![]() ![]() ![]() “choice no longer liberates, but debilitates” -“choice overload” ![]() With the latest studies on how we make choices in our personal and professional lives, Schwartz offers practical advice on how to focus on the right choices, and how to derive greater satisfaction from choices that we do make. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz explains how a culture that thrives on the availability of constantly evolving options can also foster profound dissatisfaction and self-blame in individuals, which can lead to a paralysis in decision making and, in some cases, depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401K, everyday decisions have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers' Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. ![]()
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The Sleep Foundation editorial team is dedicated to providing content that meets the highest standards for accuracy and objectivity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this definitive collection, all the canonical stories are collected and have been narrated by none other than Stephen Fry himself. Written over a century ago, these stories have shaped the culture since that time in many ways and even now, Holmes remains one of the most adapted characters of all time. Sherlock Holmes is easily one of the most enduring and popular characters to have come out of literature. ![]() Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Stephen Fry You can purchase these audiobooks from where you can get your first audiobook for free! Best Audiobooks in Fiction 01. The books belong to different genres, and that’s exactly how you should read books, as you want: without any limits or boundaries. Not wasting any more time, below are 60 amazing audiobooks you got to listen to. ![]() Whenever you feel like this, remember, we’re living in the 21st century! We have audiobooks! So, whether you’re jogging, cooking, or commuting, just plug in your earphones and enjoy a new book. ![]() In this modern day and age, it gets more and more difficult to take out time for ourselves and read the book we’ve been eyeing for a very long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() But they also tell of new communities and personal transformations catalyzed through activism. The interviews-a number of them illustrated by the women's "photostories"-describe obstacles, lawsuits, and tragedies. In this collection of interviews, sociologist Shannon Elizabeth Bell presents the voices of twelve Central Appalachian women, environmental justice activists fighting against mountaintop removal mining and its devastating effects on public health, regional ecology, and community well-being.Įach woman narrates her own personal story of injustice and tells how that experience led her to activism. About the BookMotivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging effects of industrialization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the sign language is how Annie will get through to Helen, so that Helen can learn how to communicate with the world. He doesn’t feel that what she is teaching makes any sense, especially to a girl who is blind and deaf. Helen’s father, Captain Keller, is very reluctant in allowing Annie to have complete control over his daughter. Annie demands that Helen be under her control only, so that Helen will have to depend on her for all of her needs. After many battles, between Helen and Annie, Annie realizes that she cannot teach Helen when her parents continue to interfere and give her what she wants because they feel sorry for her. When Annie arrives she knows that Helen is capable of learning, but she faces so many challenges because Helen has been allowed to do whatever she wants for years. They hire her a teacher from New York named Annie Sullivan, who she herself has been blind before. Her parents don’t know what they can do to help her. The Miracle Worker is a play about Helen Keller as a six-year-old girl who has been blind and deaf since the age of two. ![]() ![]() One of the original Rock Chicks, she has always had a sense of mystery about her. The whole way through the book, I understood why she does what she does, and I love her sass and her attitude – and OMG, she’s a total badass, and I love that! She also has a massive heart, and is there for those she loves without question. ![]() I loved the opportunity to get to know her better, and I can honestly say, I absolutely adore her! She’s strong, she’s confident, and she’s not willing to sacrifice her goals and what she wants, for anything. While I have always liked Ally, she had never been my favourite of the Rock Chicks. God, the woman is brilliant!Īnd finally, it’s Ally’s turn. Kristen Ashley, I already worship at your feet, how much more awesome can you possibly get? I have been waiting oh-so-impatiently to get my grabby little hands on this book, and I can honestly say it was everything I wanted it to be! From the first few pages I had a massive grin on my face because it was just SO Rock Chick! KA immediately captured the mood, the language, and everything that I love about these books within just a few pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() 5 RIGHTEOUS STARS FOR A SENSATIONAL FINISH TO ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SERIES EVER! ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though the character of the asshole develops into a hero, we spend too much time with the asshole to really care that he's not an asshole anymore. ![]() Now that we'd gotten to know the hero and what he's up against, instead of showing how he surmounts the odds, we have to start all over again with a handsome, clever, and strong but self-serving pirate whose mission is to betray the nice geeky mad scientist. Switching to the pirate's point of view was both jarring and disappointing. Pacing was lackadaisical in the beginning, but really hit its stride in the battles. The secondary characters, for the most part, fell into neat tropes. The main characters, a warrior and a pirate, didn't have deep feelings-nor were they terribly unique. I liked the writing: descriptive, fast, action sequences and complex tactics-which is what military sci-fi is all about-and crisp dialogue. The science was never explained to my satisfaction-in fact, the science of Transit was never explained. Military sci-fi w/powered armor suits and mindless giant ants. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his introduction, he provides biographical contexts for the reader and discusses the challenges of translating Rilke. With the same artistry that marks his widely acclaimed translations of Kafka’s The Castle and Amerika: The Missing Person, Mark Harman captures the lyrical and spiritual dimensions of Rilke’s prose. ![]() Art, Rilke tells the young poet in his final letter to him, is only another way of living. Letters to a Young Poet is, finally, a life manual. Rilke offers unguarded thoughts on such diverse subjects as creativity, solitude, self-reliance, living with uncertainty, the shallowness of irony, the uselessness of criticism, career choices, sex, love, God, and art. A book often encountered in adolescence, it speaks directly to the young. Letters to a Young Poet collects the ten letters that Rilke wrote to Kappus. Touched by the innocence and forthrightness of the student, Rilke responded to Kappus’ letter and began an intermittent correspondence that would last until 1908. ![]() Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer, for which he had little inclination. In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. ![]() ![]() Then the poet says that his love is neither as white as the snow, or her hairs as black as the night. And the poet here, with an air of innocence, keeps rejecting it. These extravagant comparisons that the poet rejects are the norms when it comes to praising one’s love. The sonnet starts with an almost confused statement saying that the poet’s lover’s eyes are not at all like the sun and her lips are not as red as a coral. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Ĭoral is far more red than her lips’ red And that’s what makes this sonnet so confusing and so powerful. ![]() Shakespeare takes a completely different way of expressing his ideas of beauty. The classical Petrarchan sonnets usually have this theme where the speaker’s love is compared to the breeze of spring in a hill valley or the smell of flower gardens. From the paraphrase, you might have noticed that Shakespeare, going contrary to his contemporaries, is rejecting the grand and unrealistic comparisons of one’s love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bajika was right behind her teammate with a time of 37:35.39 and had just barely missing the cut of the top ten times for WT. Uwajeneza eased through with a time of 36:37.07 and now owns four of the top ten records in WT history. Florance Uwajeneza and Betty Bajika finished in first and second place. The women's 10,000 meters was one of the last performances of the night, taking place at 8:00 p.m. Combined, they brought in a total of 27 points for the Lady Buffs. ![]() Teammates, Miriam Zanovello and Hekla Sif Magnusdottir took second and third, respectively. The Lady Buffs swept the podium on the triple jump with outdoor champion, Taylor Nelloms, claiming first place for the third year in a row with a distance of 12.60m. Full list of times and distances for West Texas A&M are below. Multiple athletes performed their best for WT today with many hitting personal marks. ![]() The distance team and throwing team each brought in 10 points apiece to place the Buffs on the board. The Buffs take second after the first day with 20 team points. The Lady Buffs hold onto first place with 50 points after sweeping the triple jump and taking a 1 / 2 finish in the 10,000 meters. 3 Lady Buffs track and field team earned a combined 70 points at the first day of competition of the Lone Star Conference Outdoor Championship. ![]() |