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Ignite The Genius Within
''Ignite The Genius Within'' is a multi-media creativity book co-authored by author and journalist Christopher Lee Nutter Christopher Lee Nutter (born May 2, 1970) is the author of ''The Way Out (book), The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block'' (HCI Press, May 2006), ... and EMDR therapist Dr. Christine Ranck. It was published by Dutton Penguin in March, 2009 (). The book uses visuals with audio stimulus created by Dr. David Grand derived from EMDR trauma therapy to the end of enhancing creativity. It was endorsed by performance artist Laurie Anderson and actress / playwright Sarah Jones (stage actress). External linksPublisher’s website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Lee Nutter
Christopher Lee Nutter (born May 2, 1970) is the author of ''The Way Out (book), The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block'' (HCI Press, May 2006), and co-author of ''Ignite the Genius Within'' (Penguin, March 2009). He is also a former magazine and newspaper journalist whose work appeared in the ''New York Times, the Village Voice, New York, Vibe, Time Out New York, Out, Publishers Weekly, Cargo, Lucky'', and the ''Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide''. Nutter was the ghost writer for David LaChapelle's book ''Hotel LaChapelle'' (Callaway, 1999). He now runs a media consulting business in New York City handling the public relations for high-profile businesses such as Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv and global arts projects such as Congo Tales as well as ghost-writing and doing creative project development for commercial artists. Biography Nutter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutton Penguin
E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company. It was founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. Since 1986, it has been an imprint of Penguin Group. Creator Edward Payson Dutton (January 4, 1831 – 1923) was a prominent American book publisher. In 1852, Dutton founded the E. P. Dutton bookselling company in Boston, Massachusetts. The business sold fiction and non-fiction, and within a short time expanded into the selling of children's literature. In 1864, he opened a branch office to sell books in New York City and in 1869 moved his company's headquarters there and entered the book publishing business. From 1888 onward, he started working with Ernest Nister. In 1906, Dutton struck what proved to be a significant deal with the English publishing company of J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints. Edward Dutton died in 1923, aged 92, but his company continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Anderson
Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting,Amirkhanian, Charles"Women in Electronic Music – 1977" Liner note essay. New World Records. Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York City, New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1981. Her debut album ''Big Science (Laurie Anderson album), Big Science'' was released the following year. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film ''Home of the Brave (1986 film), Home of the Brave''. Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Jones (stage Actress)
Sarah Jones (born November 29, 1974) is an American playwright, actress, and poet. Called "a master of the genre" by ''The New York Times'', Jones has written and performed four multi-character solo shows, including '' Bridge & Tunnel,'' which was produced Off-Broadway in 2004 by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and then on to Broadway in 2006 where it received a Special Tony Award. Life Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to an African American father and mother of mixed Euro-American and Caribbean descent. Her multicultural background and upbringing in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Queens, New York, influenced her development into what ''The New Yorker'' termed a "multicultural mynah bird holays our mongrel nation before us with gorgeous, pitch-perfect impersonations of the rarely heard or dramatized." Jones attended The United Nations International School and Bryn Mawr College where she was the recipient of the Mellon Minority Fellowship. She originally planned a career a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Non-fiction Books
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutton Penguin Books
Dutton may refer to: Places ;In Canada *Dutton/Dunwich, Ontario, town and municipality in Canada *Dutton, Ontario ;In the United Kingdom *Dutton, Cheshire, village in England *Dutton, Lancashire, village in England ;In the United States *Dutton, Alabama, town * Dutton, Illinois, ghost town * Dutton, Michigan *Dutton, Montana, town in the United States * Dutton, Nevada, ghost town *Mount Dutton, Alaska ;In Australia *Dutton, South Australia *Mount Dutton Bay Conservation Park People with the surname *Brian Dutton (born 1985), English footballer * Charles Boydell Dutton (1834–1904), pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia *Charles Christian Dutton (died 1842), South Australian pioneer, uncle of C. B. Dutton, disappeared presumed murdered *Charles S. Dutton (born 1951), American actor *Clarence Dutton (1841–1912), American geologist and US Army officer *Denis Dutton (1944–2010), philosopher *Edward Dutton, 4th Baron Sherborne (1831–1919), British peer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
