Filled with laughs and giggles, this memoir presents the authors spirited and light-hearted approach to living all over the world along with a husband, four young sons, three dogs, and two cats. The koi fish had to be left behind. From growing up during the black-and-white apartheid years of South Africa to suntanning topless on the silvery beaches and azure seas of the Greek Isles; from walking like an Egyptian around the earthy tones of the pyramids to savouring pearlescent beads of the finest caviar harvested from the neon waters of the Caspian Sea; from reminiscing with six-foot-four transvestites wearing shocking-pink nails to enjoying the freedom of riding chromed Harleys in the Karoo; each chapter is in itself a singular story, but when put together, they make up the multi-coloured mosaic of a kaleidoscopic life. Take a trip to the USA, Kazakhstan, Holland, Austria, and many other countries through the eyes of a woman who most certainly is not colour-blind.

Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it. Funny, friendly, enigmatic and frequently poignant - superbly naive.

Provides clear explanations of the science behind the experiments and a handy list of basic materials and equipment.

Relying on the remarkable forces of science and nature, this material offers great ideas for performing illusions, magic tricks, and experiments.

An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the “savage mind”—a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relationship between “the savage” and the development of technology and its wide-ranging impact on society, including in the fields of architecture and urbanism, the industrial arts, and digital design. Nolan focuses on the relationship between the applied arts and the structuralist social sciences, proposing that the late-nineteenth-century rise of Freudian psychology, ethnology, and structuralist linguistics offered innovations and new opportunities in studying human cognition. She looks at institutions ranging from the Public Industrial Arts School of Philadelphia and the Weimar Bauhaus to the MIT Media Lab and the Centre Mondial Informatique, revealing a persistent theme of twentieth-century design: to supplant language with more subliminal, aesthetic modes of communication, thereby inculcating a deep intimacy between human habit and new technologies of production, communication, and consumption. This book’s ultimate critique is of the development of the ergonomics of the spirit—the design of the human cognitive apparatus in relation to new aesthetic technologies. Nolan sees these ergonomics as a means of depoliticizing societies through aesthetic technologies intended to seamlessly integrate humans into the programs of capitalist modernity. Revising key modernist design narratives, Savage Mind to Savage Machine provides a deep historical foundation for understanding our contemporary world.