The Things Of Life
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The Best Things In Life
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Author : Peter Kreeft
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2009-08-20
The Best Things In Life written by Peter Kreeft and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-20 with Religion categories.
What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens. What is the purpose of education? Why do we make love? What good is money? Can computers think like people? Is there a difference between Capitalism and Communism? What is the greatest good? Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus? In twelve short, Socratic dialogues Peter Kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and subjectivism. He leaves you richer, wiser and more able to discern what the best things in life actually are.
Making Peace With The Things In Your Life
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Author : Cindy Glovinsky
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2002-05-03
Making Peace With The Things In Your Life written by Cindy Glovinsky and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-03 with House & Home categories.
Do you spend much of your time struggling against the growing ranks of papers, books, clothes, housewares, mementos, and other possessions that seem to multiply when you're not looking? Do these inanimate objects, the hallmarks of busy modern life, conspire to fill up every inch of your space, no matter how hard you try to get rid of some of them and organize the rest? Do you feel frustrated, thwarted, and powerless in the face of this ever-renewing mountain of stuff? Help is on the way. Cindy Glovinsky, practicing psychotherapist and personal organizer, is uniquely qualified to explain this nagging, even debilitating problem -- and to provide solutions that really work. Writing in a supportive, nonjudmental tone, Glovinsky uses humorous examples, questionnaires, and exercises to shed light on the real reasons why we feel so overwhelmed by papers and possessions and offers individualized suggestions tailored to specific organizing problems. Whether you're drowning in clutter or just looking for a new way to deal with the perennial challenge of organizing and managing material things, this fresh and reassuring approach is sure to help. Making Peace with the Things in Your Life will help you cut down on your clutter and cut down on your stress!
The Best Things In Life
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Author : Thomas Hurka
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-03
The Best Things In Life written by Thomas Hurka and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-03 with Philosophy categories.
For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn't the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn't the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn't just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?
The Things Of Life
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Author : Alexey Golubev
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-15
The Things Of Life written by Alexey Golubev and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with History categories.
The Things of Life is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Soviet things, examining how the material world of the late Soviet period influenced Soviet people's gender roles, habitual choices, social trajectories, and imaginary aspirations. Instead of seeing political structures and discursive frameworks as the only mechanisms for shaping Soviet citizens, Alexey Golubev explores how Soviet people used objects and spaces to substantiate their individual and collective selves. In doing so, Golubev rediscovers what helped Soviet citizens make sense of their selves and the world around them, ranging from space rockets and model aircraft to heritage buildings, and from home gyms to the hallways and basements of post-Stalinist housing. Through these various materialist fascinations, The Things of Life considers the ways in which many Soviet people subverted the efforts of the Communist regime to transform them into a rationally organized, disciplined, and easily controllable community. Golubev argues that late Soviet materiality had an immense impact on the organization of the Soviet historical and spatial imagination. His approach also makes clear the ways in which the Soviet self was an integral part of the global experience of modernity rather than simply an outcome of Communist propaganda. Through its focus on materiality and personhood, The Things of Life expands our understanding of what made Soviet people and society "Soviet."
Death Life And The Things In Between
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Author : Christopher Mader
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-03-01
Death Life And The Things In Between written by Christopher Mader and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-01 with categories.
One minute you're enjoying life, then the alarm sounds and you're suddenly hurled into a life threatening situation where someone's very existence hangs in the balance! For most people it's too much to handle, but for the Emergency Medical Professional, it's business as usual.Ride along with volunteer EMT Rick, as he struggles through the endless call volume, a turbulent love life, and the pain of loss as he fights to lead, what most people consider, a normal life.
Intersection
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Author : Paul Guimard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Intersection written by Paul Guimard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Christian Life 101 I Wish I Knew These Things
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Author : Robert Odam
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2008-09
Christian Life 101 I Wish I Knew These Things written by Robert Odam and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with categories.
Do you ever wish that you knew some very basic things about God when you first committed your life to Him? This book is an exposition into how the truth and power of the Word of God can transform the lives of the people who believe in Jesus Christ. Do you know that: God is the ultimate symbol of trust and commitment to all who need to depend on someone. There is a far-reaching benefit from godliness that cannot be obtained apart from faith, because faith in God through Christ Jesus is a firm foundation, upon which we who believe can truly rest. Faith gives substance to something that does not exist physically, but can be conceived in our hearts, spoken about, and believed in. The believer cannot pursue purpose without gaining a deep and life-changing revelation of his identity in Christ Jesus. This book is worth reading. Read more. A Christian for more than 15 years, Robert Odam has studied basic Christian growth, taught Bible study classes, and designed and directed new converts classes. His book is based on subjects he personally developed and taught in his current church when he was superintendent of Bible study classes. He believes the topics in this book are as relevant today as ever-and it will continue to be as long as there are more Christians coming to God. Robert Odam is currently a minister in his church in Crystal, Minnesota. Dr. Robert Odam is also a full time Family Practice doctor who works out of a medical clinic in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Simple Things Of The Christian Life
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Author : G. Campbell Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Gunderson Publications
Release Date : 1984
The Simple Things Of The Christian Life written by G. Campbell Morgan and has been published by Gunderson Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.
The Literary Life Of Things
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Author : Babette Bärbel Tischleder
language : en
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Release Date : 2014-02-13
The Literary Life Of Things written by Babette Bärbel Tischleder and has been published by Campus Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. This material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Engaging a great range of American literature--from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen--The Literary Life of Things illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.
The Silent Life Of Things
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Author : Alan Munton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-25
The Silent Life Of Things written by Alan Munton and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-25 with Social Science categories.
The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and “thingness”. Combining cultural, phenomenological, semiotic, and philosophical approaches, this collection of eleven essays proposes a journey into “the silent life of things”, into those aspects of materiality that are not immediately visible and require both increased attention and a sense of intuition. It focuses on the subtle changes that materiality operates upon our subjectivity and upon our status as producers, users, possessors, negotiators and manipulators of objects, and analyses the ways in which materiality is constantly redefined by consumerism and the strategies it adopts in order to resist commodification. In the process, the collection explores different ways of deciphering what materiality, in its reliable concreteness or its “magical materialism”, tries to tell us: all the silent stories that “things” accumulate while circulating among people, societies and cultures; the narratives they weave when amassed, collected, archived or transformed into cultural commodities; the secrets they reveal when witnessing the gradual commodification of their owners – of their bodies, lives and souls. The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood establishes a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality, and its participation in the establishment of a new aesthetics of consumerism.