What It Is, Why It's a Problem, and What You Can Do About It
Drawing on the latest theory and research, this book explains why people procrastinate, and provides practical, evidence-based strategies to help you stop delaying, complete your tasks, and fulfill your potential.
This book discusses ten philosophical perspectives, or worldviews, which present original ideas capable of evoking in us values that are guidelines for personal conduct. Harmonising knowledge, values and conduct maximises our personal power and thereby enables us to solve the practical and psychological problems of human existence, or overcome ......
Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology
In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild. In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo articulates how Thoreau was enmeshed in a decades-spanning project of crafting a theology of wildness. During Thoreau's ......
Linda and Dale are on the road again, measuring their journey not in miles, but in adventures. Once more accompanied by their two-dimensional companions and with God as their copilot, they are off to replenish jewelry-making supplies and inventory in Arizona for their summer shows in the Northeast. Just getting out of their driveway in Bliss ......
Sources of Significance confronts consumer capitalism and religious fundamentalism as symptoms of death denial and degenerated cultural heroisms. Advancing and synthesizing the ideas of Ernest Becker, Kenneth Burke, Hans Jonas, Erving Goffman, Antoine de Saint-ExupA (c)ry, and Epictetus, this multidisciplinary work offers a sustained response and ......
Logic is the skill that enables humans to think clearly, accurately, and rigorously and so to draw only the inferences that the evidence warrants. This book deals with sentential and predicate logic, as well as inductive and scientific reasoning, including inference to the best explanation.
The Persistence of Primitive Thinking in a Modern World
While science offers a wealth of rational explanations for natural phenomena, we often prefer to embrace the fantasies that reassured our distant ancestors. This book encourages us to transcend the mental default settings and tribal loyalties that worked well for our ancestors back in the Pleistocene age.
This 4 page laminated study guide contains fundamental logic definitions and analysis which is specifically designed to aid science students. Topics covered include: basic elements, truth table & tree methods, rules of inference & replacements, forms of statements, enthymemes, sorites and much more.
