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The Ernest Becker Reader
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America’s turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social anthropology and driven by a transcending curiosity about human motivations, Becker doggedly pursued his basic research question, "What makes people act the way they do?" Dissatisfied with what he saw as narrowly fragmented methods in the contemporary social sciences and impelled by a belief that humankind more than ever needed a disciplined, rational, and empirically based understanding of itself, Becker slowly created a powerful interdisciplinary vision of the human sciences, one in which each discipline is rooted in a basic truth concerning the hum...
Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals
Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.
The Essence of Becker
British garden writer Graham Rice provides a history, description, and assessment of selected common and unusual perennial garden plants for each season. Includes handsome bandw drawings and 24 pages of fine color photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Summary of Adam Becker's What Is Real?
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics states that quantum physics is a tool for calculating the probabilities of various outcomes of experiments. It does not allow us to do more than predict probabilities for quantum events, because quantum objects do not exist in the same way as the everyday world around us. #2 The Copenhagen interpretation was meant to be a relaxing philosophy that provided a soft pillow for the believer, but it had little effect on Einstein. He demanded an interpretation that gave a coherent story about the world, even if no measurement was taking place. #3 The theory of quantum physics is strange and abstruse, and its mathematics is unfamiliar and difficult to understand. It is not immediately clear what the theory is saying about the world. #4 The Schrödinger equation is a totally deterministic equation that can be used to predict the behavior of any wavefunction. However, when you make a measurement, the laws of physics seem to behave differently.
Summary of Joshua Becker's Things That Matter
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The idea that we might regret our life choices when we get older is common among people in middle age and even young adulthood. We can easily imagine that we’ll be sorry about it someday if we don’t make a change. #2 We all have regrets, and it's impossible to live a life without any regrets. But it is possible to make changes that take us off the easy path of immersing ourselves in the ordinary and the immediate and onto a more intentional path that leads to a life that satisfies and resonates beyond our own mortal existence. #3 The most important thing for me is to live an intentional, meaningful life. I want to show you what you need to clear away from your life to transition to more intentional living. #4 The Things That Matter survey found that 70 percent of respondents said they had a clear purpose for their lives. If you’re part of this group, great! But if not, don’t worry. The book will help you refine your purpose.
What Is a Case?
The concept of the case is a basic feature of social science research and yet many questions about how a case should be defined, selected, and judged are far from settled. The contributors to this volume probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and the results of research. The contributions demonstrate that the work of any given researcher is often characterised by some hybrid of these basic approaches, and it is important to understand that most research involves multiple definitions and uses of cases, as both specific empirical phenomena and as general theoretical categories.
