The Comparison

Author : Lucy Sheridan
Publisher : Spring
ISBN 13 : 9781409191223
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comparison Cure written by Lucy Sheridan and published by Spring. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We know it's silly and harmful to compare ourselves to others, but that doesn't mean we know how to stop doing it. Luckily, with her brilliant book The Comparison Cure, Lucy Sheridan gives us a road map to reclaiming ourselves.' Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k ___________ Lucy Sheridan, the world's first and only comparison coach, has helped thousands of people go from compare and despair to #comparisonfree, and now she has condensed all of that liberating knowledge into The Comparison Cure. With a three-step tried and tested methodology to help you improve your self-worth and self-confidence (#1 recognise the symptoms; #2 start practising the remedies; and #3 keep your good new habits going), you will soon be able to let go of procrastination and start living a comparison-free life. Packed full of tips, examples and exercises to help you take back control of who you are and what you want, this positive and empowering book is the timely and necessary antidote we all need to the toxic comparison culture we're living in.

Author : Joe Deville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993144943
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practising Comparison written by Joe Deville and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often becomes more burdensome, more complex, and more questions are asked of it. How, then, do social scientists compare? What role do funders, their tools, and databases play in social scientific comparisons? Which sorts of objects do they choose to compare and how do they decide which comparisons are meaningful? Doing comparison in the social sciences, it emerges, is a practice weighed down by a history in which comparison was seen as problematic. As it plays out in the present, this history encounters a range of other agents also involved in doing comparison who may challenge the comparisons of social scientists themselves. This book introduces these questions through a varied range of reports, auto-ethnographies, and theoretical interventions that compare and analyse these different and often intersecting comparisons. Its goal is to begin a move away from the critique of comparison and towards a better comparative practice, guided not by abstract principles, but a deeper understanding of the challenges of practising comparison.

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374226
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value of Comparison written by Peter van der Veer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad social theories they rely on to task for their inability to question Western cultural presuppositions, demonstrating that anthropology's comparative approach provides a better means to understand societies. This capacity stems from anthropology's engagement with diversity, its fragmentary approach to studying social life, and its ability to translate difference between cultures. Through essays on topics as varied as iconoclasm, urban poverty, Muslim immigration, and social exclusion van der Veer highlights the ways that studying the particular and the unique allows for gaining a deeper knowledge of the whole without resorting to simple generalizations that elide and marginalize difference.

Author : Shannon Popkin
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 082544621X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparison Girl written by Shannon Popkin and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women compare constantly--on social media, in their neighborhood, at church, even in the school drop-off lane. They glance sideways and ask themselves, "How do I measure up?" All this assessment feels like a natural way of finding a place in the world. But it pulls them into feelings of inferiority or superiority, guiding them into a trap of antagonism by the enemy. Satan would like women to strive to measure up, constantly adding to a tally sheet that can't ever be balanced. The way of Jesus is completely upside down from that philosophy. Instead, he says the last shall be first--and the greatest are those who empty themselves, lay down their lives, and serve each other. Through conversations Jesus had and parables he shared, Shannon Popkin has created a seven-week Bible study to address this tendency to compare and judge ourselves and others. Each chapter is divided into lessons, allowing women on a time budget to read a Bible passage, engage in a complete train of thought related to the topic, and then make the content personal--all in one sitting. And the informal teaching tone will make women feel like they're meeting with a trusted friend. Suited for both individual and group study, Comparison Girl will guide women to leave their measure-up ways behind, connect with those around them, and break free from the shackles of comparison!

Author : Matei Candea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474608
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparison in Anthropology written by Matei Candea and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

Author : HELEN ROBERTS
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281083363
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comparison Trap written by HELEN ROBERTS and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, women hold each other back, bad mouthing and making unflattering comparisons. Social media give extra opportunities for negative comment. Are we trapped in our own battles, or entertained by the wars of other women, to the detriment of our own freedom and well-being? What would happen, asks Helen Roberts, if women ceased to compete and compare? What if we settled our conflicts and resolved instead to champion one another? To celebrate each other’s victories? Helen explores the complexities of female relationships in workplaces, families and friendship circles, using contemporary, historical, personal and biblical examples. She investigates Scripture to see how, through the work of the Holy Spirit, we can cease the all-too-frequent “she wars”. She helps us recognise our own destructive tendencies and establish healthy habits which will enable women and their relationships to thrive. This will help us live more confidently as the daughters the Father intends us to be, free from envy or comparison.

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409127
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparison written by Rita Felski and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities. Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? Comparison expands upon a special issue of the journal New Literary History, which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.

Author : Lucy Sheridan
Publisher : Orion Spring
ISBN 13 : 1409191230
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comparison Cure written by Lucy Sheridan and published by Orion Spring. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We know it's silly and harmful to compare ourselves to others, but that doesn't mean we know how to stop doing it. Luckily, with her brilliant book The Comparison Cure, Lucy Sheridan gives us a road map to reclaiming ourselves.' Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k The 'Queen of self-worth' Adwoa Aboah ___________ Lucy Sheridan, the world's first and only comparison coach, has helped thousands of people go from compare and despair to #comparisonfree, and now she has condensed all of that liberating knowledge into The Comparison Cure. With a three-step tried and tested methodology to help you improve your self-worth and self-confidence (#1 recognise the symptoms; #2 start practising the remedies; and #3 keep your good new habits going), you will soon be able to let go of procrastination and start living a comparison-free life. Packed full of tips, examples and exercises to help you take back control of who you are and what you want, this positive and empowering book is the timely and necessary antidote we all need to the toxic comparison culture we're living in.

Author : Heleno Bolfarine
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030579352
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regression Models for the Comparison of Measurement Methods written by Heleno Bolfarine and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an updated account of the regression techniques employed in comparing analytical methods and to test the biases of one method relative to others – a problem commonly found in fields like analytical chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine. Methods comparison involves a non-standard regression problem; when a method is to be tested in a laboratory, it may be used on samples of suitable reference material, but frequently it is used with other methods on a range of suitable materials whose concentration levels are not known precisely. By presenting a sound statistical background not found in other books for the type of problem addressed, this book complements and extends topics discussed in the current literature. It highlights the applications of the presented techniques with the support of computer routines implemented using the R language, with examples worked out step-by-step. This book is a valuable resource for applied statisticians, practitioners, laboratory scientists, geostatisticians, process engineers, geologists and graduate students.

Author : Tomasz Downarowicz
Publisher : American Mathematical Society
ISBN 13 : 1470455870
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Extensions of Amenable Group Actions and the Comparison Property written by Tomasz Downarowicz and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View the abstract.