The Cult of Optimism
Title | The Cult of Optimism PDF eBook |
Author | Walter N. Vickery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Communism and literature |
ISBN |
Smile Or Die
Title | Smile Or Die PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-03-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781783787531 |
Optimism
Title | Optimism PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Keller |
Publisher | The Floating Press |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1775562271 |
Stuck in a rut? Need an attitude adjustment? This inspirational classic from American author Helen Keller is bound to fit the bill. Rendered deaf and blind by scarlet fever in her infancy in a time when the disabled were often shunned and ignored, Keller managed to learn to read, write, and speak, not in only in her native English, but in several other languages, as well. Keller regards optimism as "the faith that leads to achievement," and this treatise lays out her views on making the best of even the direst of circumstances.
Bright-sided
Title | Bright-sided PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0805087494 |
Exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking, which the author believes leads to self-blame and a preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts on a personal level, and, on a national level, has brought on economic disaster.
The Cult of Optimism
Title | The Cult of Optimism PDF eBook |
Author | Walter N. Vickery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Communism and literature |
ISBN |
Optimism Within
Title | Optimism Within PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Keller |
Publisher | American Roots |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781429096102 |
Rendered deaf and blind by scarlet fever at the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller--with the help of Anne Sullivan, other teachers, and her own determination--learned to read, write, and speak several languages. Keller became an advocate for people with disabilities and fought for human rights her entire life. In 1903, while attending Radcliffe College -- she was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree -- she wrote "Optimism Within." "If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing." This short work is part of Applewood's "American Roots" series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.
Cultures of Optimism
Title | Cultures of Optimism PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Bennett |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2015-01-02 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1137484810 |
What are the functions of optimism in modern societies? How is hope culturally transmitted? What values and attitudes does it reflect? This book explores how and why powerful institutions propagate 'cultures of optimism' in different domains, such as politics, work, the family, religion and psychotherapy.