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Author : Anastasia Higginbotham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948340397
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death Is Stupid written by Anastasia Higginbotham and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable tool for kids to discuss death, explore grief, and honor the life of loved ones.
Author : David Southwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569756935
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death by Stupidity written by David Southwell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories about people who died in bizarre and accidental ways, from a woman who drank herself to death with water to a convicted killer who turned his toliet into a homemade electric chair.
Author : C. John Sommerville
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087559X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book How the News Makes Us Dumb written by C. John Sommerville and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We who live at the end of the twentieth century are better informed--and more quickly informed--than any people in history. So why do we also seem more confused, divided and foolish than ever before? Some pundits criticize the news media for political bias. Other analysts worry that up-to-the-minute news reports on radio and television oversimplify complex realities. Still more critics point out that today's reporters can't possibly be experts on the wide variety of subjects they cover. Historian C. John Sommerville thinks the problem with news is more basic. Focusing his critique on the news at its best, he concludes that even at its best it is beyond repair. Sommerville argues that news began to make us dumber when we insisted on having it daily. Now millions of column inches and airtime hours must be filled with information--every day, every hour, every minute. The news, Sommerville says, becomes the driving force for much of our public culture. News schedules turn politics into a perpetual campaign. News packaging influences the timing, content and perception of government initiatives. News frenzies make a superstition out of scientific and medical research. News polls and statistics create opinion as much as they gauge it. Lost in the tidal wave of information is our ability to discern truly significant news--and our ability to recognize and participate in true community. This eye-opening book is for everyone dissatisfied with the state of the news media, but especially for those who think the news really informs them about and connects them with the real world. Read it and you may never again know the tyranny of the daily newspaper or the nightly news broadcast.
Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Amusing Ourselves to Death written by Neil Postman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Author : Adam Ruben
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307589455
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School written by Adam Ruben and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad students, and their salvation has arrived in this witty look at the low points of grad school. Inside, you’ll find: • advice on maintaining a veneer of productivity in front of your advisor • tips for sleeping upright during boring seminars • a description of how to find which departmental events have the best unguarded free food • how you can convincingly fudge data and feign progress This hilarious guide to surviving and thriving as the lowliest of life-forms—the grad student—will elaborate on all of these issues and more.
Author : Shane Parrish
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593719972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.
Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1570984514
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death in Yellowstone written by Lee H. Whittlesey and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly—from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.
Author : Neil Postman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780440015543
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk written by Neil Postman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to reduce ridiculous communication so that verbal behavior will not be an excessive burden.
Author : Jesse Bullington
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316123307
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Enterprise of Death written by Jesse Bullington and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.
Author : John Corso
Publisher : High Lakes PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 0978992210
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stupid Reasons People Die written by John Corso and published by High Lakes PressLlc. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. John Corso's entertaining yet serious new non-fiction book, Stupid Reasons People Die, An Ingenious Plot For Defusing Deadly Diseases, illuminates why thousands of people die in the prime of life, from easily preventable causes, and how you can avoid becoming one of them. Most people do not know the scope of life-saving technology available to them, because it is not on their menu of medical benefits and may never be mentioned by their physicians. Vital tests and treatments too often remain unknown and unused. With stinging candor and wry humor, this page-turner lays out exactly which screenings and treatments you should consider and how to gain the control and knowledge needed to get the best that modern medicine has to offer. This book is a survival guide, a “get-smart, take-charge, how-to” book on diffusing your own medical time bomb. When someone dies before their time from heart attack, stroke, cancer, or other natural cause, it represents a failure on the part of the patient, the doctors, and the healthcare system to detect these diseases and intervene when they were easily curable. The book explores why we are failing so often, and it exposes the blind spots and traps inherent in our healthcare system, our culture, and in our own minds. It explains clearly what you can do to make sure you and your loved ones avoid them. It offers a logical yet radically different view from what most of us believe to be healthy vs. unhealthy and explores how we are focusing our efforts towards longevity on the wrong things. This is not another "eat-right, get-fit, lose-weight" guilt trip. Nor is it "twenty more secrets that your doctor doesn't want you to know." Engaging and comprehensive, you will learn the things that actually work. The state-of-the-art knowledge, imaging, medications and more, that identify and stop our most common killers before they can hurt us, all presented by a straight-talking doctor with two decades experience on the front lines of medical practice. Dr. Corso uncovers the obstacles we face in preventing needless illness or death: our widespread but outdated medical myths, our misunderstanding of sensationalized media and advertising claims, and an inert, gridlocked healthcare system which, when taken together, will confuse even the brightest people and interfere with effective management of their health. You will become immune to scare tactics meant to boost ratings instead of inform the viewer, and you will no longer be affected by advertising claims geared to sell product at all cost. This book cuts through the rhetoric and delivers the best in preventive health information. It saves lives. Stupid Reasons People Die first explores the peculiar relationship between emotion, language, and behavior and uncovers the power behind our most common medical buzzwords. It demonstrates how we behave more on the basis of subliminal feelings than on rational thought. For example, we see how the misguided notion that "all natural" means "all healthy" proves that a great marketing angle can have disastrous consequences. Enter the media and advertising industries coupled with our cultural love-hate relationship with technology, and we see how our confusion and fear over medical issues has become blinding. Finally, our impossible expectations of healthcare, insurance, and government entitlements are exposed and put to rest, allowing us to trade our dependent and passive relationships with these institutions for one that we can actively put to use on our behalf. Part two moves into specific medical issues, focusing on the diseases we need to seek out early and stop, and how we go about doing so. Explanations of heart attack, aneurysm, cancers of the colon, lung, prostate, breast, esophagus and bladder, the deadly effects of chronic sleep apnea, osteoporosis, and many more are presented in easy and enjoyable layman's language but in-depth enough to satisfy the demanding reader.
