2019 to 8 March 2020* Features many works by the American artist not seen in the UK beforePhilip Guston (1913-1980) was an internationally acclaimed American artist whose response to the political and social tumult of the post-war decades resulted in a prolific artistic output. Over the course of his career, his style transformed from figuration to abstraction to figuration. Born Phillip Goldstein, the artist began drawing incessantly at the age of 12. Aware of antisemitism, he changed his name in 1935, the year he moved to New York. After producing award-winning murals in a 'realist' style for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and early 1940s, Guston embraced the painting trend of Abstract Expressionism. The upheavals of the 1960s - civil rights protests, brutal state violence, race riots - made him question the relevance of gestural abstraction, however, and his drawing explored the new figuration for which he is best known. In response to the Vietnam War and the hypocrisy of the political administration under President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, his figurative drawing intensified to address universal issues facing modern humankind. Guston's productive output was driven by his desire to unify the story and the plastic structure of the artwork in response to a changing political and social landscape. 'Locating the image' through intensive periods of drawing was central to this. This exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, curated by Professor Karen Lang with Dr Lena Fritsch, is the first solo show of Guston's work in Oxford. His artistic language, characterized by masterful technique, exuberant stylistic variety and the depiction of everyday objects, is readily recognizable. This catalog introduces Guston's art to visitors who may be unfamiliar with it by displaying works on paper from each stylistic phase. At the same time, it presents a new understanding to those familiar with Guston's practice by focusing on two themes: the role of drawing on the one hand, and the inspiration he took from literature on the other.

Philip Guston: Locating the Image

Fritsch, Lena

Individual Artists

Ashmolean Museum

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