Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Save the World on Your Own Time

Save the World on Your Own Time
Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199892970

"Save the World on Your Own Time is invariably smart, stimulating, and provocative. It is filled with insights and crackles with verve. It is a joy to take in." - Texas Law Review

Our Own Time

Our Own Time
Author: David R. Roediger
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1989-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780860919636

Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issue for the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of activity, uniting workers along lines of craft, gender and ethnicity. The authors hold that the workweek is likely again to take on increased significance as workers face the choice between a society based on free time and one based on alienated work and unemployment.

Create Your Own Time

Create Your Own Time
Author: Alok Jain
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2008-05-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1467841978

Create Your Own Time How To Work 48 Hours In a Day Is a book about Personal Time Management: Using time effectively and efficiently in personal life, to achieve more. The book illustrates, through simple real life examples, how you can increase your efficiency by more than 200 %. This book is for anyone who wants to take advantage of the opportunities provided by life by controlling the time and thus creating ample time for oneself. This book explains the strategies and techniques you can use to save time in order to make an optimum use of time. The book also explains the importance of organizing and planning in personal time management. It illustrates the correlation between your self-control and time saving. The book depicts how you can control time by controlling your behavior. It also introduces you to basic concepts of time management and provides you with insight into how people waste time. The book contains hundreds of tips on how you can save time in daily chores and around the house. It deals with the time savings using computers, internet and technology. Some of the older books published a decade ago will fail to give you insight of how to use the technology to your advantage. Later chapters of this book give you some tips organized by the role of a person. Some roles discussed are moms, homemaker, working women, couples, teenagers and students. It also familiarizes you with some interesting ways in which you can utilize your time when you are waiting or traveling. Included in appendix are some sample check lists and other templates like To DO lists, travel checklist, party checklist and goals template.

Own Your Time

Own Your Time
Author: Stephanie Wachman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780997796100

This book provides proven time-management strategies for business professionals to become more productive, reduce stress, increase profits and have a more balanced life. In succinct chapters, the author provides solutions for the most common productivity problems and ideas to improve life balance between work, rest and relationships.

Ideology and Social Knowledge

Ideology and Social Knowledge
Author: Harold J. Bershady
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412854199

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons’ largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons’ version of the characteristics desirable for social knowledge, showing that Parsons deems the relativistic and subjectivistic arguments as powerful challenges to the validity of social knowledge. Bershady maintains that all Parsons’ intellectual labors exhibit a deep and abiding concern for social knowledge. From his first major work in the 1930s to his later writings on social evolution, Parsons’ theoretical aim has been to provide an unassailable answer to the question, "how is social knowledge possible?" Ideological criticisms of Parsons’ work, Bershady argues, not only miss his awareness of ideological influences upon social thought, but also miss the logical and epistemological strands of his thinking. This book sheds light on the persistent importance of the work of a major theoretical sociologist of the twentieth century. It also brings into the open and discusses issues of deepest concern to the philosophy and methodology of all of the social sciences.

Reclaiming Happiness

Reclaiming Happiness
Author: Nicola Phoenix
Publisher: Findhorn Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 184409491X

The universal insights of Eastern philosophy combine with practical and inspiring ways to create a new life, a new self, and a new awareness of the wonder of being in this simple but powerful book. Presenting eight common misunderstandings about the body and spirit—such as egoism, fear, attachment, and disorder—this manual shows how to divert life away from these behaviors towards happiness, peace, and harmony. Also asking subtle psychological questions, this guide helps readers find their divine nature and shows them how to embrace it and live life aligned with it in order to acknowledge the true magnificence that lies within.