Author: Steve Case
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828010948
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
It's My Choice
Author: Steve Case
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828010948
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828010948
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Era of Choice
Author: Edward C. Rosenthal Ph.D.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262250241
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
How today's cornucopia of choices has transformed our lives and our culture, from the foundations of scientific theory to the anxiety of everyday decisions. Today most of us are awash with choices. The cornucopia of material goods available to those of us in the developed world can turn each of us into a kid in a candy store; but our delight at picking the prize is undercut by our regret at lost opportunities. And what's the criterion for choosing anything—material, spiritual, the path taken or not taken—when we have lost our faith in everything? In The Era of Choice Edward Rosenthal argues that choice, and having to make choices, has become the most important influence in both our personal lives and our cultural expression. Choice, he claims, has transformed how we live, how we think, and who we are. This transformation began in the nineteenth century, catalyzed by the growing prosperity of the Industrial Age and a diminishing faith in moral and scientific absolutes. The multiplicity of choices forces us to form oppositions; this, says Rosenthal, has spawned a keen interest in dualism, dilemmas, contradictions, and paradoxes. In response, we have developed mechanisms to hedge, compromise, and to synthesize. Rosenthal looks at the scientific and philosophical theories and cultural movements that choice has influenced—from physics (for example, Niels Bohr's theory that light is both particle and wave) to postmodernism, from Disney trailers to multiculturalism. He also reveals the effect of choice on the personal level, where we grapple with decisions that range from which wine to have with dinner to whether to marry or divorce, as we hurtle through lives of instant gratification, accelerated consumption, trend, change, and speed. But we have discovered, writes Rosenthal, that sometimes, we can have our cake and eat it, too.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262250241
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
How today's cornucopia of choices has transformed our lives and our culture, from the foundations of scientific theory to the anxiety of everyday decisions. Today most of us are awash with choices. The cornucopia of material goods available to those of us in the developed world can turn each of us into a kid in a candy store; but our delight at picking the prize is undercut by our regret at lost opportunities. And what's the criterion for choosing anything—material, spiritual, the path taken or not taken—when we have lost our faith in everything? In The Era of Choice Edward Rosenthal argues that choice, and having to make choices, has become the most important influence in both our personal lives and our cultural expression. Choice, he claims, has transformed how we live, how we think, and who we are. This transformation began in the nineteenth century, catalyzed by the growing prosperity of the Industrial Age and a diminishing faith in moral and scientific absolutes. The multiplicity of choices forces us to form oppositions; this, says Rosenthal, has spawned a keen interest in dualism, dilemmas, contradictions, and paradoxes. In response, we have developed mechanisms to hedge, compromise, and to synthesize. Rosenthal looks at the scientific and philosophical theories and cultural movements that choice has influenced—from physics (for example, Niels Bohr's theory that light is both particle and wave) to postmodernism, from Disney trailers to multiculturalism. He also reveals the effect of choice on the personal level, where we grapple with decisions that range from which wine to have with dinner to whether to marry or divorce, as we hurtle through lives of instant gratification, accelerated consumption, trend, change, and speed. But we have discovered, writes Rosenthal, that sometimes, we can have our cake and eat it, too.
My Choice - My Life
Author: Jay M. Greenfeld
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432795535
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In todays fast-paced existence, its easy to feel our lives are sometimes spinning out of control. But heres the good news: We actually have total control over our everyday choices. Now, put yourself back in charge and achieve a more balanced lifestyle with My Choice - My Life: Realizing Your Ability to Create Balance in Life. Stress management and well-being expert Jay M. Greenfeld reveals his common-sense approach for balancing the four pillars of your life - its physical, emotional, social, and professional components - with an emphasis on making positive choices. Here are the hints, devices, techniques, and suggestions to apply to your life, your worldand on your time. Youll learn:How to use positive thinking and awareness to break negative habits and ingrained, self-defeating negative actionsThe secrets to achieving success at work, at home, and in relationshipsWays to attain balance at any life stage: teens, twenties and beyondHow to get the most out of your personal relationshipswhether with parents, children or your life-partner Steps that will put you on the path toward a healthier, more fulfilling and less stressful lifePacked with anecdotes and practical encouragement, My Choice - My Life is an empowering tool that will show results each time you make a decision. Free yourself from feelings of hopelessness and regain your focus and your balanceits all up to you!
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432795535
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In todays fast-paced existence, its easy to feel our lives are sometimes spinning out of control. But heres the good news: We actually have total control over our everyday choices. Now, put yourself back in charge and achieve a more balanced lifestyle with My Choice - My Life: Realizing Your Ability to Create Balance in Life. Stress management and well-being expert Jay M. Greenfeld reveals his common-sense approach for balancing the four pillars of your life - its physical, emotional, social, and professional components - with an emphasis on making positive choices. Here are the hints, devices, techniques, and suggestions to apply to your life, your worldand on your time. Youll learn:How to use positive thinking and awareness to break negative habits and ingrained, self-defeating negative actionsThe secrets to achieving success at work, at home, and in relationshipsWays to attain balance at any life stage: teens, twenties and beyondHow to get the most out of your personal relationshipswhether with parents, children or your life-partner Steps that will put you on the path toward a healthier, more fulfilling and less stressful lifePacked with anecdotes and practical encouragement, My Choice - My Life is an empowering tool that will show results each time you make a decision. Free yourself from feelings of hopelessness and regain your focus and your balanceits all up to you!
My Body My Choice
Author: Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459817141
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
★“Required reading for teens of every gender.”—Booklist, starred review Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less common; it just makes it dangerous. Around the world, tens of thousands of women die from unsafe abortions every year. People who support abortion rights have been fighting hard to create a world in which the right to access safe and legal abortion services is guaranteed. The opposition to this has been intense and sometimes violent, and victories have been hard won. The long fight for abortion rights is being picked up by a new generation of courageous, creative and passionate activists. This book is about the history, and the future, of that fight.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459817141
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
★“Required reading for teens of every gender.”—Booklist, starred review Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less common; it just makes it dangerous. Around the world, tens of thousands of women die from unsafe abortions every year. People who support abortion rights have been fighting hard to create a world in which the right to access safe and legal abortion services is guaranteed. The opposition to this has been intense and sometimes violent, and victories have been hard won. The long fight for abortion rights is being picked up by a new generation of courageous, creative and passionate activists. This book is about the history, and the future, of that fight.
The Paradox of Choice
Author: Barry Schwartz
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061748994
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061748994
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
My Magical Choices
Author: Becky Cummings
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732596368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732596368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
It's My Choice
Author: SM Chung
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466955368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This is a journey through doubt, fear, pain, and joy. Its a story of healing self in mind, body, and spirit through choices made in a lifetime; a story belonging to anyone; a story without gender, race, or wealth. Its my choice! I think of the many times Ive told myself that and the years it took before I believed it. Theyre reminders that I own my decisions regardless what the situation is or who tells me what to do. Today, self-reminders are less frequent because I feel in control of my whole life, not just part of it. Why? Because I have a free will, Gods gift to each of us. Its a love-gift given freely, unconditionally. It is without strings, enabling me to choose my journey, my path. I believe that it is by loving ourselves we can make progress and become better. I believe that our purpose on earth is to become better human beings by recognizing that special light within usGod. To you, reader, God may be the Universal Consciousness, Allah, or the Almighty. Whichever it is, remember it is your choice!
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466955368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This is a journey through doubt, fear, pain, and joy. Its a story of healing self in mind, body, and spirit through choices made in a lifetime; a story belonging to anyone; a story without gender, race, or wealth. Its my choice! I think of the many times Ive told myself that and the years it took before I believed it. Theyre reminders that I own my decisions regardless what the situation is or who tells me what to do. Today, self-reminders are less frequent because I feel in control of my whole life, not just part of it. Why? Because I have a free will, Gods gift to each of us. Its a love-gift given freely, unconditionally. It is without strings, enabling me to choose my journey, my path. I believe that it is by loving ourselves we can make progress and become better. I believe that our purpose on earth is to become better human beings by recognizing that special light within usGod. To you, reader, God may be the Universal Consciousness, Allah, or the Almighty. Whichever it is, remember it is your choice!
The Life of My Choice
Author: Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006372677
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006372677
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq.
Zermelo’s Axiom of Choice
Author: G.H. Moore
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461394783
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This book grew out of my interest in what is common to three disciplines: mathematics, philosophy, and history. The origins of Zermelo's Axiom of Choice, as well as the controversy that it engendered, certainly lie in that intersection. Since the time of Aristotle, mathematics has been concerned alternately with its assumptions and with the objects, such as number and space, about which those assumptions were made. In the historical context of Zermelo's Axiom, I have explored both the vagaries and the fertility of this alternating concern. Though Zermelo's research has provided the focus for this book, much of it is devoted to the problems from which his work originated and to the later developments which, directly or indirectly, he inspired. A few remarks about format are in order. In this book a publication is indicated by a date after a name; so Hilbert 1926, 178 refers to page 178 of an article written by Hilbert, published in 1926, and listed in the bibliography.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461394783
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This book grew out of my interest in what is common to three disciplines: mathematics, philosophy, and history. The origins of Zermelo's Axiom of Choice, as well as the controversy that it engendered, certainly lie in that intersection. Since the time of Aristotle, mathematics has been concerned alternately with its assumptions and with the objects, such as number and space, about which those assumptions were made. In the historical context of Zermelo's Axiom, I have explored both the vagaries and the fertility of this alternating concern. Though Zermelo's research has provided the focus for this book, much of it is devoted to the problems from which his work originated and to the later developments which, directly or indirectly, he inspired. A few remarks about format are in order. In this book a publication is indicated by a date after a name; so Hilbert 1926, 178 refers to page 178 of an article written by Hilbert, published in 1926, and listed in the bibliography.
Not My Choice
Author: Julia Finch
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465350918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
At the age of nineteen, Julia experiences the horror and the heartbreak of abortion. Take the journey with her as she recounts the events leading up to the abortion, the abortion itself, and what takes place afterward. Will she find hope and peace again? Where does faith come into play in all of this? Will there ever be a husband and children for her? As a series of traumatic events unfolds, we explore the depths of her pain and confusion. Did God judge the others involved in the abortion? Or are some of these tragedies just coincidence? What about the people who didnt know about the abortion, but made unfair criticisms of Julia? And what about other women who have been through an abortion? So many people have been affected by this. Does a mere signature on a consent form equate to a heartfelt desire to have an abortion or is there more to the story than that? Are these women being manipulated and threatened into having abortions? Maybe they are just mentally ill. Or perhaps perhaps its something else. Perhaps these women feel unexpressed grief over the loss of their children. But more than that, perhaps they have a deep and indignant sense of anger and injustice over the wrong that has been done to themthe crime of abortion. Are they getting a fair choice or not? Find out in Not My Choice.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465350918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
At the age of nineteen, Julia experiences the horror and the heartbreak of abortion. Take the journey with her as she recounts the events leading up to the abortion, the abortion itself, and what takes place afterward. Will she find hope and peace again? Where does faith come into play in all of this? Will there ever be a husband and children for her? As a series of traumatic events unfolds, we explore the depths of her pain and confusion. Did God judge the others involved in the abortion? Or are some of these tragedies just coincidence? What about the people who didnt know about the abortion, but made unfair criticisms of Julia? And what about other women who have been through an abortion? So many people have been affected by this. Does a mere signature on a consent form equate to a heartfelt desire to have an abortion or is there more to the story than that? Are these women being manipulated and threatened into having abortions? Maybe they are just mentally ill. Or perhaps perhaps its something else. Perhaps these women feel unexpressed grief over the loss of their children. But more than that, perhaps they have a deep and indignant sense of anger and injustice over the wrong that has been done to themthe crime of abortion. Are they getting a fair choice or not? Find out in Not My Choice.