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The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You
Dr. Michael Gervais - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned high-performance psychologist Michael Gervais - Seattle Seahawks, Red Bull Stratos, Team USA - presents a guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people's opinions (FOPO) .With the proliferation of social media, the intense... |
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This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
Ed Winters - Vermilion
Format: Hardcover
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Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues... |
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Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno
Raymond Geuss - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is misguided, that to continue asking... |
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States.When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming... |
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Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals
Lara Denis - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's final major work in moral philosophy. In it, he presents the basic concepts and principles of right and virtue and the system of duties of human beings as such. The work comprises two parts: the Doctrine of Right concerns outer freedom and the rights... |
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Taste
Giorgio Agamben - Seagull Books
Format: Hardcover
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Our taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In Taste, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been... |
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Confessions of a Recovering Racist
GEORGE O'HARE - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback
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George O'Hare's was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago in 1927 during the height of Jim Crow, when racism was a way of life for most white people. He went to an all-white grammar and high school, and was raised by an extremely racist uncle. George learned to be a racist... |
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Living with Robots
Paul Dumouchel - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators,... |
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