Books on Work & Home Design
Cuore Libre Publishing produces books and calendars in three main areas. On this site we carry our books on where Advanced Ergonomics and Modern Feng Shui merge. The Planetary Calendar line with our strategic astrology almanac and life changing book Reclaiming Astrology from the Patriarchy is on its own website you can access HERE. Our very popular Amicis Winery Guides, with its line of tour book for Napa and Sonoma, and the related story books are also on their on line you can access HERE.
The Dream Desk Questionnaire: Improving Personal & Team Performance Through Recognizing Your ErgoDynamic Personality
by Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
Genius is in the details and in a personal work space the difference between success through efficiency in contrast to failure through ignorance is often determined by a collection of small, repetitious movements that you make in the course of your workday. That is because the way you position your work place in relation to the dimensions of your unique anatomy either consumes or minimizes your expenditure of energy, and the results are cumulative. They either build a foundation that supports you, or pile obstructions upon you one after another.
You would think that knowing how to position yourself most effectively would be 'common sense', after all, you have used your body for practical tasks in diverse environments your whole life? But commanding the office space comes with a particular stumbling block, because you spent most of your first twelve working years at desks not of your choice. All that time you spent in school required sitting at desks, within rooms, that someone else set up before you arrived on the scene, taking little concern for you individual genius and requirements. You had no choice about the direction you faced, the size of your desk, your distance to the teacher, who you sat nearby, the light sources, what you looked at and in fact all of the myriad influences that affect your performance.
Since you had no input about that arrangement, you didn't develop any practical experience with what works best for you and how to set that up . When you finally were required to set up your own workspace you probably fell back on the arrangement that your parents created for you, suitable for doing homework, because that is what you know. Maybe you were lucky enough to land at a desk at work that supported your talents, and you clung to that station as long as you could. If you were smart you re-created that configuration in your next position, but you probably didn't because you didn't realize the importance of positioning. Here is the key; very successful people have an instinctive grasp of the power of positioning, and you can too. The Dream Desk Questionnaire, with its seven multiple choice questions, and diverse answers, will lead you step by step through the process of creating your best possible work space.
The Dream Desk Questionnaire goes beyond simple ergonomics to Ergo Dynamics, understanding how to maximize the performance of an interrelated team through knowledge of the power of positioning of people, tools and environments. Find it on Amazon Kindle HERE
The Clutter Bug’s Emergency Handbook : The True Cause of Chaos and How to FixIt
by Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
You probably think this should be a bigger book, because Clutter is such a BIG problem, tied to toxic emotions, poor self-worth and a lack of discipline. Yes, those are a part of Clutter, but they are not the cause, they are the results!
Clutter is a physical problem, and it is caused by the messages your surroundings send to your physical body. Those messages tell your nervous system to act in a certain way. If the messages encourage clarity and confidence, Clutter doesn’t develop. If those messages promote anxiety and lack of focus, ‘stuff’ piles up, along with all those other issues.
This book will show you how to change your surroundings, so they send you the correct messages, and once you do that, clarity and confidence follow. It’s not that complicated, although to explain this most effectively requires a bunch of illustrations! Find it on Amazon Kindle HERE
Feng Shui and the Tango: The Dance of Design
by Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
Like a great fusion meal, this approach mixes techniques from Asian and European systems to help you arrange the life you want. These well tested, highly effective solutions, based on ancient principles, are supercharged with current research from ergonomics and energetic kinesiology.
This approach is like a chocolate dipped fortune cookie; it embodies the American genius for synthesizing practical and entertaining innovations for our future focused society. This is very different from traditional, generic Feng Shui. It also uses the twelve Signs of western astrology, which can help you quickly recognize problems and produce more accurate improvements. The authors, Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis, also produce the highly regarded Planetary Calendar, in print since 1949. www.PlanetaryCalendar.com.
Your space doesn’t need to look like a Chinese Restaurant to have good feng shui, these solutions work well with your own design style. Do you want more fun and romance in your life and greater commitment in your relationships? These are easy goals to program! Do you need greater professional acclaim and increased cash flow? You’ve programmed your environment for where you are now. ‘Tango’ will show you how to reprogram your space for where you want to be. This is Part One in the three-book series from Ralph & Lahni’s professional Feng Shui and Ergonomic Design course. Find it on Amazon Kindle HERE
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Happiness Lessons: The Feng Shui Fuzion Series (Feng Shui and the Tango Book 2)
by Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
This happiness boosting book shows you, how to increase the love in your life, be clutter free, plan great weddings for strong and stable relationships, clear the past (and occasional ghost), create happy children's rooms and adult bedrooms for a good night's sleep and so much more!
From the Introduction
This is book two of a three-part series that we created during the years when we were teaching our professional program in Philadelphia. Part one, ‘Feng Shui and the Tango in 12 Easy Lessons’ provides the best overview of our approach, which is modern, non-traditional and amazingly effective. If possible, read that first. We realized that our approach was more effective than most because we were often brought in after other, more traditional practitioners, failed to resolve the problem. In most cases, they missed spotting the problems, so they couldn’t provide the correct solutions. Because our system is more precise and suited to the modern world, we could recognize the issues and provide more focused results. If you have studied Feng Shui, or read other books on the topic, you will find ours very different. As a refresher, one of the three ‘Tool’ chapters at the back of the book explains how to use the Euro Bagua, an essential part of our approach.
From the Back Cover
This is Part Two in the three-book series from Ralph & Lahni’s Feng Shui and Ergonomic Design course. It addresses issues that show up in the home and relate to the personal life. This approach to healing design mixes techniques from
Asian and European systems to help you create the life you want. These well tested, highly effective solutions, based on ancient principles, are supercharged with current research from ergonomics and energetic kinesiology. Find it on Amazon Kindle HERE
Prosperity Lessons: The Feng Shui of Success (Feng Shui and the Tango Book 3)
by Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
This solution-based book explains how the program of money is created in your life and how you can upgrade your potential. It gives helpful insights about those critical crossroads where money is on the table and opportunity is in the air. Includes finding building sites, house sales, office design and creating income energy.
From the Introduction
This is book three of a three-part series that we created during the years when we were teaching our professional program in Philadelphia. Part one, ‘Feng Shui and the Tango in 12 Easy Lessons’ provides the best overview of our approach, which is modern, non-traditional and amazingly effective. If possible, read that first. We realized that our approach was more effective than most because we were often brought in after other, more traditional practitioners, failed to resolve the problem. In most cases, they missed spotting the problems, so they couldn’t provide the correct solutions. Because our system is more precise and suited to the modern world, we could recognize the issues and provide more focused results. If you have studied Feng Shui, or read other books on the topic, you will find ours very different. As a refresher, one of the three ‘Tool’ chapters at the back of the book explains how to use the Euro Bagua, an essential part of our approach. Part Two is called Happiness Lessons and deals with issues that arise in the personal life, so it focuses on the home, relationships, families and that emotional side of our lives.
From the Back Cover: This is Part Three in the three-book series from Ralph & Lahni’s Feng Shui and Ergonomic Design course. This solution-based book explains how the program of money is created in your life and how you can upgrade your potential. It gives helpful insights about those critical crossroads where money is on the table and opportunity is in the air. It includes finding building sites, house sales, office design and creating income energy.. Find it on Amazon Kindle HERE
A Woman’s Bagua: The Terra Map Revealed (Feng Shui and the Tango)
by Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
The Feng Shui that came to the west after China’s cultural revolution was limited and very patriarchal. This is a problem because ninety percent of American practitioners are women, so the tool does not allow them to use their full talents. Historically, the ‘great knowledge’ of geomancy and astrology was kept in the circle of professionals around the Emperor who shared parts of that knowledge with the Mandarins. But this secular system which guided road building, city planning and military campaigns was mostly destroyed by the infamous Red Guard.
What did survive outside communist China, and came to the West was a simple system the wise men shared with the common people through the Farmer’s Almanac. They coined sayings like, ‘Don’t point the foot of the bed towards the door because that’s how dead bodies are carried out,’ to explain adverse kinesiological reactions. They also created simplified oracles for the fortune tellers to give people hope and guidance. The third source of western Feng Shui was the system used in the Buddhist monasteries that were far removed from city centers. But the peasants, fortune tellers and priests could only use the most basic forms. The ‘Great Knowledge’ was reserved for the aristocracy. Why? Because knowledge is power and that was tightly held in the Emperor’s hands!
The evidence of this is in the Bagua which most people use. Why does it only have eight sides? Most of the other systems are based on twelve. There are twelve Animal Years, which are based on the position of Jupiter traveling through the twelve Signs. In Chinese Medicine there are twelve meridians along which the life force flows. In the laws of midday and midnight, which times the activity of the organs, there are twelve time periods. Acupuncturists measure the health of the twelve body systems by reading the patient’s twelve pulses. All the smart people got twelve, but the common people and priests only got eight parts in their map of the world. By designing it like a tortoise shell, a creature that moves slowly, and withdraws its head and limbs in response to danger, they used that pattern to keep the peasants, seers and priests in their place.
What we are sharing here are the beginning shapes of sacred geometry. It will seem familiar to an Astrologer, although the map appears upside down, compared to an Astrology chart. That is because the chart is sky based, while the bagua is earth based. Even calling it a bagua is incorrect, because that means eight parts. We have called this twelve sided map the Euro-Bagua for many years, but a better name might be the Terrestrial Map of Life.
While this may seem complicated, be aware, this is just the first ‘equation’ in this celestial, terrestrial geometry. We have used this system since 1995 in thousands of consultations and it is incredibly accurate for analyzing a client’s space and providing precise and effective solutions.
For this book, which was put together rather quickly for a national lecture, we pulled materials from three books from our certification program which we ran in Philadelphia for many years. The books are Feng Shui and the Tango, Happiness Lessons, and Prosperity Lessons. They were created for practitioners, and they are filled with plenty of real life stories of consultations and effective solutions. The sections we assembled are all about using this map.
Why do we call this a Woman’s Bagua? Because men often abhor complexity while women embrace it. There are angles that are masculine and others that are feminine, and the eight part map is dominated by masculine angles. In the twelve part map they are balanced, and you can energetically connect segments together in ways that celebrate the Goddess. Find it on Amazon Kindle HERE
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