Politics of Economic Life
In recent years, economic life has become increasingly politicized: now, every company has a 'philosophy', promising its customers some ethical surplus in return for buying their products; consumers shop for change; workers engage in individualize...
Material Modernism
Material Modernism draws on editorial theory, cultural studies and the history of the book to argue for a freshly historicized reading of modernism. Instead of taking texts as consisting of disembodied words, Bornstein considers their physical bod...
Wear It Well
Celebrity fashion stylist Allison Bornstein's Wear It Well is a guide to using fashion as a tool for self-discovery and getting dressed as an act of ultimate self-care, taking the anxiety out of finding your personal style, showing you how to make your closet a sanctuary, and bringing back the joy of getting dressed. Fashion is wellness in this guide to making dressing a ritual designed to experience more self-love, joy, and calm. Wear It Well teaches us to love our wardrobes again, break free of the wardrobe struggles that keep us from enjoying getting dressed, and how fashion can be a tool for self-discovery and self-care. Allison Bornstein is a professional stylist who made a name for herself styling celebrities like Katie Holmes, Violette, and pioneering director Cathy Yan. Now, introducing her proven method she has used with hundreds of women, she will show you how to find your personal style, curate your closet, and overcome some of these common wardrobe struggles: - "I don't have time" - "I hate all of my clothes" - "Nothing fits right" - "It's too old/too young looking" - "I don't have a personal style" Bornstein shares her AB Closet Editing System that will help you detox both your thoughts and clothes by getting rid of items that don't fit or that you never wear, and learning to fill your closet with ONLY clothes that bring you more joy, confidence, and empowerment. Like vision-boarding for your wardrobe and life, you will use her Three Word Method to choose words that you most want to identify with (ex: "Artsy," "Minimal," "Romantic"), so that you can better understand your desires and how you want to look and feel. Wear It Well will inspire you to make getting dressed a sacred time for personal reflection and self-exploration and to create a closet that is a safe and inspiring space - so you can bring the joy backing into dressing.
Inanna
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
How to Change the World
David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world--what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-root...
Immigrant Divide
Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group of foreign-born? Or do they differ in their adaptation and transnational ties depending on when they emigrated and with what lived experiences? Between Castro's r...
My New Gender Workbook
"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature a...
Medveten närvaro : den buddhistiska vägen till kärleksfullt hjärta
Sylvia Boorstein har skrivit den första boken som kan vägleda västerländska läsare till Buddhas tio paramitaer, "Hjärtats fulländning" Enligt Buddha är vänlighetens väg också lyckans väg. Nu har Sylvia Boorstein tagit upp de...
Stillhet i förskola och skola : steg för steg
Anna Bornstein visar i Stillhet i förskola och skola hur vi skapar en lugn och trygg miljö för barn och elever så att mår bra, lär sig och utvecklas. Hon gör det utifrån tjugo års erfarenheter av mindfulness och annan stillhetsmetodik i förs...
Skadat gods
Med nytt jobb och en brusten relation är Erik Steen tillbaka i staden där han växte upp. En ljum sensommarkväll återförenas han med barndomsvännerna från den välbärgade villaförorten söder om Göteborg. Men när morgonen gryr har något förändr...
Varför regnar det bara på mig?
Ibland är man ledsen utan att veta varför. Då kan det kännas som att det regnar bara på en själv och inte på någon annan. Just så känner Cassandra. Hon har ett stort regnmoln som svävar över henne och regnmolnet försvinner inte vad hon ...
Disquieting Gifts
While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impuls...
You Can't Screw This Up
FOREWORD BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. What if the healthiest diet included the foods that were enjoyable and respectful of our stressful, overbooked lives? You couldn't screw it up!¿Here's a can't-miss plan that will build unbreakable habits by incor...
You Can't Screw This Up
FOREWORD BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. What if the healthiest diet included the foods that were enjoyable and respectful of our stressful, overbooked lives? You couldn't screw it up!¿Here's a can't-miss plan that will build unbreakable habits by incor...
Dancing in the Dark
Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed Americans during the Great...
Mirror in the Roadway
In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naive notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented wi...
Revival of Pragmatism
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Hol...