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Left to Our Own Devices

Author : Margaret E. Morris
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026255206X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Left to Our Own Devices written by Margaret E. Morris and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways—uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered “likes” on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other “off-label” adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices.

Hope When It Hurts

Author : Sarah Walton
Publisher : The Good Book Company
ISBN 13 : 1784980749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Hope When It Hurts written by Sarah Walton and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Hurt is real. But so is hope. Kristen and Sarah have walked through, and are walking in, difficult times. So these thirty biblical reflections are full of realism about the hurts of life-yet overwhelmingly full of hope about the God who gives life. This book will gently encourage and greatly help any woman who is struggling with suffering-whether physical, emotional or psychological, and whether for a season or for longer. It is a book to buy for yourself, or to buy for a member of your church or friend. For anyone who is hurting, this book will give hope, not just for life beyond the suffering, but for life in the suffering. Each chapter contains a biblical reflection, with questions and prayers, and a space for journaling.

We are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Author : Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399162097
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book We are All Completely Beside Ourselves written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book Club," the story of an American family, ordinary in every way but one--their close family relative was a chimpanzee.

The Pieces of Ourselves

Author : Maggie Harcourt
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1474984320
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Pieces of Ourselves written by Maggie Harcourt and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora "doesn’t do people", not since the Incident that led to her leaving school midway through her GCSEs. The Incident that led to her being diagnosed with bipolar II. The Incident that left her in pieces. Until Hal arrives. He's researching a story about a missing World War I soldier, and he wants Flora's help. Flora used to love history before the Incident, but spending so much time with Hal is her worst nightmare. Yet as they begin to piece together the life of the missing soldier, a life of lost love, secrets and lies, Flora finds a piece of herself falling for Hal.

The Knowledge of the Holy

Author : A Tozer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781497434219
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge of the Holy written by A Tozer and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect?"The Knowledge of the Holy is a classic reflection on God's attributes. Tozer begins each chapter with a prayer, and touches upon one of God's attributes-from God's inifinitude, power, to knowledge. This devotional text has moved the hearts of Christians for over a century!

Everything Left to Remember

Author : Steph Jagger
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250261856
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Everything Left to Remember written by Steph Jagger and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This will cast a spell on fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle." - Publishers Weekly Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and—perhaps most heartbreaking of all—Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it and she will write it. Too aware of her mother’s waning memory, Steph proposes that the two take a camping trip out to Montana—which her mother, on the urging of Steph’s father, agrees to embark upon. An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and “tenting” out West quickly turns into one woman’s reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood—and what it means to love someone who doesn’t quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming. A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.

Night Train to Lisbon

Author : Pascal Mercier
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555849237
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Night Train to Lisbon written by Pascal Mercier and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling novel of love and sacrifice under fascist rule, and “a treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time” (Isabel Allende). Raimund Gregorius, a professor of dead languages at a Swiss secondary school, lives a life governed by routine. Then, an enigmatic Portuguese woman stirs his interest in an obscure, and mind-expanding book of philosophy that opens the possibility of changing Raimund’s existence. That same night, he takes the train to Lisbon to research the book’s phantom author, Amadeu de Prado, a renowned physician whose principles led him to confront Salazar’s dictatorship. Raimund, now obsessed with unlocking the mystery behind the man, is determined to meet all those on whom Prado left an indelible mark. Among them: his eighty-year-old sister, who maintains her brother’s house as if it were a museum; an elderly cleric and torture survivor confined to a nursing home; and Prado’s childhood friend and eventual partner in the Resistance. The closer Raimund comes to the truth of Prado’s life, and eventual fate, an extraordinary tale takes shape amid the labyrinthine memories of Prado’s intimate circle of family and friends, working in utmost secrecy to fight dictatorship, and the betrayals that threaten to expose them. “A meditative, deliberate exploration of loneliness, language and the human condition” (The San Diego Union-Tribune), Night Train to Lisbon “call[s] to mind the magical realism of Jorge Amado or Gabriel Garcia Marquez . . . allusive and thought-provoking, intellectually curious and yet heartbreakingly jaded,” and inexorably propelled by the haunting mystery at its heart (The Providence Journal). Night Train to Lisbon was adapted into Bille August’s award-winning 2013 film starring Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin, Christopher Lee, and Charlotte Rampling.

We Play Ourselves

Author : Jen Silverman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0399591540
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book We Play Ourselves written by Jen Silverman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects. FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah Magazine Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Caroline’s next semidocumentary movie, which follows the girls’ clandestine activity: a Fight Club inspired by the violent classic. As Cass is drawn into the film’s orbit, she is awed by Caroline’s ambition and confidence. But over time, she becomes troubled by how deeply Caroline is manipulating the teens in the name of art—especially as the consequences become increasingly disturbing. With her past proving hard to shake and her future one she’s no longer sure she wants, Cass is forced to reckon with her own ambitions and confront what she has come to believe about the steep price of success.

Leaving the Pink House

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382749
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Leaving the Pink House written by Ladette Randolph and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladette Randolph understands her life best through the houses she has inhabited. From the isolated farmhouse of her childhood, to the series of houses her family occupied in small towns across Nebraska as her father pursued his dream of becoming a minister, to the equally small houses she lived in as a single mother and graduate student, houses have shaped her understanding of her place in the world and served as touchstones for a life marked by both constancy and endless cycles of change. On September 12, 2001, Randolph and her husband bought a dilapidated farmhouse on twenty acres outside Lincoln, Nebraska, and set about gutting and rebuilding the house themselves. They had nine months to complete the work. The project, undertaken at a time of national unrest and uncertainty, led Randolph to reflect on the houses of her past and the stages of her life that played out in each, both painful and joyful. As the couple struggles to bring the dilapidated house back to life, Randolph simultaneously traces the contours of a life deeply shaped by the Nebraska plains, where her family has lived for generations, and how those roots helped her find the strength to overcome devastating losses as a young adult. Weaving together strands of departures and arrivals, new houses and deep roots, cycles of change and the cycles of the seasons, Leaving the Pink House is a richly layered and compelling memoir of the meaning of home and family, and how they can never really leave us, even if we leave them.

R. T. Kendall: Total Forgiveness, Totally Forgiving Ourselves, Totally Forgiving God

Author : R.T. Kendall
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473682606
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book R. T. Kendall: Total Forgiveness, Totally Forgiving Ourselves, Totally Forgiving God written by R.T. Kendall and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If I could have only one of R. T.'s books, this would be my choice. There is no more important message for the church today' Rob Parsons 'Few recently published books have made a greater impression on me than R. T. Kendall's Total Forgiveness,' writes Robin Eames. 'I have found so much in his words to challenge my own thinking and work. His Bible-centred approach is matched by the realism of how individuals have tried to face up to loss, distress and frustration.' No sin or action is unforgivable, says R. T., and we are called to keep no record of wrongs, to refuse to punish those who have hurt us, to show mercy and to avoid any form of bitterness. This bundle looks at the theme of forgiveness which stands at the heart of the Christian faith. A radical message for a divided world.

Don't Lose Heart

Author : Jason Meyer
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493419250
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Don't Lose Heart written by Jason Meyer and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fallen world is full of reasons to lose heart. From the large-scale tragedies of war, famine, and natural disasters, to the more personal tragedies of broken relationships and broken dreams, it can be difficult to avoid discouragement--even for the believer. And yet, Scripture calls us to a life of hope, based not on wishful thinking or avoiding our problems but based on who God is, what he has done, and what he is still doing. In this short, giftable book, pastor Jason Meyer shows you that though the reasons for discouragement seem strong, the reasons we have to take heart and hold on to hope are stronger yet. Through biblical truth and personal stories, Meyer encourages the weary and anxious believer by shining light on the nature of reality, the nature of God, and the intersection of the two in our daily, rubber-meets-the-road lives. The result is a book that lifts our spirits in a world that too often seeks to drag us down.

Self-Compassion

Author : Dr. Kristin Neff
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079174
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Self-Compassion written by Dr. Kristin Neff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life. More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.

New Seeds of Contemplation

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200998
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book New Seeds of Contemplation written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1972 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On spiritual rebirth through encounter with God in an expanded version, by the author of Seven Storey Mountain.

Left to Ourselves

Author : Catharine Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781506141381
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Left to Ourselves written by Catharine Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] "I don't think so," said Minnie wondering; "but is it dreadful, Agnes?" "Don't you think that first page looks dreadful? So black and hopeless!" "Oh, yes, so it does." "Then listen: Black-Sin. I seemed to be dreaming, and in my dream I beheld a rocky country stretched out before me. On all sides were rugged stones, underneath which grew ferns and mosses, while short brushwood, growing luxuriantly, gave the place a wild, unfrequented appearance.[...]".

Disunion Among Ourselves

Author : Eli Merritt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274862
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Disunion Among Ourselves written by Eli Merritt and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-opening account, Eli Merritt reveals the deep political divisions that almost tore the Union apart during the American Revolution. So fractious were the founders’ political fights that they feared the War of Independence might end in disunion and civil war. Instead of disbanding into separate regional confederacies, the founders managed to unite for the sake of liberty and self-preservation. In so doing, they succeeded in holding the young nation together. To achieve this, they forged grueling compromises, including Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Mississippi-Fisheries Compromise of 1779, and the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781. In addition to bringing new insights to the history of the American Revolution, Disunion Among Ourselves has inevitable resonances with our present era of political hyperpolarization and serves as a touchstone for contemporary politics, reminding us that the founders overcame far tougher times than our own through commitment to ethical constitutional democracy and compromise.

Your God is Too Glorious

Author : Chad Bird
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
ISBN 13 : 1948969815
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Your God is Too Glorious written by Chad Bird and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

Future Grace, Revised Edition

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1601424353
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Future Grace, Revised Edition written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore this stunning quality of God’s grace: It never ends! In this revision of a foundational work, John Piper reveals how grace is not only God’s undeserved gift to us in the past, but also God’s power to make good happen for us today, tomorrow, and forever. True life for the follower of Jesus really is a moment-by-moment trust that God is dependable and fulfills his promises. This is living by faith in future grace, which provides God's mercy, provision, and wisdom—everything we need—to accomplish his good plans for us. In Future Grace, chapter by chapter—one for each day of the month—Piper reveals how cherishing the promises of God helps break the power of persistent sin issues like anxiety, despondency, greed, lust, bitterness, impatience, pride, misplaced shame, and more. Ultimate joy, peace, and hope in life and death are found in a confident, continual awareness of the reality of future grace.