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The Antidote

Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

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The Antidote

Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

Self-help books don't seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get it—doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can't even agree on what "happiness" means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it's our constant effort to be happy that is making us miserable. And that there is an alternative path to happiness and success that involves embracing failure, pessimism, insecurity, and uncertainty—the very things we spend our lives trying to avoid. Thought-provoking, counterintuitive, and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is the intelligent person's guide to understanding the much-misunderstood idea of happiness.

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1429947608

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Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

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0374715246

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9780374715243

Meditations for Mortals

Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Meditations for Mortals

Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

A map for a liberating journey toward a more meaningful life―a journey that begins where we actually find ourselves, not with a fantasy of where we’d like to be―from the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks How would life open up if we stopped treating it as a problem to be solved? Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectly. How can we embrace our nonnegotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there’s always too much to do? How do we shed the illusion that life will really begin as soon as we can “get on top of everything”? Reflecting on quotations drawn from philosophy, religion, literature, psychology, and self-help, Burkeman explores a combination of practical tools and daily shifts in perspective. The result is a life-enhancing and surprising challenge to much familiar advice―and a profound yet entertaining crash course in living more fully.

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Penguin

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0735247897

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9780735247895

The Antidote

Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

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The Antidote

Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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New year... New mindset? What if 'positive thinking' and relentless optimism aren't the solution to the happiness dilemma, but part of the problem? Oliver Burkeman turns decades of self-help advice on its head and paradoxically forces us to rethink our attitudes towards failure, uncertainty and death. It's our constant efforts to avoid negative thinking that cause us to feel anxious, insecure and unhappy. What if happiness can be found embracing the things we spend our lives trying to escape? Wise, practical and funny, The Antidote is a thought-provoking, counter-intuitive and ultimately uplifting read, celebrating the power of negative thinking. 'Burkeman has written some of the most truthful and useful words on happiness to be published in recent years' Guardian

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256

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Random House

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1473561914

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9781473561915

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Time Management for Mortals

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The Antidote

Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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Meditations for Mortals

Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

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0735247889

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HELP!

How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

By: Oliver Burkeman

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HELP!

How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

By: Oliver Burkeman

How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It’s a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna – but how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past few years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest outposts of the ‘happiness industry’ in an attempt to find out. In Help!, the first collection of his popular Guardian columns, Burkeman presents his findings. It’s a witty and thought-provoking exploration that punctures many of self-help’s most common myths, while also offering clear-headed, practical and of ten counter-intuitive advice on a range of topics from stress, procrastination and insomnia to wealth, laughter, time management and creativity. It doesn’t claim to have solved the problem of human happiness. But it might just bring us one step closer.

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Canongate Books

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0857860402

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Four Thousand Weeks

Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Four Thousand Weeks

Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life

By: Oliver Burkeman

The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best? Of course, nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem that draws on philosophy, literature and psychology to cover the past, present and future of our battles with time. It goes far beyond practical tips, and its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview. Drawing on the insights of ancient philosophers, Benedictine monks, artists and authors, Scandinavian social reformers, renegade Buddhist technologists and many others, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its grasp"--Publisher's description.

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Bodley Head Childrens

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1847924018

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9781847924018

An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing

Practical Skills for Social Science Students

By: Bruce Oliver Newsome

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An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing

Practical Skills for Social Science Students

By: Bruce Oliver Newsome

An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing by Bruce Oliver Newsome is an accessible guide that walks readers through the process of completing a social science project. Written specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate research classes, it introduces students to a complete skill set, including: planning, design, analysis, argumentation, criticizing theories, building theories, modeling theories, choosing methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing the final product. Students can use this text as a practical resource to navigate through each stage of the process, including choices between more advanced research techniques.

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SAGE Publications

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1483352560

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9781483352565

Vital Notes for Nurses

Nursing Models, Theories and Practice

By: Hugh McKenna,Oliver Slevin

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Vital Notes for Nurses

Nursing Models, Theories and Practice

By: Hugh McKenna,Oliver Slevin

Vital Notes for Nurses: Nursing Models, Theories and Practiceprovides a concise, accessible introduction to the development,application and evaluation of nursing theories and clearly outlinestheir relevance to everyday nursing practice. It encourages thereader to view theories from a broader conceptual base, enablingthem to be more objective when it comes to clinical practice. Suitable for nursing students and newly qualified nurses, theauthors explore the relationship between nursing theories andpractice, specifically analysing their origins, development,selection and use. It discusses how nursing theories evolve, howthey relate to nursing roles, how to select a nursing theoryrelevant to your practice, and how to evaluate theoriescritically. Key Features: • Clearly examines the relationship between nursingtheory, clinical practice and nursing roles • Written in a clear, accessible style which assumes no priorknowledge • Useful to all nursing students on the common foundationprogramme as well as newly qualified nurses. • Each chapter includes features such as activities, casestudies and learning objectives • In the Vital Notes for Nurses series

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118305922

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9781118305928

HELP!

How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Four Thousand Weeks

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will change your life

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Four Thousand Weeks

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will change your life

By: Oliver Burkeman

**The instant Sunday Times bestseller** Battling an overfilled inbox? Your ever-lengthening to-do lists? Struggling against distraction? What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? If you live to 80, you'll have barely more than four thousand weeks on earth. How will you decide how to spend them? Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. **A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'Life is finite. You don't have to fit everything in... Read this book and wake up to a new way of thinking and living' EMMA GANNON 'Wonderful. Instead of offering new tips on how to cram more into your day, it questions why we feel the need to' THE TIMES 'Every sentence is riven with gold' CHRIS EVANS 'Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful' MARIAN KEYES

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Random House

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1473545552

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Four Thousand Weeks

The smash-hit bestseller that will change your life

By: Oliver Burkeman

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The smash-hit bestseller that will change your life

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts? Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

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0735232474

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Help!

How to be Slightly Happier, and Get a Bit More Done

By: Oliver Burkeman

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Help!

How to be Slightly Happier, and Get a Bit More Done

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How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It's a subject that has occupied some of history's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna. But how do we sort the good ideas from the bad ones?

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The Antidote

The Antidote

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Meditations for Mortals

Meditations for Mortals

The Antidote

The Antidote

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

The Antidote

The Antidote

Meditations for Mortals

Meditations for Mortals

HELP!

HELP!

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing

An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing

Vital Notes for Nurses

Vital Notes for Nurses

HELP!

HELP!

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Help!

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