Author : Barry Friedman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1435754360
A collection of vignettes: some humorous, some sad. But all are true. Well, perhaps embellished. They relate the author's experiences as a medical student, intern, World War II Naval Medical Officer, and more than fifty years as an orthopaedic surgeon.
Author : A. C. Robin Skynner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780393314724
What makes people tick? What about families, organizations such as schools and businesses, or societies? By understanding them, can we make them tick better? Where does religion fit in? In this entertaining book, England's odd couple--psychiatrist-scholar Robin Skynner and comic John Cleese--answer these provocative questions and others, as they embark on a fascinating, mind-stretching search for what really matters in life. Cartoons throughout. Media publicity.
Author : Rodney Smith
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834841185
An Insight Meditation teacher explores the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, an essential teaching that transcends all Buddhist traditions and provides a path to true liberation Awakening manifests through the application of mindfulness to four areas: body, feelings, mind, and dharmas. Buddhists of all the traditions share this foundational principle, which is defined in the Satipatthana Sutta and has been expounded upon since the time of the Buddha himself. In Touching the Infinite, Rodney Smith guides readers through the Four Foundations to provide a solid understanding of the teaching. He goes on to challenge us to hold this teaching up against our own experience—and in doing so, to discover the inherent interconnection of all Four Foundations. They are a sequential path that reveal the true nature of things, leading the practitioner to the perception of the formless and then back to daily life infused with that great freedom. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness thus serve as a road map for any genuine spiritual path.
Author : Khanna
Publisher : Elsevier India
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 9788131217368
Author : David Bishop
Publisher : 2000 AD Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849979723
It's election day in Mega-City One, and Judge Death is leading the polls. He's running for mayor on the 'All Life is a Crime' ticket. But if the Psi-Judges' predictions are right, the Big Meg may soon be a crime-free zone. Out on the streets, the city's top lawman is doing his job. A robot-torturing maniac has taken over Weather Control - but Judge Dredd can handle it. Then he finds out a satellite housing development is heading straight to the ground, and someone has let the supervillains out of iso-block 666. Meanwhile, a clone-killing virus is spreading through the ranks of the Judges . . . Even for Mega-City One, it's shaping up to be a bad day.
Author : Tom Stella
Publisher : Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1773430394
Author : Joseph Packer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0271083158
In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated cartoons to speculative fiction. Packer and Stoneman explore how narratives such as True Detective, Rick and Morty, Final Fantasy VII, Lovecraftian weird fiction, and the pop ideology of transhumanism are better suited to communicate pessimistic affect to their fans than most carefully argued philosophical treatises and polemics. They show how these popular nondiscursive texts successfully circumvent the typical defenses against pessimism identified by Peter Wessel Zapffe as distraction, isolation, anchoring, and sublimation. They twist genres, upend common tropes, and disturb conventional narrative structures in a way that catches their audience off guard, resulting in belief without cognition, a more rhetorically effective form of pessimism than philosophical pessimism. While philosophers and polemicists argue for pessimism in accord with the inherently optimistic structures of expressive thought or rhetoric, Packer and Stoneman show how popular texts are able to communicate their pessimism in ways that are paradoxically freed from the restrictive tools of optimism. A Feeling of Wrongness thus presents uncharted rhetorical possibilities for narrative, making visible the rhetorical efficacy of alternate ways and means of persuasion.
Author : Lillian Brower
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1524504637
This book originated as a saying-of-the-day project for the chalkboard in her work, which is unique. None of the sayings have more than one sentence, and none are more than two lines long. These little gems have been categorized, alphabetized, and indexed for easy reference. This book contains an abundance of material for teachers, preachers, and public speakers. Writers, journalists, counselors, or columnists might revel in having access to such an assemblage of adages, aphorisms, epigrams, wit, and a bit of nonsense. This publication could be the source of such diverse marketable items as key rings, plaques, bulletins, newsletters, T-shirts, coffee cups, auto-license tags, and even fortune cookies. Its most valuable use, though, would probably be to browse through for simple pleasure. The reader could use the contents to start his or her own saying-of-the-day list.
Author : Un-Habitat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317932870
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a sustainable manner. However, a number of challenges faced by urban transport systems – such as greenhouse gas emissions, noise and air pollution and road traffic accidents – do not necessarily get solved by the construction of new infrastructure. Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. The purpose of ‘transportation’ and ‘mobility’ is to gain access to destinations, activities, services and goods. Thus, access is the ultimate objective of transportation. As a result, urban planning and design should focus on how to bring people and places together, by creating cities that focus on accessibility, rather than simply increasing the length of urban transport infrastructure or increasing the movement of people or goods. Urban form and the functionality of the city are therefore a major focus of this report, which highlights the importance of integrated land-use and transport planning. This new report of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the world’s leading authority on urban issues, provides some thought-provoking insights and policy recommendations on how to plan and design sustainable urban mobility systems. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums, Financing Urban Shelter, Enhancing Urban Safety and Security, Planning Sustainable Cities and Cities and Climate Change.
Author : Murray L. Peters
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1491886390
Teacher Mr Bernard Boyle (aka Bernard0 B0ilinni Ringhi0 di R0ssi of the Orb Zeronia) was almost out of breath, but never of magical Boyle-Breaths - good and bad! (BOYLE-BREATH - Bk1). Bernard had just been made Acting Head at Roquefort High School, and Bernard0 had saved a teenage school suicide jumper off Roqueforts infamous 3Rs bridge, its Rogue-Rapids Roadbridge; but at the action-packed end of Bernards first term as a Depute Head (BOYLE-BREATH BREATHES - Bk2) the Highs Mr Damien Mortenson had resigned. Aaron Brown somehow had survived; but Damien had had enough, especially his having found out that school bully-chief Nikki Dedsons evil-mentor Cameron Mitchell was his own (previously sent for adoption) son! Quite why Dedsons helper-in-chief Aaron Brown had tried to kill himself was a secret known only to the Bernards and the boy himself. A new school term beckoned, so schoolchildren and their families did too (indeed Boyles half-Zero children Rino and Zea were now both 13 younger Zero girls catching up with 0 brothers in actual human age as well as the usual intelligence and behaviour). Bullying was continuing also; sances, ghosts and vampires, dream-haunting and clinical depression but murder? Social Workers, theyre always about somewhere, always for the best yeah? Immigrants and gypsies, angels and devils, tattooists and em referees? IEDs! (But what if that Time-shifting sniper Mortenson had been able to pull the trigger on Lady Di; what if the Confederates won the American Civil War...would Abraham Lincoln have become a Vampire Slayer? That Butterfly Effect theory, Ray, does it hold truth? Really, really?) Father Stephen OReilly, what of him...a Time-travelling priest? Bless me Father!! Remember HIM &HER? Mm well of course you do! What if Richard and Faith decided to get married and tell everyone everything in the end?! Nikki Dedson: the Bully extraordinaire? Yes, hes still alive, but hes in two worlds now. Is he still a bully? Of course he is, and in both! Boyle-Breath is a stinker, but with all those earthly pongs and perfumes at his beck and call he could, he had, and he would continue to help change noses, minds, lives, worlds! What was Mr Boyle to do first though? How was his Zeronian half Bernard0 to help? Where was a question: Earth &/or Zeronia? When was the subsequent problem...the Past, the Present; the Future?? Theyd beginat the End. Boyle-Breath Breathes BREATHTAKING! The Zeronian Bugle.
