On Settling

Author : Robert E. Goodin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691148458

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The hidden value of settling In a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling--and that even to strive, one must first settle. We may admire strivers and love the ideal of striving, but who of us could get through a day without settling? Real people, confronted with a complex problem, simply make do, settling for some resolution that, while almost certainly not the best that one could find by devoting limitless time and attention to the problem, is nonetheless good enough. Robert Goodin explores the dynamics of this process. These involve taking as fixed, for now, things that we reserve the right to reopen later (nothing is fixed for good, although events might always overtake us). We settle on some things in order to concentrate better on others. At the same time we realize we may need to come back later and reconsider those decisions. From settling on and settling for, to settling down and settling in, On Settling explains why settling is useful for planning, creating trust, and strengthening the social fabric--and why settling is different from compromise and resignation. So, the next time you're faced with a thorny problem, just settle. It's no failure.

Author : Robert E. Goodin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691171364

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"In a culture that worships ceaseless striving, ""settling"" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling--and that even to strive, one must first settle ..."--Book jacket flap.

Author : Lori Gottlieb
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781101185209

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Marry Him by Lori Gottlieb Pdf

An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven’t found “The One” just yet. He’ll come along someday, right? But what if he doesn’t? Or what if Mr. Right had been, well, Mr. Right in Front of You—but you passed him by? Nearing forty and still single, journalist Lori Gottlieb started to wonder: What makes for lasting romantic fulfillment, and are we looking for those qualities when we’re dating? Are we too picky about trivial things that don’t matter, and not picky enough about the often overlooked things that do? In Marry Him, Gottlieb explores an all-too-common dilemma—how to reconcile the desire for a happy marriage with a list of must-haves and deal-breakers so long and complicated that many great guys get misguidedly eliminated. On a quest to find the answer, Gottlieb sets out on her own journey in search of love, discovering wisdom and surprising insights from sociologists and neurobiologists, marital researchers and behavioral economists—as well as single and married men and women of all generations.

Author : Andrea Katherine Medovarski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487530358

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Settling Down and Settling Up by Andrea Katherine Medovarski Pdf

Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book argues that they are not always adequate frameworks through which to understand second generation children who wish to reside "in place" in the nations of their birth. Considering migration and settlement as complex, interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies, Andrea Katherine Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and Zadie Smith. Re-evaluating gender and spatial relations, Settling Down and Settling Up argues that local experiences, often conceptualized through the language of the feminine and the domestic in black women’s writings, are no less important than travel and border crossings.

Author : Nicole Neatby,Peter Hodgins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442699700

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Settling and Unsettling Memories by Nicole Neatby,Peter Hodgins Pdf

Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field. With increasing debates surrounding how societies should publicly commemorate events and people, Settling and Unsettling Memories helps readers appreciate the challenges inherent in presenting the past. Prominent and emerging scholars explore the ways in which Canadian memory has been put into action across a variety of communities, regions, and time periods. Through high-quality essays touching on the central questions of historical consciousness and collective memory, this collection makes a significant contribution to a rapidly growing field.

Author : Thomas Heller,Alicia Seiger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030836504

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Settling Climate Accounts by Thomas Heller,Alicia Seiger Pdf

As drivers of climate action enter the fourth decade of what has become a multi-stage race, Net Zero has emerged as the dominant organizing principle. Hundreds of corporations and investors worldwide, together responsible for assets in the tens of trillions of dollars, are lining-up for the UN Race to Zero. This latest stage in the race to save civilization from heat, drought, fires, and floods, is defined by steering toward zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Settling Climate Accounts probes the practice of Net Zero finance. It elucidates both the state of play and a set of directions that help form judgements about whether Net Zero is going to carry climate action far enough. The book delves into technical analyses and activates the reader’s imagination with narrative accounts of climate action past, present, and future. Settling Climate Accounts is edited and authored by Stanford University faculty and researchers. The first part of the book investigates the rough edges of Net Zero in practice, exploring questions of hedging risk, Scope 3 emissions, greenwashing, and the business of asset management. The second half looks at states, markets, and transitions through the lenses of blended finance, offsets, debt, and securitization. The editors tease out possible solutions and raise further questions about the adequacy and reach of the Net Zero agenda. To effectively navigate the road ahead, the editors call out the need for accountability and ask: who is in charge of making Net Zero add up? Settling Climate Accounts offers context and foundation to ground the rapidly evolving practice of Net Zero finance. Targeted at seasoned practitioners, newly activated leaders, educators, and students of climate action the world over, this book embraces the complexity of climate action and, in so doing, proposes to animate and drive hope.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826490913

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News from Somewhere by Roger Scruton Pdf

Talks about the country dweller, who sees his or her world eroded by the wishy-washy liberal commands of Blairite do-gooders, who sit in North West London pontificating about the needs of country people. This book also deals with the devastations of the foot and mouth crisis that showed how the great divide between town and country dwellers.

Author : Mary Logue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0922811334

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Settling by Mary Logue Pdf

Mary Logue writes mysteries and memoir as well as poetry, always searching for the lessons in loss. And she offers to her readers-in a direct and eloquent style-what she has learned. A gifted storyteller, her attention is often focused on the beauty abiding within ambiguity. In her second collection of poems, Logue investigates the world close to home-the relationships between sister and sister, parent and child, lover and beloved, woman and nature, heart and mind. Logue's first collection, Discriminating Evidence, won the 1990 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Book jacket.

Author : Maggie McReynolds
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781683507420

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Un-Settling by Maggie McReynolds Pdf

Learn to create the post-divorce life you want—for you and your kids—with this personal and practical guide to never settling for less. Being a divorced parent is never easy, but it is one of the richest opportunities you’ll ever have to make bold, life-changing choices about who you are, how you raise your kids, and what kind of example you want to model for them. In Un-Settling, life coach and divorced mom Maggie McReynolds helps you identify where you’ve settled for less, how to stop, and how to get more out of life for you and your children. With the wisdom of personal experience, Maggie shares advice on how to: * Get past guilt, get over grudges, and get rid of the emotional yuck that’s holding you back * Find the balance between being your kid’s best friend and your home’s sole disciplinarian * Establish healthy boundaries and reliable lines of communication with your ex * Leverage the life hacks and secrets of divorced moms who play life on a big scale * And much more!

Author : David Monod
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876442

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Settling Scores by David Monod Pdf

Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and as evidence of Aryan superiority. In the minds of many Americans, further German aggression could be prevented only if the population's faith in its moral and cultural superiority was shattered. In Settling Scores, David Monod examines the attempted "denazification" of the German music world by the Music Control Branch of the Information Control Division of Military Government. The occupying American forces barred from the stage and concert hall all former Nazi Party members and even anyone deemed to display an "authoritarian personality." They also imported European and American music. These actions, however, divided American officials and outraged German audiences and performers. Nonetheless, the long-term effects were greater than has been previously recognized, as German government officials regained local control and voluntarily limited their involvement in artistic life while promoting "new" (anti-Nazi) music.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433020562603

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Annual Report of the President and Board of Directors of the Corn and Flour Exchange of the City of Baltimore ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven C. Dinero
Publisher : Space and Place
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Bedouins
ISBN : 180073736X

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Settling for Less by Steven C. Dinero Pdf

The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over the past sixty to seventy years have served the needs and interests of the State rather than those of Bedouin community at large. While town living fostered improvements in social and economic development, numerous unintended consequences jeopardized the success of this planning initiative. As a result, the Bedouin community endured excessive hardship and rapid change, abandoning its nomadic lifestyle and traditions in response to the economic, political, and social pressure from the State--and received very little in return.

Author : Marilee Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1554518091

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Making It Right by Marilee Peters Pdf

What if there were no prisons? Alternative approaches to dealing with crime are underway around the world to explore how victims, offenders, and communities can heal rifts and repair damage. It s often called restorative justice. It s a way to think about the deeper reasons behind crimes, and suggests that by building more caring communities, it s possible to change our societiesand ourselves. Making It Right relates true stories of young people who are working in innovative ways to further peaceful resolution of conflict and to heal past wounds. The book begins with individual injustices, such as bullying, and works up to collective ones, like wars. Each chapter begins with a dramatic fictional account, making the topic engaging and relevant for kids. Restorative justice isn t going to change the world overnight, nor will it end all crime or prevent all wars. But it s a powerful way to get teens thinking about how they can participate in building a more peaceful society. "

Author : Karen M. de Vries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464280220

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Settling with the Norm? by Karen M. de Vries Pdf

A study into the social meaning of norm and variation in housebuilding, general, and special deposition practices on (Roman) Iron Age settlement sites of the northern Netherlands.

Author : Alan B. Anderson
Publisher : Canadian Plains Research Center
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0889772843

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Settling Saskatchewan by Alan B. Anderson Pdf

Expertly identifies and explains the patterns of immigration and settlement in the province and further enlightens us on the many peoples who now comprise its extraordinarily diverse cultural mosaic.