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| Author | : Alfred R. Mele |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2009-04-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0195384261 |
Introduction -- Conscious intentions and decisions -- Neuroscience and causes of action -- Neuroscience and free will -- Intentional actions and the alleged illusion of conscious will -- Proximal intentions and awareness reports -- The power of conscious will -- Conclusion.
| Author | : Britt Deanda |
| Publisher | : New Harbinger Publications |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2021-02-01 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1684035740 |
"Designed to enrich social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual living, Good Morning Intentions is a practical book about the natural health care benefits of daily rituals.” —Foreword Reviews What can you do each morning to raise your vibration and jumpstart your bliss? Spoiler alert: The answer isn’t coffee. If you want to feel more grounded, energized, and connected to your goals, you should try what famous and highly successful people—from Benjamin Franklin and Jane Austen to Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey—have been doing throughout history: adopt a morning ritual, and stick to it! But where do you start? In Good Morning Intentions, two yoga and meditation teachers and entrepreneurs reveal 21 rituals to help you make each morning really matter, setting you up for daily success. In this easy-to-use and accessible guide, you’ll find a powerful blend of energy-boosting exercises, breathwork, simple meditations, and intention-setting practices—rather than complex yoga postures—to help you start your day with a deep sense of joy, vitality, and radiance. If you’re ready to align your life with a higher purpose, increase your motivation, and reach your highest goals, make this book a part of your daily ritual. Coffee is optional.
| Author | : Kasim Ali |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2022-03-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250809614 |
"Absorbing, compelling, and beautifully written. Its ending brought me close to tears." —Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare For fans of The Big Sick and Nick Hornby—a magnetic debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents, unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants. If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It’s the countdown to the New Year, and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he’s seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man, Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden child. And it’s come at a cost. Once, Nur was a restless college student, struggling to fit in. At a party, he meets Yasmina, a beautiful and self-possessed aspiring journalist. They start a conversation—first awkward, then absorbing. And as their relationship develops, so too does Nur’s self-destruction. He falls deeper into traps of his own making, attempting to please both Yasmina and his family until he must finally reveal the truth: Yasmina is Black, and he loves her. Deftly transporting readers between that first night and the years beyond, Kasim Ali's Good Intentions exposes with unblinking authenticity the complexities of immigrant families and racial prejudice. It is a crackling, wryly clever depiction of standing on the precipice of adulthood, piecing together who it is you’re meant to be.
| Author | : Alfred R. Mele |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2009-04-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199888841 |
Each of the following claims has been defended in the scientific literature on free will and consciousness: your brain routinely decides what you will do before you become conscious of its decision; there is only a 100 millisecond window of opportunity for free will, and all it can do is veto conscious decisions, intentions, or urges; intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions; and free will is an illusion. In Effective Intentions Alfred Mele shows that the evidence offered to support these claims is sorely deficient. He also shows that there is strong empirical support for the thesis that some conscious decisions and intentions have a genuine place in causal explanations of corresponding actions. In short, there is weighty evidence of the existence of effective conscious intentions or the power of conscious will. Mele examines the accuracy of subjects' reports about when they first became aware of decisions or intentions in laboratory settings and develops some implications of warranted skepticism about the accuracy of these reports. In addition, he explores such questions as whether we must be conscious of all of our intentions and why scientists disagree about this. Mele's final chapter closes with a discussion of imaginary scientific findings that would warrant bold claims about free will and consciousness of the sort he examines in this book.
| Author | : Elliott Kay |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2013-06-03 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 9781490374758 |
He knew it was a dumb stunt from the start. A midnight run through a cemetery to impress a couple of girls is hardly the stuff of legend, but Alex Carlisle longs to escape the crushing mediocrity of life after high school.Then he stumbles upon the ritual, and the cultists, and two bound and bloodied women. Alex intervenes and the ritual blows up in his face, leaving him bound to them both: Rachel and Lorelei, an angel and a succubus. It's hardly the sort of challenge a guy can face with dignity when he still lives at home with his mom.Alex never imagined falling for an immortal demon seductress, or that he'd spend his nights dodging her co-workers, her old boss, and every other supernatural freak in Seattle. He never thought a woman like Lorelei could have a rival like Rachel, either. But then, nobody ever said adulthood would be easy. WARNING: "Good Intentions" contains explicit sexuality, violence, nudity, inappropriate use of church property, portrayals of beings divine and demonic bearing little or no resemblance to established religion or mythology, trespassing, bad language, sacrilege, blasphemy, attempted murder, arguable murder, divinely mandated murder, justifiable murder, filthy murder, sexual promiscuity, kidnapping, attempted rape, arson, dead animals, desecrated graves, gang activity, theft, assault and battery, panties, misuse of the 911 system, fantasy depictions of sorcery and witchcraft, multiple references to various matters of fandom, questionable interrogation tactics, cell phone abuse, reckless driving, consistent abuse of vampires (because they deserve it), even more explicit sexuality, illegal use of firearms within city limits, polyamory, abuse of authority, hit and run driving, destruction of private property, underage drinking, disturbances of the peace, disorderly conduct, internet harassment, bearers of false witness, mayhem, dismemberment, falsification of records, tax evasion, an uncomfortably sexy mother, bad study habits, and a very silly white guy inappropriately calling another white guy "nigga" (for which he will surely suffer).
| Author | : Bruce Nussbaum |
| Publisher | : Penguin Mass Market |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780140160000 |
A blistering portrait of an ongoing international scandal--with a new afterword that provides a front-line report on the latest developments in the AIDS crisis. Nussbaum tells of vaulting ambition and greed, of vast sums of money filtered through government agencies and into the profit statements of the manufacturer of AZT, Burroughs Wellcome. 16 pages of photographs.
| Author | : Thomas W. Dichter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
For more than thirty-five years, Thomas W. Dichter has worked in the field of international development, managing and evaluating projects for nongovernmental organizations, directing a Peace Corps country program, and serving as a consultant for such agencies as USAID, UNDP, and the World Bank. On the basis of this extensive and varied experience, he has become an outspoken critic of what he terms the "international poverty alleviation industry." He believes that efforts to reduce world poverty have been well-intentioned but largely ineffective. On the whole, the development industry has failed to serve the needs of the people it has sought to help. To make his case, Dichter reviews the major trends in development assistance from the 1960s through the 1990s, illustrating his analysis with eighteen short stories based on his own experiences in the field. The analytic chapters are thus grounded in the daily life of development workers as described in the stories. Dichter shows how development organizations have often become caught up in their own self-perpetuation and in public relations efforts designed to create an illusion of effectiveness. Tracing the evolution of the role of money (as opposed to ideas) in development assistance, he suggests how financial imperatives have reinforced the tendency to sponsor time-bound projects, creating a dependency among aid recipients. He also examines the rise of careerism and increased bureaucratization in the industry, arguing that assistance efforts have become disconnected from important lessons learned on the ground. In the end, Dichter calls for a more light-handed and artful approach to development assistance, with fewer agencies andexperts involved. His stance is pragmatic, rather than ideological or political. What matters, he says, is what works, and the current practices of the development industry are simply not effective.
| Author | : Stephen M. Walt |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2018-10-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0374712468 |
A provocative analysis of recent American foreign policy and why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead of a long hoped-for era of peace and prosperity, relations with Russia and China have soured, the European Union is wobbling, nationalism and populism are on the rise, and the United States is stuck in costly and pointless wars that have squandered trillions of dollars and undermined its influence around the world. The root of this dismal record, Walt argues, is the American foreign policy establishment’s stubborn commitment to a strategy of “liberal hegemony.” Since the end of the Cold War, Republicans and Democrats alike have tried to use US power to spread democracy, open markets, and other liberal values into every nook and cranny of the planet. This strategy was doomed to fail, but its proponents in the foreign policy elite were never held accountable and kept repeating the same mistakes. Donald Trump’s erratic and impulsive style of governing, combined with a deeply flawed understanding of world politics, made a bad situation worse. The best alternative, Walt argues, is a return to the realist strategy of “offshore balancing,” which eschews regime change, nation-building, and other forms of global social engineering. The American people would surely welcome a more restrained foreign policy, one that allowed greater attention to problems here at home. Clear-eyed, candid, and elegantly written, Stephen M. Walt’s The Hell of Good Intentions offers both a compelling diagnosis of America’s recent foreign policy follies and a proven formula for renewed success. “Thought-provoking . . . This excellent analysis is cogent, accessible, and well-argued.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
| Author | : Tori Hogan |
| Publisher | : Seal Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2012-09-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 158005434X |
In the wake of several international aid failures, including the tsunami recovery efforts in Indonesia and the recent earthquake relief in Haiti, much of the world has become aware of the shortcomings of aid, and Hogan is the expert who's been using her voice and creating her platform to address these issues Hogan's Beyond Good Intentions film series has 95,000 viewers hailing from 158 countries, and has a strong foothold within the academic community
| Author | : Ashley Kinstona |
| Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
| Total Pages | : 117 |
| Release | : 2024-05-03 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1456649892 |
Discover the Pathway to Your True Self and a Purpose-Driven Life Imagine waking up each day with crystal-clear clarity about why you're here and where you're going. Living with Intent: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose is not just another self-help book; it's a transformative journey that guides you step by step towards unearthing the real you, understanding your intrinsic motivations, and aligning your life with what truly matters. The quest begins with an exploration into the essence of purpose--what it means, why it's crucial to our overall well-being, and how it vastly differs from the fleeting pursuit of passion. Delving deeper, you'll learn to craft a vision for your life, one that's vivid, compelling, and entirely attainable. From the allure of vision boards to the practice of setting powerful intentions, this guide offers practical tools and strategies to shape your destiny. Through the lens of mindfulness, you'll explore ways to inhabit the present moment fully, harnessing the power of now to foster a life of intention. As fear and doubt surface, you'll be equipped with robust strategies to dismantle these barriers, paving the way for a mindset centered around growth and resilience. As you progress, the significance of habits, goal setting, and resilience becomes undeniably clear. Learn how to cultivate positive habits that align with your purpose, set SMART goals that propel you forward, and build the resilience necessary to navigate life's inevitable challenges. In fostering connections, nurturing creativity, and embracing change, you'll discover the profound impact of relationships, the liberating power of creativity, and the opportunities hidden within uncertainty. Staying motivated and maintaining progress becomes effortless when every step feels aligned with your deeper mission. Complete with worksheets, exercises, and an appendix full of resources, Living with Intent: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose is more than just a book--it's a companion for life's journey towards fulfilment and happiness. Allow its pages to steer you towards a life lived not by chance, but with intent.
