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Uncle John's Quintessential Collection of Notable Quotables: For Every Conceivable Occasion (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)
In 2004, Uncle John released a unique collection of quotations that are equal parts witty, wise, sublime, stupid, and mind-boggling ("I considered myself and still consider myself the hippest man on the planet." — Barry Manilow.) For this special edition, the Outhouse Staff scoured books, magazines, and the airwaves to include 90 all-new pages of insights and observations that have never appeared in a quotation book before. And not just quotations – there are also features like "Quotes and Their Consequences," new quizzes, and eye-opening new entries for Uncle John’s Quotationary (Love: "Being stupid together." — Paul Valery). And finally, to make it easier than ever to find that nagging, half-remembered quote, the book includes a by-subject index to go along with the existing by-name index. "This is a quotation book like no other, and you can quote me on that!" says Uncle John. .
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It's Conceivable: Hypnosis for Fertility
“I just know there is a baby there, I just know it.” These words are ever familiar to Board Certified Hypnotherapist and Instructor Lynsi Eastburn Edana Lynne was conceived naturally in 2003 after her mom underwent just one hypnotherapy session with Eastburn. Even after 11 years of infertility marked by dozens of medical procedures and drugs, Edie’s mom “knew there was a baby there.” Eastburn believed her. Today, 2-year-old Edie is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her baby sister due in November of 2006. “There’s more to it,” says Eastburn, referring to her clients’ fertility issues. “It’s not as simple as a physiological diagnosis—I’ve seen it over and over again. And oftentimes the diagnosis is ‘unexplained infertility’ which means they can find no cause at all. The issue(s) must be addressed holistically: mind/body/spirit.” That’s exactly what Eastburn does in her Colorado hypnosis clinic. The result: BABIES! Often after as few as one or two hypnosis sessions, women with diagnoses ranging from physiological impediments to unexplained infertility—including those told by top specialists that they would never have a baby of their own—are becoming pregnant. Naturally or utilizing hypnotherapeutic support in conjunction with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), these women’s dreams are coming true. This book chronicles some of Lynsi Eastburn’s actual fertility clients, sharing their stories from walking into her clinic with an infertility diagnosis to successful conception/birth. Find out how this powerful process has worked to help couples become parents, and how it can work for you..
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Making Money from Photography in Every Conceivable Way
Every Conceivable Way to Make Money from Your Photographs is an indispensable guide to profiting from the photographic industry, whether as a career or lucrative hobby. Covering every aspect of the trade, from equipment and materials to freelance opportunities to setting up your own picture library, this guide provides photographers with the essential information they need to make money with their photographs. The "Business Matters" section of the book helps photographers plan their careers with realistic facts and information about the industry. Readers will also find plenty of advice and testimonies from professional photographers, giving honest and informed opinions about the availability of photography work..
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The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual: Noteworthy Achievements, Events, Feats & Blunders of Every Conceivable Kind
In this, the biggest volume of bizarre knowledge ever, seekers of unique trivia will find the answers to many fascinating questions. It includes every possible field, from astronomy to taxidermy, sculpture to sociology. The authors have scoured hundreds of public records, news reports, critical opinions, and statistics to cull the absurd, the great, and the not-so-wonderful from all walks of life. The findings are often humorous, occasionally appalling, sometimes downright strange—but always compelling. .
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Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memories shape the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically opposed. The essays are divided into three groups. The first group talks about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies that drove the Nazi regime. The second group concentrates on the almost unbelievably different perceptions of the "Final Solution," with particularly illuminating discussions of the Judenrat, or Jewish council. The third group considers the Holocaust as the subject of narrative and historical memory. Diner focuses above all on perspectives: the very notions of rationality and irrationality are seen to be changeable, depending on who is applying them. And because neither rational nor irrational motives can be universally assigned to participants in the Holocaust, Diner proposes, from the perspective of the victims, the idea of the counterrational. His work is directed toward developing a theory of Holocaust historiography and offers, clearly and coherently, the highest level of reflection on these problems. .
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Is a final theory conceivable?: An article from: The Psychological Record
This digital document is an article from The Psychological Record, published by Psychological Record on June 22, 1997. The length of the article is 6679 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: Some physicists believe that a final theory, which will unify separate branches of theoretical physics, including quantum field theory and general relativity, is imminent. The physicists who expect such a theory typically assume that ultimate natural laws will be expressed by the same mathematical formalism which is associated with present-day physics. This view is questionable, because mathematics itself evolves and is not currently in a finished form. Historically, a succession of discoveries in physics has unveiled new laws of nature, each stage being made possible by the development of new mathematics. Evolutionary biology and interbehavioral psychology, ordinarily overlooked by the philosophy of science, reveal further inconsistencies inherent in the concept of a terminal stage of scientific discovery. Another troublesome implication of this notion has come to light recently: Finality of a conceptual scheme comprised of a finite number of natural laws is incompatible with recent developments in mathematical logic and the theory of computational irreducibility. Citation DetailsTitle: Is a final theory conceivable? Author: Donald W. Zimmerman Publication:The Psychological Record (Refereed) Date: June 22, 1997 Publisher: Psychological Record Volume: v47 Issue: n3 Page: p423(16) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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