Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

"Transform any type of entrepreneurial activity, new idea, or . . . a business you already own into a much more profitable company" with this book's strategy. (from the foreword by Kevin Harrington, an original "shark" on Shark Tank and serial entrepreneur)In Click and Grow Rich, readers discover the nine-step proven formula for creating a wildly successful online business.The unsettling truth is that ninety-five percent of all businesses ...

Children are being identified with more neurodevelopmental disorders than in previous decades and understanding these medically complex disorders has become critical as more children are living with these disorders.This pediatric treatment guide provides cutting-edge research and intervention recommendations for professionals working with children and adolescents. A team of contributors with diverse experience portray medically complex information and neurodevelopmental disorders i...

This illustrated children's book is for all little boys and girls who sometimes need help from a parent to figure out how to cure their boredom when they think there is nothing to do.

As a result of growing life expectancy, the period of retirement is likely to surpass the entire period of working life in many countries. There is little acknowledgement that retirement is not an event but an extended period of life that unfolds over several decades. Experiences vary considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach ...

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophe...

Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct our homes, but in this book we discover a new form of ‘estate agency', the active participation of the home and its material culture in the construction of our lives. What do the possessions people choose to take with them when moving say about wh...

ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Finalist!What Would Your Life Be Like If You Simply Let Go of Control?At work, they oversee every detail of every project and expect nothing less than perfection from their coworkers.At home, they obsess over finding the “right” person. Then, they criticize their lover or spouse for doing everything wrong.As parents, they practice zero tolerance for their children’s preferred study practices, choice of friends, dress cho...

This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social inequality?Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, ...

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's “lives”. Thereaft...

We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades. In the last thirty years, economics has ceased to be just an academic discipline concerned with the study of economy, and has come to be the only legitimate way to think abo...