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Wanting
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Author : Luke Burgis
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Wanting written by Luke Burgis and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg's "52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending" * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year * A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful—yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies. According to Girard, humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic—we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare’s plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected. Wanting also shows that conflict does not arise because of our differences—it comes from our sameness. Because we learn to want what other people want, we often end up competing for the same things. Ignoring our large similarities, we cling to our perceived differences. Drawing on his experience as an entrepreneur, teacher, and student of classical philosophy and theology, Burgis shares tactics that help turn blind wanting into intentional wanting--not by trying to rid ourselves of desire, but by desiring differently. It’s possible to be more in control of the things we want, to achieve more independence from trends and bubbles, and to find more meaning in our work and lives. The future will be shaped by our desires. Wanting shows us how to desire a better one.
Wanting
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Author : Richard Flanagan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-05-26
Wanting written by Richard Flanagan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-26 with Fiction categories.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin’s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism. Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason’s triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night.
Wanting You
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Author : Nan Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-03-29
Wanting You written by Nan Ryan and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-29 with Fiction categories.
“Nan Ryan knows how to heat up the pages” in this western romance novel about a long-lost woman and the man who could love her—or destroy her (RT Book Reviews). Anna Regent Wright, the heiress to the Regent ranch, has finally come home. With no memory of her life before Apaches abducted her as a child, she has suddenly been given a name and a past, and thrust into a new world that holds a future beyond her wildest dreams. But not everyone is happy for her return. Charming hell-raiser Brit Caruth is positive that Anna is an imposter, and he’s determined to prove it before Anna inherits the fortune that was supposed to be his. But his attraction to the beautiful stranger is undeniable, and as his love blooms, his resentment fades. But when the truth finally does come out, whose future will it put in jeopardy? And will the blooming love between Anna and Brit survive the revelation?
Wanting
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Author : Angela Huth
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-09-28
Wanting written by Angela Huth and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Harry Antlers, a once-successful theatre director, falls obsessively in love with Viola Windrush when she comes to New York for an audition. There follows a wild pursuit, taking him to her Norfolk house and to London, where she is decorating for her uncle. Finally, Harry is driven to desperation.
Wanting Eyes
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Author : Ron Broussard
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-09-04
Wanting Eyes written by Ron Broussard and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-04 with Family & Relationships categories.
Wanting Eyes looks at love from a male's point of view - wanting that true love, but going through many trials and difficult experiences to find it. Wanting Eyes shows that there are hardworking, loyal black men out there and we shouldn't let our past experiences spoil our search for love that is fulfilling.
Wanting Sheila Dead
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Author : Jane Haddam
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2010-07-20
Wanting Sheila Dead written by Jane Haddam and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-20 with Fiction categories.
"Haddam manages to produce each time a layered, richly peopled, and dryly witty book with a plot of mind-bending complexity." —Houston Chronicle on Glass Houses Sheila Dunham is a gossip columnist's dream—she's famous, loud and, to most who meet or see her, deeply offensive. As a result, she's been fired from every job on television she's ever had—first as a serious journalist, then as a personality, finally as a reality show judge. Now she's producing and hosting her own reality show, "America's Next Top Anchor," shot in her hometown of New Fenwick, Connecticut. Everyone she employs is terrified of her; everyone one else hates her. And everybody seems to want Sheila dead. Finally it seems someone has decided to try. After millions of dollars of jewels are stolen from her home, she is found beaten into unconciousness, next to the murdered body of a local girl. If nothing else, her show's ratings are going to improve. Gregor Demarkian, a retired FBI agent, is already scheduled to appear on her show but he's going to consult on the biggest murder case to hit that part of Connecticut since the Revolutionary War. But how do you narrow down the suspects when the victim was hated by everyone?
Wanting War
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Author : Jeffrey Record
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2010
Wanting War written by Jeffrey Record and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
A complete explanation of the U.S. decision to go to war in 2003.
Wanting Normal
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Author : John Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-04-10
Wanting Normal written by John Marshall and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the story of the ten years I spent with a wonderful woman. Through life, love, illness, happy times and sad. I have never professed to be writer let alone a good writer, in fact I'm not even a great reader, but this was Clare's idea, so I am duty bound to complete this for her. So if the spelling and grammar is a bit off...sorry, but it was written in 8 days, writing 8 hours a day
A Little Wanting Song
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Author : Cath Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2010-06-08
A Little Wanting Song written by Cath Crowley and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-08 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A summer of friendship, romance, and songs in major chords. . . . CHARLIE DUSKIN loves music, and she knows she's good at it. But she only sings when she's alone, on the moonlit porch or in the back room at Old Gus's Secondhand Record and CD Store. Charlie's mom and grandmother have both died, and this summer she's visiting her grandpa in the country, surrounded by ghosts and grieving family, and serving burgers to the local kids at the milk bar. She's got her iPod, her guitar, and all her recording equipment, but she wants more: A friend. A dad who notices her. The chance to show Dave Robbie that she's not entirely unspectacular. ROSE BUTLER lives next door to Charlie's grandfather and spends her days watching cars pass on the freeway and hanging out with her troublemaker boyfriend. She loves Luke but can't wait to leave their small country town. And she's figured out a way: she's won a scholarship to a science school in the city, and now she has to convince her parents to let her go. This is where Charlie comes in. Charlie, who lives in the city, and whom Rose has ignored for years. Charlie, who just might be Rose's ticket out. Told in alternating voices and filled with music, friendship, and romance, Charlie and Rose's "little wanting song" is about the kind of longing that begins as a heavy ache but ultimately makes us feel hopeful and wonderfully alive.
Weighed And Wanting
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Author : Dwight Lyman Moody
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-02-26
Weighed And Wanting written by Dwight Lyman Moody and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-26 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.