|
Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone
Netta Weinstein - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Israel Alone
Bernard-Henri Levy - Wicked Son
Format: Paperback
|
|
Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what's at stake for Israel and the world..... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
Simone Weil - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
|
|
French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic. One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
On Freedom
Timothy Snyder - Crown
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny. "Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners
Sabrina B. Little - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner? In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics--virtue,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Unforgivable?: Exploring the Limits of Forgiveness
Stephen Cherry - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Forgiveness is a lovely idea, wrote C. S. Lewis, and in recent decades it has been seen and admired in situations ranging from therapy to politics, and proposed as a constructive pathway in the aftermath of abuse and atrocity. Not everyone is impressed, however, and in parallel with praise... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
Jesse J. Anderson - Vada Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
Discover the keys to embracing your ADHD strengths and quirks with Extra Focus.This book isn't a stuffy, clinical rundown of ADHD. It's more like a friendly chat over coffee with a good friend who gets it. We'll unravel some of the myths and mysteries of the ADHD mind, learn... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
Aristotle - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing -- the Nicomachean Ethics -- in a lively new abridged translation. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
