Author: Tomithy Jamison
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
I went to an ivy league university and have a masters in electrical engineering, I worked in the tech industry for almost 22 years and lost my job in early 2019. I lost everything through my struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues. I finally reconnected with my family by begging my way to the Seattle area where I had a vague idea where my eldest sister lives. I found her and she and her husband heard my thoughts wit and stories and helped me write all this down by hand by providing notebooks i would return to them of safe keeping. I have been in Seattle (mainly in east side) for over three months and haven't slept inside once. I don't want pity I want people to appreciate my thoughts, wit and ideas. After I lost everything I have been happy and upbeat. This book will help anyone and make them smile and perhaps make their heart soar like 'mien' has.... I pray this book will put a roof over my head! If you like it please spread the word!
Quotes and Antidotes
Author: Tomithy Jamison
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
I went to an ivy league university and have a masters in electrical engineering, I worked in the tech industry for almost 22 years and lost my job in early 2019. I lost everything through my struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues. I finally reconnected with my family by begging my way to the Seattle area where I had a vague idea where my eldest sister lives. I found her and she and her husband heard my thoughts wit and stories and helped me write all this down by hand by providing notebooks i would return to them of safe keeping. I have been in Seattle (mainly in east side) for over three months and haven't slept inside once. I don't want pity I want people to appreciate my thoughts, wit and ideas. After I lost everything I have been happy and upbeat. This book will help anyone and make them smile and perhaps make their heart soar like 'mien' has.... I pray this book will put a roof over my head! If you like it please spread the word!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
I went to an ivy league university and have a masters in electrical engineering, I worked in the tech industry for almost 22 years and lost my job in early 2019. I lost everything through my struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues. I finally reconnected with my family by begging my way to the Seattle area where I had a vague idea where my eldest sister lives. I found her and she and her husband heard my thoughts wit and stories and helped me write all this down by hand by providing notebooks i would return to them of safe keeping. I have been in Seattle (mainly in east side) for over three months and haven't slept inside once. I don't want pity I want people to appreciate my thoughts, wit and ideas. After I lost everything I have been happy and upbeat. This book will help anyone and make them smile and perhaps make their heart soar like 'mien' has.... I pray this book will put a roof over my head! If you like it please spread the word!
12 Rules for Life
Author: Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0345816021
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of unprecedented change and polarizing politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world. In this book, he provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence. Drawing on vivid examples from the author's clinical practice and personal life, cutting-edge psychology and philosophy, and lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, 12 Rules for Life offers a deeply rewarding antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0345816021
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of unprecedented change and polarizing politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world. In this book, he provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence. Drawing on vivid examples from the author's clinical practice and personal life, cutting-edge psychology and philosophy, and lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, 12 Rules for Life offers a deeply rewarding antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.
The Antidote
Author: Oliver Burkeman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429947608
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty—the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429947608
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty—the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness.
Anecdotes and Antidotes
Author: Harry Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780732910242
Category : Veterinarian
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Collection of anecdotes by TV vet Dr Harry Cooper. Recounts his experiences with animals and their owners. Includes stories about rats, wombats, dogs, cats, horses and foxes. Cooper was a regular on the Nine Network's 'Burke's Backyard', host of 'Talk to the Animals' and then of 'Harry's Practice' on the Seven Network.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780732910242
Category : Veterinarian
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Collection of anecdotes by TV vet Dr Harry Cooper. Recounts his experiences with animals and their owners. Includes stories about rats, wombats, dogs, cats, horses and foxes. Cooper was a regular on the Nine Network's 'Burke's Backyard', host of 'Talk to the Animals' and then of 'Harry's Practice' on the Seven Network.
Lust for Life
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452262496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“A story of excruciating power.”—The New York Times The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh—brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings—for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. No other novel of a great man’s life has so fascinated the American public for generations.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452262496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“A story of excruciating power.”—The New York Times The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh—brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings—for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. No other novel of a great man’s life has so fascinated the American public for generations.
A Responsibility to Awe
Author: Rebecca Elson
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784106569
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. 'Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination,' she wrote. Her poems, like her researches, build imaginative inferences and speculations, setting out from observation, undeterred by knowing how little we can know.
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784106569
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. 'Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination,' she wrote. Her poems, like her researches, build imaginative inferences and speculations, setting out from observation, undeterred by knowing how little we can know.
Pink House Living
Author: Emily Murray
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 9781788790840
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pink has become the hottest color in interiors. Quartz Pink was the Pantone color of 2016 and since then the hue has gone from strength to strength, playing a starring role at the 2018 Milan Design Week. "From advertising to design and fashion, millennial pink has taken popular culture by storm, and it isn't going anywhere" House & Garden Pink House Living is a beautiful, practical guide to decorating with pink by Emily Murray of the award-winning The Pink House blog. Emily draws on her recent interiors projects to guide the reader through their own rose-tinted renovations and includes case studies on well-known interiors experts that reveal their use of pink, their go-to paint shades and where they glean "pinkspiration". Pink House Living is not about decorating your home in pink from rooftop to rugs, but a look at how the color can be used alongside other hues—sometimes sparingly, sometimes in spades. Divided up by room, the book uses the color pink and its history as a starting point from which to discuss the decorating process. Readers will be entertained by Emily’s interiors insights and witty turn of phrase while gaining invaluable advice on adding pink—and color in general—to their homes.
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 9781788790840
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pink has become the hottest color in interiors. Quartz Pink was the Pantone color of 2016 and since then the hue has gone from strength to strength, playing a starring role at the 2018 Milan Design Week. "From advertising to design and fashion, millennial pink has taken popular culture by storm, and it isn't going anywhere" House & Garden Pink House Living is a beautiful, practical guide to decorating with pink by Emily Murray of the award-winning The Pink House blog. Emily draws on her recent interiors projects to guide the reader through their own rose-tinted renovations and includes case studies on well-known interiors experts that reveal their use of pink, their go-to paint shades and where they glean "pinkspiration". Pink House Living is not about decorating your home in pink from rooftop to rugs, but a look at how the color can be used alongside other hues—sometimes sparingly, sometimes in spades. Divided up by room, the book uses the color pink and its history as a starting point from which to discuss the decorating process. Readers will be entertained by Emily’s interiors insights and witty turn of phrase while gaining invaluable advice on adding pink—and color in general—to their homes.
The Antidote
Author: Shelley Sackier
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062453491
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
From the author of The Freemason’s Daughter comes a lush romantic fantasy perfect for fans of Everless! In the world of healers, there is no room for magic. Fee knows this, just as certainly as she knows that her magic must be kept secret. But the crown prince Xavi, Fee’s best friend and only source of comfort, is sick. So sick, that Fee can barely contain the magic lying dormant inside her. She could use it, just a little, to heal him. But magic comes at a deadly cost—and attracts those who would seek to snuff it out forever. A wisp of a spell later, Fee finds herself caught in a whirl of secret motivations and dark pasts, where no one is who—or what—they appear to be. And saving her best friend means delving deeper into the tempting and treacherous world whose call she’s long resisted—uncovering a secret that will change everything. Laini Taylor meets Sara Holland in this lavish fantasy from lauded historical romance author Shelley Sackier!
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062453491
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
From the author of The Freemason’s Daughter comes a lush romantic fantasy perfect for fans of Everless! In the world of healers, there is no room for magic. Fee knows this, just as certainly as she knows that her magic must be kept secret. But the crown prince Xavi, Fee’s best friend and only source of comfort, is sick. So sick, that Fee can barely contain the magic lying dormant inside her. She could use it, just a little, to heal him. But magic comes at a deadly cost—and attracts those who would seek to snuff it out forever. A wisp of a spell later, Fee finds herself caught in a whirl of secret motivations and dark pasts, where no one is who—or what—they appear to be. And saving her best friend means delving deeper into the tempting and treacherous world whose call she’s long resisted—uncovering a secret that will change everything. Laini Taylor meets Sara Holland in this lavish fantasy from lauded historical romance author Shelley Sackier!
Strength to Love
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807051977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression. As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most well known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release. Strength to Love includes these classic sermons selected by Dr. King. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807051977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression. As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most well known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release. Strength to Love includes these classic sermons selected by Dr. King. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
How to Worry Less About Money
Author: John Armstrong
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447213076
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime, yet traditionally books on the subject tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. John Armstrong turns these approaches upside down, and looks not at money itself, but at how we relate to it and the meaning we attach to it. How does it drive us and frighten us? Can it change the world for the better? And how much do we actually need? Offering surprising and helpful new insights, this book will encourage you to redefine your feelings about money, and ultimately enable you to discover what is really important to you in life. One in the new series of books from The School of Life, launched May 2012: How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric How to Worry Less About Money by John Armstrong How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447213076
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime, yet traditionally books on the subject tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. John Armstrong turns these approaches upside down, and looks not at money itself, but at how we relate to it and the meaning we attach to it. How does it drive us and frighten us? Can it change the world for the better? And how much do we actually need? Offering surprising and helpful new insights, this book will encourage you to redefine your feelings about money, and ultimately enable you to discover what is really important to you in life. One in the new series of books from The School of Life, launched May 2012: How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric How to Worry Less About Money by John Armstrong How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton