Download or read book Highest Lives written by Gordon Brown and published by Strident Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 4 in the mind-bending Craig McIntyre series. In cities across North America people are dying in seemingly impossible ways. Is history's most outrageous serial killer on the loose? Craig McIntyre is used to being hunted. Now he is the hunter. And thousands could die if he fails to track down the killer.
Download or read book Happy Lives and the Highest Good written by Gabriel Richardson Lear and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out the notion that the best life aims at the "monistic good" of contemplation. In defending the unity and coherence of the Ethics, Lear argues that, in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it about but also by approximating it. She then argues that, for Aristotle, the excellent rational activity of moral virtue is an approximation of theoretical contemplation. Thus, the happiest person chooses moral virtue as an approximation of contemplation in practical life. Richardson Lear bolsters this interpretation by examining three moral virtues--courage, temperance, and greatness of soul--and the way they are fine. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, this is a major contribution to our understanding of a central issue in Aristotle's moral philosophy.
Download or read book The Life You Can Save written by Peter Singer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
Download or read book Live Free written by DeVon Franklin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author returns with his biggest book yet in which he teaches us the secret to living a happier life: get rid of as many expectations as possible—of ourselves, our future, our relationships, our career and our family. Expectations are the secret software, running on the hardware of our minds, controlling our emotions, decisions, and actions. How? Think about your life. How much of the sadness you feel derives from what you think should have happened—than with what actually happened? Think about your career. How much of the discontent you feel comes from your belief about where you’d be at this point—than with the progress you’ve actually made? Think about your relationships. How much of your dissatisfaction with friends, family, significant others, or spouses has to do with your unspoken presumptions—than with the people themselves? Having so many expectations is distorting your perspective, decreasing your happiness and disrupting your joy. You can live a life of true freedom, greater peace and less stress: release as many expectations as possible. This, DeVon Franklin argues, is the secret to a better life now. In a culture obsessed with more, Live Free is a bold counterintuitive book that can start a cultural revolution, Franklin contends. Everyone struggles with unnecessary expectations. But once you learn to let go of them, you can set the stage for the life you’ve always wanted.
Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Download or read book Life on the Highest Plane written by Ruth Paxson and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the Highest Plane has blessed several generations with its blend of biblical teaching and personal application. Ruth Paxson presents the biblical progression of the spiritual life from that of the natural person (the unsaved) to the carnal person (the immature believer) to the spiritual person (the mature believer). This last position is God's intention for all believers--a life lived on the highest spiritual plane.
Download or read book The Highest Poverty written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture. What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben’s new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The Highest Poverty meticulously reconstructs the lives of monks, with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy. But Agamben’s thesis is that the true novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion between life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension, in which “life” is affirmed in its autonomy, and in which the claim of the “highest poverty” and “use” challenges the law in ways that we must still grapple with today. How can we think a form-of-life, that is, a human life released from the grip of law, and a use of bodies and of the world that never becomes an appropriation? How can we think life as something not subject to ownership but only for common use?
Download or read book Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High Income Countries written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income countries, such as Japan and Australia. This difference is particularly notable given that the United States spends more on health care than any other nation. Concerned about this divergence, the National Institute on Aging asked the National Research Council to examine evidence on its possible causes. According to Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries, the nation's history of heavy smoking is a major reason why lifespans in the United States fall short of those in many other high-income nations. Evidence suggests that current obesity levels play a substantial part as well. The book reports that lack of universal access to health care in the U.S. also has increased mortality and reduced life expectancy, though this is a less significant factor for those over age 65 because of Medicare access. For the main causes of death at older ages-cancer and cardiovascular disease-available indicators do not suggest that the U.S. health care system is failing to prevent deaths that would be averted elsewhere. In fact, cancer detection and survival appear to be better in the U.S. than in most other high-income nations, and survival rates following a heart attack also are favorable. Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries identifies many gaps in research. For instance, while lung cancer deaths are a reliable marker of the damage from smoking, no clear-cut marker exists for obesity, physical inactivity, social integration, or other risks considered in this book. Moreover, evaluation of these risk factors is based on observational studies, which-unlike randomized controlled trials-are subject to many biases.
Download or read book Live Life to Your Highest and Greatest Good written by Michael F Canciglia and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a spiritual book with different philosophical ideas and lessons that provide guidance to live ones life to Their Highest and Greatest Good through the context of peace, love, and joy. The message is one of love and light guiding us back to our own true selves and who we are meant to be in this lifetime.
Download or read book The Highest Meaning of Life written by Sukhdev Singh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book is predominantly - a Sublime Voyage of the Master, new species untouched by time, the fountain head of a sublime lighthouse, embodied with the complete love of Truth, Goodness and Beauty, a life of flawless commitment to evolution. This is the reflection of the species which conjoins secrets in full swing about Meaning of lifethe greatest discovery of man in the domain of scientific philosophy of human life-force with the scientific method. The Spiritual Master born before his time with question mark (?) with his unique sublime consciousness of Truth and Goodness where survival was the serious challenge. Humanity exists but altruism is not matured in every respect, having the influence of pleasure tendencies and the bondage of low-loves and low-hates, there emerged a situation where the Black Pitch of Roundabouts persists; but humanity crucified Him at every moment, heretofore, he still sacrificed everything for the sake of Love of Truth and engenders the Paradise on this earth. To the fullest extent, the book is knitted in suspense - What Type of Heaven Is This? The enigma of the Evolutionary Process; A Blissful Milieu-The Unknown Life of species which was not imagined in bygone ages. Will it be suspense forever-about the psychology and philosophy of new sublime species, the religious revolution, which is uniquely designed to recycle scientific methods to discover human nature and its destiny. His sublime texts are the science of human soul and sublime life. This book is the detailed thought of Psychological aspects, Philosophical prospects and challenges for the survival of the sublime species. The book explains the well-conditioned philosophy of the Master, the only panacea of Revolution, the structural Principles of Truth, Goodness and Beauty in the luminosity of Science. Readers will find the Glimpses of their own bright future, the Secret Taste of Honey on the Tongue which is the last Milestone in the sunshine of Master.
Download or read book The Highest Reality of Spiritual Life written by Gopal Krishna Goswami and published by Golden Age Media . This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Highest Reality of Spiritual Life” by author Gopal Krishna Goswami is a profound exploration of the ultimate spiritual truth and its relevance to our daily lives. This book unravels the core teachings of spiritual wisdom, revealing the highest reality that transcends material existence. With clarity and depth, it guides readers on a transformative journey to attain a deeper understanding of spirituality and achieve true fulfillment in their spiritual quest.
Download or read book Nursing from the Inside Out Living and Nursing from the Highest Point of Your Consciousness written by Rachel Y. Hill and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doody's Review Service - 4 Stars! Nursing from the Inside-Out: Living and Nursing from the Highest Point of Your Consciousness provides holistic self-care modalities that allow the nursing professional to achieve self-awareness through individual practice and application. Self-care consciousness helps nurses create the balance in their lives that support mental, spiritual, and physical growth. Through use of these tools, the nurse is able to maintain inner balance in the busy and changing world of healthcare, while simultaneously establishing meaningful connections with patients. Features Include: Poems in chapters Chapter opener quotes Self-reflection tools from acupressure to tree hugging A foundation to live balanced and healthy lives Steps to obtain and maintain self-care consciousness
Download or read book Life s Highest Devotion written by Ron Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “YOU ASKED FOR IT . . . NOW YOU’RE GOING TO GET IT!” It was Thanksgiving 2008, at the urging of his son, Mark, that Ron Williams signed up for Facebook. Shortly thereafter, Ron began posting a daily devotion for his more than 4,500 “friends” on his profile. At their request, LIFE’S HIGHEST DEVOTION has now been published as the fourth of Ron’s “Life’s Highest” series which includes LIFE’S HIGHEST DELIGHT (a study of satisfaction from the Psalms) and LIFE’S HIGHEST DESTINY (a study of Paul’s epistle to the Romans), and LIFE’S HIGHEST DESIGN (his autobiography). Understanding that each person has their unique time frame and patterns of daily spiritual input, there are no set dates or calendar to follow. In addition, the reader will discover separated holiday-related devotions for use at those wonderful seasons of the year.
Download or read book Life s Highest Blessings written by Bhikkhu Khantipālo and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life's Highest Blessings" is a study of the Mahā Maṅgala Sutta, an important discourse of the Buddha on the thirty-eight true blessings or true lucky signs (maṅgala). It contains universal, timeless teachings that lead to material, as well as spiritual, well-being and is very popular in Buddhist countries.
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