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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the theories that are required to understand the way we are created by material as well as...

More than 100 new restaurants open "every day" and the truth is, most of them don't make it. This is a fully-updated edition of the classic guide to opening a small restaurant successfully, be it a bistro, diner, inn, cafe, or something fancier. Expert Daniel Miller offers a wealth of information to help would-be restaurateurs decide if the life of a small-business owner is right for them, and if so, how to proceed to get a restaurant up and running. From finding the location to creating a...

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.

"Transform any type of entrepreneurial activity, new idea, or . . . a business you already own into a much more profitable company" with this book's strategy. (from the foreword by Kevin Harrington, an original "shark" on Shark Tank and serial entrepreneur)In Click and Grow Rich, readers discover the nine-step proven formula for creating a wildly successful online business.The unsettling truth is that ninety-five percent of all businesses ...

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....

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...