Robert Morris, a leading figure in postwar American art, is best known as a pioneer of minimalist sculpture, process art, and earthworks. Yet Morris has resisted affiliation with any one movement or style. An extraordinarily versatile artist, he has produced dances, performance pieces, prints, paintings, drawings, and installations, working with materials including plywood, felt, dirt, aluminum, steel mesh, fiberglass, and encaustic. Throughout his career, Morris has written influential critical essays, commenting on his own work as well as that of other artists, and exploring through text many of the theoretical concerns addressed in his artwork—about perception, materiality, space, and the process of artmaking. Have I Reasons presents seventeen of Morris’s essays, six of which have never been published before. Written over the past fifteen years, the essays, along with the volume’s many illustrations, provide an invaluable record of the recent thought of a major American artist. The writings are arranged chronologically, beginning with “Indiana Street,” a vivid autobiographical account of the artist’s early years in Kansas City, Missouri. Have I Reasons includes reflections on Morris’s own site-specific installations; transcripts of seminars he conducted in conjunction with exhibitions; and the textual element of The Birthday Boy, the two-screen video-and-sound piece he installed at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of Michelangelo’s David. Essays range from original interpretations of Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings and Jasper Johns’ early work to engagements with one of Morris’s most significant interlocutors, the philosopher Donald Davidson. Have I Reasons conveys not only Morris’s enduring deep interest in philosophy and issues of resemblance and representation but also his more recent turn toward directly addressing contemporary social and political issues such as corporate excess and preemptive belligerence.

We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. Parents invest more time and money in their kids than ever, but the shocking lesson of twin and adoption research is that upbringing is much less important than genetics in the long run. These revelations have surprising implications for how we parent and how we spend time with our kids. The big lesson: Mold your kids less and enjoy your life more. Your kids will still turn out fine. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is a book of practical big ideas. How can parents be happier? What can they change -- and what do they need to just accept? Which of their worries can parents safely forget? Above all, what is the right number of kids for you to have? You'll never see kids or parenthood the same way again.

Learn why it’s okay to have a big family. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (2011) is the parenting book you weren’t expecting. Part genetic research and part parenting guide, this book is the brainchild of father and economist Bryan Caplan. Caplan believes that the stress of modern parenting can be summarized in a nutshell: modern parents stress themselves out because they feel pressured to be perfect parents. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids explains how and why you can release yourself from that pressure. Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. DISCLAIMER: This book summary is meant as a summary and an analysis and not a replacement for the original work. If you like this summary please consider purchasing the original book to get the full experience as the original author intended it to be. If you are the original author of any book published on QuickRead and want us to remove it, please contact us at [email protected].

Here's the Power to Live Your Christian Life! The last thing Jesus said before He left this earth was that it was better for Him to go so the Holy Spirit could come. Why did Jesus make such a shocking statement to His disciples? Because the Holy Spirit provides with you power! Andrew Wommack, respected Bible teacher and founder of Charis Bible College, says we need to get the impact of what Jesus said. The Holy Spirit’s present-day ministry is actually better than the limited ministry of Jesus on earth. Jesus was only one place at a time. But the Holy Spirit is in you and every believer, equipping the Body of Christ to do the works of Jesus! In 10 Reasons It’s Better to Have the Holy Spirit, Andrew outlines quick-to-read and easy-to-understand scriptural encouragement showing you how the Holy Spirit empowers you: If the Holy Spirit hadn’t come, you couldn’t be born again He enables you to perceive and receive spiritually He equips you with bold, miracle-working power He shows you what’s to come When trouble comes, the Holy Spirit is ready to help God doesn’t want you simply surviving. He gave you the Holy Spirit to thrive in the Christian life. Grab hold of this message, and you’ll never be the same again!

Passion, Prose and Poetry is an eclectic mix of short stories and poems representing a collection of people, places and events the author has experienced in many respects, which are artfully woven into creative fact and fiction as to time and place, each of which are intertwined to flesh out the stories and poems. Some are dramatic, some comic, some whimsical, and some a mix of each genre in order to give emotional expressions patterned on real life and real time in the lives of many people whose personae they were modeled on. People the author needed and who needed him in return.