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The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 243 Format: Hardcover
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How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality,... |
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Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
Michael Krasny · New World Library Pages: 264 Format: Paperback
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As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese · Grove Press Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have... |
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive
Devorah Heitner · Bibliomotion Pages: 244 Format: Print book
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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers... |
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · Penguin Books Pages: 832 Format: Paperback
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"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this - the most inspiring book I've ever read." - Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not,... |
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
Michael P Lynch · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 256 Format: Audiobook
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With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips,... |
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Afraid to Let Go. For Parents of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics
Mary Crocker Cook · Robertson Publishing Pages: 181 Format: Paperback
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You are not Codependent simply because your adult child is an addict or alcoholic. All parents of addicted children of any age are terrified, confused, feel out of control, lose sleep, dread the phone calls at 3:00 in the morning. This book is for parents who are Afraid to Let Go because... |
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
Scott Barry Kaufman · Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015. Pages: 252 Format: Print book
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Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative... |
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay · Wordsworth Reference Pages: 724 Format: Paperback
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve Pages: 168 Format: Print book
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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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The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24-7
Kevin Hogan · Network 3000 Pages: 304 Format: Book
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A simple and tested system to reduce or eliminate procrastination, meet your goals and live the life and lifestyle you choose. A radical departure from self help books, this book is grounded in research about individual productivity, time management and goal achievement. The author explains... |
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When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · Random House Pages: 228 Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, this inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth... |
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