The Glass Half Empty

• Author : Rodrigo Aguilera
• Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
• Release : 10 March 2020

Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the far-right, a number of leading intellectuals (Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Johan Norberg, and Matt Ridley, among others) have been arguing in recent years that the world is getting better and better. But this “progress narrative” is little more than a very conservative defence of the capitalist status quo. At a time when liberal democracy appears incapable of stemming the tide of the far-right

• Author : Alice Leal
• Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
• Release : 03 June 2014

This book offers an unprecedented look into the field of translation studies (TS) in Brazil, placing emphasis both on the conflict theory vs. practice and on the reception of poststructuralist thought. The implied debate between the voices heard in the book represents a wide-ranging spectrum of viewpoints not only in TS in Brazil, but also in the humanities in general. Addressing issues such as the institutionalisation of translation, the aim of translation theory and translator training, the impact of poststructuralist

• Author : James Roy
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 27 May 2011

Th is book is written for project managers and their managers to supplement their studies and experience with typical processes and relationships, based on my lifetime of lessons learned in both the domestic and international arenas, as a project manager, as a manager of project managers, and as an expert witness in the field.

• Author : Tiffany Beth Mfume
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 21 December 2018

This book presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on “the value added” of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with successful non-completers.

• Author : Nathan Baine
• Publisher : Archway Publishing
• Release : 12 November 2020

Matt is an unemployed loner with an alcohol problem. He spends his days and nights frequenting the same local bar near his apartment in search of his next drink. All is business as usual, until one fateful day when he is forced to come face to face with his own demons, love, lust, and a jukebox. The bar is a playground for the local patrons, each wondering how they got there and if they’ll ever leave. Along Matt’s

• Author : Caroline Christian
• Publisher : Author House
• Release : 18 March 2013

So you tell someone you're having a bad day and they respond with "Oh, don't worry. Things will get better." Don't you just want to haul off and smack them? What you really want to do is take their happy-doodle attitude and stick it where the sun don't shine. Well, let them live in my shoes for just one week, let alone seven years. Seven years living at this house on Cedarcrest Road was no paradise. I was always someone

• Author : Ms.Kalpana Kochhar,Ms.Catherine A Pattillo,Ms.Yan M Sun,Mrs.Nujin Suphaphiphat,Mr.Andrew J Swiston,Mr.Robert Tchaidze,Mr.Benedict J. Clements,Ms.Stefania Fabrizio,Valentina Flamini,Ms.Laure Redifer,Mr.Harald Finger
• Publisher : International Monetary Fund
• Release : 02 June 2015

This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instruments. Water subsidies provided through public utilities are estimated at about $456 billion or 0.6 percent of global GDP in 2012. The paper suggests that getting economic incentives right, notably by reforming water pricing, can go a long way towards encouraging more efficient water use and supporting needed investment, while enabling policies that protect the poor. It also discusses pricing reform options and emphasizes

• Author : Felix Dennis
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 31 January 2013

Multi-millionaires are not supposed to write poetry. It offends against natural justice. But following a life-threatening illness, Felix Dennis, the man behind the magazine publishing powerhouse responsible for The Week and Maxim found himself scribbling lines in the oddest situations - in business meetings, at social functions, on aeroplanes and even in his sleep.

• Author : Sarah Jane Butfield
• Publisher : Rukia Publishing
• Release : 03 January 2014

Is the glass half empty or half full? Sometimes life influences our view, and alters our perception. Life changing events, up to 1997, almost destroyed me. At my lowest point, I met Nigel. He helped me to discover how a positive attitude can change everything. This new positive approach helps me to perceive my glass as half full, together we live life to the full. With good times ahead of us as a family, we made the biggest and most difficult

• Author : Caro Feely
• Publisher : Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW
• Release : 13 April 2017

‘Hand harvesting was a different process to machine harvesting. It was convivial and slow. We started at dawn and slowly proceeded across the vineyards. It was better for us and for the grapes, the human scale and pace of it more peaceful and joyful.’ But this rose-tinted glimpse of life is only part of the story – with it come long hours, uncertainty and their associated stress. For Seán and Caro Feely, the rollercoaster ride of managing a growing business

• Author : Phillips Talbot
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 1969

• Author : Roy Sorensen
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 07 April 2016

Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good! Will you buy this book?. Inside you will discover that your only truthful answer to this second question is affirmative. Logic has made some men rich. Inside this book you will learn of John Eck (who debated Luther in 1519). He Will you answer this question in the same way that you will answer my next question? Done? Good! Will you buy this

• Author : Jerald Hage
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 January 1994

A group of renowned sociological theorists analyze why the attempts to make sociological theory formal in the 1960s and early 1970s failed. This becomes not only an unusual and interesting analysis in the sociology of knowledge, but several of the articles move to the level of analyzing the entire discipline, explaining why positivism did not take hold and what are the distinctive characteristics of sociology as a discipline. Anyone interested in sociology as a discipline and more specifically sociological theory

• Author : Constance Kamii
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 03 June 1999

In this fully revised second edition of the classic Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic, Constance Kamii describes and develops an innovative program of teaching arithmetic in the early elementary grades. Kamii bases her educational strategies on renowned constructivist Jean Piaget's scientific ideas of how children develop logico-mathematical thinking. Written in collaboration with a classroom teacher, and premised upon the conviction that children are capable of much more than teachers and parents generally realize, the book provides a rich theoretical foundation and

• Author : Suzanne C. Segerstrom
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 01 March 2012

Rose-colored glasses may look silly, but they're actually quite practical. In The Glass Half Full, psychologist Suzanne Segerstrom surveys the scientific data on optimism (including her own award-winning research) to reveal that it's not what you believe about the future that matters, but what you do about it. While pessimists debate whether their goals are attainable, optimists are out there trying to achieve them. Without insisting that you learn to "think positive," The Glass Half Full teaches you practical ways