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Drawing from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history and education, one of the nation's leading writers and commentators helps us become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen.
As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society : the ability to see...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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293 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A book that shows us how to work through thorny moral questions by examining their parts in broad daylight, equipping us to not only identify our own positions but to defend them as well. It demonstrates the relevance of philosophy to our everyday lives, and offers some clear-eyed tools to those who want to learn how to better fight for justice and liberation for all"--
3) Elemental
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
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2024.
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vii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xiii, 105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
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English
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"As artist-in-residence at the Zen Hospice Project Guest House, Wendy MacNaughton experienced firsthand how difficult it is to know what to do when we're sharing final moments with a loved one. In this tenderly illustrated guide to saying goodbye, with a foreword by renowned physician and author BJ Miller, MacNaughton shows how to make sure those moments are meaningful. Using a framework of "the five things" taught to her by a professional caregiver,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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viii, 515 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"We live at a time of soaring global inequalities and a concerted challenge to the very notion that human beings can live as equals. Equality, in short, is in crisis. Yet surprisingly little work has been done to understand this complex ideal. Far from being a modern aspiration, as is commonly thought, equality has a long history stretching back to the ancient world. Across the ages, we have also been profoundly ambivalent toward-and even skeptical...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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An international bestseller and TikTok sensation with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal happiness and self-fulfillment.
Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal happiness. Based on the theories of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler,...
Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal happiness. Based on the theories of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn't be more wrong--and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness--one that will give us a better...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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255 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"British interior designer Flora Soames founded her eponymous firm in 2009 and launched an acclaimed collection of fabrics and wallpapers in 2019. Informed by her background in art and furniture, her style exudes the traditional charm of English country homes while incorporating modern, original touches that are comfortable and design-led. This embrace of old and new--along with Soamess passion for collecting, heritage, color, and pattern--has resulted...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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131 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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"Don’t try to be interesting. That’s a fool’s errand. Do interesting instead. Make the world light up by paying attention. In this book, writer and strategist Russell Davies has rounded up a bunch of interesting people to help you: Notice more--practise paying attention and everything gets more interesting. Collect more--gather together what you’ve noticed, new ideas po. Share more--get good at sharing it all and more magic arrives. You’ll...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xi, 132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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249 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A witty and wide-ranging exploration of a book that has perplexed and delighted people for centuries: the Talmud. For numerous centuries, the Talmud--an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition--has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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vii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Where does math come from? From a textbook? From rules? From deduction? From logic? Not really, Eugenia Cheng writes in Is Math Real?: it comes from curiosity, from instinctive human curiosity, "from people not being satisfied with answers and always wanting to understand more." And most importantly, she says, "it comes from questions": not from answering them, but from posing them. Nothing could seem more at odds from the way most of us were taught...
17) Elemental
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In a city where Fire, Water, Earth, and Air reside together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they have in common."--
18) Better together
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"In a city where Fire, Water, Earth, and Air people reside together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they have in common"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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386 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger. The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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xv, 277 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Here the reader will find the current Christian deconstruction movement set against the broad background of postmodernism and explained both in terms of contemporary idiom and issues and basic biblical foundations. . . . Alisa and Tim help the reader to deconstruct the deconstructionists and thus to respond to them, both with arguments and with pastoral love and sensitivity."--From the foreword.
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