Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
Title | Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World PDF eBook |
Author | Iddo Landau |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-07-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190657685 |
Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, Iddo Landau argues, our lives often are, or could be made, meaningfulwe've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is. When it comes to meaning in life, Landau explains, we have let perfect become the enemy of the good. We have failed to find life perfectly meaningful, and therefore have failed to see any meaning in our lives. We must attune ourselves to enhancing and appreciating the meaning in our lives, and Landau shows us how to do that. In this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, Landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance it. He confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe. While exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hope. Along the way, he faces provocative questions: Would we choose to live forever if we could? Does death render life meaningless? If we examine it in the context of the immensity of the whole universe, can we consider life meaningful? If we feel empty once we achieve our goals, and the pursuit of these goals is what gives us a sense of meaning, then what can we do? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World is likely to alter the way you understand your life.
Quiet Desperation
Title | Quiet Desperation PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Halper |
Publisher | Warner Books (NY) |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1989-05 |
Genre | Businessmen |
ISBN | 9780446355056 |
This highly acclaimed book explodes the myths we have about men and success and shows what it really takes to succeed--both professionally and personally. An honest book, with fresh insights into today's successful men.--Kirkus Reviews.
Acts of Desperation
Title | Acts of Desperation PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Nolan |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473578507 |
'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?
In Desperation
Title | In Desperation PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Mofina |
Publisher | MIRA |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0369719875 |
"A superbly written thriller...Timely, tense, and terrifying."—Brad Thor "A blisteringly paced story that cuts to the bone. It left me ripping through pages deep into the night."—James Rollins Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies. Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister, Cora, disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she's made—but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive. A twenty-year-old assassin, haunted by the faces of the people he's executed, seeks absolution as he sets out to commit his last murders as a hired killer. In the U.S. and Mexico, police and the press go flat out on Tilly's case. But as Gannon digs deeper into his anguished sister's past, the hours tick down on his niece's life and he faces losing a fragment of his rediscovered family forever. Originally published in 2011
Quiet Desperation
Title | Quiet Desperation PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred C. Martino |
Publisher | Coles Street Publishing |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781593168339 |
Desperation
Title | Desperation PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen King |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 661 |
Release | 2010-03-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1848940939 |
Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation . . .
The Book of Pook
Title | The Book of Pook PDF eBook |
Author | Pook |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 695 |
Release | 2018-03-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781980603153 |
The complete collection of writings by the legend himself!A few years ago there was a man who posted on a PUA forum called So Suave and had his own blog called Pook's Mill. His basic message was that the PUA techniques were too simple, and focused on external manipulations, and focusing on others rather than focusing on yourself and your own masculinity.Sadly Pook disappeared from the scene, but his teachings live on in this ebook.