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The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else
Holly B Rogers MD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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"A 21st century book, grounded in ancient ways of practice."
- Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness
In The Mindful Twenty-Something, the cofounder of the extremely popular Koru Mindfulness program developed at Duke University... |
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Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide
Alix Cohen · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798) , contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written... |
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Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses
David Le Breton · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
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Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn - seeing, hearing, touch, smell, and taste - Le Breton has written a truly monumental work, vast in scope... |
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Behind the Mask: Enter a World Where Women Make - and Break - the Rules
Emma Sayle · HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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A true story of sex, seduction and the pursuit of pleasure.Welcome to a world where women make - and break - the rules. An underground club notorious for parties wilder than 50 Shades of Grey; a place where, behind elegant masks, your innermost desires can be unleashed ... Emma Sayle is an ordinary... |
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The Millennial Mindset: Unraveling Fact from Fiction
Regina Luttrell · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 206
Format: Print book
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We've all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age seven, and that they are poised to take over the world. We've also heard that they are lazy, unmotivated, entitled, and condescending know-it-alls.... |
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Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
Vanessa Grigoriadis · Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Vanessa Grigoriadis dispels the confusion around the topic of sex on campus by embedding at schools large and small and talking candidly with dozens of students - among them, both accusers and accused... |
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White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism: How Does It Feel to Be a White Problem?
George Yancy · Lexington Books
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism powerfully emphasizes the significance of humility, vulnerability, anxiety, questions of complicity, and how being a "good white" is implicated in racial injustice. This collection sets a new precedent for critical race scholarship and critical... |
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This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean
Alain Stephen · Michael O'Mara
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes, and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous aphorisms? This book explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers, examining their core beliefs and presenting choice quotes... |
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Philosophy: Principles and Problems
Roger Scruton · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
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In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts... |
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The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir
PETER GAJDICS · Brown Paper Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled... |
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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
Rory Sutherland · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary advertising guru - Ogilvy UK's vice chairman - and star of three massively popular TED Talks, blends the science of human behavior with his vast experience in the art of persuasion in this incomparable book that decodes successful branding and marketing in the vein of Freakonomics,... |
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The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
YASCHA MOUNK · Harvard University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy -- individual rights and the popular will... |
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani · Currency
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.
Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something... |
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Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man: A New Translation and Commentary
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
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This is a new translation of and commentary on Pico della Mirandola's most famous work, the Oration on the Dignity of Man. It is the first English edition to provide readers with substantial notes on the text, essays that address the work's historical, philosophical, and theological context,... |
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