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The Art of Creative Thinking: 89 Ways to See Things Differently
Rod Judkins · Perigee Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Get ready to get inspired In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them... |
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Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy
Alain Badiou · Columbia University Press
Pages: 120
Format: Print book
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Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this dual life? Should we factor Heidegger's... |
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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies
David Rieff · Yale University Press
Pages: 145
Format: Print book
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The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this... |
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Straight Talk to Men: Timeless Principles for Leading Your Family
James C Dobson · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 249
Format: Print book
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God's job description for men! In this classic work on the biblical roles and responsibilities of a man, Dr. James Dobson shares timeless wisdom you can use as a husband and father. A deeper understanding of God's perspective on manhood will help you provide stability and leadership... |
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted?... |
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Night Call: Embracing Compassion and Hope in a Troubled World
Robert J Wicks · Oxford University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life. For those in healing and helping professions such as medicine, nursing, education, psychotherapy, social work, ministry, and the military, the potential for a meaningful way of being may even become... |
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Getting to "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv
Bob Kulhan · Stanford Business Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today's fast-paced, unpredictable environment: improvisation. In Getting to "Yes And" veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception
Bence Nanay · Oxford University Press
Pages: 214
Format: Print book
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Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make... |
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Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
NAOKI HIGASHIDA · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of life as a young adult with autism Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international... |
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black... |
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F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed
KRYSTYNA HUTCHINSON · HarperOne
Pages: 224
Format: eBook
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Comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson started Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast in 2013, intending to interview guys they'd slept with to learn more about themselves and squash the stigma so often associated with sexual women. As the podcast grew, and Corinne... |
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Helping Teens Who Cut, Revised Edition: Using DBT® Skills to End Self-Injury
Michael R Hollander · Guilford
Pages: 236
Format: Print book
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Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for the facts about the growing problem of teen self-injury--and what they can do to make it stop. Michael Hollander is a leading expert on the most effective treatment approach for cutting, dialectical behavior... |
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