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The Art of Crying: The Healing Power of TearsExplore the healing, transformative power of shedding tears in this vibrant illustrated study of crying, one of the most uniquely human things we do. What if crying wasn't just an involuntary reaction to feeling sad, vulnerable, or overwhelmed--but a hidden wellspring of power we...
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The Book of Eastbay: Two Friends and the Catalog That Changed the Sneaker Business ForeverSneakers are a $100 billion business and a global obsession that started in the pages of a catalog called Eastbay.This is a startup story unlike most you've read, but as instructive and inspiring as any of the rest. It's the story of two entrepreneurs...
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The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday LifeA leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin...
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The Decline of the West, Two Volumes in One" ...the World-War was no longer a momentary constellation of casual facts due to national sentiments, personal influences, or economic tendencies, ...but the type of a historical change of phase occurring within a great historical organism of definable compass at the point preordained for...
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The Diversity of MoralsHow to make sense of the divergence between philosophers' quest for a single morality and social scientists' assumption that there are multiple moralities When we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if...
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The Double Flame: Love and EroticismIn this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. "Brimming...
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial IntelligenceA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in...
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The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary ResultsThe Economist's Best Books of 2023 Forbes Top 10 Business Books of 2023 Financial Times' Monthly Best Business Books to Read Pick In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done. It will change...
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The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community: Cafes, Coffee Shops, BookstoEmbark on a journey that will change your perspective on community and individual well-being. In The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg gave the term "third places," where people gather for the pleasure of good company and conversation, and explained just how important they are....
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life"In her careful, evenhanded series of thoughtful essays, Partanen, who just became an American citizen, parses the recipe for Nordic success that even the self-congratulatory 'exceptional' American may want to ponder and adapt. . . . An earnest, well-written work worth heeding, especially in...
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human SciencesWith vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a...
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The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a MovementExplores the lives and intellectual influences of the creators of Critical Race Theory Critical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in...
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeBased upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear...
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves"A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up." -- Steven PinkerIn a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes...
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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world....
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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world....
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The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply ExplainedLearn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great...
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The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning"This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity." --Adam Grant, #1 New...
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The Tavistock institute for human relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United StatesThe Tavistock Institute for Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. It has been at the forefront of the attack on the American Constitution. No group...
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: EssaysDrawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David...
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