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Author : Sophia N. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810940546
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)
Download or read book What Things Mean written by Sophia N. Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Schiffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198241089
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Things We Mean written by Stephen Schiffer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Schiffer presents a groundbreaking account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge, and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to explain what the things we mean and believe are. He discusses the relation between semantic and psychological facts, on the one hand, and physical facts, on the other; vagueness and indeterminacy; moral truth; conditionals; and the role of propositional content in information acquisition and explanation. This radical new treatment of meaning will command the attention of everyone who works on fundamental questions about language, and will attract much interest from other areas of philosophy.
Author : Roberto Verganti
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422136574
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Design Driven Innovation written by Roberto Verganti and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical shift in perspective that introduces a bold new way of competing. Design-driven innovations do not come from the market; they create new markets. They don't push new technologies; they push new meanings. It's about having a vision, and taking that vision to your customers. Think of game-changers like Nintendo's Wii or Apple's iPod. They overturned our understanding of what a video game means and how we listen to music. Customers had not asked for these new meanings, but once they experienced them, it was love at first sight. But where does the vision come from? With fascinating examples from leading European and American companies, Verganti shows that for truly breakthrough products and services, we must look beyond customers and users to those he calls "interpreters" - the experts who deeply understand and shape the markets they work in. Design-Driven Innovation offers a provocative new view of innovation thinking and practice.
Author : Harry Leland Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mean Things Happening in this Land written by Harry Leland Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles -- against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class -- to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields.
Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439101701
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book All Things Shining written by Hubert Dreyfus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational book that is “a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live” (The New York Times). “What constitutes human excellence?” and “What is the best way to live a life?” These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. In their critically acclaimed book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly argue that our search for meaning was once fulfilled by our responsiveness to forces greater than ourselves, whether one God or many. These forces drew us in and imbued the ordinary moments of life with wonder and gratitude. Dreyfus and Kelly argue in this thought-provoking work that as we began to rely on the power of our own independent will we lost our skill for encountering the sacred. Through their original and transformative discussion of some of the greatest works of Western literature, from Homer’s Odyssey to Melville’s Moby Dick, Dreyfus and Kelly reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with the things that gave our lives purpose, and show how, by reading our culture’s classics anew, we can once again be drawn into intense involvement with the wonder and beauty of the world. Well on its way to becoming a classic itself, this inspirational book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves.
Author : Pam Bono
Publisher : Leisure Arts
ISBN 13 : 9781601400314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Little Things Mean a Lot written by Pam Bono and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not just a book with little projects throughout. It is a scrapbook of suggestions for the use ofeasy-to-make gifts for those smaller spaces in a home that need one special thing to add warmth.In designing for this book, we had plants and flowers in mind to combine with friendly fabric touches,and the glow of a few candles. Take a good look around your home for family heirlooms, charming nooks and crannies, and plants with personality. You will be amazed at the treasures you already have! Little Things Mean a Lot (Leisure Arts #4354)
Author : Kate Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674048423
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Mean and Lowly Things written by Kate Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is JacksonÕs unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisisÑcoping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and JacksonÕs mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist thereÑa crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakesÑand that thereÕs a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814572
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.”—Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, “a rich exploration of womanhood” (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”
Author : Katherine Crowley
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071802053
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal written by Katherine Crowley and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Post's Top 10 Career Books of 2012 and a Booklist Top 10 Business Book DO YOU WORK WITH A MEAN GIRL? A woman’s field guide to the new frontier of professional development—working with other women Women-to-women relationships in the workplace are . . . complicated. When they’re good, they’re great. But when they’re bad, they can ruin your day, your week—even your year. Packed with proven advice from two of today’s leading experts in workplace relationships, this one-of-a-kind guide gives women the tools they need to navigate difficult situations unique to women-to-women relationships—whether with a boss, a colleague, a client, or an employee. Have you dealt with a woman in the workplace who: “Accidentally” excludes you from important meetings? Seems intent on taking you down professionally? Gossips about you with other coworkers? Makes you look bad by missing deadlines? Forms a “pack” of mean girls to make your life miserable? Mean Girls at Work isn’t just about surviving difficult situations. It’s about transforming a toxic relationship into one that benefits and supports both of you. This book is also for women who engage in mean behavior . . . but don’t know it. After all, who hasn’t gossiped about a female coworker? Who hasn’t rolled her eyes in the presence of a woman she doesn’t like? Who hasn’t scanned another woman head to toe—which is just a nonverbal way of saying, “You’ve just been judged”? The authors provide invaluable advice to the more subtle ways of being mean—even if they’re not intended. With a workforce composed of a higher percentage of women than ever, workplace dynamics have changed. Crowley and Elster cover every conceivable scenario, providing critical advice on how to rise above the fray and move forward professionally. Mean Girls at Work is your map to dodging the mines and moving forward in today’s transformed workplace. Praise for Mean Girls at Work “An invaluable suit of armor for surviving nine to five!” —Leil Lowndes, bestselling author of How to Talk to Anyone “If you think the emotional cruelty of comedies like Mean Girls and Heathers doesn’t exist in the real world workplace, think again. In Mean Girls at Work, Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster valuably chronicle female vs. female predators and offer solid defensive strategies.” —Ann Kreamer, author of It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace “Whether you are in your twenties and just starting your professional career, your midcareer forties, when you are supposed to have figured it out already, or a woman in her fifties or sixties who’s seen it all—this book is a must-read. . . . The authors have finally given women the tools and the sound advice necessary to deal with . . . conflicts that keep us all from succeeding. . . . Carry this book with you to work every day!” —Carolyn Cassin, President, Michigan Women’s Foundation “A must-read for women of all ages in today’s workforce. This book offers what we all need to develop the capacities to endure this ever-changing workplace. We know it is all about relationships and you need the skills outlined in this book to survive and thrive when the Mean Girls attack.” —Kim Harrington, Coordinator, Professional Development and Training, Office of Human Resources, California State University, Sacramento
Author : William Strauss
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767900464
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Fourth Turning written by William Strauss and published by Crown. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Author : Susan Newman
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780517704639
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Little Things Mean a Lot written by Susan Newman and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages are hundreds of easy, creative suggestions for ways that grandparents can pass on family traditions and spend the kind of warm time with their grandchildren that brings the generations closer and makes the grandparent/grandchild connection flourish. 20 line drawings.
Author : Pat Zietlow Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1626723214
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Be Kind written by Pat Zietlow Miller and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.
Author : Ellen Hopkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442471824
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Glass written by Ellen Hopkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473345529
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Shape of Things to Come written by H. G. Wells and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, "The Shape of Things to Come" is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 2106 are speculated with a single superstate representing the solution to all humanity's problems. A classic example of Wellsian prophesy, this volume is highly recommended for fans of his work and of the science fiction genre. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Richard Potts
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426206062
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book What Does it Mean to be Human? written by Richard Potts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generously illustrated book tells the story of the human family, showing how our species' physical traits and behaviors evolved over millions of years as our ancestors adapted to dramatic environmental changes. In What Does It Means to Be Human? Rick Potts, director of the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program, and Chris Sloan, National Geographic's paleoanthropolgy expert, delve into our distant past to explain when, why, and how we acquired the unique biological and cultural qualities that govern our most fundamental connections and interactions with other people and with the natural world. Drawing on the latest research, they conclude that we are the last survivors of a once-diverse family tree, and that our evolution was shaped by one of the most unstable eras in Earth's environmental history. The book presents a wealth of attractive new material especially developed for the Hall's displays, from life-like reconstructions of our ancestors sculpted by the acclaimed John Gurche to photographs from National Geographic and Smithsonian archives, along with informative graphics and illustrations. In coordination with the exhibit opening, the PBS program NOVA will present a related three-part television series, and the museum will launch a website expected to draw 40 million visitors.
Author : Dani Casamento
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557365929
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Shit on Rye: 501 Things Women Say and What They Really Mean written by Dani Casamento and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shit on Rye is an outrageous dictionary style comedy of all the crazy things that women say. Its in your face and relentless with the dirty truth of how women really feel. Want to give the man in your life a few helpful hints? Or perhaps just a gag gift for your girlfriends? Either way this is one book you won't be able to put down.
Author : John A. Bayerl
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984571435
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Things Don’t Mean Anything Until They Mean Something written by John A. Bayerl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a “how to” book; rather, it is a “how it was” description of a man experiencing profound grief and gradually healing and moving toward learning to love again. Through vignettes and relevant poetry, the reader will become enmeshed in this account of lost love and the indomitable desire to love again. Death is seen not only as an ending, but also as an opportunity for a new beginning.
