Return to Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to Meaning write by Mats Alvesson. This book was released on 2017. Return to Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture the limelight even briefly. Older, more significant contributions are easily neglected, as the premium is to write and publish, not read and learn. The result is a widespread cynicism among academics on the value of academic research, sometimes including their own. Publishing comes to be seen as a game of hits and misses, devoid of intrinsic meaning and value, and of no wider social uses whatsoever. Academics do research in order to get published, not to say something socially meaningful. This is what we view as the rise of nonsense in academic research, which represents a serious social problem. It undermines the very point of social science. This problem is far from 'academic'. It affects many areas of social and political life entailing extensive waste of resources and inflated student fees as well as costs to tax-payers. Part two of the book offers a range of proposals aimed at restoring meaning at the heart of social research and drawing social science back address the major problems and issues that face our societies.
Return to Meaning
Return to Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to Meaning write by Andrew Cort. This book was released on 2008-04-28. Return to Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If God exists, and God is all powerful and good, why did God create an imperfect world? Does religion have a credible answer? Morality, as secularists know, does not require a deity. Blind faith, as atheists know, often leads to hatred and war. Taking scriptural stories as literal history, as scientists know, borders on the nonsensical. There has to be more. And there is. In their most important sense, these are symbolic psychological stories. Everything that happens - the wars, the joys, the obstacles that are overcome - must occur in one's own soul. In other words, all the great myths and scriptures are how-to manuals for Initiation. In this groundbreaking work, Andrew Cort describes the inner journey of Creation and Return that is revealed by the Greek Myths, the Torah, the Gospels and the Qur'an. He demonstrates the stunning unity of our western religious traditions, whose common aim is to enlighten the soul and restore a sense of meaning to our lives and culture.
Return to Meaning
Return to Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to Meaning write by Mats Alvesson. This book was released on 2017. Return to Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social science research has lost its way. Much of it is far too specialized, full of inaccessible jargon and cut off from the urgent problems facing our society. This work identifies the cause of the problem and offers a range of constructive measures to bring meaning and relevance back in to social science research
Return Again
Return Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return Again write by Georgina Cannon. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Return Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover your true purpose in this life, by exploring your past life in this doityourself guide to past life regression. Award-winning hypnotherapist Dr. Georgina Cannon shows how we can consciously influence our future by better understanding our past in Return Again: How to Find Meaning in Your Past Lives and Your Interlives. Cannon offers a practical and accessible approach that anyone can use to discover: Body and soul agreements Planes of existence Levels of understanding Karma Soul Mates--you may have more than one! Past lives and your "interlife"where you meet those with whom you have a soul contract to plan your next life. Cannon offers a stepbystep process with simple explanations and pragmatic exercises that readers can use to answer questions about their past and current lives. Return Again is an easy-to-use tool that anyone can use to live life to the fullest.
Returning to Nothing
Returning to Nothing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Returning to Nothing write by Peter Read. This book was released on 1996-11-04. Returning to Nothing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we return, and keep on returning, to these places so large in our memories. It considers many lost towns, suburbs and homes: Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in NSW, the inundation of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, bushfire at Macedon in Victoria, migration from other countries, the clearing of neighborhoods for freeways and the everyday circumstances that force people from their land. It establishes how important the places we live in are, and how much we grieve when we lose them.
