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Author : Carolyn Parker
Publisher : Rock Point Gift & Stationery
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781631063800
Hedgehog Wisdom features charming photographs of hedgehogs in fun and seasonal settings, who also promote good thoughts and good vibes with their quotes.
Author : Sarah Sands
Publisher : New River
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781915780034
A beautifully written story about the end of life, in which hedgehogs become a metaphor for hope It is the Winter Solstice and Sarah Sands is sitting by her father's bedside, bracing herself for loss. What her father needs to do, she thinks, is conserve his energy - to hibernate like a hedgehog. When the hedgehog curls up in its bed of leaves, its heart rate slows, its body temperature drops and for months there it remains, hardly breathing at all. A few days earlier, Sarah and her grandson had found a poorly hedgehog in the garden and taken it to the local hedgehog sanctuary. They named her Peggy, and her fate had become a matter of pressing concern. When death looms, it's easier to talk about hedgehogs. There is something about these homely and yet mysterious creatures - prickly and defenceless, wild and tame - that, as Ted Hughes put it, makes us feel deeply sympathetic towards them. Hedgehogs have captured the imagination of poets and philosophers for centuries. They have managed to outlive roads, dogs, strimmers and pesticides, but now they are an endangered species. For Sarah Sands, our failure to protect them is a symptom of our alienation from the living world. But all is not yet lost. In this charming, idiosyncratic book, she explores the meaning and morals of hedgehogs, and finds, in hedgehog world, a source of deep solace and wisdom.
Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197514061
In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live. Wisdom includes basic assumptions about the concrete and constantly changing conditions of life; reflective understanding of how we can rely on reason to evaluate the possibilities open to us and recognize the limits we have no choice but to accept; and it includes depth that enables us to accept that perennial problems are part of the human condition and yet to restrain our false hopes and disenchanted reactions to the vicissitudes of life. The evaluative attitude of wisdom is personal, not theoretical; anthropocentric, not metaphysical; context-dependent, not universal; and humanistic, not scientific. It recognizes that there are many forms of worthwhile lives, and denies that there is one ideal of The Good that everyone should try to approximate. It accepts that all of our beliefs, emotions, and desires are fallible, yet they are correctable provided we are sufficiently critical of them. The resulting conception of wisdom is intended as a contribution to philosophy as a humanistic discipline. It is a radical departure from traditional ways of thinking about wisdom.
Author : unknown
Publisher : Vladimir Djambov
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Alexandra Amor
Publisher : Fat Head Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781988924328
The answers to healing your overeating habit have been within you all along. In fact, you might be surprised to learn that the drive you feel to overeat is actually your body’s way of trying to get your attention and let you know you are now, and always have been, entirely whole. (Surprise!) There is a revolution happening in our psychological awareness about how being human works. This new understanding points us away from focusing on what we believe is wrong with us and instead reminds us that we always have all that we need. It flips the way we think about ourselves and our lives on its head. Seeing life this way has the power to reverse our overeating habit and bring us the sense of peace we’ve been seeking via diets and weight loss. For 30+ years author Alexandra Amor read every self-help book and followed every different kind of diet plan she could find, only to fail, again and again. But in 2017 when she began to learn about the misunderstandings we hold about why we feel the drive to overeat, everything changed. In this intimate and compassionate book, Alexandra shares everything she’s learned about a new psychological paradigm that explains how by looking in a slightly different direction from the outdated will-power and deprivation model we can find lasting freedom from our overeating habits. It turns out that if, like Alexandra, you’ve tried everything to eliminate your drive to overeat and nothing has worked, you aren’t the problem. The problem is we’ve been looking in the wrong place for answers.
Author : Roberta De Monticelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030739836
This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology). By drawing on everyday experience, and dissociating the notion of value from that of tradition, it shows how emotional sensibility can be integrated to practical reason. This project was prompted by the persuasion that the fragility of democracy, and the current public irrelevance of the ideal principles which support it, largely depend on the inability of modern philosophy to overcome the well-entrenched skepticism about the power of practical reason. The book begins with a phenomenology of cynical consciousness, continues with a survey of still influential theories of value rooted in 20th century philosophy, and finally offers an outline of a bottom-up axiology that revives the anti-skeptical legacy of phenomenology, without ignoring the standards set by contemporary metaethics.
Author : Tomasz Zaleskiewicz,Jakub Traczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030455002
This book reviews the latest research from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics evaluating how people make financial choices in real-life circumstances. The volume is divided into three sections investigating financial decision making at the level of the brain, the level of an individual decision maker, and the level of the society, concluding with a discussion of the implications for further research. Among the topics discussed: Neural and hormonal bases of financial decision making Personality, cognitive abilities, emotions, and financial decisions Aging and financial decision making Coping methods for making financial choices under uncertainty Stock market crashes and market bubbles Psychological perspectives on borrowing, paying taxes, gambling, and charitable giving Psychological Perspectives on Financial Decision Making is a useful reference for researchers both in and outside of psychology, including decision-making experts, consumer psychologists, and behavioral economists.
Author : Hugh Warwick
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780233154
From the Romans who viewed the hedgehog as a weather prophet to modern gardeners who depend on the creature to keep gardens pest-free, the small, spiny animal has had a close connection with humans since the dawn of civilization. A creature of fascination, endearment, and cultural significance, it is one of the few wild animals that people can approach without the fear of attack or it running away. Exploring how this and other characteristics of the hedgehog have propelled it to become one of people’s favorite animals, this book examines the natural and cultural history of these symbolic creatures. Following the hedgehog as it spreads through Europe and Asia to the foot of Africa, Hugh Warwick describes its evolution, behavior, habitat, and diet, as well as its current endangered status. He also looks at the animal’s appeal, accessibility, and status as a pet in many countries, considering its appearance in advertising, films, children’s books, and games. Casting new light on the ancestors of Sonic and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Hedgehog is a fascinating look at these prickly, admirable animals.
Author : Sian Lewis,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351782494
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.
Author : Andrew McFadzean
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527513815
This book centres around the reinvention of the traditional roles of librarian and archivist in the digital age, exploring their position as memory makers and curators. The author details the skillsets and methods available to them for the purpose of identifying, collecting, selecting, refining, reducing and summarising a flood of data into useful business information through the eSARS process. Then, the author describes the skills and concepts used by recordkeepers when dealing with the curated information so that only valued business information is selected, registered, protected and accessed. Acknowledging the influence of our current climate crisis, the book details the evolution from paper-based corporate knowledge to digital-human collective intelligence. This book relies heavily on the systems analysis concepts of recordkeeping informatics such as information culture, the records continuum, metadata, business processes and access. This book combines the artistic science of curation with the science of digital recordkeeping to assume control over information in the Digital Memory Age.
Author : Paul Scheerbart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226203140
German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker in his own time, he is now experiencing a revival thanks to a new generation of scholars who are rightfully situating him in the modernist pantheon. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is the first collection of Scheerbart’s multifarious writings to be published in English. In addition to a selection of his fantastical short stories, it includes the influential architectural manifesto Glass Architecture and his literary tour-de-force Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention. The latter, written in the guise of a scientific work (complete with technical diagrams), was taken as such when first published but in reality is a fiction—albeit one with an important message. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is richly illustrated with period material, much of it never before reproduced, including a selection of artwork by Paul Scheerbart himself. Accompanying this original material is a selection of essays by scholars, novelists, and filmmakers commissioned for this publication to illuminate Scheerbart’s importance, then and now, in the worlds of art, architecture, and culture. Coedited by artist Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin, with new artwork created for this publication by McElheny, Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! is a long-overdue monument to a modern master.
Author : 김동현, 황선용
Publisher : Darakwon
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788927766346
올리고 수능영어 독해 미니모의고사 <실력>은 수능영어 독해 28 문항 중 킬러 문항이라 불리는 변별력 높은 어려운 문항을 추려 구성한 모의고사 교재입니다. 한 회에 8문항으로 구성되어 있어 가볍고 빠르게 풀어볼 수 있으며, 킬러 문항은 아니지만 간간히 3점으로 배점되어 출제되는 다른 유형들에도 골고루 대비할 수 있도록 각 회당 1~2문항 씩 적절히 배치하여 구성했습니다. 모의고사 한 회가 끝난 후, 꼭 알아두어야 하는 필수 어휘와 숙어를 복습할 수 있도록 지문 내에 쓰였던 어휘를 추려 정리하였습니다. 구성 및 특징 (1) 킬러 유형 미니모의고사13회 실제 수능영어 독해에서 주로 3점으로 배점되는 고난이도 킬러 유형의 문항들로 구성하였습니다. (2) 고난도 미니모의고사 2회 13회분의 미니모의고사보다 난이도를 좀더 높인 문제들을 풀어보면서 실제 수능에 대한 감을 익힐 수 있습니다. (3) Vocabulary Review 각 회마다 꼭 알아두어야 할 어휘를 추려 문제로 구성하였습니다. 지문에 나왔던 문장을 문제로 풀어봄으로써 보다 확실하게 어휘의 의미를 복습할 수 있습니다. (4) 자세하고 꼼꼼한 정답 및 해설 ① 각 지문의 끊어 읽기와 전문해석을 한 눈에 보기 좋게 구성하고, 주제문 및 문제 해결에 단서가 되는 부분에 음영표시하였습니다. ② 매력적 오답을 수록하여 왜 정답이 될 수 없는지 논리적 근거를 제시했습니다. ③ 어휘 개념 쌓기는 어휘의 개념 풀이 및 배경지식을 제공하여 지문을 좀더 잘 이해할 수 있도록 도움을 줍니다. ④ 복잡하고 어려운 구문을 선별하여 구문풀이를 수록했습니다. <목차> 01회~13회 미니 모의고사 14회~15회 고난도 미니 모의고사 <정답 및 해설: 책 속의 책> <온라인 학습자료> www.darakwon.co.kr 어휘리스트 / 어휘테스트 / 어휘 문제출제 프로그램
Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351303347
Consciousness, declares Robin Fox, is "out of context." Useful as an adaptation in the Stone Age, it brought humanity to the top of the food chain but has now created a world it cannot control. The Passionate Mind explores this paradox not through academic demonstration but through satiric dialogues, blank-verse ruminations, lyric, narrative and comic verse, and Aesopian fables. This mix of genres and styles forces us out of our usual linear modes of thinking to confront a harsh thesis. Because of consciousness we cannot operate without ideas, but once in thrall to ideas--whether of love, power, religion, or ideology--we cannot operate without destructiveness lest we become imprisoned by them. The range of subjects and genres Fox covers includes a verse summary of the key points of human evolution, a conference of farm animals ruminating on their social problems, visions of a desperate future from a neolithic hunter and a shaman at Lascaux, Kafkaesque trial scenes, and a new version of "God is dead." George Washington, having lost at Yorktown is put on trial with Adams, Jefferson, and Benedict Arnold giving evidence. Through the persona of Humbert Humbert as decadent Europe, the new world of Lolita/America is faced with the consequences of its pursuit of happiness. Scandinavian utopianism and salvation through romantic eros get their turn, and the basic "design failure" of humanity is examined in a Platonic dialogue. A bullfight and the struggle for existence in New Jersey farming lead up to a monologue from a decidedly unlikely Jesus who turns out to be part of an alien plan to control an otherwise out of control human race. Through this kaleidoscopic mix, Fox mounts a case for a thorough revision of consciousness that breaks "realistic" boundaries between science, the humanities, religion, and myth.
Author : David L. Goicoechea
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781630878870
Goicoechea presents his third volume in a series on agape. In this book he shows in four ways how the agape of Jesus fulfills the ahava and hesed of the Hebrew Bible. First, he shows existentially how he learned and lived this for six years in a Benedictine Minor Seminary and then for three years in a Sulpician Major Seminary. Second, he demonstrates how ahava or our love for God and neighbor and hesed or God's love for us develop through the Hebrew Bible. Goicoechea argues that St. Matthew's Gospel explains the fulfilment of ahava and hesed with Jesus' agape. He concludes by drawing attention to how Levinas and Derrida, two Jewish postmodern philosophers, treat Jewish and Christian love.
Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760463700
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.