William B : 482 books

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, devoted to Adolescent Medicine, is edited by Drs. William B. Shore, Francesco Leanza, and Nicole Chaisson. Articles in this issue include: Health Care Maintenance for Adolescents; Adolescent Growth and Development; Puberty; Current Concepts of...

Designed to maximize easy retention and quick recall, Review of Ophthalmology, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Neil J. Friedman, Peter K. Kaiser, and William B. Trattler, is the best-selling review book you can trust to get you successfully through your exams. An efficient, easy-to-digest format distills key...

This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards...

In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his lifes journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant in Ohio, in Washington, D.C., and overseas. He regales readers with stories about hopping a freight train...

Supin Lick Mountain in Rockingham County, Virginia, offers residents majestic views that make it easy to contemplate life, enjoy solitude, and gain wisdom. Its a place that the Pittard family has enjoyed for three generations, and during that time, theyve built the cabin of their dreams while mingling...

Uno de los grandes temores al que muchos de nosotros nos enfrentamos es descubrir al final que hemos desperdiciado nuestra vida, a pesar de todos nuestros esfuerzos. En El arte de la buena vida, William B. Irvine explora la sabiduría de la filosofía estoica, una de las escuelas de pensamiento más...

［牛津大學出版社最暢銷的人生哲學書］ 歐巴馬、柯林頓、密特朗、梭羅、叔本華 都歎服的生命智慧 ◆ 「盲目的樂觀，只會使人感覺膚淺；過度的悲觀，則會使人走向毀滅。唯有悲觀後的樂觀，才是精神上的強者！」 ──尼采 ◆ ◤活在這世上，你需要「實用的悲觀主義」◢ 換湯不換藥的心靈方法→廉價的勵志泡沫→失控的正向思考→惶惑的下流老人 錯誤的人生目標╳不切實際的期待 將讓你虛度人生 ▼想太多也沒關係，你的悲觀也有意義， 斯多噶哲學教你善用悲觀的正面力量 兩千多年前，斯多噶哲學家運用悲觀思考的正面力量， 意外發現了解決人生困境的心理技巧。 藉由實踐斯多噶哲學的極簡心法，當你在人生路上遇到生命十大考驗： 羞辱、憤怒、悲傷、欲望、名利、人際關係、衰老、死亡……時， 便能夠以退為進，化解心中看不開的傷、跨不過的坎， 用「消極想像」積極消解填不滿的欲望， 用「幽默自嘲」輕巧穿越羞辱與憤怒， 用「宿命論」戰勝生命的悲苦與眼淚， 剔除過度的欲望及有毒的情緒，實踐素樸的極簡生活， 發現生命真正有價值的事物，學會保持心靈平靜的大智慧。 ▼斯多噶哲學五大心理技巧 ──用悲觀的力量找回快樂的能力 【心法①】消極想像大滿足：想像最壞的結果，學會渴望早已擁有的事物，生活甜美度加倍 【心法②】控制二分心自在：將事物分成能控制與不能控制的，讓愛控制的心學會斷捨離 【心法③】活在當下大智慧：「過去」和「現在」的宿命論，教你擺脫不滿足，學會享受現有的生活 【心法④】鍛鍊意志反快樂：定期自找麻煩，延遲享受，培養自控力，快樂便操之在我 【心法⑤】反躬自省的實踐：定期反省日常生活中的事件，像《沉思錄》那樣認真過生活 ▼知足：快樂的極簡主義 ──從簡單事物中獲得快樂的能力，決定你享受生活、解決困難的能力 今日我們面臨更多的焦慮、誘惑、競爭，也與古羅馬人面臨同樣的羞辱、悲傷、衰老， 但我們仍舊束手無策，飽受各種負面情緒所苦。 斯多噶哲學發現，痛苦的元凶就是人類「貪得無厭」「習慣控制結果」的兩大天性， 讓我們不知不覺喪失了享受簡單事物的能力，而嚴重耗損了享受生活、感受快樂的能力。 原來，快樂跟控制欲也要極簡：節制、知足，反而更快樂；遇到困境時也能快速調適，不陷入痛苦。 掌握斯多噶哲學的五大極簡心法，將幫助你恢復快樂的嗅覺， 在物質與心靈上同時實踐一種素樸的極簡生活，讓你越活越幸福。 ▼生命的難關，斯多噶哲學都有解 ──早在兩千年前就為現代人調製的哲學藥方 本書詳細闡述斯多噶哲學家經典格言中的生命智慧， 從食衣住行各方面提供讀者如何擁有美好生活的忠告， 作者還整理出斯多噶哲學十大生活實踐處方， 教你按部就班學會兩千年前的古羅馬生活智慧，你將： 從羅馬皇帝馬可‧奧里略身上學會取捨 從愛比克泰德身上學會從有限的生活中獲得更大的滿足 減低焦慮，釋懷過去，將心力聚焦在生命中能夠控制的事物上 妥善處理羞辱、悲傷、衰老，坦然面對名聲與財富的誘惑等十大生命困境 徹底治癒對生活無休無止的不滿足，讓內心恢復從容和平靜 成為自己生命的觀察者，找到焦慮的源頭，避免種種痛苦，自主創造幸福人生 ▼斯多噶哲學特色 ①...

What happened to the hundreds of thousands of men in the Union and Confederate armies after they lay down their arms? According to William Holberton, many of these men had miles to travel before they were discharged from service, and the passage of these miles included some rather unique situations...

In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the...

"Territorial expansion was the foundation of American power and greatness. From the beginning of history to the present time, no country ever exerted a controlling power over the world until it had acquired a wide extent of territory." – William R. Garrett.

The leading interpretations of The Prince focus on Machiavelli's historical context, but they give little attention to the source on which the moral and political thought of Machiavelli's sixteenth century was based, the Christian Bible. In this study of The Prince, William Parsons plumbs Machiavelli's...

Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed integration of specific actions and process techniques. These distinguished experts and accomplished authors have gathered the...

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...

The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting a new business; however, in recent years, the term has been extended to include other forms of entrepreneurial activity. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process by which teams within an established company conceive, foster, launch, and manage...