Why We Work, Hardcover

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The inner work is what happens in the mind and body during ritual, and is intimately connected with embodied spirituality, which celebrates being a...

Contributor(s): Author: Kevin SimlerAuthor: Robin HansonHuman beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are d...

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Reducere. In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes th...

What is music? How is it made? And what's changed --- and what hasn't --- about how we listen to it? Here's all the best stuff about the science an...

In Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton's most enduring work, Chesterton argues that the drama and mystery of Christianity are sanity and that the naturalist...

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Description"When you've found your life's purpose, work becomes meaningful to you. If you want to discover and live your purpose, read Nicholas Pea...

Stop treating your work and your life as separate. Work shouldn't be a burden that takes place outside of your "real life." It should, and can, be ...

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Reducere. Wall Street Journal BestsellerMuch of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest...and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wro...

DescriptionWhy are you attracted to a certain "type?" Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way you do? From a witty new voice in popul...

Understanding digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a digital environment instead of discrete devices and ...

A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness.We often think the key to success and satisfacti...

Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily busin...

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A profound biblical examination of the divine work of sanctification. The mandate for holiness is based in the very character and person of God: we...

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's lik...

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A guide to surviving and thriving in fashion school, from an award-winning fashion designer and illustrator Success in fashion school requires more...

Have you ever wondered what is made from blood? Or how the mind gets knowledge? Maybe you've pondered how muscles and nerves work? Or why we sleep?...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter BarhamA kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimenta...

DescriptionEver wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria T...

A leadership consultant and neuropsychologist identify the universal habits of the heart and mind--the keys to unlocking our true potential, creati...

Life is not what you get out of it . . . it's what you put back in. Yet our current means for summarizing life's work, from resumes to salaries, ar...

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The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just painfully necessary is a strikingly recent invention. Nowadays, in prosperous areas of the ...

Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic ...

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A major work of financial theory and practice with immediate relevance to the rebuilding of the economy, and restoring the promise of equality When...

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Evolutionary biologist Rebecca Heiss reveals the science behind our self-sabotaging behaviors that undermine our productivity, success, and happine...

You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worsh...

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A Financial Times Book of the Month Back to Human explains how a more socially connected workforce creates greater fulfillment, productivity, and e...

How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what ...

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy TomesIn a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that...

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Reducere. In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research ...

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Too often we lean into the wrong things and burn out. We buy society's lie that our worth is our work, our value is our vocation, our calling is ou...

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DescriptionThe acclaimed author of Pandora's Lunchbox and former New York Times reporter takes an enlightening, engaging deep dive into the world o...

DescriptionA leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are--and what makes ...

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