Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by The Capitol Net Inc. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects, viz.: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the Present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections

Download or read book Everything is Obvious written by Duncan J. Watts and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? And does higher pay incentivize people to work harder? If you think the answers to these questions are a matter of common sense, think again. As sociologist and network science pioneer Duncan Watts explains in this provocative book, the explanations that we give for the outcomes that we observe in life-explanations that seem obvious once we know the answer-are less useful than they seem. Watts shows how commonsense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into thinking that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do; and in turn, why attempts to predict, manage, or manipulate social and economic systems so often go awry. Only by understanding how and when common sense fails can we improve how we plan for the future, as well as understand the present-an argument that has important implications in politics, business, marketing, and even everyday life.

Download or read book The Giver written by Lois Lowry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

Download or read book Common Sense written by Sophia Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.

Download or read book Commonsense Guide to Current Affairs written by Vincent Frank Bedogne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, renewable energy, and the politics of climate change, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in today's media. They strip away the layers of liberal and conservative ideology to look at the most talked about topics of our time from the standpoint of what the politicians have forgotten--common sense. Brought to light by logic, history, and science, the book filters the issues that in today's world every citizen, student, and educator needs to understand through what we know to be sound--that which we have gained through our day-to-day trials--our all-too-often repressed ability to see things in a practical and matter-of-fact way.

Download or read book Manual of Reformed Stoicism written by Piotr Stankiewicz and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a manifesto of reformed Stoicism. It proposes a system of life which is bullet-proof, universal, viable and effective in every cosmic setting. It holds in every possible universe, under any government and within any economic system. We can be reformed Stoics no matter what we believe in. Reformed Stoicism is about enjoying and exercising our agency. In other words, it’s about the flow of making autonomous and right decisions, and about celebrating our ability to make them. With no reliance on nature, with the recalibration of metaphysical positions, with skepticism towards grand discourses and universal answers, with an emphasis on the usefulness instead of truthfulness of narratives, with no reference to the vanity argument, with criticism of both conservative and ascetic misinterpretations of Stoicism, with an overall softer and more empathic approach, we can no longer be defined by the generic term “Stoicism”. Our time, in short, calls for a fresh interpretation of Stoicism. It is time for a new generation of Stoics. Thus: reformed Stoicism.

Download or read book Common Sense Government written by Al Gore and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Common Sense Anew written by Robert Shendock and published by Llumina Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1776, a small pamphlet called Common Sense was published; it united a divided colonial American society and created a clear sense of purpose. Common Sense pointed out the problems with government and offered hope for something better. It noted the importance of immediate action and spelled out the consequences of hesitation. Through a unique perspective, Common Sense Anew takes a hard look at to-day's problems, not only in government, but in our society as well. The times have changed and so has the scope of the problems. Like our ancestors, we are in a position to create something far better than the present. We must consider, as they did, the importance of taking immediate action. Will things improve in the future and present a better time, or will they worsen and bring serious conse-quences? Common Sense Anew offers keen insight into these questions, which must not only be answered, but must be answered correctly. Along with incisive analysis of today's issues, Common Sense Anew captures the spirit of the past by including the full texts of documents upon which our nation was founded, Common Sense by Thomas Paine, the US Declaration of Independ-ence, and the US Constitution. Linking past and present, Common Sense Anew also shines a light on the future: for we must consider the future; it is, after all, where our children will live. About the Author Born in southern New Jersey in 1962, Robert Shendock was raised in a blue-collar, middle-class family. At age seventeen, he joined the US Navy, where he enjoyed extensive travel. Since serving his country, Robert has continually worked with the public, visiting thousands of homes from rich to poor, which has helped shape his views on society. In 1996, in a period of less than one year, a chain of tragic events took place that would change his views on life. After a few down years, Robert rose above his adversity with a new perspective and greater interest in government and society. Paying close attention to ongoing events and spending countless hours thinking about them, he found himself with great concern for the future of America. Feeling compelled to do something, Robert wrote Common Sense Anew, hoping once again to bring unity and to establish a clear sense of purpose.

Download or read book The Death of Common Sense written by Philip K. Howard and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowning—in law, lawsuits, and nearly endless red tape. Before acting or making a decision, we often abandon our best instincts. We pause, we worry, we equivocate, and then we divert our energy into trying to protect ourselves. Filled with one too many examples of bureaucratic overreach, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how we—and our country—can at last get back on track.

Download or read book Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy written by Rik Peels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in several scientific disciplines claim to have debunked the reliability of the faculties that produce our common sense beliefs. At the same time, however, it seems reasonable that we cannot do without common sense beliefs entirely. Arguably, science and the scientific method are built on, and continue to depend on, common sense. This collection of essays debates the tenability of common sense in the face of recent challenges from the empirical sciences. It explores to what extent scientific considerations—rather than philosophical considerations—put pressure on common sense philosophy. The book is structured in a way that promotes dialogue between philosophers and scientists. Noah Lemos, one of the most influential contemporary advocates of the common sense tradition, begins with an overview of the nature and scope of common sense beliefs, and examines philosophical objections to common sense and its relationship to scientific beliefs. Then, the volume features essays by scientists and philosophers of science who discuss various proposed conflicts between commonsensical and scientific beliefs: the reality of space and time, about the nature of human beings, about free will and identity, about rationality, about morality, and about religious belief. Notable philosophers who embrace the common sense tradition respond to these essays to explore the connection between common sense philosophy and contemporary debates in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, physics, and psychology.

Download or read book Everything Is Obvious written by Duncan J. Watts and published by Currency. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future. Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into believing that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do; and in turn, why attempts to predict, manage, or manipulate social and economic systems so often go awry. It seems obvious, for example, that people respond to incentives; yet policy makers and managers alike frequently fail to anticipate how people will respond to the incentives they create. Social trends often seem to be driven by certain influential people; yet marketers have been unable to identify these “influencers” in advance. And although successful products or companies always seem in retrospect to have succeeded because of their unique qualities, predicting the qualities of the next hit product or hot company is notoriously difficult even for experienced professionals. Watts' argument has important implications in politics, business, and marketing, as well as in science and everyday life.

Download or read book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

Download or read book Glenn Beck s Common Sense written by Glenn Beck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense. In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation’s problems. One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments, he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America’s future—and, ultimately, her freedom. Nearly two and a half centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the balance. And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine’s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government’s easy solutions, two-party monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.

Download or read book Common Sense written by Stephen R Cafaro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense Revisited in the New Millennium, is an updated version of Thomas Paines ground-breaking work. The book develops comparisons between the social, economic and political injustices of 21st century America and the circumstances of 1776 which led to the American Revolution. The similarities of the two periods include analyses of democratic representation, economic disparity and national identity. The conclusions indicate America needs another revolution in order for her citizens to, once again, take control of their government. Modern day Americans are faced with conditions mush like our colonial ancestors in that reconciliation with a corrupted government is no longer possible! America can and must do better. The final chapter contains some fundamental reforms which can be instrumental in restoring America to a government of the people, by the people and for the people!

Download or read book Common Sense Solutions to Real Problems written by Richard Forringer and published by Signalman Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four problems currently vexing our nation are: 1) Education: how can we provide an environment for our kids that is conducive to actually learning? 2) How do we solve our energy problems? 3) What is the "war" on drugs really doing? Has it ever worked, and can we do something better? 4) The recent federal budget and debt ceiling crisis are merely the rumblings of far worse to come. What is the solution? Common Sense Solutions to Real Problems takes these four key social problems and searches for solutions from a unique perspective. Each problem is analyzed, and the solution is arrived at from a logical and systematic approach that is fundamental to the style of thinking of one whose life has been impacted by symbolic logic. The reasoning process that is presented is succinct and direct. The solutions are designed to assist the reader to search for their own response to these and to other current social issues.

Download or read book Why in America Common Sense Isn t So Common written by Saint Maha Kaal and published by America's Absurdities. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why in America Common Sense Isn't So Common: Simple Fixes for America's Absurdities examines many everyday issues Americans face. The book covers several topics: Criminal Justice The book explores plea deals, government indictments, non-violent offenders, and long sentences. It critiques the system where accused individuals can't speak freely in their defense while accusers can. It questions public announcements of indictments and plea deals, advocating for restorative justice, fair trials, and reduced prosecutorial bias. The book examines prison culture, over-criminalization, mandatory minimum sentences, decriminalizing poverty, and prioritizing victims' perspectives over the government's. Punitive Finance The book questions the federal government's role in student loans. It explores how easy student loans drive up university fees and why college tuition isn't tied to graduates' median salaries. The book highlights excessive costs of car towing, hospital parking, and ambulance bills, calling for medical debt exclusion from collection and credit reporting. Taxes The book questions whether eliminating the 501(c)(3) loophole would solve many of the world's problems by ending dark money. It also questions why sales tax is levied on used products. Election The book critiques illogical district maps. It explores whether it's truly difficult to obtain ID cards. It discusses non-citizens' influence on redistricting and the impact of out-of-state donations on elections. Affordable Life The discussion on affordable living highlights high costs of city transportation, banking fees, housing policies, and childcare. It advocates for free city transportation, reducing banking fees, promoting healthy eating through SNAP benefits, and tying home prices to wage growth rates. It supports free childcare, prioritizing families with kids and expecting mothers in parking, transforming schools into one-stop places for parents and children, and allowing parents to choose their kids' schools. It questions high security deposits and healthcare costs. Immigration Immigration policies are scrutinized, with suggestions for easing visa processes and addressing fraud. The book questions birthright citizenship, the relevance of H1B visas in remote work, and argues for making non-immigrant visas easier to obtain. It also compares fraud in marriage-based versus employment-based petitions. Daily Nonsense Daily nuisances, such as traffic management and customer service, are explored. The book questions why lanes are closed for minor accidents, the complexity of furniture assembly, and climate change advocates who don't clean streets. Excessive Regulations The book questions excessive regulations on small businesses, the need for many licenses, and the annual franchise tax, arguing for reducing regulatory burdens to promote entrepreneurship and economic growth. Social Issues Finally, the book addresses affirmative action, reparations, flag burning, and government money printing. It questions if affirmative action benefits its intended groups, explores the feasibility of one-time reparations, discusses flag burning acceptability, and critiques unlimited money printing. Why in America Common Sense Isn't So Common challenges readers to rethink current systems and consider practical, effective reforms. The analysis and recommendations make a compelling case for common-sense solutions to America's absurdities, making this book essential reading for anyone interested in creating a more just society.

Download or read book The Death of Common Sense written by Philip K. Howard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowning—in law, lawsuits, and nearly endless red tape. Before acting or making a decision, we often abandon our best instincts. We pause, we worry, we equivocate, and then we divert our energy into trying to protect ourselves. Filled with one too many examples of bureaucratic overreach, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how we—and our country—can at last get back on track.