Something is Better Than Nothing
Something is Better Than Nothing

Author: Alicia Delory

Publisher: Running Wild, LLC

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1947041770

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"I dare you to open Alicia Delory's 'Something is Better than Nothing' and then try to put it down. This is a page-turning narrative that exposes physical and emotional shrapnel, relayed with un!inching and poetic honesty. Through her woven re!ection on loving a veteran and mourning the loss of her father, Delory attains a rare and sharp beauty, laced with humor and hard-won wisdom." - SONYA HUBER, AUTHOR OF PAIN WOMAN TAKES YOUR KEYS"This stunning memoir relates a rarely heard account of a wife surviving her army husband's return from Afghanistan with severe PTSD. Their story ofperseverance, anger, violence, and a yearning for understanding, are interspersed with gripping scenes from Delory's difficult childhood. Told with searing frankness, dark humor, and penetrating insight, here is a riveting true story of how #erce honesty and enduring love can heal immeasurable challenges. " - EUGENIA KIM, AUTHOR OF THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS"Alicia Delory bleeds through the page in this stunning, emotional memoir. She does so effortlessly, without seeking pity or needing to apologize. What she creates is a blunt, honest, and at times heart-wrenching look at millennial marriage." -- REUBEN "TIHI" HAYSLETT, AUTHOR OF DARK CORNERS, BEST OF 2019 ======

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: John Simpson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780192800022

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Author: Leszek Kolakowski

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2007-11-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0465010385

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Do we have free will? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? These are some of the questions that have intrigued the world's greatest thinkers over the ages. They are questions that make us think about the way we live, work, relate to each other, and see the world. In elegant and accessible prose, the eminent philosopher Leszek Kolakowski explores the essence of these ideas and their ongoing relevance as he introduces us to the great figures of Western thought: from Socrates to St. Augustine, Descartes to Nietzsche, and beyond. Reflecting on the great issues that animate our lives -- good and evil, truth and beauty, faith and the soul, free will and consciousness -- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? offers a guided tour of Western philosophy by one of the world's greatest living experts.

Dancing at the River's Edge
Dancing at the River's Edge

Author: Alida Brill

Publisher: IPG

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0980139406

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An invaluable resource for medical professionals, victims of chronic illnesses, and their loved ones, this dual memoir by a doctor and his longtime patient traces the growth of their unique friendship over a span of decades. By exploring the bond between caregiver and sufferer, this sensitive account evokes not only the constant day to day frustrations and emotional toll suffered by the chronically ill, but also an understanding of the mental struggles and conflicts that a conscientious doctor must face in deciding how best to treat a patient without compromising personal freedoms. In alternating chapters, the narrative explores the frustration, joy, despair, grief, and pain on both sides of the doctor-patient relationship.

A Universe from Nothing
A Universe from Nothing

Author: Lawrence Maxwell Krauss

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 145162445X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing
Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing

Author: Bede Rundle

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0199270503

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This work offers an explanation of fundamental facts of existence in purely philosophical terms, without appeal either to theology or cosmology. It will provoke and intrigue anyone who wonders about these questions.

The Puzzle of Existence
The Puzzle of Existence

Author: Tyron Goldschmidt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1136249222

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion, and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects.

Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing
Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothing

Author: Mykel Board

Publisher: Garrett County Press

Published: 2005-07-22

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1891053124

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the story of how Maximum Rock'n'Roll Columnist Mykel Board spent a year teaching English at the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar. From getting lost in the Gobi Desert to stirring fights in a Mongolian disco, Board teeters through the heart of contemporary Mongolian culture with the class, humor and buffoonery of a modern-day Charlie Chaplin.

The Ultimate Why Question
The Ultimate Why Question

Author: John F. Wippel

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0813218632

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume gathers studies by prominent scholars and philosophers about the question how have major figures from the history of philosophy, and some contemporary philosophers, addressed "the ultimate why question": why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Less Than Nothing
Less Than Nothing

Author: Slavoj Zizek

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 1049

ISBN-13: 1844678970

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.