The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, Hardcover - Stephen Grosz

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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...

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

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

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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...

'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...

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

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

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

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

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

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Stephen 'Hippie Kushi' CoxIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Stephen 'Hippie Kushi' CoxIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

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

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DescriptionHow new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it...

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...

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Alison Wisdom's addictive, down-the-rabbit-hole debut reads like The Girls by way of The Virgin Suicides, with an extra dash of Cheever's unsettlin...

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In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and i...

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

Reducere. A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time--and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's t...