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Speaking of Ethics: Living a Humanist Life

Joseph Chuman · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

As societies continue to grow and change, humans find themselves facing many important ethical questions. Is the pursuit of happiness a worthwhile goal? Should religion be immune to criticism? These questions and many others are addressed in Speaking of Ethics, a collection of the works...
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A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Barbara Oakley · Tarcher

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering...
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

William Deresiewicz · Free Press

A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing.As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s...
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Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime: Secrets of Calculated Questioning From a Veteran Interrogator

Maryann Karinch · Career Press

"With his style of questioning alone, Jim Pyle can get more information than most other interrogators using multiple techniques."--Gregory Hartley, coauthor of the best-seller How to Spot a LiarThe secret to finding out anything you want to know is amazingly simple: Ask good...
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day. In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers...
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