Optimism can seem like an elusive, intangible concept that is challenging to apply in our day-to-day lives. The Optimist's Manifesto is a guide book for practical optimism, the ability to see the possibility of the most favorable outcomes, and act in a way that moves toward the most favorable outcome becoming a reality. Divided into categories of Self, Relationships, Work, Community, and World View, this book provides tips and tools to be more optimistic in all aspects of life.

'The Optimistic Manifesto' is a life changing book that explores Optimism as a legitimate philosophy to live your life by. James Rankin has spent a quarter of a century writing and teaching on the power of this topic. You will learn the many dimensions to this philosophy including the principles, and strategies to get the most out of life. You will discover the health benefits and relationship enhancements from adopting Optimism. This book will inspire and motivate you to experience your unlimited joy that only you can generate for yourself. James has written over ten books that includes two novels.

The Optimistic Manifesto is a life changing book that explores Optimism as a legitimate philosophy to live your life by. James Rankin has spent a quarter of a century writing and teaching on the power of this topic. You will learn the many dimensions to this philosophy including the principles, and strategies to get the most out of life. You will discover the health benefits and relationship enhancements from adopting Optimism. This book will inspire and motivate you to experience your unlimited joy that only you can generate for yourself. James has written over ten books that includes two novels.

Unlock the power of positive thinking with our riveting Special Report: "The Optimist's Manifesto: Choosing Positivity and Well-Being". This comprehensive guide is a catalyst that unfolds the secrets to achieving unshakable positivity and a fulfilling life. This report isn't merely a collection of words-it's a stepping stone to a brighter worldview and a toolbox designed to cultivate your inner optimist. You'll embark on an exhilarating journey towards an enduring state of well-being as you flip through its enriching chapters. What makes up this Report? 'Understanding Optimism: The Backbone of Positivity' breaks down the essence and importance of optimism. 'The Science of Happiness: Bridging Emotion and Neurology' connects the dots between how we feel and how our brain reacts. 'Choose your Attitude: The Power of Positive Thinking' advocates for the conscious choice of positive thoughts over negative ones. 'Everyday Optimist: Practical Steps for a Happier Tomorrow' shares tangible next steps to integrate positivity into daily life. This report transforms psychological findings into consumable insights and easy-to-apply strategies. Coupling confidence with warranted optimism, it empowers its readers to break from the bonds of negativity and anxiety, welcoming a lifestyle that thrives on positivity and genuine life satisfaction. Whether you are at the brink of change, looking to enhance your happiness or hoping to spread positive vibes around you, this report is the guide you need. Order your copy today and step on the path towards becoming the very definition of an optimist.

"There's no shortage of gloom-and-doom viewpoints about humanity: our history of violence and war, environmental profligacy, economic and social injustice, etc. Frank S. Robinson has written this "optimist manifesto" as an antidote to such poisonous pessimism. Here you will find some radical and refreshing assertions: that most people are fundamentally good, that global society is getting better all the time, and that, in the big picture, humankind is not at the end of a brief, tragic existence but, rather, has just embarked on a long, bright future. What started as an extended letter to his daughter, one father's effort to leave an intellectual legacy, grew to comprehensively cover and tie together the big philosophical, political, social, and economic issues. Writing in a highly readable style, Robinson steadfastly emphasizes reason as our best tool for discovering truth and making objective decisions. It is through this consistently rational approach to life that he argues for a positive humanistic vision, based on people being left free to pursue their dreams. Celebrating our human character and achievement as well as American ideals of liberty and opportunity, this compelling work is packed with thought-provoking ideas that engage the mind. Good-humored and entertaining, yet intellectually rigorous, it has a positive, optimistic message: we can live good and happy lives; today's world is the best ever; and tomorrow's will be better still!"--Publisher's Website.

In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we can still realize. The book identifies a dozen features of the American political economy--the country's basic operating system--where transformative change is essential. It spells out the specific changes that are needed to move toward a new political economy--one in which the true priority is to sustain people and planet. Supported by a compelling "theory of change" that explains how system change can come to America, the book also presents a vision of political, social, and economic life in a renewed America. Speth envisions a future that will be well worth fighting for. In short, this is a book about the American future and the strong possibility that we yet have it in ourselves to use our freedom and our democracy in powerful ways to create something fine, a reborn America, for our children and grandchildren.

Advertising is no longer on the defensive. It has survived the snobbery of the 50s, the conspiracy theories of the 60s and the semiology of the 70s to be embraced and apotheosised by the 80s. The Consumerist Manifesto is the first book to examine the advertising process from within the agency itself, and from the wider perspective of advertising's dual relationship as both consumer and object, with contemporary cultural theory. Martin Davidson follows the creation of successful campaigns and explores how advertising has succeeded in setting the tone for even larger aspects of our material and personal lives. With the impact of postmodernism and popular culture, and the subsequent collapse of the old anti-advertising critique, the books reveals how advertising came to be embraced as the idiom of the enterprise culture, and how it became central to the decades assault on traditional notions of political and cultural value. Martin Davidson explores the wider implications of advertising's dominance for cultural theory, art, anthropology and language. Finally, Martin Davidson asks how this new critique will have to develop if the industry's new credibility is to be maintained.

When the societal paralysis of despair leads humanity into a dark age, optimism itself becomes a radical concept. If we are to survive as a species we must regain our ability to imagine a future. We must re-energize ourselves to be better not just as people but as a species. The book we need at this time. An instruction manual for saving the world. Award-winning playwright, author, humorist and filmmaker Dylan Brody turns his attention to the serious matter of the world as it and the world as it can be. At the end of a dark age, Mr. Brody has posited, comes a renaissance. When he began writing he had forgotten that in between a plague arises. This salient self-help book for a self-sabotaging civilization takes on the status quo and, more interestingly, or commitment to it. Treating this global pandemic not as a terrible tragedy but as an inflection point in history, this book reminds us that when we have the opportunity to change the world for the better we must engage our best and brightest selves to accomplish the task.

Tyler Cowen’s controversial New York Times bestseller—the book heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economic malaise. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to increase government spending even when we have no good plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and Social Security. The other party seems to think tax cuts will raise revenue and has a record of creating bigger fiscal disasters that the first. Where does this madness come from? As Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low-hanging fruit since the seventeenth century: free land, immigrant labor, and powerful new technologies. But during the last forty years, the low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau. The fruit trees are barer than we want to believe. That's it. That is what has gone wrong and that is why our politics is crazy. In The Great Stagnation, Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as a whole.

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