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This is not the usual self-help book. It's time to unf*ck yourself and unleash your greatness!
This is blunt force trauma to the way you think life has to be for you. Most importantly, it is designed to give you an authentic leg up - one that feels genuine and right for you, and can propel you to new levels of greatness.
It will teach you not to look to the outside world for answers, but inside yourself. You will learn how to take full responsibility of your life, the highs and the lows, and you'll actually feel good about it - no, in fact, you'll feel f*cking great about it!
Double bill of stand up performances from Liverpudlian comic and TV
star John Bishop. In 'The Elvis Has Left the Building Tour',
recorded in 2010 at The Liverpool Empire, he shares his thoughts on
middle-age, male grooming, football and more. In 'The Sunshine
Tour', taken from his show at Liverpool's Echo Arena in 2011, he
reflects on his new-found fame and discusses what his children make
of him.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Chronique... (Hardcover)
John (Bishop of Nikiu); Hermann Zotenberg
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Discovery Miles 10 160
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The Liverpudlian stand-up comic and TV star, John Bishop takes to
the road once again on his sell-out 2012 tour.
James Joyce's preoccupation with space-be it urban, geographic,
stellar, geometrical or optical-is a central and idiosyncratic
feature of his work. In Making Space in the Works of James Joyce,
some of the most esteemed scholars in Joyce studies have come
together to evaluate the perception and mental construction of
space, as it is evoked through Joyce's writing. The aim is to bring
together several recent trends of literary research and criticism
to bear on the notion of space in its most concrete sense. The
essays move dialectically out of an immediate focus on the
phenomenological and intra-psychic, into broader and wider
meditations on the social, urban and collective. As Joyce's formal
experiments appear the response to the difficulty of enunciating
truly the experience of lived space, this eventually leads us to
textual and linguistic space. The final contribution evokes the
space with which Joyce worked daily, that of his manuscripts-or
what he called "paperspace." With essays addressing all of Joyce's
major works, this volume is a critical contribution to our
understanding of modernism, as well as of the relationship between
space, language, and literature.
The last three decades of the twentieth century saw dramatic
changes in the bus industry with deregulation of bus services
nationally in October 1986 in the provincial areas. Visually London
seemed to stay the same with the buses still operating in the
customary red liveries which all cherished from childhood. This
book sets out to show how the vehicles moved forward from the
traditional layout of rear platform and open half cab to the
introduction of one man buses with their front entrances. The
effects of deregulation are shown with dynamic colour schemes
especially with the Bexleybus blue and cream colour scheme. With
the passing of years we progress to the now familiar single deck
buses, and also cover various other transport experiments.
From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller
Unfu*k Yourself Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide
to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want
out of life. In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop told us it was
time to stop making excuses- to recognize and take responsibility
for the negative self-talk holding us back. In Stop Doing That
Sh*t, he builds on that message, teaching us how to stop
self-sabotaging behavior. Bishop explains how our destructive
cycles come down to the way that we're wired. He then identifies
different types of people and the ways we fu*k ourselves over: We
can't save money. We land in the same type of toxic relationship.
We're stuck in a rut at work. Analysing why we act the way we do,
including what our common grenades are that blow up our lives,
Bishop then shows how we can interrupt the cycle and stop
self-sabotaging our lives. Written in the same in your face style
as Unfu*k Yourself, Stop Doing that Sh*t will help us get in touch
with our psychological machinery so we learn to interrupt negative
thoughts and behaviour before they start, allowing us to give our
attention to something else, and start to find success in the areas
we thought we never could. We can take back our lives. We may have
fu*ked up in the past, but Stop Doing That Sh*t will show us how to
break the patterns in order to live the lives we yearn to have.
Can it be justifiable to commit oneself 'by faith' to a religious
claim when its truth lacks adequate support from one's total
available evidence? In Believing by Faith, John Bishop defends a
version of fideism inspired by William James's 1896 lecture 'The
Will to Believe'. By critiquing both 'isolationist'
(Wittgensteinian) and Reformed epistemologies of religious belief,
Bishop argues that anyone who accepts that our publicly available
evidence is equally open to theistic and naturalist/atheistic
interpretations will need to defend a modest fideist position. This
modest fideism understands theistic commitment as involving
'doxastic venture' - practical commitment to propositions held to
be true through 'passional' causes (causes other than the
recognition of evidence of or for their truth).
While Bishop argues that concern about the justifiability of
religious doxastic venture is ultimately moral concern, he accepts
that faith-ventures can be morally justifiable only if they are in
accord with the proper exercise of our rational epistemic
capacities. Legitimate faith-ventures may thus never be
counter-evidential, and, furthermore, may be made
supra-evidentially only when the truth of the faith-proposition
concerned necessarily cannot be settled on the basis of evidence.
Bishop extends this Jamesian account by requiring that justifiable
faith-ventures should also be morally acceptable both in motivation
and content. Hard-line evidentialists, however, insist that all
religious faith-ventures are morally wrong. Bishop thus conducts an
extended debate between fideists and hard-line evidentialists,
arguing that neither side can succeed in establishing the
irrationality of itsopposition. He concludes by suggesting that
fideism may nevertheless be morally preferable, as a less dogmatic,
more self-accepting, even a more loving, position than its
evidentialist rival.
James Joyce's preoccupation with space -- be it urban, geographic,
stellar, geometrical or optical -- is a central and idiosyncratic
feature of his work. In Making Space in the Works of James Joyce,
some of the most esteemed scholars in Joyce studies have come
together to evaluate the perception and mental construction of
space, as it is evoked through Joyce's writing. The aim is to bring
together several recent trends of literary research and criticism
to bear on the notion of space in its most concrete sense. The
essays move dialectically out of an immediate focus on the
phenomenological and intra-psychic, into broader and wider
meditations on the social, urban and collective. As Joyce's formal
experiments appear the response to the difficulty of enunciating
truly the experience of lived space, this eventually leads us to
textual and linguistic space. The final contribution evokes the
space with which Joyce worked daily, that of his manuscripts -- or
what he called "paperspace." With essays addressing all of Joyce's
major works, this volume is a critical contribution to our
understanding of modernism, as well as of the relationship between
space, language, and literature.
Liverpudlian stand-up comic and TV star John Bishop reflects on his
new-found fame in this performance from his sell-out tour recorded
at Liverpool's Echo Arena in 2011.
Do you want to be the best parent you can be? We all want to be
good parents, but our pasts hold us back. We all feel like we're
failing at parenting. In Grow Up, personal development guru Gary
John Bishop shows us how to let go of what came before and start
taking action. Gary argues we're never going to measure up to the
perfect parent model - this book will equip you to think about how
you show up in the world to nurture your children in the present.
No more tips and tricks, Grow Up will help you take charge of the
direction of your life and show your kids how to follow theirs.
Dangerous churches are willing to put everything on the line for
the one thing that matters most; reaching lost people. Through
probing questions and amazing stories of God s grace, John Bishop
confronts church leaders to embrace what matters most to the heart
of God, whatever the cost. Most churches naturally gravitate to
what is safe and familiar. Church leaders who take risks are bound
to fail, and fear drives us to continue in our comfortable, but
ineffective patterns. But reaching out to a lost world was never
meant to be easy. Jesus promised his followers that they would have
trouble in this world. Dangerous churches are churches that are
willing to risk everything---comfort, safety, and the security of
the familiar---for the sake of the one thing that matters most:
reaching out to people who may spend eternity separated from the
God who created them. God wants us to live on the edge of our
margins, walking by faith and not simply following scripted methods
or programmed patterns. Dangerous Church takes you back to the Book
of Acts and reminds church leaders that the heartbeat of the church
is not found in agendas or human plans, but in pursuing the mission
of God and reaching out to a lost world. Learn what can happen when
church leaders abandon their fears and begin to live a dangerous
faith. Dangerous Church is part of the Leadership Network
Innovation Series."
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