First World Problems

Author : Ben Nesvig
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781468104622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First World Problems written by Ben Nesvig and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have nothing to drink except an unlimited supply of tap water? Have you ever bought so much food at the grocery store that it molded before you could eat it? Did you buy an iPhone one week before the new model was announced? You have First World Problems. First World Problems: 101 Reasons Why The Terrorists Hate Us is a collection of satirical essays and rants from a man who knows suffering.

Author : Streeter Seidell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440557144
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Whine written by Streeter Seidell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how good you have it--there's always something to whine about White Whine chronicles the everyday difficulties that plague our lives. From having too much food to eat and desperately needing the latest version of the iPhone to the ever-present inconvenience of having a vacation interrupted by a natural disaster, this book is your opportunity to vent your unrelenting hardships. You'll recoil in disbelief at all the injustices in the world and recall your own experiences of losing faith in everything around you. Whether you feel helpless when your phone charger won't reach your bed or you're just pissed your boat won't be ready for Memorial Day, you will enjoy pounding out your first-world problems with White Whine.

Author : Michael Easter
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 0593138775
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comfort Crisis written by Michael Easter and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.

Author : Mariah Bear
Publisher : Weldon Owen
ISBN 13 : 9781616284107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First World Problems written by Mariah Bear and published by Weldon Owen. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who has time to read anymore? We’re all tweeting, Facebooking, and texting...when we’re not sexting, of course. On the other hand, who has time to find the funniest tagged items out there...and make them even more awesome, LoLCat style? This fast, funny, colorful book riffs off of one of the most popular trending hashtags on Twitter...#firstworldproblems, those complaints like, “My iPad cord doesn’t fit my iPhone!” “I can’t figure out my Ikea furniture,” and “There’s no 3G in my bathroom.” The perfect insta-gift for the inveterate twitterer in your life. Or anyone who appreciates an edgy right-now sense of humor. Funny photographic treatments of one of the Web’s most popular and long-standing memes (unlike some here-today-gone-tomorrow tags, #firstworldproblems shows up as a popular tag year after year). Each spread illustrates a funny statement or problem, in a way that’s familiar to addicts of the incredibly popular I Can Has Cheeseburger, Failblog, and other funny-photo sites. These are different in that they feature a captivating quirky design, and content created especially for the format.

Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139469231
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems written by Bjørn Lomborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if all governments were willing to spend more money on solving the problems, we cannot do it all at once. We have to prioritize; and in order to do this we need a better sense of the costs and benefits of each 'solution'. This book offers a rigorous overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the analysis and sketch out policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios. A unique feature is the provision of freely downloadable software which allows readers to make their own cost-benefit calculations for spending money to make the world a better place.

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473560667
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First World Cat Problems written by and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being woken from an 8-hour nap by a car alarm. Fed tuna for dinner two days in a row. Going outside, only to realise instantly you want to be inside. Catching your owner looking at other cats on the internet. Losing your favourite toy under the sofa, and only having 64 others to choose from. This is just a handful of the many problems faced every day by a first-world cat. This book is finally giving him a voice. Because yes, the cat may have got the cream. But it probably wasn’t Waitrose extra thick double cream. And that’s the only kind he likes.

Author : Walter Dodds
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030304108
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Worst Problems written by Walter Dodds and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The book presents indices of problem severity to compare relative intensity of current and potential crises. The approach avoids emotional argument using mainly empirical evidence to support the classification of relative problem severity. The author discusses multiple global problems and ranks them. He also explores specific solutions to each problem, links problems to human behavior from a social science perspective, considers international cooperation, and finally pathways to solutions. The book discusses confirmation bias and why this necessitates a scientific approach to tackle problems. The moral assumption that each person has the same rights to life and minimal suffering, and that the natural world has a right to exist, forms the basis of ranking problems based on death, suffering, and harm to the natural world. A focus is given to potential disasters such as asteroid collisions and super-volcanic eruptions, which are then presented in chapters that address specific contemporary global issues including disease, hunger, nuclear weapons and climate change. Furthermore the author then ranks the problems based on an index of problem severity, considering what other people think the worst problems are. The relative economic costs to solve each of these problems, individual behavior in the face of these problems, how people could work together internationally to combat them, and a general pathway toward solutions form the basis of the final chapters. This work will appeal to a wide range of readers, students considering how they can help the world, and scientists and policy makers interested in global problem solving./div

Author : Union of International Associations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783598112256
Total Pages : 1272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential written by Union of International Associations and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zina O′Leary
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446235580
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researching Real-World Problems written by Zina O′Leary and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perfect book for any student new to Research Methods. It is brilliantly written, witty, and always easy to understand. Taking as her starting point the need for students to conduct research for themselves in the ′real world′, Zina O′Leary guides those new to research through the whys and how-tos of the entire research process. Always student-focused, this book offers a hands on and practical guide to the research process from the initial process of coming up with a good question, via methods of gathering information, through to the writing process itself. Researching Real-World Problems: - Makes the entire research process a meaningful experience - Provides a jargon-busting hands-on guide to the entire research process - Is illustrated throughout with real-life examples - Speaks directly to the needs of the new researcher - Locates the researcher and research process at heart of a complex web of social structures O′Leary draws her examples from the full range of the Social Sciences, and this is the perfect text for any student in Health, Education or Applied Social Science.

Author : Roger Covin
Publisher : Dr. Roger Covin
ISBN 13 : 0986957801
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Need to be Liked written by Roger Covin and published by Dr. Roger Covin. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone has a fundamental need to be liked by other people. It is a healthy and normal part of life. However, the need to be liked can also be associated with emotional, behavioural and even personality problems. The Need to be Liked is a book that explores the dark side of this human need. The author (Dr. Roger Covin) is a clinical psychologist who weaves together psychological research with his own clinical experiences in order to present a unique and original way of thinking about the need to be liked. Drawing on research and theory from various fields of psychology, Dr. Covin explains how people's experience with painful rejection shapes their way of thinking about themselves and others. Readers will learn how problems with the need to be liked can lead to depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns. Dr. Covin describes how the need to be liked expresses itself in numerous ways, ranging from subtle behaviours to aspects of one's overall personality. For example, the need to be liked can affect... ...being overly career-driven ...alcohol and drug use ...promiscuity ...one's excessive focus on appearance ...the decision to remain in an abusive relationship ...rumination about past relationships ...being overly self-critical or perfectionistic ...continually entering into relationships where you find the wrong partner ...sabotaging relationships Finally, Dr. Covin provides useful strategies and suggestions for how to manage problems with needing to be liked and dealing with rejection. The Need to be Liked is a fascinating and timely examination of a topic that affects the vast majority of people. Grounded in current research and theory, and articulated through Dr. Covin's experiences as a therapist, this book is a must read for those who have ever wondered - why do I need to be liked?