How to Get a Life, Vol. 1: Empowering Wisdom for the Heart and Soul - Hardcover

Baines, Lawrence; McBrayer, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893343900 ISBN 13: 9780893343903

Publisher: Humanics Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

Mediocrity is easy; greatness is difficult. Moving from mediocrity to greatness takes courage, tenacity, and focus, but it can be done. How to Get a Empowering Wisdom from Thinkers and Writers goes beyond biography to describe how some remarkable men and women made their marks in the world. The book offers insights into the art of living from the examples of fifteen lives--Plato, Aristotle, William Shakespeare, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, J.D. Salinger, Marcus Aurelius, Mihaly Csisksznetmihalyi, Walt Disney, Laura Esquivel, Eudora Welty, Colin Powell, Conan Doyle, and Catharine Sedgwick. The second book in the How to Get a Life series, Empowering Wisdom from Thinkers and Writers illuminates and inspires.

About this title

About the Author

Lawrence Baines is a professor of education at The University of Toledo. He writes on creative approaches to teaching and living. Baines lives in Ohio with his wife and son.

Dan McBrayer has been a college professor, husband, father and mentor for more than thirty years. Having served as an academic dean, a department head, and in an endowed chair in psychology, Dan has received multiple awards for teaching excellence. He has made hundreds of presentations around the country, and for the last twenty-four years has taught at Berry College in Rome, GA.

Review

How to Get a Life offers more than information; this is a book that inspires. For those at turning points in their lives, How to Get a Life is indispensable. --Dr. Jane Arnold, University of Seville, Spain

Edition details

• Publisher: Humanics Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893343900
• ISBN 13: 9780893343903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228