In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the difference between viewing the world from a religious point of view and that of a naturalist, and comparing a scientific worldview to a philosophical one. Ford investigates the contributions of the Greeks, Kant, and William James, and brings the discussion up to date with contemporary thinkers. He proffers the refreshing idea that in today's world, the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many and that the reductive or rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions.

The Search for Meaning: A Short History

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Dennis

History & Criticism

University of California Press

In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the difference between viewing the world from a religious point of view and that of a naturalist, and comparing a scientific worldview to a philosophical one. Ford investigates the contributions of the Greeks, Kant, and William James, and brings the discussion up to date with contemporary thinkers. He proffers the refreshing idea that in today's world, the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many and that the reductive or rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions.

Religion & Spirituality

This book is a fast pitch softball instruction book. It is applicable for pitchers of all levels. The book includes instructions for throwing 6 different pitches.

An Introduction to Softball Pitching Mechanics: Including How to Throw Six Different Pitches : A Basic Description for Girls and Womens Fast Pitch

Computers & Technology

Programming

Brown & Benchmark Pub

A fast, salesy read, this book sketches a provocative yet entertaining picture of peddlers, companies, customers, and the unacceptable status quo. It offers a candid account of everyday issues and dilemmas that peddlers face and discusses problems few others are willing to acknowledge, no less discuss. An irreverent and humorous look at corporate sales, it's packed with practical and simple solutions, and true stories from 20-plus years in the business.

The Peddler's Prerogative

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Next Phase Business Development

The primary challenge for fund managers in the alternative investment industry today is how to adroitly raise capital. First, managers need to find investors who are seeking their type of strategy and performance metrics. Then they must navigate a due diligence cycle that can take 9 to 12 months to complete. To be successful, fund managers must realign their marketing efforts and adjust to investors' new evaluation processes. The Fund Manager's Marketing Manifesto shows managers how to plan and execute effective fundraising campaigns in today's alternative investment marketplace. Passive marketing no longer brings in the allocations-outbound marketing is a must, but it takes more time and effort. This book discusses every step of the marketing process, from developing effective marketing materials and researching potential investors, to mounting effective e-mail and phone canvassing campaigns. Central to the discussion is how to build a solid list of investor prospects, and make the most of it. You'll also learn how to avoid two of the major pitfalls that impede success-bad data and inadequate follow-up. Fundraising is not a one-time event. It must be an ongoing part of your firm's business strategy. The Fund Manager's Marketing Manifesto reveals the marketing expertise required to raise capital and build your investor stable.

The Fund Manager's Marketing Manifesto

Brighton House Associates

A primary objective for life science executives is raising capital. Very often, however, a lack of marketing and sales skills impedes their efforts. Focusing regionally, rather than globally, only compounds the challenge. "The Life Science Executive's Fundraising Manifesto" helps scientists understand the fundamental skills needed to brand and market their companies. It discusses how to use a consistent message to achieve compelling results from a fundraising campaign, and it teaches you how to aggregate a list of potential global investors that are a fit for your company's products and services. The book also explains how to efficiently and effectively reach out to potential investor targets, start a dialogue that fosters a relationship, and ultimately secure capital allocations. Raising capital is not a one-time event. It must be an ongoing part of your business strategy. This book reveals the expertise required to continually fundraise and bring your ideas to market. For more information about the book, please visit www.fundraisingmanifesto.com.

The Life Science Executive's Fundraising Manifesto: Best Practices for Identifying Capital in the Biotech and Medtech Arenas

Life Science Nation

A Theology for a Mediated God

A Theology for a Mediated God introduces a new way to examine the shaping effects of media on our notions of God and divinity. In contrast to more conventional social-scientific methodologies and conversations about the relationship between religion and media, Dennis Ford argues that the characteristics we ascribe to a medium can be extended and applied metaphorically to the characteristics we ascribe to God―just as earlier generations attempted to comprehend God through the metaphors of father, shepherd, or mother. As a result, his work both challenges and bridges the gap between students of religion and media, and theology.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

In the whimsical tradition he is known for, humorist Dennis Ford once again embarks on an amusing exploration into the captivating worlds of science, literature, history, and popular culture-all without ever leaving the comfy air-conditioned interior of his Saturn Ion. In the style of his previous work, Thinking About Everything, Ford shares a medley of new musings on the worries of the world and the unique friendliness of San Antonio as he plays peek-a-boo with a spider, attempts to climb a rainbow, and captures a leprechaun. Ever the helpful humorist, Ford continues on a journey of thoughtful adventures through the mundane and esoteric as he explains how the postal service can mail itself into a profitable future, why fantastical lies can make elections more interesting, and a way through which one can acquire a window seat on the ferry to the Great Beyond. Included are "Excellent Groaners" a compilation of puns, and "Professor Fawcett's Notorious Lecture on Test-Irrelevant Thoughts" a learned presentation on the psychological perils of test anxiety told partly in acronyms. Miles of Thoughts offers an amusing glimpse into one man's upside-down world as he commutes through the beautiful scenery of the New Jersey Pine Barrens and contemplates life.

Miles of Thoughts: Including Excellent Groaners and Professor Fawcett?s Notorious Lecture on Test-Irrelevant Thoughts

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

iUniverse

Lectures on Theories of Learning

Lectures on Theories of Learning explores the maze of conditioning principles and concepts that guided research in American experimental psychology in the twentieth century. The main trails on our journey are the historical theories of learning: —Edward Thorndike and the laws of learning —Ivan Pavlov and classical conditioning —John Watson and the first behaviorism —Edwin Guthrie and one-trial learning —Edward Tolman and the cognitive map —Clark Hull and drive reduction —Donald Hebb and physiological psychology —B. F. Skinner and radical behaviorism Each trail leads to further intellectual excursions: —orientations in the study of learning —operationism and fallibilism —habituation and sensitization —a primer on operant conditioning —schedules of reinforcement —the uses and abuses of punishment —escape and avoidance learning There are no blind alleys in Lectures on Theories of Learning as it sagely winds its way through the history of American psychology. From the commencement in lecture 1 to the conclusions in lecture 15, students will experience an informed and informal journey of psychological discoveries and intellectual enrichment.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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The Search for Meaning: A Short History

The Search for Meaning: A Short History

An Introduction to Softball Pitching Mechanics: Including How to Throw Six Different Pitches : A Basic Description for Girls and Womens Fast Pitch

The Peddler's Prerogative

The Fund Manager's Marketing Manifesto

The Life Science Executive's Fundraising Manifesto: Best Practices for Identifying Capital in the Biotech and Medtech Arenas

A Theology for a Mediated God

A Theology for a Mediated God

Miles of Thoughts: Including Excellent Groaners and Professor Fawcett?s Notorious Lecture on Test-Irrelevant Thoughts

Lectures on Theories of Learning