Author: Kennedy Amadu
Publisher: KENNEDY AMADU
ISBN: 1716618096
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
As a fitness trainer, I have seen and heard a lot of BS and myths about weight loss first hand from many fitness trainers and clients. I have also acknowledged that weight loss has been sort of mystified or over-complicated, leading most people left to lean on some expensive weight loss program. Then there are also those old debunked weight loss strategies still circulating around, what most of them will just put you through a series of "torture", and even if you lose some of the weight, you can easily regain the weight back just as quickly. This book was mainly written with the reader considered a student on the topic of healthy dieting and exercising for weight loss rather than a mere follower of another weight loss program, it explains all the basics a beginner would need to start and maintain a weight loss plan with or without an instructor. Intermediate and advanced trainees can also benefit from the vast information in the book or they may find a different possibly better way of burning fat and staying healthy In this book, you will find some of the best ways to quickly shed a lot of fat with nutrition and a moderate amount of exercise whiles improving your health. I provide some realistic hacks to dieting for fat loss without counting calories. You will also find a daily sample meal options to show you some very common healthy food options to adopt over some unhealthy common food choices If your current exercise is not making much of a change, you will need a secret I share in this book about using non-exercise physical activity (Hint: not exercise) to burn more fat than you can ever burn with traditional exercise alone. This book also provides Simple and clear explanations of some important weight loss terms that will definitely help you. No-nonsense guides to help you to change eating habits in a healthy way. SOME TOPICS IN THIS BOOK includes You Are What You Eat The Fundamentals Importance Of Nutrition For Dieting Delicious Food You Should Avoid How to do it Nutritious Food You Should Eat More Cutting Calories Right And Truths Behind Dieting Myths Do Supplements Work? Accelerate Your Progress With Physical Activities Your body is your image and your servant, when you give it the right treatment it will also give you the best confidence and serve you the best way possible.
The Good The Bad and The Healthy
Author: Kennedy Amadu
Publisher: KENNEDY AMADU
ISBN: 1716618096
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
As a fitness trainer, I have seen and heard a lot of BS and myths about weight loss first hand from many fitness trainers and clients. I have also acknowledged that weight loss has been sort of mystified or over-complicated, leading most people left to lean on some expensive weight loss program. Then there are also those old debunked weight loss strategies still circulating around, what most of them will just put you through a series of "torture", and even if you lose some of the weight, you can easily regain the weight back just as quickly. This book was mainly written with the reader considered a student on the topic of healthy dieting and exercising for weight loss rather than a mere follower of another weight loss program, it explains all the basics a beginner would need to start and maintain a weight loss plan with or without an instructor. Intermediate and advanced trainees can also benefit from the vast information in the book or they may find a different possibly better way of burning fat and staying healthy In this book, you will find some of the best ways to quickly shed a lot of fat with nutrition and a moderate amount of exercise whiles improving your health. I provide some realistic hacks to dieting for fat loss without counting calories. You will also find a daily sample meal options to show you some very common healthy food options to adopt over some unhealthy common food choices If your current exercise is not making much of a change, you will need a secret I share in this book about using non-exercise physical activity (Hint: not exercise) to burn more fat than you can ever burn with traditional exercise alone. This book also provides Simple and clear explanations of some important weight loss terms that will definitely help you. No-nonsense guides to help you to change eating habits in a healthy way. SOME TOPICS IN THIS BOOK includes You Are What You Eat The Fundamentals Importance Of Nutrition For Dieting Delicious Food You Should Avoid How to do it Nutritious Food You Should Eat More Cutting Calories Right And Truths Behind Dieting Myths Do Supplements Work? Accelerate Your Progress With Physical Activities Your body is your image and your servant, when you give it the right treatment it will also give you the best confidence and serve you the best way possible.
Publisher: KENNEDY AMADU
ISBN: 1716618096
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
As a fitness trainer, I have seen and heard a lot of BS and myths about weight loss first hand from many fitness trainers and clients. I have also acknowledged that weight loss has been sort of mystified or over-complicated, leading most people left to lean on some expensive weight loss program. Then there are also those old debunked weight loss strategies still circulating around, what most of them will just put you through a series of "torture", and even if you lose some of the weight, you can easily regain the weight back just as quickly. This book was mainly written with the reader considered a student on the topic of healthy dieting and exercising for weight loss rather than a mere follower of another weight loss program, it explains all the basics a beginner would need to start and maintain a weight loss plan with or without an instructor. Intermediate and advanced trainees can also benefit from the vast information in the book or they may find a different possibly better way of burning fat and staying healthy In this book, you will find some of the best ways to quickly shed a lot of fat with nutrition and a moderate amount of exercise whiles improving your health. I provide some realistic hacks to dieting for fat loss without counting calories. You will also find a daily sample meal options to show you some very common healthy food options to adopt over some unhealthy common food choices If your current exercise is not making much of a change, you will need a secret I share in this book about using non-exercise physical activity (Hint: not exercise) to burn more fat than you can ever burn with traditional exercise alone. This book also provides Simple and clear explanations of some important weight loss terms that will definitely help you. No-nonsense guides to help you to change eating habits in a healthy way. SOME TOPICS IN THIS BOOK includes You Are What You Eat The Fundamentals Importance Of Nutrition For Dieting Delicious Food You Should Avoid How to do it Nutritious Food You Should Eat More Cutting Calories Right And Truths Behind Dieting Myths Do Supplements Work? Accelerate Your Progress With Physical Activities Your body is your image and your servant, when you give it the right treatment it will also give you the best confidence and serve you the best way possible.
Health and Social Relationships
Author: Matthew L. Newman
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN: 9781433812224
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Our relationships with other people are complex, but they matter a great deal. In this edited volume, we review recent perspectives on the connections between social relationships and physical and mental health. Although the potential for psychological events and emotions to affect health is no longer novel, our understanding of their intricacies--from physiological processes to cultural mechanisms--is constantly evolving. The individual chapters in this book explore the myriad connections between stress and illness and how these connections are shaped by the quality of our relationships with other people. Relationships, as examined in this volume, span the full continuum--from social support to social isolation--as do their benefits and costs. Throughout the volume, we emphasize two key themes. First, for all the reasons mentioned previously, the chapters emphasize the fact that relationships matter. The quality and quantity of our connections with other people predict outcomes ranging from happiness to heart disease, from adjustment to maladjustment, and from mortality to longevity. The chapters in this volume are designed to explore the scope of and the mechanisms for these associations, as well as their implications for improving both health and relationships. Second, the chapters emphasize the fact that perceptions matter. One of the most robust conclusions from the stress literature (if not all psychological literature) is that people's perceptions are dramatic and important moderators of emotional, behavioral, and physiological responses. Both actual support (e.g., Cohen, 2004) and perceived support (e.g., Lakey & Cassady, 1990) are predictive of better health; both physical isolation (e.g., Berkman & Syme, 1979) and perceived loneliness (e.g., Hawkley et al., 2003) are predictive of poorer health. A host of individual differences likewise moderate the impact of social threat, caregiver stress, romantic loss, and exposure to risky families. Each of the chapters in this volume highlights the importance of perceptions and individual differences and examines the reasons that these play such an important role. The chapters discuss a number of related constructs under the general umbrella of health, including physical and mental health outcomes, as well as the emotional and physiological mechanisms that may act as precursors to these outcomes. In many cases, these chapters examine moderators of the link between health and relationships--for example, the impact of a romantic loss depends in part on the personality and gender of the person experiencing the loss. In other cases, where the mechanisms are understood, the chapters focus on mediators of the link between health and relationships--for example, physical affection appears to be the mediating mechanism for the health benefits of marriage. The topic of health and social relationships spans multiple perspectives within psychology and related fields, and we have attempted to capture this diversity in this volume. Although the primary intended audience is academic psychologists, we believe that many of the chapters will be of interest to health care professionals and therapists who focus on relationship issues. We also anticipate this volume can be an excellent companion to graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on the topics of stress, health, emotion, and relationships"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN: 9781433812224
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Our relationships with other people are complex, but they matter a great deal. In this edited volume, we review recent perspectives on the connections between social relationships and physical and mental health. Although the potential for psychological events and emotions to affect health is no longer novel, our understanding of their intricacies--from physiological processes to cultural mechanisms--is constantly evolving. The individual chapters in this book explore the myriad connections between stress and illness and how these connections are shaped by the quality of our relationships with other people. Relationships, as examined in this volume, span the full continuum--from social support to social isolation--as do their benefits and costs. Throughout the volume, we emphasize two key themes. First, for all the reasons mentioned previously, the chapters emphasize the fact that relationships matter. The quality and quantity of our connections with other people predict outcomes ranging from happiness to heart disease, from adjustment to maladjustment, and from mortality to longevity. The chapters in this volume are designed to explore the scope of and the mechanisms for these associations, as well as their implications for improving both health and relationships. Second, the chapters emphasize the fact that perceptions matter. One of the most robust conclusions from the stress literature (if not all psychological literature) is that people's perceptions are dramatic and important moderators of emotional, behavioral, and physiological responses. Both actual support (e.g., Cohen, 2004) and perceived support (e.g., Lakey & Cassady, 1990) are predictive of better health; both physical isolation (e.g., Berkman & Syme, 1979) and perceived loneliness (e.g., Hawkley et al., 2003) are predictive of poorer health. A host of individual differences likewise moderate the impact of social threat, caregiver stress, romantic loss, and exposure to risky families. Each of the chapters in this volume highlights the importance of perceptions and individual differences and examines the reasons that these play such an important role. The chapters discuss a number of related constructs under the general umbrella of health, including physical and mental health outcomes, as well as the emotional and physiological mechanisms that may act as precursors to these outcomes. In many cases, these chapters examine moderators of the link between health and relationships--for example, the impact of a romantic loss depends in part on the personality and gender of the person experiencing the loss. In other cases, where the mechanisms are understood, the chapters focus on mediators of the link between health and relationships--for example, physical affection appears to be the mediating mechanism for the health benefits of marriage. The topic of health and social relationships spans multiple perspectives within psychology and related fields, and we have attempted to capture this diversity in this volume. Although the primary intended audience is academic psychologists, we believe that many of the chapters will be of interest to health care professionals and therapists who focus on relationship issues. We also anticipate this volume can be an excellent companion to graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on the topics of stress, health, emotion, and relationships"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Wellness the Good the Bad and the Opportunity
Author: Ronald C. Stoll
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479716448
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Americas greatest days lie ahead if we set a course now that embraces holistic wellness. Wellness: the Good, the Bad, and the Opportunity explores wellness from the employers view, the employees vantage, the perspective of health care providers, and the insurance companys position. All these elements are required to be in alignment if real wellness is to be achieved. The benefits of wellness will be realized in higher quality, lower cost, competitive health care; an informed health care consumer with alternative options readily available; appropriate health insurance costs and plan designs; an engaged workforce; employer control of health care costs; America returning to economic dominance.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479716448
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Americas greatest days lie ahead if we set a course now that embraces holistic wellness. Wellness: the Good, the Bad, and the Opportunity explores wellness from the employers view, the employees vantage, the perspective of health care providers, and the insurance companys position. All these elements are required to be in alignment if real wellness is to be achieved. The benefits of wellness will be realized in higher quality, lower cost, competitive health care; an informed health care consumer with alternative options readily available; appropriate health insurance costs and plan designs; an engaged workforce; employer control of health care costs; America returning to economic dominance.
The Good, the Bad, and the Heavy
Author: Chris Harrison
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525589067
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
For a relatively new sport, competitive bodybuilding has quickly been given a tarnished reputation. From extreme dieting to steroid abuse, the general population’s perspective on the fitness industry and competitive bodybuilding can be judgmental and misinformed. Get an insider’s look into what makes competitive bodybuilding a positive and disciplined lifestyle choice. Learn the truth about the myths and misconceptions that surround this sport and the fitness industry. And finally, discover how having a solid team of support makes the experience of training and competing worth all the effort, win or lose.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525589067
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
For a relatively new sport, competitive bodybuilding has quickly been given a tarnished reputation. From extreme dieting to steroid abuse, the general population’s perspective on the fitness industry and competitive bodybuilding can be judgmental and misinformed. Get an insider’s look into what makes competitive bodybuilding a positive and disciplined lifestyle choice. Learn the truth about the myths and misconceptions that surround this sport and the fitness industry. And finally, discover how having a solid team of support makes the experience of training and competing worth all the effort, win or lose.
The Good, the Bad, and the Just
Author: Riël Vermunt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029976
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Drawing on multidisciplinary findings and ideas, this book discusses fair allocation of social resources, such as goods, services and information, in a novel and integrated way. The role of the essential features of allocation behavior: motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as morality and reactions to perceived unfairness are examined in the newly developed Justice Model. The author offers explanations as to why, how and to what extent, people, in an effort to attain justice, allocate social resources between self and others and among others. It is held that the allocation event, featuring actor, recipient and observer, as well as the resources to be allocated by an actor, can function as a guideline for the essentials of fair behavior. The work explores the conditions under which an actor may deviate from a just division of social resources thus instigating a reaction from recipients and observers. The study covers various levels of analysis ranging from the intra-personal to the societal. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of crime, law, justice, public policy and governance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029976
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Drawing on multidisciplinary findings and ideas, this book discusses fair allocation of social resources, such as goods, services and information, in a novel and integrated way. The role of the essential features of allocation behavior: motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as morality and reactions to perceived unfairness are examined in the newly developed Justice Model. The author offers explanations as to why, how and to what extent, people, in an effort to attain justice, allocate social resources between self and others and among others. It is held that the allocation event, featuring actor, recipient and observer, as well as the resources to be allocated by an actor, can function as a guideline for the essentials of fair behavior. The work explores the conditions under which an actor may deviate from a just division of social resources thus instigating a reaction from recipients and observers. The study covers various levels of analysis ranging from the intra-personal to the societal. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of crime, law, justice, public policy and governance.
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Author: Wright Doyle
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
ISBN: 1611532922
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Obstacles and challenges are a normal part of married life. Here’s how you get through them. This book will lead you to understand what happens when two people tie the proverbial knot. The trials and obstacles that inevitably follow are nothing unusual—how they are handled is what helps distinguish a successful marriage from an unsuccessful one. Specific advice about handling finances, keeping house, sexual relations, bringing up children, and other very important matters will not be found here. Instead, The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful focuses on the relationship between husband and wife, for from this flows the motivation, energy, and wisdom to deal with the problems and challenges facing married couples. Unless you make this relationship your main concern, all your efforts in other areas of married life will be out of balance and ultimately unsuccessful. If you are seeking a successful and fulfilling marriage, or the restoration of a failing one, you will find meaning and hope in the joys of learning and practicing God's blessed plan for husband and wife.
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
ISBN: 1611532922
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Obstacles and challenges are a normal part of married life. Here’s how you get through them. This book will lead you to understand what happens when two people tie the proverbial knot. The trials and obstacles that inevitably follow are nothing unusual—how they are handled is what helps distinguish a successful marriage from an unsuccessful one. Specific advice about handling finances, keeping house, sexual relations, bringing up children, and other very important matters will not be found here. Instead, The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful focuses on the relationship between husband and wife, for from this flows the motivation, energy, and wisdom to deal with the problems and challenges facing married couples. Unless you make this relationship your main concern, all your efforts in other areas of married life will be out of balance and ultimately unsuccessful. If you are seeking a successful and fulfilling marriage, or the restoration of a failing one, you will find meaning and hope in the joys of learning and practicing God's blessed plan for husband and wife.
Management and Marketing for Improved Competitiveness and Performance in the Healthcare Sector
Author: Santos, José Duarte
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799872645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The healthcare sector has never been under as much pressure as it is today. This pressure has motivated organizations to reinvent themselves, forcing management and marketing to take a more active role. Due to this reinvention, organizations must incorporate a stronger culture of management and marketing orientation that allows companies to define their course, optimize their resources, communicate with their stakeholders more efficiently, and encourage customers to become more involved with the company. This need is particularly urgent in the healthcare sector, as its weight in the economy has grown recently and it must prepare for economic recovery. Management and Marketing for Improved Competitiveness and Performance in the Healthcare Sector provides knowledge and skills to apply management and marketing on strategic, tactical, and operational aspects with an emphasis on the healthcare industry. Various aspects of management and marketing, such as operations management, quality management, human resources, brand management, and digital marketing, are discussed. The book is ideal for management and marketing academics, their students (undergraduate/graduate programs), researchers, managers, advertisers, healthcare organizations, hospital boards, pharmaceutical representatives, and marketers who need to optimize the potential of management marketing applied in the healthcare industry.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799872645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The healthcare sector has never been under as much pressure as it is today. This pressure has motivated organizations to reinvent themselves, forcing management and marketing to take a more active role. Due to this reinvention, organizations must incorporate a stronger culture of management and marketing orientation that allows companies to define their course, optimize their resources, communicate with their stakeholders more efficiently, and encourage customers to become more involved with the company. This need is particularly urgent in the healthcare sector, as its weight in the economy has grown recently and it must prepare for economic recovery. Management and Marketing for Improved Competitiveness and Performance in the Healthcare Sector provides knowledge and skills to apply management and marketing on strategic, tactical, and operational aspects with an emphasis on the healthcare industry. Various aspects of management and marketing, such as operations management, quality management, human resources, brand management, and digital marketing, are discussed. The book is ideal for management and marketing academics, their students (undergraduate/graduate programs), researchers, managers, advertisers, healthcare organizations, hospital boards, pharmaceutical representatives, and marketers who need to optimize the potential of management marketing applied in the healthcare industry.
How to Hold a Grudge
Author: Sophie Hannah
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111437
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE “A cheerful, mischievous rebuke to all that spiritual sincerity and floaty nonattachment and sugary loving kindness” (The Wall Street Journal), this first and only comprehensive examination of the universal, but widely misunderstood, practice of grudge-holding will show you how to use grudges to be your happiest, most optimistic, and most forgiving self. Secretly, we all hold grudges, but most of us probably think we shouldn’t, and many of us deny that we do. To bear a grudge is too negative, right? Shouldn’t we just forgive and move on? Wrong, says prolific crime novelist and self-appointed grudge guru Sophie Hannah, in her groundbreaking and irreverent self-help guide. Yes, it’s essential to think positively if we want to live happy lives, but even more crucial is how we get to the positive. Denying our negative emotions and experiences is likely to lead only to more pain, conflict, and stress. What if our grudges are good for us? What if we could embrace them, and use them to help ourselves and others, instead of feeling ashamed of our inability to banish negative emotions and memories from our lives? With contributions from expert psychotherapists as well as extracts from her own extensive catalog of grudges, Sophie Hannah investigates the psychological origins of grudges and also offers not-so-obvious insights into how we should acknowledge—and embrace—them in order to improve the quality of our interpersonal relationships and senses of self. Grudges do not have to fill us with hate or make us toxic, bitter, and miserable. If we approach the practice of grudge-holding in an enlightened way, it will do the opposite—we will become more forgiving. For fans of Sophie Hannah’s bestselling crime novels who have ever wondered what is going on in her unusual, brilliant mind, How to Hold a Grudge is “a perfect document” (The New York Times) that also reveals everything we need to know about the many different forms of grudge, the difference between a grudge and not-a-grudge (not as obvious as it seems), when we should let a grudge go, and how to honor a grudge and distill lessons from it. Hannah’s practical, compassionate, and downright funny guide can turn us into better, happier people.
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111437
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE “A cheerful, mischievous rebuke to all that spiritual sincerity and floaty nonattachment and sugary loving kindness” (The Wall Street Journal), this first and only comprehensive examination of the universal, but widely misunderstood, practice of grudge-holding will show you how to use grudges to be your happiest, most optimistic, and most forgiving self. Secretly, we all hold grudges, but most of us probably think we shouldn’t, and many of us deny that we do. To bear a grudge is too negative, right? Shouldn’t we just forgive and move on? Wrong, says prolific crime novelist and self-appointed grudge guru Sophie Hannah, in her groundbreaking and irreverent self-help guide. Yes, it’s essential to think positively if we want to live happy lives, but even more crucial is how we get to the positive. Denying our negative emotions and experiences is likely to lead only to more pain, conflict, and stress. What if our grudges are good for us? What if we could embrace them, and use them to help ourselves and others, instead of feeling ashamed of our inability to banish negative emotions and memories from our lives? With contributions from expert psychotherapists as well as extracts from her own extensive catalog of grudges, Sophie Hannah investigates the psychological origins of grudges and also offers not-so-obvious insights into how we should acknowledge—and embrace—them in order to improve the quality of our interpersonal relationships and senses of self. Grudges do not have to fill us with hate or make us toxic, bitter, and miserable. If we approach the practice of grudge-holding in an enlightened way, it will do the opposite—we will become more forgiving. For fans of Sophie Hannah’s bestselling crime novels who have ever wondered what is going on in her unusual, brilliant mind, How to Hold a Grudge is “a perfect document” (The New York Times) that also reveals everything we need to know about the many different forms of grudge, the difference between a grudge and not-a-grudge (not as obvious as it seems), when we should let a grudge go, and how to honor a grudge and distill lessons from it. Hannah’s practical, compassionate, and downright funny guide can turn us into better, happier people.
The Good, the Bad, and the Economy
Author: Louis G. Putterman
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 193829601X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Despite the past century's extraordinary advances in technology and scientific knowledge, today's world is still racked by economic insecurity, vast gulfs between rich and poor, violent conflicts, and daunting environmental problems. What's stopping us from building a world in which there's less inequality and more nurturing of the individual's potential to lead a satisfying life? Does the central role of self-interest in human nature necessitate economic arrangements that condemn us to living on a treadmill of consumerism and insecurity? Will the gap between rich and poor countries ever be bridged? These are the key questions that Brown University economist Louis Putterman's "The Good, the Bad, and the Economy" addresses in surprising new ways.
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 193829601X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Despite the past century's extraordinary advances in technology and scientific knowledge, today's world is still racked by economic insecurity, vast gulfs between rich and poor, violent conflicts, and daunting environmental problems. What's stopping us from building a world in which there's less inequality and more nurturing of the individual's potential to lead a satisfying life? Does the central role of self-interest in human nature necessitate economic arrangements that condemn us to living on a treadmill of consumerism and insecurity? Will the gap between rich and poor countries ever be bridged? These are the key questions that Brown University economist Louis Putterman's "The Good, the Bad, and the Economy" addresses in surprising new ways.
The Good, the Bad & the Difference
Author: Randy Cohen
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0767908139
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The man behind the New York Times Magazine’s immensely popular column “The Ethicist”–syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as “Everyday Ethics”–casts an eye on today’s manners and mores with a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world. Every week in his column on ethics, Randy Cohen takes on conundrums presented in letters from perplexed people who want to do the right thing (or hope to get away with doing the wrong thing), and responds with a skillful blend of moral authority and humor. Cohen’s wisdom and witticisms have now been collected in The Good, the Bad & the Difference, a collection of his columns as wise and funny as a combination of “Dear Abby,” Plato, and Mel Brooks. The columns are supplemented with second thoughts on (and sometimes complete reversals of) his original replies, follow-up notes on how his advice affected the actions of various letter writers, reactions from readers both pro and con, and observations from such “guest ethicists” as David Eggers and the author’s mom. Each chapter also features an “Ethics Pop Quiz,” and readers will be invited to post their answers on the book’s Web site. The best of them will appear in a future paperback edition of the book. The Good, the Bad & the Difference is divided into seven sections: •Civic Life (what we do in public) •Family Life (what we do at home) •Social Life (what we do in other people’s homes) •Commercial Life (what we do in situations where money is a factor) •Medical Life (the rights and obligations of patients and caregivers) •Work Life (ethics for the professional sphere) •School Life (moral questions from and about kids) Each section provides a window into how we live today, shedding light on the ways in which a more ethical approach to the decisions we make, and to our daily behavior, can make a big difference in how we feel about ourselves tomorrow.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0767908139
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The man behind the New York Times Magazine’s immensely popular column “The Ethicist”–syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as “Everyday Ethics”–casts an eye on today’s manners and mores with a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world. Every week in his column on ethics, Randy Cohen takes on conundrums presented in letters from perplexed people who want to do the right thing (or hope to get away with doing the wrong thing), and responds with a skillful blend of moral authority and humor. Cohen’s wisdom and witticisms have now been collected in The Good, the Bad & the Difference, a collection of his columns as wise and funny as a combination of “Dear Abby,” Plato, and Mel Brooks. The columns are supplemented with second thoughts on (and sometimes complete reversals of) his original replies, follow-up notes on how his advice affected the actions of various letter writers, reactions from readers both pro and con, and observations from such “guest ethicists” as David Eggers and the author’s mom. Each chapter also features an “Ethics Pop Quiz,” and readers will be invited to post their answers on the book’s Web site. The best of them will appear in a future paperback edition of the book. The Good, the Bad & the Difference is divided into seven sections: •Civic Life (what we do in public) •Family Life (what we do at home) •Social Life (what we do in other people’s homes) •Commercial Life (what we do in situations where money is a factor) •Medical Life (the rights and obligations of patients and caregivers) •Work Life (ethics for the professional sphere) •School Life (moral questions from and about kids) Each section provides a window into how we live today, shedding light on the ways in which a more ethical approach to the decisions we make, and to our daily behavior, can make a big difference in how we feel about ourselves tomorrow.