What lies behind the words
How one value acquires different names, while a familiar word can conceal different experiences.
A BOOK BY PAVEL MEDVEDEV
What Values
Are
and How They Work
The same words can point to very different things that matter. This book shows how to notice values in lived experience and understand ourselves and other people more clearly.
Many ways to recognise them in life.
BEHIND FAMILIAR WORDS
The same words.
Different things that matter.
We can talk about freedom, care, or fairness and still fail to understand one another.
Pavel Medvedev explores values through everyday situations: conversations, shared work, relationships, and decisions. His model describes twelve basic values that we can learn to recognise in the structure of lived experience.
Read about the bookWhere disagreement begins
What each person is trying to preserve, begin, or change—and why it matters.
More in your own experience
How to notice values in actions, decisions, relationships, and daily life.
INSIDE THE BOOK
From a familiar situation
to an understanding of values.
Nine chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion.
Living examples and the structure of the author’s model.
View the contents
- But We Agreed
- Are We Ready for Tomorrow?
- Now I’ll Be Making Books
- Everyone’s Home
- But This Is Mine Too
- Leave That Pause In
- Behind the Familiar Words
- Schwartz’s Nineteen Values: What We Recognize in Them
- Where the Model Came From and What Other Theories Help Us See
YOUR DIGITAL BOOK
Recognise what matters.
In yourself and others.
Two formats in one purchase. The A5 PDF preserves the book layout, while FB2 adapts to your e-reader screen.
01 / A5 PDF edition02 / FB2 for e-readers