Bittersweet Destiny

Author : Del Thiessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351292706
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bittersweet Destiny written by Del Thiessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittersweet Destiny combines discourse on the evolution of human behavior with a philosophical perspective. It explores evolutionary theory aimed at determining human behavior. Del Thiessen presents this material against the broad background of everyday life, allowing the reader to see the theory of evolution as it has shaped his or her own behavior. However, he points out that when evolutionary theory is aimed at human behavior, the critics object, and controversy results. Thiessen argues that nothing in our lives makes sense unless we look at it through a biological lens. We can thereby understand our origin, our affiliation with all animals and plants, and our cultural destination. However, we can also discover a dark side to our destiny—our favoritism to those who share our own genes, our ability to deceive, and our capacity for abuse, rape, and murder. Good, bad, and indifferent, we serve the replication of our DNA. Critics extrapolate evolutionary theory to a wide range of animal species, and even human morphology and physiology, but when the same perspective is applied to human behavior there is strong dissent. What these critics fear, according to Thiessen, is that accepting evolutionary notions about human behavior strikes at the heart of free will, self-determination, and social equality. Bittersweet Destiny describes the heroic efforts of naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace to unlock the secrets of evolution. It continues with a vivid description of our fossil history and our chance beginnings. From there the story implicates disease processes in evolution, highlights our rational and irrational nature, focuses on those characteristics of brain evolution and language that make us distinctive, and illustrates our most basic survival and reproductive mechanisms. Thiessen warns the reader that things are as they are no matter what we might wish; we ignore facts and controversy at our own risk. This book will be significant to anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and sociologists.

Author : Luanne Walden
Publisher : Diamond Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781557734730
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bittersweet Destiny written by Luanne Walden and published by Diamond Books (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rochelle Alers
Publisher : Kimani Press
ISBN 13 : 9781459208131
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Destiny written by Rochelle Alers and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A West Virginia mining community is a long way from Dr. Mia Eaton's Dallas hometown. But trading in her designer duds for flannel and jeans isn't such a major sacrifice. Not when the town has virile, off-the-charts-gorgeous Kenyon Chandler as their sheriff. Too bad he's as arrogant as can be…until the night he's injured in the line of duty. Ever since they met at her cousin Xavier's wedding, Kenyon hasn't been able to get Mia out of his mind. And once he's under the sultry Southerner's tender loving care, he knows he's lost. Kenyon gives her six months before she hightails it back home for the pampered life she left behind. Unless he can convince her that they are each other's sweet destiny…

Author : Delbert D. Thiessen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412816267
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociobiology Compendium written by Delbert D. Thiessen and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To demonstrate the point that much of what we "know" today about romantic love, criminality, creativity, and death has been known since the earliest times, the author compares current "scientific findings" in sociobiology with the highly entertaining "non-scientific" voices of poets, playwrights, and philosophers from Buddha to Shakespeare to Simone Weil and all points in between. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David Paul Ausubel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560002666
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ego written by David Paul Ausubel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ego Development and Psychopathology" presents an original theoretical underpinning for classification and interpretation of the major mental disorders, one based largely on the author's clinical experience. Ausubel's central thesis is that the most significant and crucial factors predisposing persons to mental disorders are critical developmental defects that arise at vital transitional phases of ego development. He sees both normal and pathological personality functioning as most cogently explained in terms of an individual's ego structure at a given point in the life cycle. Ausubel relates his developmental theory to the phenomenology and related clinical problems of psychiatric diagnosis. He classifies mental disorders in terms of their developmental history. Such factors, in his opinion, offer the most precise delineation of etiological, functional, and phenomenological similarities and differences among the various psychiatric syndromes. He provides an overview of ego development, as well as major variants of the norm. He also discusses development of conscience and moral values, as well as psychopathological considerations that follow from deficiencies, defects, failure, and distortions in ego development. He examines at length classification of mental disorders, such as anxiety states, psychotic depression and mania, schizophrenia, autism, antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders, and defense mechanisms. Ausubel is careful to point out that ego development is not the only significant determinant of normal and aberrant personality. Genetic predispositions, situational stress, and sociocultural factors must always be taken into consideration since mental disorder is always a product of multiple causality. However, he believes ego development is by far the most critical factor, and hence offers the most for classification of mental illness. This intriguing study will be of interest to professionals as well as educated and concerned practitioners in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, child psychotherapy, and social work.

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.TK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Votive Garlands written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danielle Forbes
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 164471549X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny written by Danielle Forbes and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny didn't grow up with a silver spoon in her mouth by any means. She was born to a single parent named Maureen - Maureen experienced things, that no young girl ever should. However, she was not going allow history to repeat itself. Maureen was determined to raise Destiny to be a child after Gods own heart, but when Destiny reaches her teenage years, she decides that she wants a different life for herself. That's when Destiny leaves life as she's known and returns to her old neighborhood, to show her "schoolgirl crush" Romeo, that she is no longer the little girl that lived across the hall; That is where life of the sweet choir girl ends, and all her problems begin. Get your tissues ready, as you prepare for an ending you never saw coming! Destiny is a must read! From start to finish, this book will grab you and never let you go! Destiny will have you on the edge of your seat! Danielle Forbes is brilliant as she tells a story that any parent, teenager and adolescent can relate to. Your heart will pound as you read the story of a single mother, solely depending on her faith in God to free her only child from the hands of a dangerous man, but Romeo isn't giving up that easily. He is determined to show Destiny how to survive and live life on the streets by any means necessary. Train up a child.... Proverbs 22:6

Author : Herbert David Croly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Republic written by Herbert David Croly and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1952 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Catherine Gebhard
Publisher : Unglued Books
ISBN 13 : 1952808014
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destroyed Destiny written by Mary Catherine Gebhard and published by Unglued Books. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is a MUST READ of 2020. A perfect ending to this beautifully broken and timeless couple that will live with me long after I’m done.” @aundi_living_that_book_life Our love broke the rules.⁠ From the first stolen kiss to the last, destiny put us at odds.⁠ Now four hearts are crossed, our happily ever afters tangled in heartache.⁠ The bed I’m in doesn’t belong to my thorny prince, but the one holding his crown hostage.⁠ If my destiny with Grayson Crowne is divided, then we’ll spend a lifetime finding our happily ever after.⁠ But if a house divided never stands, then my destiny with Grayson never stood a chance….maybe we don’t need to find our destiny.⁠ We need to destroy it.⁠ As we fight to write happily ever after, the ugliest truth holds it captive.⁠ The princess has a destiny with the villain too.⁠ Even if she hates it.⁠ Even when it’s wrong.⁠ Destroyed Destiny is the fourth book in the Crowne Point universe. You need to have read Stolen Soulmate and Forbidden Fate to read Destroyed Destiny.