Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation
Author: Jan Halper
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1989-05
Genre: Businessmen
ISBN: 9780446355056

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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.

Pan and Pandemic

Pan and Pandemic
Author: David Gessner
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-06
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781948814485

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When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner looked to Thoreau for guidance. Here are the lessons he took away.

Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
Author: Iddo Landau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190657677

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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

Quiet Desperation
Author: Gerald Wade Neal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008
Genre: Abused children
ISBN: 0761839933

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With standardized testing and predetermined subgroups garnering the attention of educational leaders, abused and neglected children have fallen deeper into the crevice of the system. For years these children have been ignored, save the obvious, visible bruises or child-initiated confessions. Because researching children is difficult without parental consent, it is nearly impossible to expose this problem with any level of legitimacy. By combining research from scientific research and the humanities, autobiographical flashbacks fuse with narratives that vividly detail the author's disturbing encounters with abused children as a school administrator. The effect is the realization that public schools unknowingly feed on weaker children beneath the awning of accountability. Book jacket.

Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation
Author: Mark Alan O'Brien
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1430327456

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From the prologue: Seven steps later his foot landed on the battered mat at the base of the iron treads that lead up to the trailer's door. John looked down and noticed that it actually said WELCOME. The only problem was that the 'm' and 'e' were missing. The outline was there but, no me. He half-smiled at the thought. Everything was there but me. He'd felt that way for years.---------- "Quiet Desperation" is the story of a man who has recently suffered the loss of his wife and discovers that his boss is crooked. With the help of his best friend and the spirit of his dead wife he sets out to get on with life and his boss out of the company he helped build.

Happy Cruelty Day!

Happy Cruelty Day!
Author: Bob Powers
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780312359522

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Beginning on January 1, the book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it.

Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation
Author: Alfred C. Martino
Publisher: Coles Street Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1593166397

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Imagine for a moment, you’re Marcus Cooper. A slick stranger meets you in a bar. You're drunk. You talk a lot. Without you realizing it, he’s learning about you. Your desire for money and women. By night’s end, he makes you a million-dollar proposition to cause a drunk-driving accident. Sounds crazy to you? Maybe, maybe not. You’re out of work. Bills are piling up. You owe your bookie six grand. But mostly, you're twenty years removed from being the high school football hero you once were, doubting how much longer life is worth living. Do you take the chance? Alfred C. Martino is a novelist and singer/songwriter. He is the author of three highly-acclaimed novels, Pinned, Over The End Line, and Perfected By Girls, as well as the stage play, Waiting For A Friend, performed at the New York New Works Theatre Festival, and a catalog of published short stories and music. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City, NJ. Information on his writing can be found at www.AlfredMartino.com. His music is available on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Deezer, Pandora, YouTube, Rumble, and other music outlets.

Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation
Author: David Jay Arts
Publisher: Pentland Press (NC)
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781571972989

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A psychological thriller focusing on a serial killer and the two New Jersey police officers trying to catch him. Wanting to write a best-selling novel, Richard Abbott decides to become a killer and then write about his adventures.

Desperate

Desperate
Author: Sarah Mae
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400204674

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Desperate is for those who love their children to the depths of their souls but who have also curled up under their covers, fighting back tears, and begging God for help. It’s for those who have ever wondered what happened to all their ideals for what having children would be like. For those who have ever felt like all the “experts” have clearly never had a child like theirs. For those who have prayed for a mentor. For those who ever felt lost and alone in motherhood. In Desperate you will find the story of one young mother’s honest account of the desperate feelings experienced in motherhood and one experienced mentor’s realistic and gentle exhortations that were forged in the trenches of raising her own four children. Also in Desperate: QR codes and links at the end of each chapter that lead to videos with Sarah Mae and Sally talking about the chapter Practical steps to take during the desperate times Bible study and journal exercises in each chapter that will lead you to identify ways in which you can grow as a mom Mentoring advice for real-life situations Q & A section with Sally where she answers readers questions

Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight

Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight
Author: David Gessner
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1948814498

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"A powerful and timely book from one of the most provocative and engaging voices in contemporary environmental writing." —MICHAEL P. BRANCH, author of How to Cuss in Western When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons—of learning our own backyard, re–wilding, loving nature, self–reliance, and civil disobedience—hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate. DAVID GESSNER is the author of Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness and the New York Times–bestselling All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West. Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and founder and editor–in–chief of Ecotone, Gessner lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the novelist Nina de Gramont, and their daughter, Hadley.