Naive No More

Author: Charles Kymbal
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532065078
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
This book tells the true story of a retired nuclear physicist who had three marriages and one living-together relationship before finally getting it right with his fourth marriage. It deals primarily with his sexual experiences that start with early childhood and continue to the present time. He concentrated on sex because it plays a key role for most people in all phases of life. One only has to look at the news media to see how big a factor (often dysfunctional) this is for many. Most of his early relationship failures can be attributed to being naive. For each phase of his life, he has compiled a set of lessons that could be of value to others experiencing similar problems. Throughout the book, the author uses words and describes graphic sexual acts that may offend some people. This was done largely to reflect the language and actions that are appropriate for the situation described. Finally, he felt that a book of this type would be quite different coming from the point of view of a person with a scientific background. It is hoped that readers will agree with this assumption. Only time will tell!

Naïve. Super

Author: Erlend Loe
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847677126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it. Funny, friendly, enigmatic and frequently poignant - superbly naive.

No Longer Naïve

Author: Ibrahim Mustapha
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
ISBN: 9781785317965
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
No Longer Naïve is an in-depth look at the history of African soccer at the game's greatest showcase event. As soccer grew globally over the 20th century and the World Cup became the zenith of the sport internationally, Africa was left trailing, both through a lack of organization and exclusion by the powers that be. In 1974, Africa's 'best' team, Zaire, were humiliated on the world stage, creating a negative perception of African soccer. Teams from Africa were often labelled naïve in their approach, but gradually African nations repaired their reputation. This led to increased participation, vastly improved players and famous victories over the world's best - culminating in the tournament being hosted on the continent for the first time in 2010. However, while great strides have been made on the pitch, greed, in-fighting, violence and the whiff of corruption behind the scenes have undermined progress. African sides are no longer naïve, but are we any closer to seeing a team from Africa lift the World Cup?

Naïve

Author: Robert Klanten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783899552478
Category : Advertising layout and typography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contains many examples of contemporary graphic design.

The Naïve Shakespearean

Author: JOHN R. LEIGH
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782224556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
John R Leigh, born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated in Cambridge, was musical, mathematical, scientific and literary. At school in the 1930s, his headmaster told him there would be no more wars and no need for more scientists. His life then ranged first from languages teacher, radar technician and RAF flight lieutenant in WWII, to marriage with a talented and literary American wife. After the war, John changed career to retrain in engineering—for a married man, a brave decision. Over the years, the keen theatre-going couple saw many diverse plays. Convinced that he had found an original approach to seeing Shakespearean dramas, he spent happy years describing and refining his thoughts: what ideas, prejudices and religious beliefs would surface in the minds of Shakespeare’s own audience, the groundlings and nobles? In our day, we cannot help but react with our own beliefs and social customs; yet in Globe Theatre, how would people have responded to seeing a ghost in the early sixteenth century? Rather differently than nowadays, John thought. (Hamlet studies form the greater part of his collected work.) Suppose you were seeing Hamlet for the first time: hence the title ‘The Naïve Shakespearean’.

Naïve Readings

Author: Ralph Lerner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635332X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they have often resorted to forms of camouflage that slip their unsettling thoughts into our psyche without raising alarm. In this fascinating examination of a range of writers and thinkers, Ralph Lerner offers a new method of reading that detects this camouflage and offers a way toward deeper understandings of some of history’s most important—and most concealed—messages. Lerner analyzes an astonishing diversity of writers, including Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Gibbon, Judah Halevi, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Moses Maimonides, and Alexis de Tocqueville. He shows that by reading their words slowly and naïvely, with wide-open eyes and special attention for moments of writing that become self-conscious, impassioned, or idiosyncratic, we can begin to see a pattern that illuminates a thinker’s intent, new messages purposively executed through indirect means. Through these experimental readings, Lerner shows, we can see a deep commonality across writers from disparate times and situations, one that finds them artfully challenging others to reject passivity and fatalism and start thinking afresh.

The Televiewing Audience

Author: Robert Abelman
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433110542
Category : Television
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
This book won the Ohio Professional Writer's, Inc. 2014 Communication Competition Award Now in its second edition, The Televiewing Audience is a user's guide for the only household appliance that doesn't come with one. Watching television seems relatively effortless - it is, after all, a major form of entertainment in the U.S. and overseas - yet this book argues that there is nothing simple about watching television; it is a learned activity which is in a constant state of revision and upgrading. Now more than ever, televiewing requires the generation and application of critical thinking to guide program selection, inform appreciation, generate greater pleasure, and inspire dialogue after consumption. This book is about becoming a more thoughtful and informed consumer, designed to shatter the anonymity of the televiewer, and to create a sense of community, for we rarely think of ourselves as instrumental in the televiewing experience or think of the experience as a shared event. Designed for courses related to broadcasting, media effects, media literacy, and audience studies, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which television influences the way we think about ourselves and our culture. It places us center-stage in the extremely complicated, competitive, creative, and costly endeavor that is television.

A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour

Author: Keith Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191071641
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the physical sciences. This view stands in contrast to the long-standing and wide-spread view amongst philosophers and scientists that colours don't really exist - or at any rate, that if they do exist, then they are radically different from the way that they appear. It is argued that a naïve realist theory of colour best explains how colours appear to perceiving subjects, and that this view is not undermined either by reflecting on variations in colour perception between perceivers and across perceptual conditions, or by our modern scientific understanding of the world. A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour also illustrates how our understanding of what colours are has far-reaching implications for wider questions about the nature of perceptual experience, the relationship between mind and world, the problem of consciousness, the apparent tension between common sense and scientific representations of the world, and even the very nature and possibility of philosophical inquiry.

Naïve Awakening

Author: Cathy Williams
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 145926259X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Lessons in love Sleek city animals like successful attorney Nicholas Reynolds were a rare species in Leigh's quiet hometown. But Nicholas had a mission: as a favor to an old family friend, he planned to help Leigh's wayward little brother out of a scrape…. In return, he demanded that Leigh must work for him! However would Leigh, a plain-speaking country girl, fare in the big, bad city—lin the hands of Nicholas, a sophisticated man with too much charm for his own good? And worse, he seemed determined to use all of that charm on Leigh….

Henry James’s Psychology of Experience

Author: Granville H. Jones
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110890593
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
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