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Places of the Heart
The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
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A neuroscientist illuminates how we make and are made by the world both real and virtual
Co-op available Significant bound galley printing for media and booksellers. Additional bound galley giveaways at Book Expo America and the American Library Association Annual conference. eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss National print, public radio, and online campaigns, including a special focus on popular science, psychology, travel, technology, and architecture and design outlets. We will also seek high-profile author op-ed placements around the time of publication Tour will include at least two residencies and walking tours (at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn and at Urbanspace galley in Toronto, Sept./Oct. 2015), with more TBD, and an author presentation at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) conference (La Jolla, CA; Sept. 2015) Postcards available Possible promotion through the Scientific American book club Academic marketing plans include Consortium Required Reading newsletter advertising and development of supplementary teaching resources, including a practical guide with exercises related to the bookβs content that will be available for free online and regularly updated Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing Blurbs possible from authors Esther M. Sternberg, Charles Montgomery, Nicholas Humphrey, and Susan Pinker as well as Maria Nicanor, Curator of the BMW Guggenheim Lab and Associate Curator, Architecture at the Guggenheim Museum; David van der Leer, Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute; Ethan Kent, Senior Vice President, Project for Public Spaces; and Robert Gifford, Director of the Environmental, Social, and Personality Psychology Lab at the University of Victoria, editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology, and former President of the Environmental Psychology division of the International Association of Applied Psychology Promotion through the authorβs website (www.colinellard.com) and Psychology Today blog as well as BLPβs social media networks and website (www.blpress.org) Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light
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"A really great book." -IRA FLATOW, Science Friday
"One of the finest science writers I've ever read." -Los Angeles Times
"Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom." -New York Times Book Review
"[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating." -NPR
"Colin Ellard is one of the world's foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities-and ourselves." -CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we're awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and natureβplaces we escape to and can't escape fromβhave influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space.
As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating.
Colin Ellard is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, he lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
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Places of the Heart by Colin Ellard has been well-received, with reviewers praising its insightful exploration of how our environments influence our emotions and behaviour. Critics commend Ellard's ability to make complex psychological and neurological concepts accessible and engaging. The book is noted for its compelling combination of personal anecdotes and scientific insights, which prompt readers to rethink how physical spaces impact their mental well-being and happiness.
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ISBN: 9781942658009
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: Bellevue Literary Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Colin Ellard, who works at the intersection of neuroscience and architectural and environmental design, is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall and Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). He has published scientific work in international journals in North America, Europe, and Asia for the past twenty-five years and has also contributed to the public discussion of environmental psychology through his work with museums and the media. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, Ellard lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
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