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Sham

Author : Steve Salerno
Publisher : Crown Forum
ISBN 13 : 1400054109
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sham written by Steve Salerno and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing—not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society. Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the “empowering” message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of self-help’s “Recovery” movement. SHAM also reveals: • How self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to reach the same customers over and over—without ever helping them • The inside story on the most notorious gurus—from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Tony Robbins to John Gray • How your company might be wasting money on motivational speakers, “executive coaches,” and other quick fixes that often hurt quality, productivity, and morale • How the Recovery movement has eradicated notions of personal responsibility by labeling just about anything—from drug abuse to “sex addiction” to shoplifting—a dysfunction or disease • How Americans blindly accept that twelve-step programs offer the only hope of treating addiction, when in fact these programs can do more harm than good • How the self-help movement inspired the disastrous emphasis on self-esteem in our schools • How self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will As Salerno shows, to describe self-help as a waste of time and money vastly understates its collateral damage. And with SHAM, the self-help industry has finally been called to account for the damage it has done. Also available as an eBook

Sham Ruins

Author : Brian Willems
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100052938X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Sham Ruins written by Brian Willems and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster, or even canvas, these "sham ruins" are often considered an embarrassing blip in English architectural history. However, Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used to both uncover old truths and invent new ones. Along with architecture, work by Ivan Vladislavić, Tom Stoppard, Alain Mabanckou, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Michael Haneke, and Sturtevant is used to develop this thesis, as well as artifacts such as pre-torn jeans, fake histories, and broken screen apps. Using these examples, one of the key questions the book raises is: what is it that sham ruins ruin? In other words, if real ruins are ruins of what they actually are, then sham ruins should be considered ruins of what they are not. Thus sham ruins are about imposing new meaning where such meaning does not and should not exist. They also can show how things we think are functioning well are actually already broken. Sham ruins do this, and much more, by being lies, ruses, and embarrassments. This is what gives them the power with which we can think about objects in new, unintended ways.

Sham! A Novel Written in Earnest

Author : James Hain Friswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sham! A Novel Written in Earnest written by James Hain Friswell and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Syria and Bilad Al-Sham Under Ottoman Rule

Author : Peter Sluglett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004181938
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Syria and Bilad Al-Sham Under Ottoman Rule by : Peter Sluglett

Download or read book Syria and Bilad Al-Sham Under Ottoman Rule written by Peter Sluglett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together some thirty essays in a Festschrift in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the leading historian of Ottoman Syria, touching on themes in socio-economic history which have been Rafeq's principal academic concerns.

The three shams: the sham Peter, called the pope; the sham Church, called infallible; the sham Bible, Douay and tradition; three lectures

Author : Brewin Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The three shams: the sham Peter, called the pope; the sham Church, called infallible; the sham Bible, Douay and tradition; three lectures written by Brewin Grant and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sham’s Kitchen

Author : Priyanka Rajendram
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482829347
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Sham’s Kitchen written by Priyanka Rajendram and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the author on a Indian culinary journey as she learns, under her mother’s guidance, the ins and outs of one-of-a-kind, homemade South Indian and Sri Lankan cuisine (with some modern twists!) that remind her of home. Experience the author’s coming-of-age story as Singaporean-Indian mother and daughter wade through laughter and tears to find new meaning in their relationship amidst the cloves and cardamoms. If you are a mother, a chef, or a mother-chef, you would understand: these recipes are sacred. But family is everything.

Sham: Great Was Second Best

Author : Phil Dandrea
Publisher : Acanthus Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780984217342
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Sham: Great Was Second Best written by Phil Dandrea and published by Acanthus Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sham was a horse that seemed destined for greatness. He boasted a winning pedigree, a sleek and muscular frame, experienced trainers, and talented jockeys. Early races validated his potential, as he ran to victories by as many as fifteen lengths. After he defeated the mighty Secretariat in the Wood Memorial, many turf writers were touting Sham as the Kentucky Derby favorite. The stage was set for Sham-mania to sweep the country at a time when the nation needed a hero. But it was Secretariat who won over the nation. Despite impressive victories and record-breaking performances, Sham's popularity paled in comparison. If Secretariat was America's horse, Sham might well have been everyman's horse, a working-class hero who couldn't get the recognition he deserved. This is the other side of the story of Secretariat's famous Triple Crown season and of his remarkable challenger who found that great was only second best.

Schoolhouse Shams

Author : Peter Downs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1610488334
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Schoolhouse Shams written by Peter Downs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice.

The All India Digest, Section II, Civil, 1811-1911

Author : T. V. Sanjiva Row
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1646 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The All India Digest, Section II, Civil, 1811-1911 written by T. V. Sanjiva Row and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American State Reports

Author : Abraham Clark Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American State Reports written by Abraham Clark Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meritocracy Trap

Author : Daniel Markovits
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222010
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Meritocracy Trap written by Daniel Markovits and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.

Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Montana

Author : Richard H. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Montana written by Richard H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author : Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tyranny of Shams

Author : Joseph McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tyranny of Shams written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a frank criticism of most of the dominant ideas and institutions of our time."--Pref.

The Trial of Shama Charan Pal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Shama Charan Pal written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Websterian 1912 Dictionary

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Websterian 1912 Dictionary written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy

Author : Ahmad Khan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009115340
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy written by Ahmad Khan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, many defining features of classical Sunni Islam began to take shape. Among these was the formation of medieval Sunnism around the belief in the unimpeachable orthodoxy of four eponymous founders and their schools of law. In this original study, Ahmad Khan explores the history and cultural memory of one of these eponymous founders, Abū Ḥanīfa. Showing how Abū Ḥanīfa evolved from being the object of intense religious exclusion to a pillar of Sunni orthodoxy, Khan examines the concepts of orthodoxy and heresy, and outlines their changing meanings over the course of four centuries. He demonstrates that orthodoxy and heresy were neither fixed theological categories, nor pious fictions, but instead were impacted by everything from law and politics, to society and culture. This book illuminates the significant yet often neglected transformations in Islamic social, political and religious thought during this vibrant period.