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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Edith Hall · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives
Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence... |
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Google Me: One-Click Democracy
Barbara Cassin · Fordham University Press
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
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"Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy." In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. While impressed by the search engine's brilliance, Cassin enlists her formidable... |
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The Art of Reading
DAMON YOUNG · Scribe US
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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'What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.' As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop... |
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Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness
Heather Chaplin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In this page-turning memoir, a woman tries to reinvent her life after divorce and discovers that sometimes finding yourself is not all it's cracked up to be.Trapped in a dissatisfying marriage for nearly a decade, New York journalist Heather Chaplin finally summons the courage to leave.... |
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Big Ideas: The Little Book of Philosophy
DK. · DK
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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A compact, portable introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind philosophy laid out in DK's signature visual style--the ultimate guide to understanding philosophy on the go.
Take Descartes along on your day trip! This compact guide explores the history and concepts... |
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Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan
Andrew McCarron · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific intellectual and sociopolitical... |
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Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Dagmar H?arle · Singing Dragon
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Traumatic events are more than a narrative or singular event in a person's life; the body remembers traumatic events and can experience them over and over, even after many years have passed. This book shows how trauma-sensitive yoga can be used in individual therapy and in groups to overcome... |
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Vaccination and Its Critics: A Documentary and Reference Guide
Lisa Rosner · Greenwood
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative and unbiased narrative -- supported by 50 primary source documents -- follows the history of vaccination, highlighting essential medical achievements and ongoing controversies.* Provides readers with accurate, unbiased accounts of medical breakthroughs and critics* Examines... |
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Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Your Questions Answered
Daniel Zwillenberg · Greenwood
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
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A new title in the Q&A Health Guides series, this book tackles readers' questions regarding anxiety and panic attacks, dispelling misconceptions and examining real-world scenarios that highlight important concepts and controversies.* Specifically written as an easy-to-use, one-stop... |
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Jet Lag
Christopher J Lee · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against... |
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Memoir About Anxiety
SARAH WILSON · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of I Quit Sugar transforms cultural perceptions of the mental health issue of our age - anxiety - viewing this widespread condition not as a burdensome affliction but as a powerful spiritual teacher that can deepen our lives. While reading... |
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