ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Finalist!What Would Your Life Be Like If You Simply Let Go of Control?At work, they oversee every detail of every project and expect nothing less than perfection from their coworkers.At home, they obsess over finding the "right" person. Then, they criticize their lover or spouse for doing everything wrong.As parents, they practice zero tolerance for their children's preferred study practices, choice of friends, dress cho...

This illustrated children's book is for all little boys and girls who sometimes need help from a parent to figure out how to cure their boredom when they think there is nothing to do.

This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social inequality?Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, ...

Cosa potrebbe e dovrebbe essere la vita? In questo volume Daniel Miller mette a confronto un'indagine filosofica sulla natura della vita buona con un'etnografia delle persone che vivono in una piccola città irlandese. Prestando particolare attenzione alla vita quotidiana di queste persone, i capitoli etnografici esaminano argomenti che vanno dalla libertà e dalla disuguaglianza alla creazione di una comunità e allo scopo della vita. Questi capitoli si alternano a discussioni su argomenti s...

Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

Overwhelmed by life's challenges, unpredictability, and uncertainty? Imagine waking up each day with less stress and more ease, confident that whatever challenges arise, you have the practical tools to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth.In The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, best-selling author Daniel A. Miller (renowned for Losing Control, Finding Serenity and The Gifts of Acceptance) shows ...

Tre tonårsflickor hittas brutalt mördade. De unga flickorna uppvisar en slående likhet med varandra. Vem är det som ligger bakom och varför? Parallellt blir Daniel Miller inblandad i ett mord på en äldre man och ställs inför ett dilemma: ska han göra sin medborgerliga plikt och ange sin väninna eller ska han istället skydda henne och själv riskera att råka illa ut?Samtidigt pågår en kraftmätning i en mörklagd lägenhet i sydöstra delen av staden, mellan en ung man och hans demoner. ...

What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses on the things that matter to these people, which quite often turn out to be material things – their house, the dog, their music, the Christmas decorations. Th...

In "Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union," Texas Nationalist Movement president Daniel Miller delivers a provocative yet methodical case for Texas independence. Far from fringe political theory, Miller reveals how Texas independence has deep historical roots and growing mainstream appeal, with polling data showing surprising levels of support across political affiliations.Miller methodically dismantles common arguments against Texit while building a compelling case that Te...

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and kinship, but also loneliness and isolation....

Para um sem-teto em Trinidad, é absolutamente fundamental dispor de dez pares de sapatos; nessa sociedade o ser é definido por aquilo que veste. O elegantíssimo sári manuseado com maestria pelas mulheres indianas não é apenas um índice de status; de tal forma ele se integra à vida feminina que lhe serve de meio de vida e de morte. A generalização do uso de telefones celulares entre as famílias pobres da Jamaica reforça a construção de redes de relações sociais básicas para a sobrevivência ...

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophe...