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پزشکی، دندانپزشکی و داروسازی
تاریخ و جغرافیا
داستان و رمان
دیگر
دین و فلسفه
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سلامتی، تناسب اندام و رژیم غذایی
شیمی و پلیمر
علوم اجتماعی و حقوق
علوم زیستی و بیوتکنولوژی
فیزیک و نجوم
کامپیوتر و اینترنت
کتابهای کودکان و داستان
کسب و کار و اقتصاد
کشاورزی و دامپزشکی و غذا
معماری
مهندسی و فناوری
هنر و تئاتر
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: DURING MY LIFETIME, THE AMERICAN FAMILY HAS DRASTICALLY downsized. Women in their forties are about twice as likely to haveone child—or none—as they were thirty years ago. Big families have all but disappeared. In 1976, 20 percent of women in their early fortieshad five or more kids; by 2006, less than 4 percent did.If you ask people to explain why we don’t have as many kids as we used to, the answers are all over the place. “People can’t afford bigfamilies anymore,” “Women have real careers now,” “We don’t need kids to help out with farm work,” “Women want to live like men,”“Americans have lost faith in God.” In Athens, the Greeks blame air pollution.If you make the question personal, however, the answers are very much alike. When asked, “Why don’t you have as many kids as weused to?” both men and women respond with groans. As best I can tell, the English translation of these groans is “Kids are a lot of work,” ormaybe “Imagine all the dirty diapers and sleepless nights,” or perhaps “Are you trying to kill me?”To be brutally honest, we’re reluctant to have more children because we think that the pain outweighs the gain. When people compare thegrief that another child would give them to the joy that the child would bring, they conclude that it’s just not worth it. As Bill Cosby put it, “Thereason we have five children is because we do not want six.”You could easily call this a very selfish outlook. How can you focus exclusively on whether another child would make you happier? Whatabout the child? Unless your baby is truly unlucky, he will almost certainly be happy to be alive. Aren’t you? This is your child we’re talkingabout. If you have to make yourself a little less happy in order to give a son or daughter the gift of life, shouldn’t you?The question is serious, but I’m going to dodge it. While I accept the natalist view that more births should be encouraged because theymake the world a better place, asking others to sacrifice their happiness for the good of the world seems futile. Preaching againstselfishness is usually about as productive as nagging a brick wall. When people weigh the costs and benefits of having another child, I’m notgoing to call them sinners for using a scale.The claim of this book, rather, is that current and prospective parents have accidentally tipped their scales against fertility. We may feelsure that the pursuit of happiness and kids (or at least more kids) are incompatible, but it is in the average person’s enlightened self-interestto have more kids. That’s right—people are not having enough children for their own good. Prospective parents need to take another lookbefore they decide not to leap. Current parents need to take another look before they decide not to leap again.My theory is not one-size-fits-all. The claim is not that everyone should have lots of kids, but that the average person should have morekids. More than what? More than they were otherwise planning to have. If you live in a tiny urban apartment and love fancy foreign vacations,this might mean one kid instead of zero. If you live in a suburban McMansion and love theme parks, this might mean five kids instead ofthree. I’m here to provide information, not run your life.There are many selfish reasons to have more kids, but there are four big reasons to put on the table right away:First, parents can sharply improve their lives without hurting their kids. Nature, not nurture, explains most family resemblance, soparents can safely cut themselves a lot of additional slack.Second, parents are much more worried than they ought to be. Despite the horror stories in the media, kids are much safertoday than they were in the “Idyllic Fifties.”Third, many of the benefits of children come later in life. Kids have high start-up costs, but wise parents weigh their initial sleepdeprivation against a lifetime of rewards—including future grandchildren.Last, self-interest and altruism point in the same direction. Parents who have another child make the world a better place, soyou can walk the path of enlightened selfishness with a clear conscience.
Would you convict?: seventeen cases that challenged the law - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what? A son neglects to care for his elderly mother, whose emaciated form is discovered shortly before she dies a painful death. Is the son's neglect punishable, and if so how? A career con man writes one bad check too many and is sentenced to life in prison-for a check in the amount of $129.75. Is this just? A thief steals a backpack, only to find it contains a terrorist bomb. He alerts the police and saves lives, transforming himself from petty criminal to national hero. These are just a few of the many provocative cases that Paul Robinson presents and unravels in Would You Convict? Judging crimes and meting out punishment has long been an informal national pasttime. High-profile crimes or particularly brutal ones invariably prompt endless debate, in newspapers, on television, in coffee shops, and on front porches. Our very nature inclines us to be armchair judges, freely waving our metaphorical gavels and opining as to the innocence or guilt-and suitable punishment-of alleged criminals. Confronting this impulse, Paul Robinson here presents a series of unusual episodes that not only challenged the law, but that defy a facile or knee-jerk verdict. Narrating the facts in compelling, but detached detail, Robinson invites readers to sentence the transgressor (or not), before revealing the final outcome of the case. The cases described in Would You Convict? engage, shock, even repel. Without a doubt, they will challenge you and your belief system. And the way in which juries and judges have resolved them will almost certainly surprise you.
Twilight, True Love and You: Seven Secret Steps to Finding Your Edward or Jacob - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: s your boyfriend or next boyfriend going to be ‘Your Edward’?Is he ‘Your Jacob’?This is the question millions of you all over the world are askingafter reading Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. The story is sopowerful that it has changed the way you look at your own lovelife. In some ways, this could be a good thing. You’re no longerwilling to settle for someone who doesn’t love you enough.But there are dangers, too. The romantic ideas portrayed inTwilight may lead you to a boyfriend who cannot make youhappy and might even be dangerous.
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral development and corruption to religious faith and pragmatism, forgiveness and redemption, and many others.The essays in this volume tackle the philosophical questions from these blockbuster films including: Was Anakin predestined to fall to the Dark Side? Are the Jedi truly role models of moral virtue? Why would the citizens and protectors of a democratic Republic allow it to descend into a tyrannical empire? Is Yoda a peaceful Zen master or a great warrior, or both? Why is there both a light and a dark side of the Force? Star Wars and Philosophy ponders the depths of these subjects and asks what it truly means to be mindful of the "living force."
So Long, See You Tomorrow - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This Orange Inheritance Edition of "So Long, See You Tomorrow" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Classics" asked the winners of The Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Ann Patchett chose "So Long, See You Tomorrow". In rural Illinois, two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret. "The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable". (Ann Patchett).
Are You Considering Therapy? - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Are You Considering Psychotherapy? is a guidebook for people who are thinking about going into therapy but aren't quite sure where to start. Anouchka Grose looks at the various aspects of choosing a therapist, from sorting through the numerous types of treatment on offer, to deciding whether an individual practitioner is someone you might want to work with. In addition to explaining the differences between a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist and a psychologist, Grose also gives you some sense of what might happen in a session—as well as looking at the many and varied notions of “cure”. For example, while a behavioral counsellor might make it their mission to rid you of your symptom as quickly as possible, a Lacanian psychoanalyst may consider it their ethical duty to see you through an experience of subjective destitution. (The book would also explain what on earth this means.) Are You Considering Psychotherapy? treats all therapies equally and allows readers to make their own choices about what might suit them. As well as outlining different treatments, the book explores the possibilities of going into therapy one-to-one, with a child or partner, or with a group. It is as light-hearted as possible about this serious and often anxiety-provoking process, and speaks straightforwardly about a notoriously unstraightforward field.
Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: In 1997, shortly after Steve Jobs returnedto Apple, Dell’s founder and chairman, MichaelS. Dell, was asked at the Gartner Symposiumand ITxpo97 how he would fix fi nancially trou-bled Apple. “What would I do?” Dell said. “I’dshut it down and give the money back to theshareholders.”He had no idea he’d be eating those wordsjust ten years later when Apple’s market capital-ization surpassed not just Dell’s $64 billion ($47billion as we write this), but IBM’s as well. Inmid-2007, Apple was the most valuable computermaker in the world. Its market capitalizationstood at nearly $162 billion, $6 billion more thanthat of industry heavyweight IBM. At that sametime, Apple’s market cap was the fourth largestamong technology companies, lagging behindonly Cisco ($189 billion), Google ($208 billion),and Microsoft ($290 billion).The message: “Apple matters.”The question: “What’s to learn?”
If You Teach It, They Will Read: Literature's Life Lessons for Today's Students - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What does it mean to 'teach' a poem, novel or play? Surely it is about lessons in comprehension and improvements in language facility, but what does literature teach us beyond literacy? Students can read substantive literature for what its authors intended: an insight into the human condition. Students, even those who appear indifferent, struggle with questions of right and wrong, good and evil, love and loss, self-interest and self-sacrifice. Using literature he has used with his students, MacLean insists that asking the right questions, discussing ideas that still matter, will show students that others have wrestled with the same issues, expressing that struggle in timeless stories. For the teacher of literature, the student of literature, the lover of literature, this book is a reminder of why, in the words of Maya Angelou, 'we stumble and fall, and how, miraculously, we can stand up.' What more important lesson is there?
Wed Him Before You Bed Him (School for Heiresses) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: So what on earth had brought him here? She could not imagine a more awkward situation. Inall these years, she and David had never been alone together, never spoken of what she haddone to him.“Should I send him packing?” Terence asked.For a second, she was tempted. But something important indeed must have brought him tovisit the woman who had once wronged him so horribly. “No. Just show him in.”After Terence left, she checked her appearance in the mirror to make sure her auburn curlswere not too badly askew and her face not too pale. Perhaps it was foolish, but she wantedto look her best before him, of all people. She scarcely had time to smooth her skirts andpinch her cheeks before he was ushered into her office, bringing her face-to-face with theman she had nearly married so long ago.Pasting a smile on her lips, she walked forward with her hand extended. “Lord Kirkwood.How nice to see you again.”His eyes flashed with some hidden emotion. “Charlotte.” He took her hand and pressed itbriefly before releasing it.Charlotte. Not Mrs. Harris, but Charlotte, spoken in the husky tone that had made her heartflip over when she was eighteen and he nearly twenty.No, she must not think of that. Those days were gone forever, lost in the pages of theirpasts. Time and her own mistakes, as well as his, had changed them both irrevocablyآیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.