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2) What's a dog for?: the surprising history, science, philosophy, and politics of man's best friend
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's loving relationship with a rescued dog and his observations about how today's pet dogs are treated with more care than in past generations, exploring the dog's complex and prominent place in the world while assessing related issues about animal rights and ethics.
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English
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
13) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
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English
Description
"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity--the foundations of science--to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change"--
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Publisher
Capstone Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Machiavelli's famously controversial work, is a leadership classic. This was the first book of its type to promise secrets of time management, presentations, change management and interview skills. With simple prose and straightforward logic Machiavelli's study of attaining power is relevant for any modern reader seeking to make their way in the world.
19) Mind and cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Argues that consciousness, intentionality, and value, all products of mind, are inadequately explained by standard materialist science, and that, therefore, standard materialist science is inadequate to provide the only way to understand the world. Devoted particularly to the origin of life from non-living matter and to the evolution of mind as problems for materialist science. Insists on a non-religious alternative.
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