Tag: Pursuit

Free Download Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Richard Fortey
English | September 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 000863968X | 336 pages | True EPUB | 33.75 MB
The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations, fungi don’t obey rules. They pop up unbidden and often dressed in curious reds and greens.

Free Download Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Richard Fortey
English | September 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 000863968X | 336 pages | True EPUB | 33.75 MB
The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations, fungi don’t obey rules. They pop up unbidden and often dressed in curious reds and greens.

Free Download Kuruma Samezo, "In Pursuit of Marx’s Theory of Crisis "
English | ISBN: 9004703225 | 2024 | 492 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Karl Marx wrote extensively on crisis but never presented a coherent theory of crisis. Samezo Kuruma, a Japanese Marxian economist, sets out to complete Marx’s unfinished theory, drawing on Capital and other works. This volume gathers all of Kuruma’s writings related to crisis.

Free Download In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo’s Daughter by Mark Bostridge
English | June 6, 2024 | ISBN: 1399416022 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 5.2 MB
From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later.

Free Download Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity) by Albert M. Camarillo
English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1503638197 | 312 pages | True EPUB | 10.83 MB
Lessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations

Free Download The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being By Daniel M. Haybron
2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0199592462 | PDF | 4 MB
The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren’t very good at it? That is the question posed by this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness, understood here as a psychological phenomenon. Engaging heavily with the scientific literature, Dan Haybron argues that people probably know less about their own welfare, and may be less effective at securing it, than common belief has it. This is largely because human nature is surprisingly ill-suited to the pursuit of happiness. For the happiness that counts for well-being is not a matter of what we think about our lives, but of the quality of our emotional conditions. Yet our emotional lives are remarkably difficult to grasp. Moreover, we make a variety of systematic errors in the pursuit of happiness. These considerations suggest that we should rethink traditional assumptions about the good life and the good society. For instance, the pursuit of happiness may be primarily a matter of social context rather than personal choice. This book offers an extensive guide to philosophical thinking about happiness and well-being, correcting serious misconceptions that have beset the literature. It will be a definitive resource for philosophers, social scientists, policymakers, and other students of well-being.

Free Download In Pursuit of Excellence – 4th Edition By Terry Orlick
2007 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0736067574 | EPUB | 4 MB
Reach your potential! Whether you are an athlete, a coach, or a promising high achiever in another walk of life, In Pursuit of Excellence provides the expert advice and proven techniques to help you fulfill your aspirations. Author Terry Orlick, an internationally acclaimed sport psychologist, has helped hundreds of Olympic and professional athletes maximize their performances and achieve their goals. In this fourth edition, Orlick provides new insights and a powerful step-by-step plan for you to develop your own personal path to excellence.You’ll learn to focus for excellence and high-quality living. You’ll gain a more positive outlook, a more focused commitment, better ways of dealing with distractions, and strategies for overcoming obstacles. You’ll also achieve greater personal and professional satisfaction and discover better ways to work with teammates, respond more effectively to coaching, and become more self-directed in your thoughts and actions.Both practical and inspirational, In Pursuit of Excellence is a guide to daily living and motivation as well as a road map to long-term achievement. Read it, use it, and win with it-on and off the field.

Free Download Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization: Is More Always Better? By Hilke Brockmann, Jan Delhey (auth.), Hilke Brockmann, Jan Delhey (eds.)
2013 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 9400766084 | PDF | 4 MB
This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies. These societies, defined as affluent capitalist societies, emphasize competition and success both institutionally and culturally. Growing affluence improves life in many ways, for a large number of people. We lead longer, safer, and more comfortable lives than previous generations. But we also live faster, and are competition-toughened, like top athletes. As a result, we suspect limits and detect downsides of our high-speed lives. The ubiquitous maximization principle opens up a systematic gateway to the pleasures and pains of contemporary life. Using happiness as a reference point, this book explores the philosophical and empirical limits of the maximization rule. It considers the answer to questions such as: Precisely, why did the idea of (economic) maximization gain so much ground in our Western way of thinking? When, and in which life domains, does maximization work, when does it fail? When do qualities and when do quantities matter? Does maximization yield a different (un)happiness dividend in different species, cultures, and societies? ​

Free Download Tony Armstrong Ph.D, "Educating Angels: Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness (Volume 9) "
English | ISBN: 1624910130 | 2013 | 288 pages | EPUB | 565 KB
What sort of education would be worthy of angels? Tony Armstrong argues it would be an education focused on helping them achieve their deepest aspiration: happiness. Contemporary education ignores the question of children’s happiness. Schools aren’t in the happiness business. For the most part, they’re in the preparing-workers business. Children are treated more as means to economic ends than as ends in themselves in today’s schools.

Free Download In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY3HQSQ6 | 2024 | 11 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 316 MB
Author: Christina Ford
Narrator: Christina Ford
Prince Charming? Happily Ever After? Childhood Fairy Tales Are Full of Promises, but the Reality – Life – is a Very Different Story. And That Story Has a Hell of a Lot to Teach Us. Writing with searing honesty, wry humour and endless warmth, Christina Ford takes us on a real-life Sex and the City-like journey as she looks back on four decades of dates, loves, marriages, friends, frenemies, affairs, divorces, parenting disasters and step-parenting nightmares. Bravely and candidly, she shares heartrending details of the betrayal and hurt caused by the end of her marriage, shows how she overcame her fears about starting again and lets us in on the secret of the perfectly timed fling that was more effective than years of therapy.