Meditations - Signature Classics (PB) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
When we sit alone, thinking, and journaling, we must be brutally honest with ourselves. The result is often the peak of our wisdom, written only to ourselves, in sacred, private reflection.When Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Emperor of Rome, penned the words in these pages, that's what he was doing.It w ...Show more
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. C ...Show more
The Captive Imagination - Addiction, Reality and Our Search for Meaning by Elias Dakwar
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Category: Culture & Ideas
'In rich and arresting prose, and with radical originality, Dakwar expands initial, pragmatic insights about addiction into a far-reaching examination of authenticity, exploring how we define a happy life, a good life, a valid life.' - Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon A deeply humane and rev ...Show more
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
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Category: Culture & Ideas
During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected ...Show more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Culture & Ideas
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Picador Collection
'Funny and compulsively readable' - Louis Theroux What if a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists - Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen - that believe in it. Along the way, he is chased by m ...Show more
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya
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Category: Culture & Ideas
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST "Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel bette ...Show more
Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Take Back Your Brain - How to Start a Feminist Mindset Revolution from Within by Kara Loewentheil
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men by Reah Bravo
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Category: Culture & Ideas
A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world--and what we can do to change things for the better.When Reah Bravo began working at the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's conduct towards women didn't deter her ...Show more
Mazes and Labyrinths - In Great Britain by John Martineau
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Labyrinths are found in rock, mosaics and turf all over the world, and seem to have been known to magicians from very ancient times. In the traditional designs no choices are offered to the seekers, the path simply delivering the walker to the centre in a certain way. But what does it mean? Can you real ...Show more