The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go

2018-05-15 Fiction

Author : Amy E. Reichert
Release : 2018-05-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go written by Amy E. Reichert. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there’s no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G’s, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her mother’s failing health and her daughter’s rebellion, this optimist might find that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go...

The Optimist's Guide to Divorce

2016-12-27 Family & Relationships

Author : Suzanne Riss
Release : 2016-12-27
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Optimist's Guide to Divorce written by Suzanne Riss. This book was released on 2016-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the more than one million women who get divorced each year, welcome to your support group. Wise, comforting, and uplifting, The Optimist’s Guide to Divorce captures the experience of sisterhood through the voices of its authors and their community of women in the Maplewood Divorce Club—women who understand what you’re going through, who know the practical issues as well as the emotional ones, and who can help you keep a sense of hope and a sense of humor. Brimming with stories and insights, valuable resources and smart strategies, in-the-trenches tips and sanity-saving takeaways, this book prepares you for each phase of divorce, from having “the talk,” to breaking the news to family and friends, to figuring out where to live, to co-parenting with an ex, to rebounding and rebooting your life. It’s divided into three sections that cover the process from start to finish—Deal, Heal, and Reveal—and make it easy to jump in wherever you are in your journey. And even better, to make the choices that will help you develop a better relationship with the one person you’ll be with for the rest of your life—yourself.

Rock, Bone, and Ruin

2024-05-21 Science

Author : Adrian Currie
Release : 2024-05-21
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rock, Bone, and Ruin written by Adrian Currie. This book was released on 2024-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past. The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How has this been possible, given that the evidence they have to work with offers mere traces of the past? In Rock, Bone, and Ruin, Adrian Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory. Creative and opportunistic paleontologists, for example, discovered and described a new species of prehistoric duck-billed platypus from a single fossilized tooth. Examining the complex reasoning processes of historical science, Currie also considers philosophical and scientific reflection on the relationship between past and present, the nature of evidence, contingency, and scientific progress. Currie draws on varied examples from across the historical sciences, from Mayan ritual sacrifice to giant Mesozoic fleas to Mars's mysterious watery past, to develop an account of the nature of, and resources available to, historical science. He presents two major case studies: the emerging explanation of sauropod size, and the “snowball earth” hypothesis that accounts for signs of glaciation in Neoproterozoic tropics. He develops the Ripple Model of Evidence to analyze “unlucky circumstances” in scientific investigation; examines and refutes arguments for pessimism about the capacity of the historical sciences, defending the role of analogy and arguing that simulations have an experiment-like function. Currie argues for a creative, open-ended approach, “empirically grounded” speculation.

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

2011-01-06 Science

Author : Mark Stevenson
Release : 2011-01-06
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 339/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Optimist's Tour of the Future written by Mark Stevenson. This book was released on 2011-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean, and Australia to question the Outback's smartest farmer. He clambers around space planes in the Mojave desert, gets to grips with the potential of nanotechnology, delves deep into the possibilities of biotech, sees an energy renaissance on a printer, a revolution in communications, has his genome profiled, and glimpses the next stage of human evolution ... and tries to make sense of what's in store. Insightful and often very funny, An Optimist's Tour of the Future is a book that tracks one curious man's journey to find out what's in store.

Thank You for Being Late

2017-10-24 Business & Economics

Author : Thomas L. Friedman
Release : 2017-10-24
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 222/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Thank You for Being Late written by Thomas L. Friedman. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Version 2.0 with a new afterword"--Cover.

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