Author : Brian Bridges
Publisher : Pine Hill Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0971733627
A sincere and thorough exploration by the author to make sense of a world full of overwhelming amounts of information and conflicting belief systems. Who is telling the truth? Which religion is the right one? What does the Bible tell us? Who are we? By peering into the author's world view, we develop our own sense of ourselves, we appreciate life more, and we make peace with many important areas of internal conflict.
Author : Brian Bridges
Publisher : Pine Hill Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0971733619
The manuscript for this book has been wandering the halls of Silicon Valley companies ever since 1993, and now it's available for the first time in any bookstore. Now all of us have the opportunity to refer to successful management strategies and practices right on our iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
Author : A.J. Jacobs
Publisher : Crown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593136721
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. “Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before Look for the author’s new podcast, The Puzzler, based on this book! What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they’re among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times bestselling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost. In The Puzzler, Jacobs meets the most zealous devotees, enters (sometimes with his family in tow) any puzzle competition that will have him, unpacks the history of the most popular puzzles, and aims to solve the most impossible head-scratchers, from a mutant Rubik’s Cube, to the hardest corn maze in America, to the most sadistic jigsaw. Chock-full of unforgettable adventures and original examples from around the world—including new work by Greg Pliska, one of America’s top puzzle-makers, and a hidden, super-challenging but solvable puzzle—The Puzzler will open readers’ eyes to the power of flexible thinking and concentration. Whether you’re puzzle obsessed or puzzle hesitant, you’ll walk away with real problem-solving strategies and pathways toward becoming a better thinker and decision maker—for these are certainly puzzling times.
Author : Gerry Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351843095
The editors of "Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement" provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death.This anthology explores the process of meaning-making in the face of death and the roles of religion and spirituality at times of loss; the profound and devastating experience of loss in the death of a spouse or a child; a psychological model of spirituality; the dimensions of spirituality; humor in client-caregiver relationships; the worldview of modernity in contrast to postmodern assumptions; the Buddhist perspective of death, dying, and pastoral care; meaning-making in the virtual reality of cyberspace; individualism and death; and the historical context of Native Americans, the concept of disenfranchised grief, and its detailed application to the Native American experience.It also explores: a qualitative survey on the impact of the shooting deaths of students in Colorado; a team approach with physicians, nursing, social services, and pastoral care; a study of health care professionals, comparing clergy with other health professionals; marginality in spiritual and pastoral care for the dying; a qualitative research study of registered nurses in the northeast United States; and loss and growth in the seasons of life.
Author : Ruth Imler Langhinrichs
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491766212
The life of Richard Alan Langhinrichs is a remarkable journeyin his own words as he struggles with his personal demonsand in the words and remembrances of his family, friends and colleagues. He was awarded two medals for valor in Saipan during WWII, where he proclaimed, There are atheists in foxholes, because Im one. Dick enrolled in Northwestern University at the age of 17, joined a fraternity, and wanting to appear blase because he was on a full scholarship, was able to fulfill this ambition, partly because he could play the piano with panache and savoir faire by imitating George Gershwin. At the wars end, he headed to New York City for a stage career while writing a novel and pursuing his lifelong quest for meaning, but years later his midlife crisis changed the course of his journey. The ministry would become his career, but not until he had been a struggling novelist, a successful real estate agent in New Yorks Greenwich Village and a highly paid business executive in Detroit. Dick was a prolific reader and books that influenced his philosophy and his quest for meaning are listed as Sacred Texts at the end of Part I: One Mans Journey.
Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0062857800
A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast “Sam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know, unafraid to speak truths out in the open where others keep those very same thoughts buried, fearful of the modish thought police. With his literate intelligence and fluency with words, he brings out the best in his guests, including those with whom he disagrees.” -- Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene “Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest—and sometimes both—lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress. This book includes a dozen of the best conversations from Making Sense, including talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glenn Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically. Together they shine a light on what it means to “make sense” in the modern world.
Author : Kevin Bleyer
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 1400069351
Presents an offbeat revision of the U.S. Constitution that reflects twenty-first century realities and addresses unresolved questions while describing the author's research into ancient Greece's early practices of democracy.
Author : Vivien Youmbi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2018-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1984509721
This bi-dimensional book, rhetorically questions and praises the enigmatic and ambivalent President of the United States of America, regarding the SHITHOLE issue. For him, Trumps election was predictable given his narrative identity, and the negative emotions thrown at him by his haters. The story of Donald Trump he says, could be the story of each of us as written once, it could be written twice. Just like Emerson, he believes there is one mind common to all individual men.
Author : Nicholas McBride
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509912010
Part II of The Humanity of Private Law charts a new course for English private law in the twenty-first century. Part I set out the vision of human flourishing that English private law has in mind in seeking to promote its subjects' flourishing. Part II argues in favour of a very different account of what human flourishing involves, and explains what private law would look like were it to base itself on this alternative vision of the nature of human flourishing. This volume: sets out and evaluates different models of what human flourishing involves; argues in favour of the view that human flourishing involves being engaged in a quest to lead a truthful life; explains in what ways a private law that sought to foster this distinctive vision of human flourishing would be different from English private law in its current state, in particular with regard to: (i) tackling fraud; (ii) promoting freedom of speech; (iii) preserving attention capacities; (iv) protecting people from being subjected to degrading or hateful treatment; and (v) enabling people to make a fresh start in their lives; and, considers whether and when it would be legitimate for the courts to transform English private law in the ways suggested in this volume. Part II of The Humanity of Private Law is a radical and prophetic book that is essential reading for anyone who is interested in understanding the contribution private law can make to our living in a society that promotes the flourishing of all its members.
Author : Paula Martin
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 159467986X
Do you constantly struggle with your walk of obedience? Does the secret of faith elude you? Confound you? The first thing we discover after the honeymoon of commitment is that we dont know how to walk in faith. Is it because we dont have enough faith? We assume we should not have a problem with our walk of faith because we love God, but if the truth be known, we do--more often than we care to admit. Walking in defeat becomes the norm as we struggle to control our lives.Dont lose heart!The Simplicity of Faith offers help and hope where these and other issues are concerned.
