Empty Thoughts of a Brilliant Mind
Author | : David Starr |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635686415 |
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Author | : David Starr |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635686415 |
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Author | : David Starr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2017-05-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781635686401 |
Empty Thoughts of a Brilliant Mind is basically that! It is a collection of poems, short stories, and prose, which got its start in 2008 with 'Stephanie.' There are a few of the poems that could be lyrics to songs. 'Natalia! A New Beginning' was the last composition added to this collection in the summer of 2016. So Empty Thoughts of a Brilliant Mind is an incredible collection of fantasy-romance stories and poems to enjoy and ponder.
Author | : P. D. Ouspensky |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780156007467 |
"The classic exploration of Eastern religious thinking and philosophy"--Cover.
Author | : Allan Bloom |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439126267 |
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Author | : Susan Burton |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081298272X |
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. “Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.”—People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents’ abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents’ breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from “peculiarity to pathology.” Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success—she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse—she’d binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again—and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to “quit food.” Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.
Author | : Bodhipaksa |
Publisher | : Windhorse Publications |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1907314326 |
Meditation helps us to cut through the agonizing clutter of superficial mental turmoil and allows us to experience more spacious and joyful states of mind. It is this pure and luminous state that I call your Wildmind. From how to build your own stool to how a raisin can help you meditate, this illustrated guide explains everything you need to know to start or strengthen your meditation practice.
Author | : Cal Newport |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1455509108 |
In an unorthodox approach, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers. Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Cal reveals that matching your job to a pre-existing passion does not matter. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it. With a title taken from the comedian Steve Martin, who once said his advice for aspiring entertainers was to "be so good they can't ignore you," Cal Newport's clearly written manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation and eager to find a fresh new way to take control of their livelihood. He provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love, and will change the way you think about careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.
Author | : Jennae Cecelia |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-18 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9781541234758 |
Bright Minds Empty Souls is for the hopeless romantics and those who need a friend to comfort their late night thoughts. It's a book made with love about falling in and out of love with yourself, and others. Enjoy over 60 poems from Jennae's second edition of, Bright Minds Empty Souls.
Author | : Napoleon Hill |
Publisher | : Sharon Lechter |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : |
Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.
Author | : Jagdish Mehra |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401026025 |
The fundamental conceptions of twentieth-century physics have profoundly influenced almost every field of modern thought and activity. Quantum Theory, Relativity, and the modern ideas on the Structure of Matter have contributed to a deeper understand ing of Nature, and they will probably rank in history among the greatest intellectual achievements of all time. The purpose of our symposium was to review, in historical perspective, the current horizons of the major conceptual structures of the physics of this century. Professors Abdus Salam and Hendrik Casimir, in their remarks at the opening of the symposium, have referred to its origin and planning. Our original plan was to hold a two-week symposium on the different aspects of five principal themes: 1. Space, Time and Geometry (including the structure of the universe and the theory of gravita tion),2. Quantum Theory (including the development of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), 3. Statistical Description of Nature (including the discussion of equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena, and the application of these ideas to the evolution of biological structure), 4. The Structure of Matter (including the discus sion, in a unified perspective, of atoms, molecules, nuclei, elementary particles, and the physics of condensed matter), and finally, 5. Physical Description and Epistemo logy (including the distinction between classical and quantum descriptions, and the epistemological and philosophical problems raised by them).