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Life’s Secret is Flow This book is thick and encyclopedic and has every Intentional Feng Shui cure known to humankind (according to Gabrielle Alizay). It is the scientific, long form version of Feng Shui, inspired by Black Hat Tibetan school of thought and written by Gabrielle in a humorous style—non-judgmental and realistic—because life is hard enough. This book is how to make things easier. In the flow. This Second Edition version, which includes added Mouth of Chi cures, is to be used along with Gabrielle’s latest book, Quantum Feng Shui: 9 Accomplishments to Promote Personal and Planetary Peace whenever you intuitively ‘sense’ that you need more wattage with whatever home and office renewals you have made. Originally published in 2005 by Writers’ Collective, this Feng Shui go-to guide is highly proclaimed as being ‘a book which takes the mystery out of how-to Feng Shui’ and has a detailed, thorough study of Feng Shui Cures, or “Amplifications,” that can be used in tandem with Quantum Feng Shui™ Accomplishments to take in your home and office to inspire major optimistic transformation on every level. In fact, every intentional ritual and action in this book will make your home and office even more of a microcosmic view of peace, health, love, abundance and bliss—and add potency to whatever Quantum Feng Shui™ has already activated exquisitely. This book is for the activist healer who wants more. No need to stand in line. It is all here. — “Feng Shui For The Rest Of Us by Gabrielle Alizay demystifies the art of Feng Shui and makes it a tool we can all use. With a healthy dose of humor and straightforward instructions, she shows readers how to put Feng Shui principles into practice in their homes for a more balanced and peaceful atmosphere.” - Martha Stewart’s Body+Soul magazine, December 2005 issue “Makes Feng Shui principles accessible for the average person!” - Denise Linn, author of Sacred Spaces “A down-to-earth guide to Feng Shui, one of the best to come along in years. If you want to change any aspect of your life, this book is all you need. Terrific!” - Denise Osborne, author of The Feng Shui Mystery Series

True-life stories that show how Feng Shui can boost your prosperity The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Prosperity is a collection of true “rags-to-riches” stories that takes you into the homes and businesses of people from all walks of life who, by using the art and science of Feng Shui, have found solutions to their problems and enhanced their good fortune. Best-selling author Terah Kathryn Collins combines the art of storytelling with her expertise in Feng Shui to bring you these inspirational and informative accounts. She moves Feng Shui from the mystical to the pragmatic, entering the environments of real people seeking real solutions to their economic challenges. You’ll find that by reading these stories, you’ll gain the insight and knowledge necessary to apply Feng Shui to your own life—and boost your own prosperity. Included are stories on career improvements, financial gains of all kinds, revitalized health, and other treasured components of a prosperous life. Terah offers commentary and practical tips that relate to each story, as well as material on the Bagua Map and the Five Elements—two vital Feng Shui tools that are utilized by the individuals featured in these accounts. Both entertaining and educational, this book is complemented by color photographs, hand-drawn sketches, and watercolor illustrations that capture the magical essence of Feng Shui.

Punk Beyond the Music: Tracing Mutations and Manifestations of the Punk Virus expands the conversation about punk from a focus on the musical genre to its surrounding cultural manifestations. Focusing on some of the most recurring practices and characteristics of punk culture —DIY, attitude, outsider identities, symbols, and politics—Iain Ellis engages many illustrative examples to investigate punk beyond the music without losing sight of its significance. Early chapters look at arts that have always existed within the punk subculture (writings, visual arts, films, and humor); subsequent sections examine areas rarely recognized as exhibiting punk characteristics (such as education, sports, crafts, and comics). Taken together, the chapters invite readers on an extensive and unpredictable journey through the evolution of punk’s developments and adaptations.

This history of the punk movement in the United States shows how punk music, fashion, art, and attitude clashed with and ultimately influenced mainstream culture. Unlike other volumes on the punk era that focus on just the music—and primarily on British punk bands—Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture spans the full expanse of punk as it happened in the United States, from the late-1960s blast from Iggy Pop and the Stooges to the full explosion of punk in the mid 1970s to its next-generation resurgences and continuing aftershocks. Punks covers it all—not just music, but the punk influence on film, fashion, media, and language. Readers will see how punk spread virally, through fan-created magazines, record labels, clubs, and radio stations, as well as how mainstream America reacted, then absorbed aspects of punk culture. The book includes interviews with key members of the punk subculture, including new conversations with people who participated in the punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

London from Punk to Blair is a rich portrait of Europe’s foremost capital. An array of contributors, including poets, journalists, teachers, historians, wanderers, drinkers, photographers, and foodies, offer a selection of personal and subjective readings of the city since the late ’70s. These essays chart a variety of literal and metaphorical explorations through modern and postmodern London, showing how it works, and how it fails to work; what makes it vibrant, and what makes it seedy. From West End galleries to strip pubs in Shoreditch; from millionaires’ loft apartments to buses and suburban Tube stops; from film, fashion, and gay clubs to punk bands, ruinous factories, pigeon filth, and the vagaries of weather, London from Punk to Blair embraces the city like no other book has before. This revised edition includes a new introduction by editor Joe Kerr that brings the book up to date and gives the essays context for the post-recession world. “Full of insight into the diverse experiences that constitute the recent history of London.”—Architects’ Journal “This rewarding collection brings into clear focus those dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the metropolis. . . . Beautiful, revealing insights into particular ways of understanding and using the city.”—London Society Journal

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2023): Integrating People and Intelligent Systems, February 22–24, 2023, Venice, Italy