The Pursuit of Unhappiness

• Author : Daniel M. Haybron
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release : 25 September 2008

The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren't very good at it? This and related questions are explored in this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness in the contemporary psychological sense. In these pages, Dan Haybron argues that people are probably less effective at judging, and promoting, their own welfare than common belief has it. For the psychological dimensions of well-being, particularly our emotional lives, are far richer and

• Author : Hunt Janin
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 03 February 2023

Islam scares the West. Militant conservatism and the horrific acts of violent fundamentalists evoke outrage, but the reprehensible few reinforce a longstanding Western stereotype of all Muslims as incorrigibly fanatical, violent and morally and culturally different. Overlooked is the long history of Muslim intellectual and cultural achievement, and its potential to flower once again. With about 1.5 billion adherents, Islam is the world's fastest growing religion. An understanding of its past glories, present state and future potential has never been more

• Author : Dave Barkey
• Publisher : Author House
• Release : 22 December 2010

The Pursuit is the saga of Brad Crosley, a young principal of an elementary school in northcentral Iowa, whose wife Stella has abandoned him and their infant son. Brad attempts to balance his career with being a single Dad while trying to track down Stella to bring her back. A private detective finds her working as a prostitute. Before Brad is able to make contact with her, she disappears. The pursuit continues but not without complications. Along the way Brad

• Author : AA Momodu
• Publisher : AA Momodu
• Release : 27 April 2022

God have His interest, the good thing about God's Interest is that, it does not change because God's Interest is intertwine with His nature. His nature is not subject to the change in times and in seasons - For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed, Malachi 3:6. Thus making His interest accessible by anyone who desires to run with them throughout all generations. It is imperative you understand that even though God's

• Author : Bianca C. Williams
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release : 08 February 2018

In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships

• Author : Calvin L. McCullough Sr.
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 17 May 2013

This book is a tool that we can use to redirect our lives and the lives of others as we fulfill the call and the command that every Christian has on their life . . . and it is to live holy and pleasing lives unto God the Father. The Bible tells us For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Inside this book it will show you how Jesus and the Apostles not only gives

• Author : Nigel Jay Cooper
• Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
• Release : 27 April 2018

After witnessing a fatal car accident, a homeless man wanders the streets of Brighton, trying to ignore the new, incessant voice inside his head. But he can’t forget the crash, can't get the face of the woman cradling her dying husband out of his mind. She stared into his eyes, his soul. He has to find her. Is Dan ill or has he really been possessed by the spirit of Natalie's dead husband, Joe? If he hasn't, why does

• Author : Ganesh S Loke
• Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
• Release : 01 April 2018

In this inspirational book based on a true story of Ganesh Loke, who arrived in Australia in 1999 as an International student with only $500 in his pocket, tells his amazing story. During his studies, he was living in a shared accommodation in Sydney and struggled to survive on his own in an unfamiliar country. But with his determination, motivated approach, hard work and extra-ordinary vision Ganesh not only bought his dream house in Sydney, but also became a ‘multiple properties investor’.

• Author : Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Jr.
• Publisher : Mayflower-Plymouth Capital LLC
• Release : 05 May 2014

The Pursuit of Happiness is a celebration of America - our values, our diversity, our unity. We are the greatest nation on earth and we should work to keep it that way for future generations.

• Author : Nigel Thrift
• Publisher : Policy Press
• Release : 30 October 2022

Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way? Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations. Challenging both higher education policy and leadership, he argues that the focus on

• Author : Nazreen Mohammed
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 01 April 2010

The true story of Dane Abdool, one of the youngest men on Florida's death row. The events that took him there, an immigrant family's struggle for justice that evades them and the pain, devastation and misunderstanding that follows them as Dane waits; time being his only friend. A mother's story, about her 19-year-old son who is arrested and indicted on charges of first degree murder. The prosecutor who attaches the death penalty and pursue it with a vengeance, the trial

• Author : Aldo Schiavone
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release : 05 July 2022

One of the world’s foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon believed that men, at least, were born equal. Later the Romans upended the debate by asking whether citizens were

• Author : Alvin Low
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 22 March 2007

How do you live a life of impeccable ethical excellence in the midst of moral confusion? Wondering what to do in making difficult ethical decisions? This book is for you.

• Author : John Wilson
• Publisher : CUP Archive
• Release : 03 February 2023

• Author : John Kendrick Bangs
• Publisher : The Floating Press
• Release : 01 December 2009

A house-boat floats down the river Styx, which must be crossed to enter the afterworld. At the end of A House-Boat on the Styx Captain Kidd hijacks the boat. In this sequel, the houseboat club-members hire Sherlock Holmes (at that point in history declared dead by his creator) to investigate the matter.