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Confucius: And the World He Created
Michael Schuman · Basic Books; First Edition edition |
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Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius’s influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards... |
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How to Be Alone
Sara Maitland · Picador |
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IN THIS AGE OF CONSTANT CONNECTIVITY, LEARN HOW TO ENJOY SOLITUDE AND FIND HAPPINESS WITHOUT OTHERS.Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom, and individualism are more... |
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo Gleiser · Basic Books; 1 edition |
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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what’s “out there.” In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo... |
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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game"
Andrew Hodges · Princeton University Press; Updated edition with a New preface by the author edition |
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented... |
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Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea
David Konstan · Oxford University Press; 1 edition |
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What does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of objective contemplation. At its core, then,... |
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Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
David Sloan Wilson · Yale University Press |
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David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures? The key to understanding the existence... |
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition |
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty... |
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