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The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance
Matt Frazier - HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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The Plant-Based Athlete by Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke offers a persuasive body of evidence for adopting a plant-based lifestyle to achieve endurance, flexibility, sport, training, or lifting goals. Featuring more than 60 recipes, insights from famous plant-based athletes, and explosive... |
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently... |
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Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
KATE COLE-ADAMS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"A work of splendid richness and depth." -- Helen Garner, author of Everywhere I Look Anesthetize: to render insensible First there's the injection, then the countdown -- and next thing you know, you're awake. Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness... |
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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
David Wood - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of Americas 21st century wars.Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood... |
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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
John A Bargh - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. John Bargh, the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.For more than three decades, Dr. John... |
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My Heart Sutra: A World in 260 Characters
Frederik L. Schodt - Stone Bridge Press; Annotated edition
Format: Paperback
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The Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient history, the "emptiness theory, and the way it is used around the world as a metaphysical... |
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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Simon Critchley - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in.We might think we are through with the past,... |
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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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2020 Audie Finalist As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does... |
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Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
Cody Wilson - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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Cody Wilson, a self-described crypto-anarchist and rogue thinker, combines the controversial yet thrilling story of the production of the first ever 3D printable gun with a startling philosophical manifesto that gets to the heart of the twenty-first century debate over the freedom of information... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York TimesA memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane... |
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