Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success - Hardcover

Kushner, Harold S.

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ISBN 10: 0375410635 ISBN 13: 9780375410635

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

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The best-selling author of

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Harold Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in the Boston suburb of Natick, Mass., after serving that congregation for twenty-four years. He is best known as the author of <b>When Bad Things Happen to Good People</b>, an international best seller first published in 1981. The book has been translated into fourteen languages and was recently selected by members of the Book of the Month Club as one of the ten most influential books of recent years.<br><br>He has also written <b>When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough</b>, which was awarded the Christopher Medal for its contribution to the exaltation of the human spirit. In 1995, Rabbi Kushner was honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of fifty people who have made the world a better place in the last fifty years. His other b

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ebrated author of <i>When Bad Things Happen to Good People</i>, a profound and practical book about doing well by doing good.<br><br>For decades now, from the pulpit and through his writing, Harold Kushner has been helping people navigate the rough patches of life: loss, guilt, crises of faith. Now, in this compelling new work, he ad-dresses an equally important issue: our craving for significance, the need to know that our lives and our choices mean something.<br>We sometimes do great things, and sometimes terrible things, to reassure ourselves that we matter to the world. We sometimes confuse fame, power, and wealth with true achievement. But finally we need to think of ourselves as good people, and we are troubled when we compromise our integrity in the pursuit of what we think of as success.<br><br>Harold Kushner tells us that the path to a truly successful and significant life is through friendship, through family, and through acts of generosity and self-sacrifice. He describ

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375410635
• ISBN 13: 9780375410635
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 119
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