Society and Solitude, Paperback

This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. In a series of biographical sketche...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bella Depaulo PhdWhen Bella DePaulo published "The badass personalities of people who like being alone" at her "Living Sing...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this fascinating collection culled from teachings never before brought together in book form, Krishnamurti offers wise reflections an...

Reducere. In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Wes...

Reducere. This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed ...

Reducere. Two PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED novellas connected to the Windham family series.Morgan and Archer Morgan James, sister-by-marriage to the Windham ducal he...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam PhillipsIn a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects und...

Reducere. In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring in...

Reducere. Meg Thurgood, former society girl, took the blame for her friend and paid a steep price. Now all she wants is solitude and a chance to rebuild her ...

Reducere. The book that started the Quiet RevolutionAt least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaki...

DescriptionIn this, the latest in a series of books examining emotional states and psychological life, Salman Akhtar and Aisha Abbasi critically di...

Reducere. Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts--part social experiment, part spiritual qu...

Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographie...

Reducere. After thirty years in prison, Mason Foster is released into a 2018 digital society that he neither belongs in nor recognizes. With his father long ...

Reducere. Discover the gentle humor and astute observations of a true outdoorsman as he shares stories of natural wonders and personal revelations, family tr...

Reducere. Abandoned resorts are both haunting and humbling to behold. Massive, cavernous, and sprawling, they once brimmed with life and laughter. Now they s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: A. G. HowardFor most of her life, Juliet Emerline has subsisted - isolated by deafness - making hats in the solitude of her...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simp...

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse ...

Reducere. Gui Gu Zi, or Wisdom of the Ghost Valley in modern English, is a compilation of Daoism philosophy and Persuasion Techniques, which were written abo...

Reducere. For centuries, the game of golf has captivated everyone from the poor working class to the upper crust of society. There is something enigmatic abo...

Reducere. DescriptionA penniless maid determined to save her father, a broken baron bent on isolation, and the undeniable draw between them that could lead t...

Reducere. The fourth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals, one of his final literary legacies, springs from three hundred handwritten pages that captu...

Reducere. MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the B...

Reducere. DescriptionCommon Sense by Thomas Paine. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain t...

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry. ENTRIES OF THE CELL is some of Franz Wright's best writing in years. "The cell will teach you all things" is a saying of some ea...

Reducere. Embrace the past and make it your future: discover what made our ancestors such great survivalists. Are you attracted to the idea of simple living ...