Turnings

Author : William Strauss
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767900464
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Turning written by William Strauss and published by Crown. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

Author : Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022650588X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrong Turnings written by Geoffrey M. Hodgson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state intervention and public ownership, but this has little in common with the original meaning of the term. What caused what we mean by the Left to change, and how has that hindered progress? With Wrong-Turnings, Geoffrey M. Hodgson tracks changes in the meaning of the Left and offers suggestions for how the Left might reclaim some of its core values. The term Left originated during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries sought to abolish the monarchy and privilege and to introduce a new society based on liberty, equality, fraternity, and universal rights. Over time, however, the meaning radically changed, especially through the influence of socialism and collectivism. Hodgson argues that the Left must rediscover its roots in the Enlightenment and readopt Enlightenment values it has abandoned, such as those concerning democracy and universal human rights. Only then will it be prepared to address contemporary problems of inequality and the survival of democracy. Possible measures could include enhanced educational provisions, a guaranteed basic income, and a viable mechanism for fair distribution of wealth. Wrong-Turnings is a truly pathbreaking work from one of our most prolific and respected institutional theorists. It will change our understanding of how the left got lost.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743298772
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turning written by Tim Winton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia. Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds—changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Black Irish Entertainment LLC
ISBN 13 : 1936891050
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Pro written by Steven Pressfield and published by Black Irish Entertainment LLC. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to his bestseller The War of Art, Turning Pro navigates the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice. "You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind." --Steven Pressfield TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT'S NOT EASY. When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own. TURNING PRO IS FREE, BUT IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE. The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro. WHAT WE GET WHEN WE TURN PRO. What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

Author : Barbara Dill
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764355349
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multi-Axis Spindle Turning written by Barbara Dill and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the art of multi-axis spindle turning! This book offers a strategy for understanding multi-axis turning and the many options available to create unique forms. Dill, a self-professed "experimental turner," takes readers step by step through this complex area of turning. Working in multiple axes on a spindle can be confusing, but as Dill teaches the "hows" of turning spindles as systematic building blocks for future work, turners can finally make this skill their own. Hundreds of photos and diagrams offer detailed guidance, and explain the variables--axis placement, profile, orientation of the new axis to the center axis, and so on--and how they apply to each "quadrant" of multi-axis work. Split and thermed turning methods, planning tips, tricks of the trade, and a three-sided cup or vase project help you succeed. Concepts come to life as Dill shows examples of not only her work, but the work of other expert turners.

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144916
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turnings written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Dr Lal's refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern rationality. The volume poses the question of how people draw upon historical memory and immediate circumstances to create a social world, and how that world can be shared with others in multicultural society. The answer seems to lie somewhere between history and poetry, as in Dr Lal's 'factions'.

Author : William Johnson Everett
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725248158
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turnings written by William Johnson Everett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like works in wood upon a lathe, these poems are word-turnings that reveal the inner grain of our human experience. They are bowls to catch our turnings of memory, conversion, falling in love, and passing through our seasons and the wrenching turns that mark our lives. Above all these turnings are a shout of praise, a murmur of wonder, a turning away from life as usual, a merciful re-turning to the songs, images, and stories that move our lives.

Author : Ernest Yates
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514472864
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turnings written by Ernest Yates and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Ernest Yatess ninth volume of poems, and the sixth volume in an ongoing cycle based on his wanderings through the streets of Philadelphia. Yatess turns through city streets recall the wilderness wanderings of Bash in 17th-century Japan, and especially the wanderings of the rivers and mountains poets of the Tang and pre-Tang dynasties of China. Receptive to his terrain as they were to theirs, Yates relies on syncopated rhythms, fragmentation, and abrupt rhetorical turns to capture his responses to that terrain. A portrait of Philadelphia emerges?its diverse citizenry, streetscape, and history, as these are revealed in phenomena of the streets themselves.

Author : R. M. Jimeson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pressure-drop Measurements Through Beds of Granular Iron, Lathe Turnings, Steel Wool, and Parallel-plate Assemblies written by R. M. Jimeson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joeri Schrijvers
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438438958
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontotheological Turnings? written by Joeri Schrijvers and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores and critiques the so-called “decentering of the subject” in French phenomenology.