The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Reducere. Award NameGuardian First Book AwardAward categoryFirst BookWe are all storytellers--we create stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not eno...

Reducere. When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 w...

A fascinating investigation of our ability to navigate: from the earliest humans, to cutting-edge spatial neuroscience, and the increasing loss, in...

'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to...

Reducere. "Why do the words we use to express ourselves and interpret the world around us matter? Matt captures the answer to this question in a thought prov...

Reducere. "Why do the words we use to express ourselves and interpret the world around us matter? Matt captures the answer to this question in a thought prov...

Reducere. DescriptionBeginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussi...

Reducere. DescriptionSelf-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A profoundly moving account of an oncology nurse's conversations with the dying

An essential toolkit about the transformative power of play in our everyday lives.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Joanna FortuneNumbe...

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of ...

Reducere. A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselvesis the first book to explore why w...

Reducere. Elegant prose ... sheds new light on the father-daughter dynamic-Boston magazine Praise for Fatherless WOMEN ""If it can be said about a book on lo...

DescriptionWhy is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most moder...

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings to...

Reducere. The Battle We Must Not Lose sounds the alarm that the Christian church is surrendering its future and America at an accelerating rate. The battlefr...

men are cocooning from the epidemic, alarmed by daily reports of death nearing their doorstep. Seeking escape from their precarious condition, they...

Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms examines the changing nature of privacy and exposure with regard to online percept...

Reducere. When you think of data, do you think of complex charts and dashboards, things that are best left up to the experts to decipher? It's time to debunk...

Reducere. When you think of data, do you think of complex charts and dashboards, things that are best left up to the experts to decipher? It's time to debunk...

Reducere. Society has prescribed this idea of growing older as sad and lonely-which may not speak to your experience at all. What if you are having a great t...

Reducere. A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about powerIt shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat ...

Fascinating and provocative, Ariely's The Truth About Dishonesty is an insightful and brilliantly researched take on cheating, deception and willpo...

Reducere. A Dog's Best Friend In Why We Love the Dogs We Do, Stanley Coren provides a foolproof guide to understanding which dog will make the best lifetime ...

Reducere. This liberating and important book shows us how to break out of the self-defeating behavior patterns that have been keeping us from attaining our m...

Reducere. Let's be honest, moms: we're tired. Tired of the tantrums. Tired of the endless piles of laundry. Tired of the mommy-guilt. It's time for a refresh...

Stories of learning to feel good enough, from psychotherapist and award-winning writer Julia Bueno.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Ju...

An expanded and revised version of our guide How To Find Old LA, this book delves deep into the City Of Angels' best-preserved treasures - from a r...

Reducere. There is a well of untapped potential inside you, just waiting to be unleashed. Everyone has superpowers when they are a child. We tend to lose the...

It is the purpose of this book to ensure we stop separating our persona into a working human being and private human being, and instead see ourselv...

During a time of unprecedented change in the way we work, the editors of Monocle are here to help us envision, create and make a success of new bus...

Publisher: Eyewear PublishingAuthor(s): Tim DooleyNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

So once the lockdowns are over, and our lives back to normal don't let this be you again. Instead, use this time to find your passion, and the righ...

DescriptionPractical tools and tips to lead a healthy and productive life The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, f...

A }Sunday Times{ bestseller and a Radio 4 Book of the Week, this reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding an...

DescriptionThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities,...

Reducere. We all seek meaning in our lives, especially as we move past the grubbing for money and status of our early years. And even those who find earthly ...

Discover the Key to Lasting Happiness by Cultivating Authentic Connection in Everyday Life. We are in the midst of an epidemic of loneliness. Thoug...

Find life-enhancing work and realise your potential with this enlightening readPublisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): The School of LifeNumber of pages...

In this revised and updated edition, renowned cardiologist William Davis explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shr...

From the authors of the #1 New York Times best seller Designing Your Life ("Life has questions. They have answers" --The NYT)--a job-changing, outl...

Reducere. Si miras la vida de cerca, no tiene ningún sentido. Aléjate y disfrútala! Este libro entronca con ese increíble verso: «Al lugar donde has sido fel...

AWAKENING THE HEROES WITHIN"The heroic quest is about saying 'yes' to yourself and in so doing, becoming more fully alive and more effective in the...

Revised expanded edition of a best-selling exposition of the cross of Christ

Reducere. "I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people" (Luke 2: 10). The word "gospel" means "good news"--and who couldn't use some go...

A powerful antidote to our atomised lives, Hello, Stranger delves into humanity's rich history of welcoming (and worrying about) strangers, to show...

James Harpur entered a boy's boarding school in the 1970s and survived to tell the tale. Powerful, poignant and humorous, the poems in The Examined...

Internationally acclaimed thought-leader Jonathan Sacks demonstrates how we can build a strong collective morality for the modern era.