In his Letter to Menoeceus, the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus states that 'death is nothing to us'. Few philosophers then or since have agreed with his controversial argument, upholding instead that death constitutes a deprivation and is therefore to be feared. Diverging from the current trend and sparking fresh debate, this book provides an imaginative defense of the Epicurean view of death.Drawing on Epicurus's Principal Doctrines, Lucretius's De Rerum ...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

Optimize the performance of your systems with practical experiments used by engineers in the world’s most competitive industries.In Experimentation for Engineers: From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization you will learn how to:Design, run, and analyze an A/B testBreak the "feedback loops" caused by periodic retraining of ML modelsIncrease experimentation rate with multi-armed banditsTune multiple parameters experimentally with ...

“Cleverly humorous and a joy to read aloud. . . . Great for knitters, for readers, for fun-seeking adventurers.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Baabwaa is a sheep who loves to knit. Wooliam is a sheep who loves to read. It sounds a bit boring, but they like it. Then, quite unexpectedly, a third sheep shows up. A funny-looking sheep who wears a tattered wool coat and has long, dreadfully decaying teeth. Wooliam, being well-read, recognizes their new acquai...

Do you want to take your sales success to the next level?Some sales programs drape a shroud around sales success as if it's a guarded secret; others set out strict rules and steps without regard to context and expertise. But in reality, making the sale is much simpler.In his new book, Sweet Sales, Dr. Sweet presents powerful selling techniques, rarely seen or spoken of in sales training. Dr. Sweet uses an organic approach forged out of necessity during the most rec...

Discover why 95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind - traits such as timidity, domestic discord, business failure, bad memory, tenseness, unhappiness, worry, etc. This book shows how to use the deepest thinking part of you - while you sleep! Get whatever you want out of life . . . money, personal influence, love, respect and admiration.You will discover:- 6 exercises that develop your latent creative powers into a mental powerhouse- 5 ways to make your Cr...

Galaxies away from today’s numerous clichéd self-help and sales-pitch formula books, #SweetSuccess delves into the complexities of arête—excellence—and how to achieve it in all areas of life.The author intelligently and astutely explores myriad realms of topics that balance faiths, cultures, social mores, relational lifestyles, philosophies—the whole gamut of life—to expand and enhance readers’ perspectives and worldview.For serious students of abundant life, the following ...

You are about to begin what can be the most important journey of your life. A venturing of the mind and the spirit, it will teach many priceless things full of wonder, of simplicity, value, and wisdom. There will be no real trains, ships or planes to be sure, yet this excursion discovering life's riches will be more vivid and real than any journey you have ever taken and one you will never forget.A questionnaire sent to 1.134 men and women asked the simple question: "Is success a de...

This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions ab...

One. Two. Three.That’s as long as it took to sear the souls of a dozen young American men, thanks to the craziest, most controversial finish in the history of the Olympics—the 1972 gold-medal basketball contest between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world’s two superpowers at the time.The U.S. team, whose unbeaten Olympic streak dated back to when Adolf Hitler reigned over the Berlin Games, believed it had won the gold medal th...

Some sales programs drape a shroud around sales success as if a guarded secret; others set out strict rules and steps without regard to context and expertise. But in reality, making the sale is much simpler.In his new audiobook, Sweet Sales, Dr. Sweet presents powerful selling techniques, rarely seen or spoken of, in sales training. Dr. Sweet uses an organic approach forged out of necessity during the most recent economic recession. Throughout the toughest selling climate in many y...