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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2005Negotiated governance and public policy in Ireland
by George Taylor
Over the past ten years the Irish polity has experienced profound change. The pessimism that had engulfed Irish society during the 1980s has given way to a new found confidence, one that befits its status as an emerging, confident and cosmopolitan European state. This book provides a theoretical examination of this startling turnaround in the fortunes of the Irish polity and details the developments that have taken place in key areas of public policy over the last decade: civil service reform, the welfare state, environmental policy abd rural development. ;
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FictionOctober 2015Carbide
by Andrii Liubka
In the adventure novel "Carbide," events unfold during the hot and troublesome summer of 2015 when a group of enthusiasts decides to build a Fountain of Unity with Europe in the small fictional town called the Bears. Why do they need a fountain, why are they perfect criminals, and how much can you buy a human kidney for in Ukraine - the author writes about all this business with humor and selective pessimism. The book features a plum tincture, fishermen, a cemetary worker, a seductive and lustful woman, several murderers, a corrupt mayor, and a brilliant idea. It also features river Tysa, and some despair.
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August 2017Soft
by LIAO Yimei
Soft is the last one of the“Pessimism Trilogy”from LIAO Yimei, one of the most well-know script writers in China, about one woman doctor and a confused young man, what they ask and think about life.
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August 2017Rhinoceros in Love
by LIAO Yimei
Rhinoceros in Love is one of the“Pessimism Trilogy”from LIAO Yimei, one of the most well-know script writers in China. One man, obstinate as rhinoceros, fell in love with a woman. He overstated the differences between her and other women and did everything for her, a pure love story.
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August 2017Amber
by LIAO Yimei
Amber is one of the“Pessimism Trilogy”from LIAO Yimei, one of the most well-know script writers in China. The wave son Gao Yuan thought he got the naïve girl Xiaoyou already. But actually Xiaoyou has her own secret purpose. This is a sotry start from a “heart”.
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PhilosophyPhilosophy for a worse life
Breviary of Twentieth Century Philosophical Pessimism
by Oriol Quintana
Self-help books are based on the premise that life can be improved. But how does this doctrine fit into a war context? Would their formulas work for an inmate in a Soviet gulag or an Auschwitz prisoner?This book reviews and defends philosophical pessimism, drawing on authors such as Primo Levi, Jean Améry, Viktor Frankl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emil Cioran, George Orwell, and Simone Weil. Despite the intention of refuting self-help formulas, the reader will find in this book truly useful vital orientations. Because well formulated philosophy is always a solace for the soul and a help when it comes to the business of living.
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Children's & YAOctober 2020The Revenge of the Ill-mannered Orphans
by Carolina Capria, Mariella Martucci
Series - With zero choice in the matter, four little girls end up living in a mansion, which is literally falling apart, with a guardian, who’s literally gross. Then, a tornado comes and sweeps away misunderstandings, pessimism, and even their guardian. The tragicomic events are told in a light, irreverent style offering a glimpse into the lives of kids forced to grow up faster.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOctober 2020Optimism and Health
What science knows about the benefits of positive thinking
by Luis Rojas Marcos
Learning to feel and think positively is a highly profitable investment to overcome pessimism and live healthy and happy. In this book, psychiatrist Luis Rojas Marcos details the ingredients that distinguish the optimistic from the pessimistic disposition. He explores the forces that forge our temperament, identifies the most damagin poison to optimism, describes strategies to promote a positive disposition, and examines the influence of optimism in relationships, health and work. He ends with an analysis of the most valuable quality of our optimism: its enormous and proven usefulness in dealing with adversity in life.
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Why Orang-Utans Don't Like Toothpaste
by Emmanuelle Figueras, Tristan Gion
More info and insides pages here: https://www.ttipiagency.com/product-page/why-don-t-orang-utans-like-toothpaste. How can a cyclist in Paris save bears in the North Pole? Which pieces of the world can you find in a game console? Why do tomatoes prefer if you don’t flush the toilet? Through a series of questions that are less foolish than they seem, this book deals with the consequences of basic daily life actions on nature, close to us or on the other side of the world. Avoiding pessimism or moral lessons, the lively text and wonderful illustrations take the readers on a migratory trip with the swallows, invites them to understand how internet datas cross the oceans or what a goldfish becomes when you free it back into the river.
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A Singing Ambivalence
American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830–1930
by Victor Greene (author)
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans—responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group’s songs reveal an abiding concern over leaving their loved ones and homeland and an anxiety about adjusting to a new society. But accompanying these disturbing feelings was an excitement about the possibilities of becoming wealthy and about looking forward to a democratic and free society.Distinguished historian Victor Greene surveys an extensive body of songs of known and unknown origins that comment on the problems immigrants faced and reveal the wide range of responses the newcomers made to the radical changes in their new lives in America. His selection of lyrics provides useful capsules of expression that clarify the ways in which immigrants defined themselves and staked out their claims for acceptance in American society. But whatever their common and specific themes, they reveal an ambivalence over their coming to America and a pessimism about achieving their goals.A Singing Ambivalence examines the familiar sentiments of new immigrants to the United States, while at the same time conveying from an aesthetic viewpoint how immigrants expressed their hopes and difficulties through song. This is an important volume that will be welcomed by scholars of music and immigration history.
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Philosophy: aestheticsApril 2011Evolutionary Aesthetics of Human Ethics in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives
by Author(s): Rıza Öztürk
Treatment of Hardy’s tragic narratives under the objective lens of evolutionary literary theory has led to three basic findings: First, within the scope of the analysis of the five major tragic narratives, representation of Hardy’s evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, in terms of altruistic sympathy and compassion, shows that adapted parental investment in children indicates the reason why women submit to pain and suffering more than the men do. The costly investment of women in maternal behaviour leads to submission in many cases, but in return they gain better fitness for survival and reproduction than men. This is implicitly highlighted as a force of superiority in the tragedies studied, as the male characters often invest in heroic deeds over their children. Second, that which has for many years been identified as pessimism in Hardy’s tragic narratives is in fact a surface cognitive layer, under which is an implicit teaching of evolutionary aesthetics of human ethics, which guides to a true fitness of human life. Third, sympathy and particularly compassion are not only human emotions but also adapted cognitive virtues that centre on ethical teaching.Thus, an integrated model of science and humanities for art and literary analysis is required to address not only those of English language and literature departments, but also those aligned to the idea of integrating the two methods. A scientific and objective view of human life is in opposition to postmodern and structuralist approaches, which have generally been considered as the centre of interest during the latter half of the 20th century.
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September 2021Sinking Islands
by Cai Emmons
Sinking Islands continues the story of Bronwyn Artair, a scientist who possesses the power to influence the natural forces of the Earth. After several successful interventions, including one in Siberia, she has gone into hiding, worried about unintended consequences of her actions, as well as about the ethics of operating solo. But circumstances call her to action again, and an idea takes shape: What if she could impart her skill to other people? Gathering a few kindred souls from climate-troubled places around the world—Felipe from São Paulo, where drought conditions are creating strains on day-to-day life; Analu and his daughter Penina from a sinking island in the South Pacific; and Patty from the tornado-ridden plains of Kansas—she takes them to the wilds of Northern New Hampshire where she tries to teach them her skill. The novel, realistic but for the single fantastical element, explores how we might become more attuned to the Earth and act more collaboratively to solve the enormity of our climate problem.
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The Weight of a Human Heart
by Daniel Mallen
Spring 1944. Injured German soldier Max Jessen returns from the Eastern Front to find that his Roma wife has died of TB, and his son Manfred has been transported to Auschwitz. A desperate Max decides he has no option but to volunteer for camp duty as an officer in the SS, hoping he can find and rescue his son. THE WEIGHT OF A HUMAN HEART is an emotionally charged historical adventure that asks what lengths people will go to in order to protect their loved ones.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentAugust 2020Aries: Zodiac series
by Marisa St Clair
The idea that a person’s destiny is shaped by impulses from astronomical bodiesmillions of miles away has fascinated humankind for thousands of years. Astrologicalsigns are the celestial guides that illuminate our fate, reveal the secrets of who wereally are, and warn of challenges to be faced. The Zodiac series provides a cleardescription and detailed analysis of all the key characteristics of your star sign,including the influence of the sun and its bearing on appearance, health, career,relationships and parenting style.
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Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practiceJanuary 2011My Life I Make- Revisited
by Lauris Faith
Spiritual Reflections on Reggae Lyrics by some famous artists such as Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Third World and Bunny Wailer
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November 2021The History of Science Fiction
A Graphic Novel Adventure
by Xavier Dollo & Djibril Morissette-Phan
Journey through time and space with this graphic novel history of the Sci-Fi genre, from Mary Shelley to William Gibson and Philip K. Dick to Ken Liu and Ted Chiang, and more. Trace the progress of SF through modern times and learn why key figures and inventors like Thomas Edison and Elon Musk have looked to Sci-Fi to predict the future.For the first time in illustrated form, this comprehensive history of Sci-Fi traces its origins and charts its history from its beginnings as a “schlock” genre to its respected status today.Who is considered the world’s first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? Discover the origins of your favorite page-to-screen Sci-Fi movies. Find out why Sci-Fi so effortlessly captures our imaginations and makes us dream of new worlds.The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors.
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August 2019A defence of armed Art/Struggle
by Óscar Guardiola-Rivera
Esta actitud obsesiva y antinomiana, que se denomina provocativamente la lucha "armada" en el camino hacia la paz (más que como lo opuesto a ella), presente como espíritu, efervescencia colectiva, combate o fantasma en los rituales institucionalizados o constitutivos (ejemplificado por el (episodio del juramento a cetro en la literatura clásica, ya menudo imaginado como un "contrato" original autorizado por una "voluntad" genérica que legitima el derecho en la literatura moderna), está representado bajo la economía política del régimen industrial-colonial en un estado de suspensión o "emergencia". En este sentido, como se sugirió anteriormente, el "estado de emergencia" que según Benjamin se ha convertido en la regla no es consecuencia de la violencia. Al contrario,es el intento de suspender el combate,
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December 2021New Asian Disorder
Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century
by Edited by Lowell Dittmer
In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a new set of global financial institutions and replacing “universal values” with technologically enhanced nationalism. The country’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is also tainted by the vast ambition to realize the “China Dream” within the foreseeable future. In response to China’s challenge, the United States has abandoned its “constructive engagement” policy towards the rising power and engaged in a trade war. Sino-American relations have been at a historical trough since the normalization of their relationship in the late 1970s. This book sheds new light on the current political disorder in the East Asian international arena. The new Asian disorder is analyzed from three perspectives: the first focuses on identity, the second on political economy, and the third on the triangular dynamic. This collection of essays concludes that, unless and until consensus can be reached on a coherent new framework for cooperation and rule enforcement among different stakeholders in East Asia, the current disorder may be expected to persist.
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2021Mastering The Art of Team Coaching
A comprehensive guide to unleashing the power, purpose and potential in any team
by Georgina Woudstra
Become an impactful team coach with a distinctive personal style that solves problems, gets results and inspires others to be at their best.
