The Power Of Impossible Ideas

Author : Colin Cook,Yoram (Jerry) R. Wind
Publisher : Pearson Prentice Hall
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780132716086

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The Power of Impossible Thinking by Colin Cook,Yoram (Jerry) R. Wind Pdf

50,000 copies sold, now in paperback... If you can think impossible thoughts, then you can do impossible things!! The power of change: create new thinking for new solutions! Includes a new introduction demonstrating the "power of impossible thinking," plus access to exclusive book summary and authors' interview at the book's companion Web site. The Power of Impossible Thinking is about getting better at making sense of what's going on around you so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not inaccurate or obsolete models of the world. This bestseller reveals how mental models stand between you and the truth and how to transform them into your biggest advantage! Learn how to develop new ways of seeing, when to change to a new model, how to swap amongst a portfolio of models, how to understand complex environments and how to do "mind R and D," improving models through constant experimentation. Jerry Wind and Colin Crook review why it's so hard to change mental models and offer practical strategies for dismantling "hardened missile silos". Finally they show how to access models quickly through intuition, and assess the effectiveness of any mental model. Purchasers of this book gain access to audio summaries on a companion web site, along with a new half-hour interview with the authors.

Author : Sharon Tennison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 1884363229

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The Power of Impossible Ideas by Sharon Tennison Pdf

Author : Shona Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136004322

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Power, Politics and the Emotions by Shona Hunter Pdf

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are sets of affective dynamics which complicate the already materially and symbolically contested terrain of policy-making. This relational politics is Shona Hunter’s starting point for a more hopeful, but realistic understanding of the limits and possibilities enacted through contemporary governing processes. Through this idea Hunter prioritises the everyday lived enactments of policy as a means to understand the state as a more differentiated and changeable entity than is often allowed for in current critiques of neoliberalism. But Hunter reminds us that focusing on lived realities demands a melancholic confrontation with pain, and the risks of social and physical death and violence lived through the contemporary neoliberal state. This is a state characterised by the ascendency of neoliberal whiteness; a state where no one is innocent and we are all responsible for the multiple intersecting exclusionary practices creating its unequal social orderings. The only way to struggle through the central paradox of governance to produce something different is to accept this troubling interdependence between resistance and reproduction and between hope and loss. Analysing the everyday processes of this relational politics through original empirical studies in health, social care and education the book develops an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis which engages with and extends work in political science, cultural theory, critical race and feminist analysis, critical psychoanalysis and post-material sociology.

Author : Karl S. Rosengren,Carl N. Johnson,Paul L. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521665876

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Imagining the Impossible by Karl S. Rosengren,Carl N. Johnson,Paul L. Harris Pdf

This volume, first published in 2000, is about the development of human thinking that stretches beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. Various research initiatives emerged in the decade prior to publication exploring such matters as children's thinking about imaginary beings, magic and the supernatural. The purpose of this book is to capture something of the larger spirit of these efforts. In many ways, this new work offers a counterpoint to research on the development of children's domain-specific knowledge about the ordinary nature of things that has suggested that children become increasingly scientific and rational over the course of development. In acquiring an intuitive understanding of the physical, biological or psychological domains, even young children recognize that there are constraints on what can happen. However, once such constraints are acknowledged, children are in a position to think about the violation of those very same constraints - to contemplate the impossible.

Author : Kate Scelsa
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062331779

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Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa Pdf

A captivating and profound debut novel about complicated love and the friendships that have the power to transform you forever, perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Mira is starting over at Saint Francis Prep. She promised her parents she would at least try to pretend that she could act like a functioning human this time, not a girl who can’t get out of bed for days on end, who only feels awake when she’s with Sebby. Jeremy is the painfully shy art nerd at Saint Francis who’s been in self-imposed isolation after an incident that ruined his last year of school. When he sees Sebby for the first time across the school lawn it’s as if he’s been expecting this blond, lanky boy with a mischief glinting in his eye. Sebby, Mira’s gay best friend, is a boy who seems to carry sunlight around with him . Even as life in his foster home starts to take its toll, Sebby and Mira together craft a world of magic rituals and impromptu road trips, designed to fix the broken parts of their lives. As Jeremy finds himself drawn into Sebby and Mira’s world, he begins to understand the secrets that they hide in order to protect themselves, to keep each other safe from those who don’t understand their quest to live for the impossible.

Author : Fiona Wood
Publisher : Poppy
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316242172

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Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood Pdf

In this charming story of one guy's efforts to get it together when his life is falling apart, award-winning author Fiona Wood introduces an irresistible voice and a delightfully awkward character who is impossible to forget. 1. Kiss Estelle. 2. Get a job. 3. Cheer my mother up. 4. Try not to be a complete nerd/loser. 5. Talk to my father when he calls. 6. Figure out how to be good. Nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with a whole heap of problems, including a reversal of family fortune, moving, new-school hell, a mother with a failing wedding cake business, a just-out gay dad, and a massive crush on Estelle, the girl next door. His life is a mess, but for now he's narrowed it down to just six impossible things....

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004723121

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A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume Pdf

Author : Baruch Spinoza
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624661976

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The Essential Spinoza by Baruch Spinoza Pdf

Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs--thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.

Author : Lewis Wolpert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780571266722

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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert Pdf

Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. Wolpert explores the different types of belief - including that of animals, of children, of the religious, and of those suffering from psychiatric disorders. And he asks whether it is possible to live without belief at all, or whether it is a necessary component of a functioning society.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UOM:39015011940312

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A Treatise on Human Nature by David Hume Pdf

Author : Nury Vittachi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789811235900

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21 Impossible Things: Quantum Physics And Relativity For Everyone by Nury Vittachi Pdf

Quantum physics and relativity, two of the most important advances in modern science, are normally presented as a series of technical discoveries in 20th century Europe.Yet this brief, easy-to-read volume shows how they were underpinned by centuries of observations about the nature of reality from the great philosophies and faiths of humanity, from China to India to the Middle East.At each stage, the people involved found themselves saying: 'That's impossible! That makes no sense. And yet...'

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015000617103

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Philosophical Works by John Locke Pdf

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084598218

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The Philosophical Works of John Locke by John Locke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Psychopharmacology
ISBN : UCSC:32106008912559

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Psychopharmacology Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leo Ruickbie
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472136459

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The Impossible Zoo by Leo Ruickbie Pdf

HERE BE DRAGONS! Here you will find the things that once made the woods wild and the nights to be feared; that made ancient map-makers write, 'Here be Dragons'. The Impossible Zoo is a biology of the supernatural - a study of the life of things that never lived. This world of mermaids and unicorns, now confined to fantasy, but once believed to exist, is a world of the imagination that still affects us today. Wonderfully illustrated throughout, it also provides sources as a guide to further study and exploration. 'For anyone who has ever wished that dragons and unicorns were real, this magical, mystical and truly memorable book is definitely for you - and for me!' Dr Karl Shuker, author of A Manifestation of Monsters 'Ruickbie's level of scholarship is impressive and he presents his conclusions with great literary skill in readable and attractive prose. The results are truly fascinating. Very highly recommended.' Revd Lionel Fanthorpe, FRSA, author and President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena