The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious

Author : Paul Watzlawick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393310214
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious written by Paul Watzlawick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993-07-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tongue-in-cheek look at the ways in which we turn ourselves into our own worst enemies. Using metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendoes and other "right-hemispheric" language games, Dr. Watzlawick shows how we can make everyday life miserable and inflate trivialities beyond recognition. Those who believe that the search for happiness eventually leads to happiness should consult the chapter "Beware of Arriving."--Publisher description.

Author : David C. Colander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446501
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spread of Economic Ideas written by David C. Colander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1989, contains a spirited debate between eminent economists, journalists, and publishers about the spread of economic ideas. The examination of the flow of ideas among economists and from economists to the public is followed by a discussion of the public policy use and abuse of these concepts.

Author : Douglas A. Wissing
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023335
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hopeless but Optimistic written by Douglas A. Wissing and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating ground level account of the effect of absurd and inappropriate Washington strategies on Afghans and on American soldiers.”—Abdulkader Sinno, author of Organizations at War in Afghanistan & Beyond Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing’s poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. As Wissing hauls a hundred pounds of body armor and pack across the Afghan warzone in search of the ground truth, US officials frantically spin a spurious victory narrative, American soldiers try to keep their body parts together, and Afghans try to stay positive and strain to figure out their next move after the US eventually leaves. As one technocrat confided to Wissing, “I am hopeless—but optimistic.” Along with a deep inquiry into the 21st-century American way of war and an unforgettable glimpse of the enduring culture and legacy of Afghanistan, Hopeless but Optimistic includes the real stuff of life: the austere grandeur of Afghanistan and its remarkable people; warzone dining, defecation, and sex; as well as the remarkable shopping opportunities for men whose job is to kill. Silver Medal, War & Military, Foreword Indies Awards Silver Medal, Current Events, Independent Publisher Book Awards “A scathing dispatch from an embedded journalist in Afghanistan . . . Pungent, embittered, eye-opening observations of a conflict involving lessons still unlearned.”—Kirkus Reviews “Here we confront in granular detail the waste and folly that is America’s war in Afghanistan.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The Age of Illusions

Author : Paul Watzlawick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Real is Real? written by Paul Watzlawick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection between communication and reality is a relatively new idea. It is only in recent decades that the confusions, disorientations and very different world views that arise as a result of communication have become an independent field of research. One of the experts who has been working in this field is Dr. Paul Watzlawick, and he here presents, in a series of arresting and sometimes very funny examples, some of the findings.

Author : David Wong
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312546343
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Author : Paul Watzlawick
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393018219
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Situation is Hopeless, But Not Serious written by Paul Watzlawick and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1983 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.

Author : Jack McLean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Publisher : Shortcut Edition
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Author : Paul Watzlawick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393310207
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Change written by Paul Watzlawick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language. Although communications emerging in therapy are ascribed to the mind's unconscious, dark side, they are habitually translated in clinical dialogue into the supposedly therapeutic language of reason and consciousness. But, Dr. Watzlawick argues, it is precisely this bizarre language of the unconscious which holds the key to those realms where alone therapeutic change can take place.

Author : Paul Watzlawick
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393028256
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Münchhausen's Pigtail, Or, Psychotherapy & "reality" written by Paul Watzlawick and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss the structure of human relationships, depression following stroke, hypnotherapy, schizophrenia, imaginary communication, self-reference, and ideological reality