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Author : Trey Ellis
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535865
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Platitudes written by Trey Ellis and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful, irreverent look at the African-American literary community.
Author : Jay J. Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781462089666
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book A Plethora of Platitudes written by Jay J. Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platitudes, cliches and adages are pervasive in almost every part of our everyday lives and in every part of our culture. Every day we either hear them or use them ourselves, often without thinking about them. These "words of wisdom" express our feelings about love, time, money, health, wealth, humor and every aspect of life in general. Usually, they are a shorthand way of expressing an idea. The words used, in most cases, are not meant to be taken literally. Because of their common usage we can ascertain their meaning even in their shorthand form. There are thousands of platitudes and no one can claim to have heard all of them. Each one can have variations, which express the same, or even different ideas and will change from region to region. Their meaning can also be open to interpretation by the person who uses them.
Author : David Pears
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199247706
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy written by David Pears and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Jonathan Downes
Publisher : CFZ Press
ISBN 13 : 9781909488540
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Duck Billed Platitudes written by Jonathan Downes and published by CFZ Press. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings on Music, Books and Politics by Jon Downes; Author, musician, filmmaker, manic-depressive, singer, grandad, editor, husband, stepdad, poet, cripple, cryptozoologist editor of Gonzo Weekly magazie, and Director, Centre for Fortean Zoology.
Author : Paul Louis Metzger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633149
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Beatitudes, Not Platitudes written by Paul Louis Metzger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatitudes, Not Platitudes shows that the Beatitudes are not overused, well-worn answers to the question, "What would Jesus do?" Rather, they are undervalued and hardly touched claims that transform our destinies. More than spiritual nuggets for personal devotion, practical advice, or propositions to be believed, the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 envision and entail a reorientation of the good life in view of Jesus' kingdom. Jesus' teachings reveal to us that living our best purpose-driven life now involves dying to self and the world system, and dying for our enemies. Ideal for group study, this series of meditations on each of the Beatitudes, followed by cultural reflections and study questions, helps to bridge the gaps between personal devotion and societal revolution, the academic and the practical, the ancient and the contemporary. All of us want to be happy, to be well and blessed, and esteemed with honor. However, we look for happiness, wellness, blessing, and honor in different places and with mixed results. This book helps us reimagine the good life by taking a fresh look at the Beatitudes as citizens of Jesus' ever-new kingdom order.
Author : Whitney Goodman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593542754
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Toxic Positivity written by Whitney Goodman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful guide to owning our emotions—even the difficult ones—in order to show up authentically in the world, from the popular therapist behind the Instagram account @sitwithwhit. Every day, we’re bombarded with pressure to be positive. From “good vibes only” and “life is good” memes, to endless reminders to “look on the bright side,” we’re constantly told that the key to happiness is silencing negativity wherever it crops up—in ourselves and in others. Even when faced with illness, loss, breakups, and other challenges, there’s little space for talking about our real feelings—and processing them so that we can feel better and move forward. But if non-stop positivity is the answer, why are so many of us anxious, depressed, and burned out? In this refreshingly honest guide, sought-after therapist Whitney Goodman shares the latest research along with everyday examples and client stories that reveal how damaging toxic positivity is to ourselves and our relationships, and presents simple ways to experience and work through difficult emotions. The result is more authenticity, connection, and growth—and ultimately, a path to showing up as you truly are.
Author : William Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Independent written by William Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Blumson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740728
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Resemblance and Representation written by Ben Blumson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.
Author : Holbrook Jackson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898706284
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Platitudes in the Making written by Holbrook Jackson and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a unique facsimile edition of a 1911 copy of Jackson's pithy platitudes with Chesterton's original readable handwritten responses on each page. Printed to look exactly like the original, this first time published volume is a rare book that blends wisdom and humor in a deluxe edition.
Author : Gustave Flaubert
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200547
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Accepted Ideas written by Gustave Flaubert and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1968 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas--an acid catalogue of the clichés of 19th-century France--is as relevant today as ever.
Author : David Braddon-Mitchell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262012561
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism written by David Braddon-Mitchell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how the so-called 'Canberra Plan' of metaphysical research continues to inspire (and provoke) some of the most interesting work in modern metaphysics.
Author : Michael Ridge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191022748
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Impassioned Belief written by Michael Ridge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impassioned Belief presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments. According to his Ecumenical Expressivism normative judgements are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary beliefs and partly constituted by desire-like states. Michael Ridge builds on a series of articles in which he has developed this theory, but moves beyond them in the following key respects. First, Ridge now more sharply distinguishes semantics from meta-semantics, situating Ecumenical Expressivism firmly on the meta-semantic side of this divide, thus enabling Ecumenical Expressivism to accommodate a fully truth-conditional approach to first-order semantics. Second, this distinction allows Ridge to offer a distinctive contextualist semantic framework for normative discourse. Contra orthodox presuppositions, a contextualist semantics does not entail cognitivism-at least not if we carefully heed the semantics/meta-semantics distinction. Third, because this contextualist framework is couched in terms of standards, Ridge now rejects his previous 'ideal advisor' approach and instead adopts a theory couched in terms of acceptable standards of practical reasoning. This has interesting consequences for longstanding debates over the context-sensitivity of reasons, the so-called 'buck-passing' theory of value, and the role of principles in normative thought ('particularism' versus 'generalism'). Fourth, drawing on the work of Scott Soames, Ridge develops a novel theory of normative propositions, according to which they are a certain kind of cognitive event type. Somewhat surprisingly, this conception allows that there can be irreducible normative propositions, even given expressivism. Fifth, Ridge offers a novel approach to talk of truth which enables expressivists to accommodate truth-aptness without committing themselves to deflationism about truth. In fact, the theory is flexible enough that it can elegantly be combined even with a robust correspondence conception of truth. In addition, Ridge offers an improved solution to the dreaded 'Frege-Geach' problem (one which better preserves the formal nature of logic than his previous account), a novel theory of disagreement itself, a rather different sort of 'hybrid' treatment of rationality discourse, and an independently useful taxonomy and critical survey of the bewildering variety of other 'hybrid' approaches in the literature.
Author : Shannon Carpenter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143135643
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad written by Shannon Carpenter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for modern-day parenting geared towards stay-at-home dads, offering advice on everything from learning to cook and clean with children, to dealing with mental health and relationships and addressing male loneliness, with the easygoing perspective that dads can use their natural talents to parent any way that they choose. The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad manual takes the best advice and wisdom from a dads' group, and puts it into a format to help new stay-at-home fathers. Characterized by actionable and direct advice to fathers, the book takes on parenting from a father's point of view and encourages dads to use their natural talents to become a better parent. That advice is further bolstered by an additional 57 other dads who also give advice. All this advice is framed by the author's personal stories, which help the reader connect with the content and drives the advice home. This is a book that takes on day-to-day parenting, not just as a stay-at-home dad--working fathers could benefit from this book as much as at-home dads.
Author : Ralph Albert Parlette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lyceum Magazine written by Ralph Albert Parlette and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evan Chen
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470466201
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Euclidean Geometry in Mathematical Olympiads written by Evan Chen and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a challenging problem-solving book in Euclidean geometry, assuming nothing of the reader other than a good deal of courage. Topics covered included cyclic quadrilaterals, power of a point, homothety, triangle centers; along the way the reader will meet such classical gems as the nine-point circle, the Simson line, the symmedian and the mixtilinear incircle, as well as the theorems of Euler, Ceva, Menelaus, and Pascal. Another part is dedicated to the use of complex numbers and barycentric coordinates, granting the reader both a traditional and computational viewpoint of the material. The final part consists of some more advanced topics, such as inversion in the plane, the cross ratio and projective transformations, and the theory of the complete quadrilateral. The exposition is friendly and relaxed, and accompanied by over 300 beautifully drawn figures. The emphasis of this book is placed squarely on the problems. Each chapter contains carefully chosen worked examples, which explain not only the solutions to the problems but also describe in close detail how one would invent the solution to begin with. The text contains a selection of 300 practice problems of varying difficulty from contests around the world, with extensive hints and selected solutions. This book is especially suitable for students preparing for national or international mathematical olympiads or for teachers looking for a text for an honor class.
Author : Holbrook Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Platitudes in the Making written by Holbrook Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan B. Allender
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307550346
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Leading with a Limp written by Dan B. Allender and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your flawed foot forward. Pick up most leadership books and you’ll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work today, no executive placement service would give them the time of day. God’s criteria for choosing leaders runs counter to the conventional wisdom. Our culture equates strength with effectiveness, but God favors leaders who know the value of brokenness. In Leading With a Limp, you’ll discover what makes flawed leaders so successful. They’re not preoccupied with protecting their image, they are undaunted by chaos and complexity, they are ready to risk failure in moving an organization from what is to what should be. God chooses leaders who aren’t deceived by the myths of power and control, but who realize that God’s power is found in brokenness. If you are a leader–or if you have been making excuses to avoid leading–find out how you can take full advantage of your weakness. A limping leader is the person God uses to accomplish amazing things. To go deeper, check out the Leading With a Limp Workbook.
