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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
Alison Stewart · Chicago Review Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late... |
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Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
Melanie Notkin · Pgw Pages: 291 Format: Hardcover |
More American women are childless than ever before - nearly half those of childbearing age don't have children. While our society often assumes these women are "childfree by choice," that's not always true. In reality, many of them expected to marry and have children,... |
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You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements
David McCullough, Jr. · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Pages: 316 Format: Print book |
David mccullough, Jr.'s now iconic high school commencement address was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech, shares... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger, Sebastian · Twelve Pages: 168 Format: Print book |
We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation
Eric Kaplan · Dutton Pages: 275 Format: Hardcover |
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa - from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang TheoryMetaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover |
Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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