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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly." - New YorkerA stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer - the first... |
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly) , "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic) , and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams... |
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Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
Woo-Kyoung Ahn - ?Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Every day of our lives, we make judgments -- and we don't always do a very good job of it. Thinking 101 is an invaluable resource to anyone who wants to think better. In remarkably clear language, and with engaging and often funny examples, Woo-Kyoung Ahn uses cutting-edge research... |
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More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Additional Hunches in Bunches
Jacob M Held - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Dr. Seuss and Philosophy delighted thousands of readers by demonstrating the insights of these children's classics through a playful engagement with the philosophical tradition. In More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy readers will be offered a vision of the good life through the world of Dr. Seuss.... |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone... |
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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Darby Penney - Bellevue Literary Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in which, for better and for worse,... |
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
Michele Borba - Touchstone
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining... |
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