John Perry

Explains the principles of structured procrastination and provides tips and techniques to chronic procrastinators for developing an attitude of acceptance for their accomplishments while enjoying the time they waste.

A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing

The Art of Procrastination

Oyalanma, Savsaklama ve Kaytarma Rehberi

Erteleme Sanati

"Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination." -- David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College

A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

The reader is warned to be careful around this book, which has already eaten several people and is always hungry.

The Book That Eats People

Barwise, Jon.

Situations and Attitudes

Pode soar contrário ao senso comum, mas funciona: você pode realizar muitas coisas deixando-as para depois. Essa é a filosofia apresentada no livro A arte da procrastinação. Se você é do tipo que reluta em entregar as coisas no prazo estabelecido, se distrai facilmente, navega na internet em vez de pagar as contas, ou é do tipo que compra o presente do seu amigo a caminho da festa, este livro vai mudar sua vida. Com uma linguagem simples e direta, John Perry nos mostra, por meio de exemplos práticos, como repensar a importância de nossos afazeres e conseguir realizar todos eles (e muito mais!), mesmo quando adiamos aquelas tarefas mais chatas. Prepare-se para descobrir estratégias efetivas e cientificamente testadas contra a procrastinação, mas lembre-se de que, acima de tudo, é necessário aceitar sua tendência a deixar as tarefas para amanhã. Crie coragem, faça o que tem de ser feito, mas não deixe, é claro, de aproveitar o tempo que você perde.

A arte da procrastinação

Personal Identity (Topics in Philosophy)

Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God

Carrie Morgridge

De-Mystifying Philanthropy

Every Gift Matters

Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this remarkable and entertaining book, John Perry gets to the heart of Hendrix's unique talent - guiding the reader through each song on the album, writing vividly about Hendrix's live performances, and talking to several of Hendrix's peers and contemporaries. Excerpt Natural wit, sharpness of ear and a pervasive sense of fun prevented Hendrix from sticking just to the wah-wah pedal's literal use (and it's worth remembering that Hendrix off-stage was a natural mimic, whose imitations of Little Richard or of Harlem drag-queens made his friends howl). In fact, he found a use for the pedal without even using guitar. By turning his amp up high and treading the pedal he found he could modulate the natural hiss of amplifier valves, producing sounds of gentle breezes, howling storms or the susurration of waves on a beach; sounds that are all over "1983" and "Moon Turn The Tides". Hendrix had an ear and (though it's often overlooked) he also had a fine, sly sense of humour that - with characteristic lightness of touch - he was able to express in music.

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland

Patrick Doughtie

Eine bewegende Geschichte voller Inspiration und Hoffnung.

Briefe an Gott

A notre époque où règne une frénésie de productivité délétère, ce livre s'adresse particulièrement à ceux qui aiment paresser, décaler, lambiner, atermoyer, ajourner, proroger, différer, décaler, musarder. Au fil de ces méditations tantôt légères tantôt profondes, John Perry bâtit un plaidoyer convaincant en faveur de la procrastination structurée. Un procrastinateur doit en effet apprendre à tirer le meilleur parti de son don naturel, et accepter toutes les tâches qui se présentent à lui avec enthousiasme. Il ne les mènera pas toutes à bien et pas forcément dans le bon ordre, mais cela lui donnera souffle et créativité. Ce petit essai alerte et désopilant livre aussi des considérations inattendues sur l'art d'ignorer certains mails, le rythme des chansons de soul music, le bon usage des to-do lists, l'avantage de laisser son bureau en pagaille pour que les idées naissent du désordre, et sur l'histoire métaphysique du temps depuis Héraclite.

l'art de reporter au lendemain

La procrastination

This ebook novel is inspired by the major motion picture, Letters to God, scheduled for theatrical release in spring 2010. Viewers of the film will be eager to hear more of this inspiring story. Tyler, a nine-year-old boy, is stricken with incurable brain cancer and begins to write letters to God. He turns his suffering into spiritual lessons for his widowed mother, his embittered adolescent brother, and a troubled postman. Letters to God probes some of the most important and most-often-asked questions that trouble people of faith: “Why do we suffer?” “Where is God?” “Why do godly, faithful children have to battle cancer?” This inspiring story of hope will help people from all walks work toward greater understanding of God’s presence and care.

From the Major Motion Picture

Letters to God

This volume brings together the vital contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The essays range from John Locke's classic seventeenth-century attempt to analyze personal identity in terms of memory, to twentieth-century defenses and criticisms of the Lockean view by Anthony Quinton, H.P. Grice, Sydney Shoemaker, David Hume, Joseph Butler, Thomas Reid, and Bernard Williams. New to the second edition are Shoemaker's seminal essay "Persons and Their Pasts," selections from the important and previously unpublished Clark-Collins correspondence, and a new paper by Perry discussing Williams.

Second Edition

Personal Identity

Robin Cooper

Peter Aczel

Kuniaki Mukai

Situation theory is the result of an interdisciplinary effort to create a full-fledged theory of information. Created by scholars and scientists from cognitive science, computer science and AI, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and mathematics, it aims to provide a common set of tools for the analysis of phenomena from all these fields. Unlike Shannon-Weaver type theories of information, which are purely quantitative theories, situation theory aims at providing tools for the analysis of the specific content of a situation (signal, message, data base, statement, or other information-carrying situation). The question addressed is not how much information is carried, but what information is carried.

Situation Theory and Its Applications: Volume 3

Applied Mechanics ...

Charles Colson: A Story of Power, Corruption, and Redemption is the first complete account of Colson's carly years. Based on private papers at Wheaton College, exclusive conversations, and the Nixon Presidential Papers at the National Archives, this book traces the story of Colson's transformation from political insider and White House hatchet man to one of the most important and inspiring spiritual figures of our time. Book jacket.

A Story of Power, Corruption, and Redemption

Charles Colson

The "Operatives' Lecture" of the British Association Meeting at Leeds, 6th September 1890

Spinning Tops

On the Plan of the "full Course of Instructions."

Practical Sermons for All the Sundays and Holidays of the Year

In Nuclear Weapons and the Environment, John Perry highlights the environmental damage caused by nuclear device testing. The failure of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and the continued proliferation of nuclear weapons is a grave risk to not only human life but to the environment. Pointing to the unstable political situation between a variety of state and non-state actors, the remediation of nuclear test sites, and the risks involved in the production of nuclear weapons, Perry makes a clear case for the dire importance of non-proliferation.

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