The good life  aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing
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2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0804790965 | EPUB | 11 MB
What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living? While we all may want to live the good life, we differ widely on just what that entails. In The Good Life, Edward Fischer examines wellbeing in very different cultural contexts to uncover shared notions of the good life and how best to achieve it. With fascinating on-the-ground narratives of Germans' choices regarding the purchase of eggs and cars, and Guatemalans' trade in coffee and cocaine, Fischer presents a richly layered understanding of how aspiration, opportunity, dignity, and purpose comprise the good life.

The Good Fight Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington
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English | 2009 | ISBN: 042522757X, 039915499X | EPUB | pages: 328 | 0.3 mb
After a childhood of shocking poverty, Harry Reid completed law school, working as a policeman to pay his way. He faced death threats as the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission trying to clean up Las Vegas. Eventually he rose to become Senate Majority Leader in Washington-without ever forgetting the mining town he came from, or the battles he fought along the way. This is that rare book by a politician that is more than a glorified press release. It is an extraordinary American story-told in a voice that is flinty, real, and filled with passion.

The Good Eater The True Story of One Man's Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder
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English | 2007 | pages: 259 | ISBN: 1572244852 | PDF | 1,0 mb
At the age of twenty-one, stylish and striking Ron Saxen turned heads on the street. A promising model with a tony California agency, his lithe and muscular body graced the pages of magazines and even the cover of a fitness book. He was headed for a future of bright lights and brighter possibilities-but a dark turn of events would leave Saxen working for minimum wage in a coffee shop and dodging his agent less than a year later.

The Golden Years How to Plan a Happy and Financially Secure Retirement
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English | August 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 1923186019 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 0.56 MB
We call them the 'golden years'. Retirement these days can span 30+ years, so we need to plan retirement as carefully as we plan other phases of our life that span three decades our career, raising and educating children, and buying and paying off our home.

The Godwink Effect 7 Secrets to God's Signs, Wonders, and Answered Prayers
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English | 2017 | pages: 119 | ISBN: 1501119575 | EPUB | 3,3 mb
From the authors of the popular and bestselling Godwink series comes a new and inspiring collection of true stories about people whose lives were changed by specific and extraordinary answers to their prayers.

The gods left first  imperial collapse and the repatriation of Japanese from northeast Asia, 1945-56
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2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0520276159 | EPUB | 6 MB
At the time of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed, after years of warfare and Allied bombing campaigns. Among them were more than 600,000 soldiers of Japan's army in Manchuria, who had surrendered to the Red Army only to be transported to Soviet labor camps, mainly in Siberia. Held for between two and four years, and some far longer, amid forced labor and reeducation campaigns, they waited for return, never knowing when or if it would come. Drawing on a wide range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, The Gods Left First reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. In a broader sense, this study is a meditation on the meaning of survival for Japan's continental repatriates, showing that their memories of involvement in Japan's imperial project were both a burden and the basis for a new way of life.