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In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer and maker of fine furniture, takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and then founds a school in Maine: the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an internationally respected nonprofit institution.

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be - and argues that it is architecture’s task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.

How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us to decide how to live?

Essere vegani non è né una moda, né una dieta. Essere vegani vuol dire, prima di tutto, abbracciare una filosofia. Perché chi sceglie di essere vegano ha deciso di non mangiare più dei "qualcuno" che la nostra società ha trasformato in dei "qualcosa" non solo per mettere fine a una barbarie, ma per salvaguardare l'architettura sociale, ambientale ed economica del nostro futuro.

À la fois poétique et intelligent, apaisant et vivifiant, "Le livre du thé", destiné aux lecteurs occidentaux, permet de mieux appréhender les subtilités de la culture asiatique. Véritable traité philosophique, il interroge le sens de nos existences et notre rapport à l'environnement. "La philosophie du thé n'est pas une simple esthétique dans l'acception ordinaire du terme, car elle nous aide à exprimer, conjointement avec l'éthique et avec la religion, notre conception intégrale de l'homme et de la nature."

Sociology & Animals Podcast is hosted by Dr. Corey Wrenn, Co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists and Past Chair of the Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association. In this series, Corey chats with various scholars, both emerging and established, who are pushing the boundaries of sociological thought and practice. This series is designed to appeal to classically trained sociologists new to Critical Animal Studies as well as students considering the many fields of possible study.

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