A Reason To Be

A Reason To Be

Author: Cissy Hassell

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0991356683

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He blew into her life like dust on the wind. From that moment on her life irrevocably changed. For one month, one month when spring fills the air with the scent of flowers, they love on borrowed time. Then, when time runs out, all that is left of him is a lifetime of loneliness filled with memories. The decision she makes forever haunts her. She sends the one love of her life away because it is the thing to do. Life had intervened with love. Priorities. Responsibilities. Obligations. A widow with two children to raise. It is the only choice she can make. And now, each year, when spring rolls around, when flowers are in full bloom, she sits under the stars, and remembers. The decision she makes forever haunts her. She sends the one love of her life away because it is the thing to do. Life had intervened with love. Priorities. Responsibilities. Obligations. A widow with two children to raise. It is the only choice she can make. And now, each year, when spring rolls around, when flowers are in full bloom, she sits under the stars, and remembers. The decision she makes forever haunts her. She sends the one love of her life away because it is the thing to do. Life had intervened with love. Priorities. Responsibilities. Obligations. A widow with two children to raise. It is the only choice she can make. And now, each year, when spring rolls around, when flowers are in full bloom, she sits under the stars, and remembers. The decision she makes forever haunts her. She sends the one love of her life away because it is the thing to do. Life had intervened with love. Priorities. Responsibilities. Obligations. A widow with two children to raise. It is the only choice she can make. And now, each year, when spring rolls around, when flowers are in full bloom, she sits under the stars, and remembers.


A Reason to Be

A Reason to Be

Author: Norman McCombs

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1626347344

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An epic tale beginning in 15th-century Scotland and flowing through time to modern-day New York, A Reason to Be is a tale of loss, hope, and the transcendent power of the love that bind us to one another. Douglas McCombs is an accomplished engineer and recent widower driven to discover the truth of who he is by studying the people and places he comes from. After losing his wife to a battle with Alzheimer’s, Douglas is left devastated until a chance encounter with a sharp, compassionate librarian named Suzy Hamilton on the steps of the New York Public Library shakes him from the throes of grief. ​With Suzy’s help, Douglas takes up genealogy and begins an investigation into his Scottish lineage that takes the reader on a sprawling journey through time and the remarkable lives of Douglas’s ancestors—from legendary highland clan chiefs and American war generals to humble farmers and family men. As he traces his ancestry through the generations, Douglas manages to discover not only the roots he was searching for, but also a brand-new reason to be.


Happy for No Reason

Happy for No Reason

Author: Marci Shimoff

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1416547738

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Everyone wants to be happy--yet so many people are unhappy today. What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach is needed. Self-help guru Shimoff presents three new ideas and a practical program to change the way readers look at creating happiness in their lives: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria, but a lasting, neuro-physiological state of peace and well-being. 2. True happiness is not based on what people do or have--it doesn't depend on external reasons or circumstances. 3. Research indicates that everyone has a happiness set-point. No matter what happens to a person, they will tend to return to a set range of happiness. This book shows how you can actually reprogram your set-point to a higher level.--From publisher description.


Every Reason to Be a Christian

Every Reason to Be a Christian

Author: Byron Bledsoe

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2006-06

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1600342043

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Bledsoe offers a comprehensive and compelling case for Christianity. Extensive, intense, and scholarly, the text contains more than 1,400 Bible and 235 other references. (Social Issues)


Reason to Be Happy

Reason to Be Happy

Author: Kaushik Basu

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2024-01-18

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1529905893

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'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah Fry Why do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes to our life expectancy, should we still go jogging? The ability to reason is one of our most undervalued skills. In everyday life, the key is to put yourself in the shoes of a clever competitor and think about how they might respond. Whether you are dealing with events on the scale of the Cuban missile crisis or letting go of anger, leading economist Professor Kaushik Basu shows how game theory - the logic of social situations - can help us achieve better outcomes and lasting happiness. Full of fascinating thought experiments and puzzles, Reason to Be Happy is a paean to the power of rationality. If you want to have a good life and even make the world a better place, you can start by thinking clearly.


There Must Be a Reason

There Must Be a Reason

Author: Myrna Swart

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0595470017

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Carol's gripping story begins 29 years ago when, as a teenager, she asks to have her nose surgically altered. But before plastic surgery can be performed, her world comes crashing down around her when she receives shocking news-she has a rare disease, Wegener's granulomatosis. Though the treatments take their toll on her body, and the disease ironically changes the shape of her nose, Carol refuses to let it destroy her spirit. Meanwhile, her mother's persistent efforts to find information and support for herself led to today's international Vasculitis Foundation. Learn how to make the healthcare system work for you. Find out the value of second opinions and how a positive attitude can save your sanity. See how compassionate relationships are vital to this patient's recovery. Told through the eyes of her mother, Myrna, this moving and personal story, which details their journey from darkness to hope, is not only inspiring but a valuable source of information for anyone touched by a serious chronic illness.


The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

Author: Stephen Mark Gardiner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 0199941335

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.


Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge

Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge

Author: Julia Tanney

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0674071727

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Julia Tanney offers a sustained criticism of today’s canon in philosophy of mind, which conceives the workings of the rational mind as the outcome of causal interactions between mental states that have their bases in the brain. With its roots in physicalism and functionalism, this widely accepted view provides the philosophical foundation for the cardinal tenet of the cognitive sciences: that cognition is a form of information-processing. Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge presents a challenge not only to the cognitivist approach that has dominated philosophy and the special sciences for the last fifty years but, more broadly, to metaphysical-empirical approaches to the study of the mind. Responding to a tradition that owes much to the writings of Davidson, early Putnam, and Fodor, Tanney challenges this orthodoxy on its own terms. In untangling its internal inadequacies, starting with the paradoxes of irrationality, she arrives at a view these philosophers were keen to rebut—one with affinities to the work of Ryle and Wittgenstein and all but invisible to those working on the cutting edge of analytic philosophy and mind research today. This is the view that rational explanations are embedded in “thick” descriptions that are themselves sophistications upon ever ascending levels of discourse, or socio-linguistic practices. Tanney argues that conceptual cartography rather than metaphysical-scientific explanation is the basic tool for understanding the nature of the mind. Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge clears the path for a return to the world-involving, circumstance-dependent, normative practices where the rational mind has its home.


The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons

The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons

Author: Hamid Vahid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-06

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1000179028

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This book is concerned with the conditions under which epistemic reasons provide justification for beliefs. The author draws on metaethical theories of reasons and normativity and then applies his theory to various contemporary debates in epistemology. In the first part of the book, the author outlines what he calls the dispositional architecture of epistemic reasons. The author offers and defends a dispositional account of how propositional and doxastic justification are related to one another. He then argues that the dispositional view has the resources to provide an acceptable account of the notion of the basing relation. In the second part of the book, the author examines how his theory of epistemic reasons bears on the issues involving perceptual reasons. He defends dogmatism about perceptual justification against conservatism and shows how his dispositional framework illuminates certain claims of dogmatism and its adherence to justification internalism. Finally, the author applies his dispositional framework to epistemological topics including the structure of defeat, self-knowledge, reasoning, emotions and motivational internalism. The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons demonstrates the value of employing metaethical considerations for the justification of beliefs and propositions. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology and metaethics.


New Waves in Metaethics

New Waves in Metaethics

Author: Michael S. Brady

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0230294898

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Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.