Choice Awards: Best Books of 2011 The 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards have three rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 07, 2011. Opening Round: Nov 02 - 14 Voting opens to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below). Semifinal Round: Nov 15 - 21 The top five write-in votes in each of the categories become official nominees. Final Round: Nov 22 - Dec 01 The field narrows to the top 10 books in each category, and members have one last chance to vote! Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between December 27, 2010, and November 30, 2011, are eligible for the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards. We analyze statistics from the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads to nominate 15 books in each category.
18 Great Reads That Changed My Life It’s fairly easy to find a well written book or online article. But it’s not always easy to find one with genuine value that you connect with. That’s because, these days, books and online articles are a dime a dozen. There are literally thousands of them written on the same topic every year. So deciphering the ‘good’ from the ‘great’ can prove to be quite a challenge. But if you look hard enough, in the right places, you’ll find a few gems containing life-altering advice that can be immediately implemented and used as an instrument for self-improvement. For this reason, I’ve compiled the following list of books and online articles containing value so profound that each of them literally changed my life. I therefore extend my gratitude to the authors and pass them along to you with the simple hope that they will provide value to you as well. Happy reading… The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – Tolle’s message is clear: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. Related
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25 Great Thinkers Every College Student Should Read By Donna Scott College is for expanding one’s intellectual horizons. Unfortunately, drinking and having fun, can distract from learning about history’s great thinkers. From Mark Twain to Confucius, an educated individual should posses some knowledge of certain philosophers, artists and thinkers. Western Philosophers Western universities understandably tend to focus on Western philosophers and thinkers. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Emerson was an influential figure in the first recognized American school of philosophical thought. Eastern Thinkers Eastern philosophies have proven influential on figures throughout history from Marco Polo to the Beatles. Confucius: A Chinese thinker and social philosopher, Confucius emphasized personal and institutional morality as well as justice and proper social relationships.Avicenna: This Persian mathematician is perhaps one of the most widely known Muslim philosophers. Statesman Polls show few people trust politicians.
About the author of The Science of Getting Rich & the founder of The Science of Getting Rich Network Wallace D. Wattles Born in the mid 1800s during the War between the States, Wallace D. Wattles experienced a life of failure after failure, until — in his latter years, after tireless study and experimentation — he formulated and put into practice the principles laid out in The Science of Getting Rich. His daughter Florence notes that in those last years, "he wrote almost constantly. Although Mr. (And when you read or listen to Mr. Wallace D. Rebecca Fine I've been a business owner since 1983, and over the years had seen pretty good success — and one rather spectacular failure (but as Mr. I owned a well-regarded commercial typography and graphics firm in Manhattan, producing marketing materials for many Fortune 500 companies. Then, for seven years I enjoyed teaching others how to start and operate their own full- or part-time home-based businesses and speaking to large groups of budding entrepreneurs around the US and Canada. But when I discovered and put into practice Mr.
The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us (9780446559904): Sheril Kirshenbaum Books A bank note celebrating 365 happy days for the receiver on New Year's Day, 1906, and issued by the Bank of Prosperity in the State of Happiness for Miss Julia Heath. The handwritten text surrounding the border reads: Trust the whole year will be to you as happy and pleasantly spent as the ride from Montgomery to Union Springs was to me. MC Now this makes me happy. This little Happy Days bank book just HAS to be from that same Bank of Prosperity in the State of Happiness!
30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations. The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their 30th birthday. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse – A powerful story about the importance of life experiences as they relate to approaching an understanding of reality and attaining enlightenment.1984 by George Orwell – 1984 still holds chief significance nearly 60 years after it was written in 1949. Related True Measure of Understanding: Ignorance Generates Negativity In the absence of understanding human reaction is generally negative. August 27, 2007 In "Aspirations"
Great Books Home In the News: Monterey Peninsula College has announced an articulation agreement with Shimer College of Chicago. Under the agreement, students graduating from MPC with a minimum GPA of 3.0 in anthropology, art history, behavioral sciences, chemistry, economics, English, geology, history, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, or sociology, who also have earned the Great Books Certificate at MPC, will be accepted at Shimer with junior standing. The articulation agreement, which will be re-negotiated every three years, seeks to enhance the number and quality of learning options available to Monterey Peninsula College students who aspire to earn a high-quality bachelor’s degree. Shimer College, which describes itself “an intentionally small and exceptionally student-centered liberal arts college,” is in the top 1% of colleges and universities whose graduates go on to earn PhDs. More information about Shimer College can be found at www.shimer.edu.