Lifes Operating Manual

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : Collins Harvill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, a User's Manual written by Georges Perec and published by Collins Harvill Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a Paris apartment block, this novel describes in minute detail the lives of the inhabitants and the apartments they inhabit at a specific moment in time.

Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509526684
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life written by Didier Fassin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approaches? Using research conducted on three continents and engaging in critical dialogue with Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Foucault, Didier Fassin attempts to do so by developing three concepts: forms of life, ethics of life, and politics of life. In the conditions of refugees and asylum seekers, in the light of mortality statistics and death benefits, and via a genealogical and ethnographical inquiry, the moral economy of life reveals troubling tensions in the way contemporary societies treat human beings. Once the pieces of this anthropological composition are assembled, like in Georges Perec’s jigsaw puzzle, an image appears: that of unequal lives.

Author : R. Buckminster Fuller
Publisher : Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth written by R. Buckminster Fuller and published by Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future. Description by Lars Muller Publishers, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller

Author : Wendy Hobson
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788880498
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life Manual written by Wendy Hobson and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a lot to know when it comes to taking care of yourself and your home - often it takes years of experience to accumulate all this knowledge. In this handy little book, Wendy Hobson offers you a shortcut by compiling all the little tidbits that no one teaches you at school. There are so many tried and tested tricks to make your life simpler, easier, and more enjoyable. You'll find essential advice on everything from de-cluttering, laundry, gardening, and recycling to dietary advice, mindfulness, DIY, and how to cut costs and save cash.

Author : Julian Baggini
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 152910453X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life: A User's Manual written by Julian Baggini and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should I live? What is my purpose? Can I find happiness? Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B. Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path. In this insightful, engaging book, renowned existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre. Discover advice from the world's greatest thinkers on questions like: Is there a right way to grieve? What is free will? How can we learn from past mistakes? Do we make our own luck?

Author : Tom Shadyac
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401945236
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's Operating Manual written by Tom Shadyac and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just about everything today comes with an operating manual—from your computer to your car, from your cell phone to your iPad. Is it possible that Life comes with an operating manual as well? That’s the simple but powerful premise of Tom Shadyac’s inspiring and provocative first book. Written as a series of essays and dialogues, we are invited into a conversation that is both challenging and empowering. The question now is, can we discern what is written inside this operating manual and garner the courage to live in accordance with its precepts?

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358212103
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words Are My Matter written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In "Freedom," Le Guin notes: "Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now ... to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality." Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.

Author : Tom Shadyac
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401943519
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's Operating Manual written by Tom Shadyac and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just about everything today comes with an operating manual—from your computer to your car, from your cell phone to your iPad. Is it possible that Life comes with an operating manual as well? That’s the simple but powerful premise of Tom Shadyac’s inspiring and provocative first book. Written as a series of essays and dialogues, we are invited into a conversation that is both challenging and empowering. The question now is, can we discern what is written inside this operating manual and garner the courage to live in accordance with its precepts?

Author : David Bellos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0865478724
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is That a Fish in Your Ear? written by David Bellos and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.

Author : Dean Piper
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595288839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Said Life Doesn't Come With an Owner's Manual? written by Dean Piper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you reached a point of feeling like you are not living the life of your dreams? Have you forgotten that you were born in this world to pursue Success, Freedom, and Happiness? We get caught up in society's infestation of negativity, and, in turn, throw away our hopes and dreams. As a result, we stray from the path of success and settle for mediocrity or even worse. Success is a simple formula. Unfortunately, the simplest task becomes difficult to achieve without the proper instructions. Everything you buy in life comes with instructions, yet the most important instruction manual in life is the one you did not have. Many people often wish that life came with an owner's manual. Well, here it is! This book will provide you with the answers you have been searching for all your life. Together, we will create a simple game plan for living the life of your dreams. Get ready. I am about to take you on an exciting journey of ten simple steps designed to provide you with the secret formula for your Success, Freedom, and Happiness. Success is your mission. Freedom is your reward. Happiness is the result.