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Condizione: Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page. Slightly dampstained.

paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition, with a stamp marking from the past owner on the page edges.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Cluelessness: A Book of Mirrors. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Signed by author. New. No dust jacket as issued. Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade.

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Ref. A29356. 17x24. 160 pág. Técnicos. 42-H Técnicos Sin categorizar.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: Collectible - Like New. Signed and inscribed by David Schmaltz.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. A00537. Centro de Estudios Ramón Areces - 160pp Rústica. Cómo hacer que la gestión de proyectos y de personas sea mucho más eficaz, atractiva y divertida. NA.

paperback. Condizione: New. Language:Chinese.Paperback. Publisher: Tianjin Science and Technology Translation and Publishing Corporation. book from a new perspective and depth of the impact of the underlying project success factors to the humanist philosophy. promote the project team of each into.

TAPA BLANDA. Condizione: Bien. Empresa CONSULTE NUESTRAS CONDICIONES Y GASTOS DE ENVÍO.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What kind of person writes a book about Cluelessness Not someone who has conquered it. Someone still living within it, noticing it daily, and finding that the real difficulty was never the Cluelessness itself but how poorly most of us cope with its inevitable presence.…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

tapa blanda. Condizione: 2ª Mano. 2ª Mano. Editorial Centro de Estudios Ramón Areces, S.A. 2004. Libro.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What kind of person writes a book about Cluelessness? Not someone who has conquered it. Someone still living within it, noticing it daily, and finding that the real difficulty was never the Cluelessness itself but how poorly most of us cope with its inevitable presence.David Schmaltz has spent decades observing the ways humans navigate a universe far more complex than any of us can fully comprehend. In Cluelessness: A Book of Mirrors, he turns that observation inward, offering ninety short essays that catch the author - and the reader - in the act of not knowing, misreading, over-planning, under-noticing, and stumbling forward anyway.This is not a self-help book. There are no twelve steps, no prescriptions, no promises of transformation. It offers something rarer: a sustained, wry, warm-hearted investigation into what it actually feels like to be a finite human being embedded in an infinite, indifferent, and occasionally delightful universe. Schmaltz writes about cooking for a crowd without sleeping the night before, about the studied Cluelessness that lets us ignore what we cannot afford to know, about the difference between problems and difficulties, about why driving the speed limit might qualify as a moral act, and about why the most important things we were ever taught arrived without anyone noticing the teaching.He considers the seductive comfort of Studied Cluelessness, the paradox of Knowing Better, and the quiet dignity of maintaining one's convictions in a culture that rewards getting away with things. He explores what it means to truly cope with impossibility, why the pursuit of excellence so often guarantees mediocrity, and how the humble public library became the last genuinely decent institution in American civic life. The essays range across daily life - traffic jams, grocery runs, church league softball, learning to cook, reading too many library books - and into larger questions about democracy, competition, truth, liberty, and what it means to make any difference at all. Each story functions as a mirror, angled just so, offering the reader a glimpse of themselves going about their own daily Cluelessness.Schmaltz writes from the tradition of the great American essayists - observant, self-deprecating, philosophically ambitious without pretension, and genuinely funny without trying too hard. His is a voice readers quickly trust because it never claims to know more than it does. He describes this work as philosophical, autobiographical, historical, and fictional all at once. The label fits. These essays think carefully, emerge from a specific life, document a particular American moment, and hold their facts lightly enough to let deeper truths through.By the end of Cluelessness, the reader has spent time with someone genuinely attempting to live with integrity, curiosity, and good humor inside conditions no one fully understands. That turns out to be excellent company. The book doesn't solve Cluelessness - it couldn't, and it knows it couldn't - but it offers something more useful: the reassurance that we are all, as Schmaltz puts it, Clueless on this bus, and that coping with that reality a little better might be everything we've got.For anyone who has ever suspected that the experts don't know much more than the rest of us - and found that suspicion oddly liberating rather than terrifying. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What kind of person writes a book about Cluelessness? Not someone who has conquered it. Someone still living within it, noticing it daily, and finding that the real difficulty was never the Cluelessness itself but how poorly most of us cope with its inevitable presence.David Schmaltz has spent decades observing the ways humans navigate a universe far more complex than any of us can fully comprehend. In Cluelessness: A Book of Mirrors, he turns that observation inward, offering ninety short essays that catch the author - and the reader - in the act of not knowing, misreading, over-planning, under-noticing, and stumbling forward anyway.This is not a self-help book. There are no twelve steps, no prescriptions, no promises of transformation. It offers something rarer: a sustained, wry, warm-hearted investigation into what it actually feels like to be a finite human being embedded in an infinite, indifferent, and occasionally delightful universe. Schmaltz writes about cooking for a crowd without sleeping the night before, about the studied Cluelessness that lets us ignore what we cannot afford to know, about the difference between problems and difficulties, about why driving the speed limit might qualify as a moral act, and about why the most important things we were ever taught arrived without anyone noticing the teaching.He considers the seductive comfort of Studied Cluelessness, the paradox of Knowing Better, and the quiet dignity of maintaining one's convictions in a culture that rewards getting away with things. He explores what it means to truly cope with impossibility, why the pursuit of excellence so often guarantees mediocrity, and how the humble public library became the last genuinely decent institution in American civic life. The essays range across daily life - traffic jams, grocery runs, church league softball, learning to cook, reading too many library books - and into larger questions about democracy, competition, truth, liberty, and what it means to make any difference at all. Each story functions as a mirror, angled just so, offering the reader a glimpse of themselves going about their own daily Cluelessness.Schmaltz writes from the tradition of the great American essayists - observant, self-deprecating, philosophically ambitious without pretension, and genuinely funny without trying too hard. His is a voice readers quickly trust because it never claims to know more than it does. He describes this work as philosophical, autobiographical, historical, and fictional all at once. The label fits. These essays think carefully, emerge from a specific life, document a particular American moment, and hold their facts lightly enough to let deeper truths through.By the end of Cluelessness, the reader has spent time with someone genuinely attempting to live with integrity, curiosity, and good humor inside conditions no one fully understands. That turns out to be excellent company. The book doesn't solve Cluelessness - it couldn't, and it knows it couldn't - but it offers something more useful: the reassurance that we are all, as Schmaltz puts it, Clueless on this bus, and that coping with that reality a little better might be everything we've got.For anyone who has ever suspected that the experts don't know much more than the rest of us - and found that suspicion oddly liberating rather than terrifying. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What kind of person writes a book about Cluelessness? Not someone who has conquered it. Someone still living within it, noticing it daily, and finding that the real difficulty was never the Cluelessness itself but how poorly most of us cope with its inevitable presence.David Schmaltz has spent decades observing the ways humans navigate a universe far more complex than any of us can fully comprehend. In Cluelessness: A Book of Mirrors, he turns that observation inward, offering ninety short essays that catch the author - and the reader - in the act of not knowing, misreading, over-planning, under-noticing, and stumbling forward anyway.This is not a self-help book. There are no twelve steps, no prescriptions, no promises of transformation. It offers something rarer: a sustained, wry, warm-hearted investigation into what it actually feels like to be a finite human being embedded in an infinite, indifferent, and occasionally delightful universe. Schmaltz writes about cooking for a crowd without sleeping the night before, about the studied Cluelessness that lets us ignore what we cannot afford to know, about the difference between problems and difficulties, about why driving the speed limit might qualify as a moral act, and about why the most important things we were ever taught arrived without anyone noticing the teaching.He considers the seductive comfort of Studied Cluelessness, the paradox of Knowing Better, and the quiet dignity of maintaining one's convictions in a culture that rewards getting away with things. He explores what it means to truly cope with impossibility, why the pursuit of excellence so often guarantees mediocrity, and how the humble public library became the last genuinely decent institution in American civic life. The essays range across daily life - traffic jams, grocery runs, church league softball, learning to cook, reading too many library books - and into larger questions about democracy, competition, truth, liberty, and what it means to make any difference at all. Each story functions as a mirror, angled just so, offering the reader a glimpse of themselves going about their own daily Cluelessness.Schmaltz writes from the tradition of the great American essayists - observant, self-deprecating, philosophically ambitious without pretension, and genuinely funny without trying too hard. His is a voice readers quickly trust because it never claims to know more than it does. He describes this work as philosophical, autobiographical, historical, and fictional all at once. The label fits. These essays think carefully, emerge from a specific life, document a particular American moment, and hold their facts lightly enough to let deeper truths through.By the end of Cluelessness, the reader has spent time with someone genuinely attempting to live with integrity, curiosity, and good humor inside conditions no one fully understands. That turns out to be excellent company. The book doesn't solve Cluelessness - it couldn't, and it knows it couldn't - but it offers something more useful: the reassurance that we are all, as Schmaltz puts it, Clueless on this bus, and that coping with that reality a little better might be everything we've got.For anyone who has ever suspected that the experts don't know much more than the rest of us - and found that suspicion oddly liberating rather than terrifying. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…