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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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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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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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How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use
Randy J Paterson · New Harbinger Publications Pages: 231 Format: Print book |
In How to Be Miserable, psychologist Randy Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which - if followed - are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!There are stacks upon stacks... |
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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert · Storey Publishing Pages: 224 Format: Print book |
With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined with... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 1008 Format: Print book |
A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb · Liveright Publishing Corp Pages: 384 Format: Print book |
The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently... |
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