Thank You for Being Late
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1250141222
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The Intelligent Optimist's Guide to Life
Author: Jurriaan Kamp
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1626562776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world isn’t coming to an end, contrary to what you may have heard. But the media’s near-exclusive focus on conflict and disaster means that the progress and everyday acts of brilliance taking place across the globe go unnoticed. Jurriaan Kamp shows that optimism—intelligent optimism, not a rose-colored-glasses brand of wishful thinking—is good for not only your mind but your body too. He details a whole host of health problems that can actually be linked to pessimism. Moreover, there is good reason for optimism: Kamp proves that on the whole we’re living longer, becoming smarter, working less, and growing richer. Not only that, democracy is on the rise, and violence is declining. This book will help you tune out the media’s focus on sensationalism and negativity and turn on your natural optimism so you’ll drop into a “real world” that’s richer than you ever imagined.
Ever the Optimist
Author: Gylisa Potten
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-27
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781695973923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'In any given moment, there are two options; to step forward into growth or to step back into safety...'- Abraham Maslow''It was true. I knew it. I felt it growing louder everyday. First a murmur. Then a hum. As I made the commute to the office, everyday, it got louder still. Then everyday my mind shouted at me - 'There has to be more than this!'I realised then, that I simply couldn't live the same year 60 times in a row, and call it 'my life.''Gylisa is bored of the life she is expected to lead, and craves change. Stuck in a rut, working to pay the bills and missing out on everything in between, she realises that monotony isn't safe at all. It's a life sentence. When her boyfriend, Ryan offers a solution, albeit a risky one. She knows she has to take it. It's now, or never.With just a duvet, some clothes and their car, they leave their old lives behind without a second glance, pulling back the arrow and shooting it with no real target in sight. Freedom, it turns out, can be found living in a tiny car on a business estate. 200 miles from 'home', with no money, it's not quite the adventure they had in mind. But with nothing left to do but count down the days until 'Real Life' begins, they learn how to survive, and grow - on the way.This is her memoir based on the diary she kept during this time.
The Optimist
Author: David Coggins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1982152516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe perfect fly fishing book for today's novice, enthusiastic amateur, as well as the devoted angler is part narration of the author's own angling obsessions and adventures, part practical how-to, and part meditation on a connection to the natural world.
No Time Like the Future
Author: Michael J. Fox
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1250265622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges. In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox’s trademark sense of humor, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses. Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson’s disease he’s had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and “get out of the lemonade business altogether.” Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.
The Diary of Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964
Author: Malcolm X
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780883783511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Diary of Malcolm X is a transcended document. The editors, in their deliberations, careful annotations and commentary, have given us oxygen in the actual language of our brother and leader. The only question left is---- will we accept his daunting challenge.
The Optimist's/Pessimist's Handbook
Author: Niall Edworthy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-11-10
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 143915953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet Humanity's story is one long testimony to the truth that life is as rewarding and beautiful as you make it. As pioneers, inventors, and dreamers have always known, you can do anything if only you persevere. Ever since we hauled ourselves out of the swamp, our history has been one of extraordinary cultural and technological progress, of mind-boggling discoveries and remarkable achievements, often against the odds. It's no coincidence that you see no statues of pessimists in city squares. Still, cynical and doubting voices are heard all too loudly and frequently in public discourse. A potent antidote to their gloom and doom, The Optimist's Handbook is a joyful explosion of wit and wisdom from our past and present that celebrates the art of greeting life with the excitement it deserves. This handbook will inspire, enchant, and entertain you as you go forward into all your wonderful tomorrows. Even if, after reading it, you are not moved to feats of glory for the greater good, the fact is that optimists are healthier, happier, and richer than their gloomy counterparts. Hear that, killjoys? The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American humorist Why beat around the bush? The truth is that life is a never-ending cycle of toil and pain with nothing but death to reward all our suffering. Furthermore, what solace is there in blind optimism or fanciful daydreaming when it is perfectly clear that the world is heading toward a complete meltdown whether we live in it or not? Resigning yourself to life's grim treadmill, and thereby avoiding more disappointments, is the best way to trudge forward. The Pessimist's Handbook is an indispensable companion on your journey through this vale of tears. A clear-sighted, realistic look at life's obstacles, this guidebook is stocked with the pearls of wisdom you need to counter the irritating voices of those who trumpet futile positivity and inane confidence in a brighter future. Feel reassured that scores of people share your sense of impending doom...and have done so for centuries. After all, misery loves company, but not when it's a horde of perky utopians.
Wildly Optimistic
Author: Alexandra Fox Carraway
Publisher: Horizon Publishers
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781462123384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her book Wildly Optimistic, Al Carraway offers new methods and perspectives for life's inevitable challenges. With her trademark honesty, optimism, and love for the Lord, she addresses how to stay close to God even when He is silent, how to keep going when too much time passes, and how to be hopeful when it's not what we wanted, when things don't work out, and when we want to give up.
Learn to Be an Optimist
Author: Lucy MacDonald
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2003-12
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780811841696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch has revealed that an optimistic approach to life leads to concrete mental, emotional, and physical results, including a longer life span, reduced stress, and a better chance of recovering from serious illness. Author MacDonald teaches readers to develop the confidence, resilience, and peace of mind that unlock this positive change.
Incorrigible Optimist
Author: Gareth Evans
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 052286645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades—described by Bob Hawke as having ‘the most acute mind’ of any of his ministers—Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, genocide prevention and curbing weapons of mass destruction. In this sometimes moving, often entertaining, and always lucid memoir Evans looks back over the highs and lows of his public life as a student activist, civil libertarian, law reformer, industry minister, international policymaker, educator and politician. He explains why it is that, despite multiple disappointments, he continues to believe that a safer, saner and more decent world is achievable, and why, for all its frustrations, politics remains an indispensable profession not only for megalomaniacs but idealists.
