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Notes to John
Joan Didion · 2025
Demian
Herman Hesse · 2013
A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment.
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2018
<p>Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.</p>
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 2005
International Bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction<br/>“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” — People<br/>In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, acclaimed author Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples: a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.<br/>This magnificent novel is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.
Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E Frankl · 2013
The Hour of the Star (Second Edition)
Clarice Lispector · 2011
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur · 2015
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. <i>milk and honey</i> takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
Essays In Love
Alain de Botton · 2024
On Love
Alain de Botton · 2015
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell · 2007
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell · 2006
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell · 2013
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell · 2008
Real Magic
Dean Radin PhD · 2018
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1869
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang · 2010
This Will Make You Smarter
John Brockman · 2012
Spiritual Evolution
George Vaillant · 2009
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo, Josephine Sacabo, Margaret Sayers Peden · 2002
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 2024
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005
Reading
NO IS NOT ENOUGH
KLEIN NAOMI · 2018
Exhalation
Ted Chiang · 2019
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2020
From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, as their friendship, beautifully and meticulously rendered, becomes a not always perfect shelter from hardship. Ferrante has created a memorable portrait of two women, but My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a city and a country undergoing momentous change.
To Read
The Crisis of Narration
Byung-Chul Han · 2024
The Iliac Crest
Cristina Rivera Garza · 2017
Illuminations
Walter Benjamin · 2015
Hauntology
Merlin Coverley · 20201022
I Told You So! Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
Matt Kaplan · 2026
Bitch On the Female of the Species
Lucy Cooke · 2022
The Village Effect
Susan Pinker · 2014
Black Reconstruction in America
W. E. B. Du Bois · 2018
Francisco de Assis
Hermann Hesse · 2019
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher · 2022
Returning to Reims
Didier Eribon · 2018
The Years
Annie Ernaux · 2017
The Augustan World Life and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England
A. R. Humphreys · 2020
The Pleasures of Virtue: Political Thought in the Novels of Jane Austen
Anne Ruderman · 1995
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre · 2007
O marinheiro que perdeu as gracas do mar
三島由紀夫 · 2020
Words Without Music A Memoir
Philip Glass · 2015
Winters in the World A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Eleanor Parker · 2022
How China Works An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development
Xiaohuan Lan · 2024
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?
Hanna Pickard · 2026
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Aylmer Maude, Lev Tolstoy
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach · 1991
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir · 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman · 2005
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord · 2014
Embracing Alienation Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves
Todd Mcgowan · 2024
Kingdom Come
J. G. Ballard · 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney · 2018
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Lula
Fernando Morais · 2024
Democracia corintiana a utopia em jogo
Sócrates, Sócrates Brasileiro, Ricardo Gozzi · 2002
On the Calculation of Volume I
Solvej Balle · 2025
'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff ** A NEW YORKER AND PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR ** It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences. That we wouldn't be here at all if it weren't for these curious twists of fate. The first volume of the poetic, page-turning masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time. Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday. She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand - the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband's surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. They do not remember the other 18ths of November, and they do not believe her when she tries to explain. As Tara approaches her 365th 18th of November, she can't shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there's a way to escape. WINNER OF THE 2022 NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE.
God, the Science, the Evidence
Michel-Yves Bollore, Olivier Bonnassies · 2025
After four years of research in partnership with over twenty scientists and esteemed experts, this book explores one of the most significant questions we face: the existence or non-existence of a creator God. For more than four centuries, the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and Freud created the impression that we could explain the workings of the Universe without the idea of a creator--God. By the beginning of the twentieth century, materialism had become the dominant theory of the time. And yet, with unexpected and astonishing force, the pendulum of science has swung back in the other direction, owing to a rapid succession of discoveries: the theory of relativity; quantum mechanics; the Big Bang; the theories of expansion, heat death, and fine-tuning of the universe. This newly acquired knowledge has upended the certainties of the twentieth century collective consciousness. Once the only acceptable theory, materialism is increasingly considered an irrational belief. The authors of this highly readable book retrace the fascinating history of these scientific breakthroughs and offer a rigorous overview of the new proof of the existence of God. God: the Science and the Evidence is an invitation to reflect and debate the place of God in science.
Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao · 2025
Coisa de rico A vida dos endinheirados brasileiros
Michel Alcoforado · 2025
London
Edward Rutherford · 1997
London, The Novel - Rutherfurd (Hardcover) London, The Novel - Edward Rutherfurd (Hardcover) Hardcover Publication 1996
Love’s Labour The #1 Sunday Times bestselling author examines love and relationships
Stephen Grosz · 2025
<p><b>‘This man could save your marriage’ </b><i>The Times</i><br><br>‘<b>Illuminating, beautiful </b>. . . <b>This is a special book, full of little epiphanies</b>’ Natasha Lunn, author of <i>Conversations on Love</i><br><br><b>Compelling new stories from the psychoanalyst's consulting room; on desire, heartbreak and learning how to love.</b><br><br>When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephen Grosz asks, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?<br><br>In the intimate space of the consulting room, we meet the woman who can’t post her wedding invitations but then, decades later, can’t decide whether to get divorced; the friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins; and the man whose partner’s death is almost too much to bear.<br><br>As an analyst, Grosz’s unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick. As a writer, he elegantly shows how we can deploy the agonies of love as tools for understanding.<br><br>The labour of love is the work of a lifetime but in finally learning to see ourselves and our world clearly, we find we are truly ready to love one another.<br><br><b>'This is a beautiful book' </b>Nigella Lawson<br><br><b>'You will be better at love after you read this book</b>’ Andrew Solomon, author of <i>The Noonday Demon</i><br><br>Praise for <i>The Examined Life</i>:<br><br><b>‘Grosz’s vignettes . . . read like pieces of bare, illuminating fiction. Utterly captivating’ <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>‘Writing with sympathy and insight, Grosz distils years of work into a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks’ <i>New York Times</i><br><br>‘I was enthralled . . . profound and moving, large ideas packed into a slim volume’ <i>Observer </i></b></p>
The Blood Of Others
Simone de Beauvoir · 2002
A resistance leader during the German occupation of France looks back on his relationship with a woman whom he has sent on a deadly mission
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz · 2020
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY<br/><br/>FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY<br/><br/>Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award<br/><br/>Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages―bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers―be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.<br/><br/>Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope―in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.
Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours
Corinne Low PhD · 2025
You’re not imagining it: Women aren’t getting a good deal at home or at work. We have the evidence to prove it. This book gives you the power to change it.<br/><br/>For women in America today, the promise of “having it all” is an ever-elusive carrot; the reality is that while we are doing it all, we face unsustainable demands on our time and efforts, in every sphere. The data shows that biologically, culturally, economically, we are on an uneven playing ground, and one that drains us of our happiness. But that same data can empower us to make choices that will reclaim our time, our energy―and even our joy.<br/><br/>In Having It All, Wharton professor and economist Dr. Corinne Low unpacks the hidden factors that influence women’s decision-making, and how these choices can alter the course of our lives. From whether to obtain an advanced degree to what type of career to pursue, when or whether to get married and/or have children, or even where to live―Dr. Low explores essential questions such as:<br/><br/>- What if flexible working isn't the answer, and we actually need more boundaries?<br/>- What if there is no optimal time to “have a family” but rather a slew of different considerations at different life stages?<br/>-What if we approached decisions around marriage and partnership as rigorously as we would an employment opportunity?<br/><br/>For too long, women have been expected to accept labor-intensive solutions to systemic problems–optimize, lean in, work harder. But Dr. Low isn’t suggesting women need to do more. In the tradition of bestselling books like Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play and Emily Oster’s Cribsheet, Having It All blends personal experience, research, and analysis to help shed light on the constraints women face, and offer an evidence-based framework for getting a better deal. Consider it the essential economics textbook for life as a woman―but hopefully, a little more fun.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse · 2023
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2025
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff · 2025
Dad, What's for Dinner?
David Nayfeld, Joshua David Stein · 2025
The dad’s guide to getting dinner on the table; more than 80 unfussy, uncompromising recipes for weeknights and beyond. With a foreword by Gwyneth Paltrow. I am a professional chef. I’ve spent twenty-seven of my forty years in some of the best kitchens in the world. . . . And still, when my daughter, Helena, asks, “Dad, what’s for dinner?” it gets me every time. This is a book for dads (and moms, and grandparents, and caregivers, and anyone else who needs to get dinner on the table without cooking the same old thing again). It’s a book that believes “kids’ food” can, and should, mean more than just buttered noodles or chicken fingers. In its pages, chef David Nayfeld translate his decades of professional expertise into something that all parents can use to become more confident and creative in the kitchen, and better able to care for their toughest customers—their kids. The result is a collection of more than eighty hearty, good-for-you recipes the whole family will love, from Italian Sausage and Broccolini Lasagna to The Best Fricking Meatloaf in the World; from Tomato and Bread Salad (it still counts as a salad!) to Cuppycakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. Nayfeld’s goal is to empower home cooks, giving them the tools, strategies (the wonders of batch-cooking!), and recipes to break a reliance on frozen foods and takeout. It’s a book that helps to bring families together at the dinner table and to raise more adventurous eaters. And, most of all, it’s a book that answers the all-important question: Dad, what’s for dinner? (or lunch, or breakfast, or . . .)
É assim que aprendemos por que o cérebro funciona melhor do que qualquer máquina (ainda…)
Stanislas Dehaene · 2021
<p>Um encontro com Felipe, de apenas 7 anos, obrigou o premiado neurocientista francês Stanislas Dehaene a rever radicalmente suas ideias sobre aprendizado. Mesmo preso a um leito de hospital e completamente cego em consequência de uma bala perdida, o menino brasileiro manteve intacta sua sede de aprender. Mas, final, como o cérebro humano consegue adaptar-se às circunstâncias reprogramando-se e, assim, continuar aprendendo? Do questionamento surgiu este poderoso livro. O autor nos conta que nosso cérebro é uma máquina extraordinária e continua sendo a melhor fonte de inspiração para os desenvolvimentos recentes da inteligência artificial. É assim que aprendemos vai até os limites da ciência da computação, da neurobiologia e da psicologia cognitiva para explicar como o aprendizado realmente acontece e como fazer melhor uso dos algoritmos de aprendizado do cérebro em nossas escolas e universidades, e também na vida cotidiana. "Há palavras tão familiares que obscurecem o que elas significam no lugar de iluminar. 'Aprender' é uma palavra assim. Parece tão simples, todo mundo aprende. Na verdade, porém, está mais para uma caixa-preta, que Dehaene abre para revelar seus incríveis segredos. Sua explicação do funcionamento dos mecanismos do cérebro é uma excelente introdução." - The New York Times Book Review" "Este é um livro cativante, que amplia a mente, repleto de insights." - The Sunday Times "Hoje em dia, as máquinas já realizam operações que não conseguimos fazer, mas, no fim das contas, nosso cérebro nos permite chegar muito mais longe. O autor desenvolve, de forma claríssima e com rigor científico, o que chama de 'os quatro pilares da aprendizagem' [atenção, envolvimento ativo, feedback de erros e consolidação]. Ele selecionou as informações para fornecer sugestões bastante práticas." - Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique "Um levantamento interessante de como a ciência – de escaneamentos cerebrais a testes psicológicos – está ajudando a inspirar a pedagogia." - Financial Times<br></p>
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
Helen Garner · 2023
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • The engrossing true-crime classic from one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers, that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure •"This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood."—Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Shrines of Gaiety<br/><br/>On the evening of Father’s Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their mom’s house when the car veered off the road and plunged into a dam. Farquharson survived the crash, but his boys drowned. Was this a tragic accident, or an act of revenge? The court case that followed became a national obsession—a macabre parade of witnesses, family members, and the defendant himself, each forced to relive the unthinkable for an audience of millions.<br/><br/>In This House of Grief, celebrated writer Helen Garner tells the definitive and deeply absorbing story of it all, from crash to final verdict. Through a panoply of perspectives, including her own as a member of the public, Garner captures the exacting procedure and brutal spectacle of Australia’s criminal justice system. The result is a richly textured portrait—of a man and his broken life, of a community wracked by tragedy, and of the long and torturous road to closure.<br/><br/>Considered a literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner’s incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. Brisk, candid, and never dismissive of its flawed subjects, This House of Grief is a masterwork of literary journalism.
Beyond Words
Carl Safina · 2020
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?<br/><br/>Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and animals. Travelling to the threatened landscape of Kenya to witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then on to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, the book finally plunges into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals. Wise, passionate, and eye-opening at every turn, Beyond Words is ultimately a graceful examination of humanity's place in the world.
Beyond Words: What Wolves and Dogs Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaptation)
Carl Safina · 2022
A young readers adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling book Beyond Words which focuses on consciousness and self-awareness in wolves and dogs. Eye-opening, wise, and filled with triumphant and heartbreaking stories about the wolf population at Yellowstone (as well as some personal anecdotes about dogs), Carl Safina's Beyond Words: What Wolves and Dogs Think and Feel accessibly explores the mysteries of animal thought and behavior for young readers. Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about the brain, and complete with astonishing photos, Beyond Words offers an extraordinary look at what makes these animals different from us, but more importantly, what makes them similar, namely, their feelings of joy, grief, anger, and love. These similarities between human and nonhuman consciousness and empathy allow the reader to reexamine how we interact with animals as well as how we see our own place in the world.
Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel (A Young Reader's Adaptation)
Carl Safina · 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez · 2021
The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women.<br/><br/>#1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize<br/><br/>Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems.<br/><br/>And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias: in time, in money, and often with their lives.<br/><br/>Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives.<br/><br/>Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed.<br/><br/>Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom · 1989
A series of moving and instructive tales of the psychiatric encounter by psychotherapist, Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.. This book depicts cases with realistic, flesh-and-blood honesty. It is funny, flawed, perverse, riveting, and above all understanding.
Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
Jennifer Clement · 2014
The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together<br/><br/>An NPR Best Book of the Year Selection<br/><br/>New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art of the 20th century. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk.<br/><br/>A runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time.<br/><br/>In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. A poetic interpretation like no other, Widow Basquiat is an expression of the unrelenting power of addiction, obsession and love.
China's Super Psychics
Paul Dong, Thomas E. Raffill · 1997
According to Paul Dong, the Chinese health discipline "chi gong" generates psychic abilities--which may explain China's numerous psychics and why, since 1982, the Chinese government has been studying and supporting the work of psychics for medical and military purposes. Dong is the author of "Chi Gong: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health". 25 photos.
Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Donella H. Meadows · 2008
Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was.
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
Jeremy Lent · 2017
Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award!This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trail-blazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society.Taking the reader on an archaeological exploration of the mind, the author, an entrepreneur and sustainability leader, uses recent findings in cognitive science and systems theory to reveal the hidden layers of values that form today's cultural norms. Uprooting the tired cliches of the science-religion debate, he shows how medieval Christian rationalism acted as an incubator for scientific thought, which in turn shaped our modern vision of the conquest of nature. The author probes our current crisis of unsustainability and argues that it is not an inevitable result of human nature, but is culturally driven: a product of particular mental patterns that could conceivably be reshaped. By shining a light on our possible futures, the book foresees a coming struggle between two contrasting views of humanity: one driving to a technological endgame of artificially enhanced humans, the other enabling a sustainable future arising from our intrinsic connectedness with each other and the natural world. This struggle, it concludes, is one in which each of us will play a role through the meaning we choose to forge from the lives we lead.
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Mark Forsyth · 2012
This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.<br/><br/>The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history.
Como Cozinhar Sem Receitas (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Glynn Christian · 2013
Em 'como Cozinhar Sem Receitas', O Chef Inglês Glynn Christian Pretende Mostrar Como é Possível Criar Pratos Considerados Como Fabulosos Sem Que Se Tenha Que Bancar O Robô O Tempo Todo, Reproduzindo Receitas Criadas Por Outras Pessoas. O Autor Defende O Prazer E A Liberdade De Improvisar Na Cozinha, E Para Isso Ele Visa Ensinar Como Discernir Gostos E Sabores, Como Reconhecer Os Ingredientes Que Possuem Afinidades Naturais Ou Que Se Complementam E Como Combiná-los De Acordo Com O Que Ele Chama De 'trilha Do Sabor'.
Signature Dishes That Matter
Christine Muhlke · 2019
A global celebration of the iconic restaurant dishes that defined the course of culinary history over the past 300 years<br/>Today's food-lovers often travel the globe to enjoy the food of acclaimed chefs. Yet the tradition of seeking out unforgettable dining experiences goes back centuries, and this gorgeous book reveals the closely held secrets behind the world's most iconic recipes - dishes that put restaurants on the map, from 19thcentury fine dining and popular classics, to today's most innovative kitchens, both high-end and casual. Curated by experts and organized chronologically, it's both a landmark cookbook and a fascinating cultural history of dining out.<br/>The narrative texts are by Christine Muhlke, the foreword by Mitchell Davis, and illustrations by Adriano Rampazzo
Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl · 2005
When Reichl took over from the formidable and aloof Bryan Miller as the New York Times' restaurant reviewer, she promised to shake things up. And so she did. Gone were the days when only posh restaurants with European chefs were reviewed. Reichl, with a highly developed knowledge and love of Asian cuisine from her years as a West Coast food critic, began to review the small simple establishments that abound in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Many loved it, the Establishment hated it, but her influence was significant. She brought a fresh writing style to her reviews and adopted a radical way of getting them. Amassing a wardrobe of wigs and costumes, she deliberately disguised herself so that she would not receive special treatment. As a result, she had a totally different dining experience as say, Miriam the Jewish mother than she did as Ruth Reichl the reviewer, and she wasn't afraid to write about it. The resulting reviews were hilarious and sobering, full of fascinating insights and delicious gossip. Garlic and Sapphires is a wildly entertaining chronicle of Reichl's New York Times years.
Counter Intelligence Counter Display
Jonathan Gold
Blue Nights. Joan Didion
Joan Didion · 2012
Descartes' Error
Antonio R. Damasio · 1995
Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty · 2002
With Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period. What makes this work so important is that it returned the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire · 2017
On the 30th anniversary of its publication, this classic manifesto by Freire reflects on the impact his book has had, and on many of the issues it raises for readers in the 1990s. These include the fundamental question of liberation and inclusive language as it relates to Freire's own insights and approaches.
Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind
Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Henry P. Stapp, Deepak Chopra · 2011
The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces
Peter Gardenfors · 2014
A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our minds organize the information involved in communicative acts in a format that can be modeled in geometric or topological terms—in what he terms conceptual spaces, extending the theory he presented in an earlier book by that name. Many semantic theories consider the meanings of words as relatively stable and independent of the communicative context. Gärdenfors focuses instead on how various forms of communication establish a system of meanings that becomes shared between interlocutors. He argues that these “meetings of mind” depend on the underlying geometric structures, and that these structures facilitate language learning. Turning to lexical semantics, Gärdenfors argues that a unified theory of word meaning can be developed by using conceptual spaces. He shows that the meaning of different word classes can be given a cognitive grounding, and offers semantic analyses of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and prepositions. He also presents models of how the meanings of words are composed to form new meanings and of the basic semantic role of sentences. Finally, he considers the future implications of his theory for robot semantics and the Semantic Web.
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Peter Gärdenfors · 2000
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches.<br/><br/>Symbolic representation is particularly weak at modeling concept learning, which is paramount for understanding many cognitive phenomena. Concept learning is closely tied to the notion of similarity, which is also poorly served by the symbolic approach. Gardenfors's theory of conceptual spaces presents a framework for representing information on the conceptual level. A conceptual space is built up from geometrical structures based on a number of quality dimensions. The main applications of the theory are on the constructive side of cognitive science: as a constructive model the theory can be applied to the development of artificial systems capable of solving cognitive tasks. Gardenfors also shows how conceptual spaces can serve as an explanatory framework for a number of empirical theories, in particular those concerning concept formation, induction, and semantics. His aim is to present a coherent research program that can be used as a basis for more detailed investigations.
The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda, Castaneda · 2016
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology, though many critics contend that it is a work of fiction.[1] It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his Master’s thesis in the school of Anthropology. It purports to document the events that took place during an apprenticeship with a self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, don Juan Matus from Sonora, Mexico between 1960 and 1965.
The Culture Map
Erin Meyer · 2016
The Jakarta Method
Vincent Bevins · 2020
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the largest Communist Party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring other copycat terror programs. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins draws from recently declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s been believed that the developing world passed peacefully into the US-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Douglas R Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander · 2013
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein · 2023
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?<br/><br/>When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn’t. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity – all we have to meet the world – so unstable?<br/><br/>To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world: one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting ‘the children’). In doing so, she lifts the lid on our own culture during this surreal moment in history, as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as deep fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far more sinister.<br/><br/>This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. It’s for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole, who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped, and who wants a way out of our collective vertigo and back to fighting for what really matters.
Galileo's Error
Philip Goff · 2019
Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
Wisława Szymborska · 2000
Anna Karenin
Leo Tolstoy · 1978
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia. <br>With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production.
Evangelhos apócrifos
Vários autores · 2023
The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer
Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker · 2021
#1 New York Times Bestseller<br/>In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions.<br/><br/>Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans—cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration, and autoimmune disorders—also beset canines. As a result, our beloved companions are vexed with preventable health problems throughout much of their lives and suffer shorter life spans. Because our pets can’t make health and lifestyle decisions for themselves, it’s up to pet parents to make smart, science-backed choices for lasting vitality and health.<br/>The Forever Dog gives us the practical, proven tools to protect our loyal four-legged companions. Rodney Habib and Karen Becker, DVM, globetrotted (pre-pandemic) to galvanize the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers; they also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. The result is this unprecedented and comprehensive guide, filled with surprising information, invaluable advice, and inspiring stories about dogs and the people who love them.<br/>The Forever Dog prescriptive plan focuses on diet and nutrition, movement, environmental exposures, and stress reduction, and can be tailored to the genetic predisposition of particular breeds or mixes. The authors discuss various types of food—including what the commercial manufacturers don’t want us to know—and offer recipes, easy solutions, and tips for making sure our dogs obtain the nutrients they need. Habib and Dr. Becker also explore how external factors we often don’t think about can greatly affect a dog’s overall health and wellbeing, from everyday insults to the body and its physiology, to the role our own lifestyles and our vets’ choices play. Indeed, the health equation works both ways and can travel “up the leash.”<br/>Medical breakthroughs have expanded our choices for canine health—if you know what they are. This definitive dog-care guide empowers us with the knowledge we need to make wise choices, and to keep our dogs healthy and happy for years to come.
Roots of Brazil
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda · 2012
Madonna in a Fur Coat
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian
The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han · 2020
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised
Rupert Sheldrake · 2011
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes · 2000
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.
Francis Bacon in Your Blood
Michael Peppiatt · 2017
"This fine memoir is more insightful than gossipy, and as a subject Bacon is just about unbeatable." -- The New York Times<br/>In June of 1963, when Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon, the former was a college boy at Cambridge, the latter already a famous painter, more than thirty years his senior. And yet, Peppiatt was welcomed into the volatile artist's world; Bacon, considered by many to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," proved himself a devoted friend and father figure, even amidst the drinking and gambling.<br/>Though Peppiatt would later write perhaps the definitive biography of Bacon, his sharply drawn memoir has a different vigor, revealing the artist at his most intimate and indiscreet, and his London and Paris milieus in all their seediness and splendor. Bacon is felt with immediacy, as Peppiatt draws from contemporary diaries and records of their time together, giving us the story of a friendship, and a new perspective on an artist of enduring fascination.
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2010
The Pornographer of Vienna
Lewis Crofts · 2011
'Utterly engrossing. I found myself drawn into Schiele's reeling world with its reek of wet paint and sex.' Jon McGregor, author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things 'Doesn't shrink from depicting the squalor of Schiele's existence and powerfully evokes his uncompromising talent' Guardian The son of a railway inspector, Schiele rejects his bourgeois upbringing and flees in pursuit of artistic fulfilment. When he gains admission to the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, it seems that a glittering career lies ahead of him. But Schiele's talent drives him to portray the moral and physical squalor of the Habsburg capital, and he is rejected by an indignant and hypocritical art world. Forced to endure acute poverty and even imprisonment, Schiele continues to pursue his artistic mission, and in the last months of his life finally finds acclaim with those who had shunned him. In a lavish first novel of rare descriptive power and empathy, fuelled by a blend of research and literary imagination, Crofts succeeds in evoking the man as well as the artist. The result is a masterful, at times heartbreaking portrayal of Austria's most decadent and most misunderstood painter, and of the city which both inspired and destroyed him.
Mathematics As Metaphor
YURI I. MANIN · 2023
The book includes fifteen essays and an interview. The essays are grouped in three parts: Mathematics; Mathematics and Physics; and Language, Consciousness, and Book reviews. Most of the essays are about some aspects of epistemology and the history of sciences, mainly mathematics, physics, and the history of language. English translations of some of the essays, originally published in Russian, appear for the first time in this selection. One of them is the introduction to the book Computable and Uncomputable, where the idea of a quantum computer was first proposed in 1980. Another is an essay on the mythological trickster figure, where the evolutionary role of manipulative behavior is discussed in connection with the problem of the origin of human language. With the foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in the philosophy and history of mathematics, physics, and linguistics.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi · 2020
The Art of Watching Films
Joe Boggs, Dennis W. Petrie · 2017
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer · 2020
<b><b><b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br><br>Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year</b><br><br>Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies</b></b><br><br>There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.<br><br> Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrelevant. At Netflix, you don’t try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don’t need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world.<br><br> Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of <i>The Culture Map </i>and one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, <i>No Rules Rules </i>is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.
My Big TOE: Awakening Discovery Inner Workings
Thomas Campbell
Endless Holocausts
David Michael Smith · 2023
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin · 1964
Contents: Everybody's protest novel ; Many thousands gone ; Carmen Jones: The dark is light enough ; The Harlem Ghetto ; Journey to Atlanta ; Notes of a native son ; Encounter on the Seine: Black meets brown ; A question of identity ; Equal in Paris ; Stranger in the village.
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
Laszlo F. Foldenyi · 2020
The Art & Science of Foodpairing
Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, Johan Langenbick · 2020
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein · 2010
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell · 2024
<b>Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with “curiosity and humor” in this <i>New York Times </i>bestseller that reframes the lessons of <i>The Tipping Point</i> in a startling and revealing light (Shannon Carlin). </b><br><br> Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.<br> <br> Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. <i>Revenge of the Tipping Point</i> is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously. <br><b>Most Anticipated in:</b><br><b><i>AARP</i></b>| <b><i>Associated Press</i></b>| <b><i>Time Magazine</i> | <i>Oprah Daily</i> | <i>Chicago Tribune</i> | <i>Literary Hub</i> | </b><br><i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i> | <i><b>Publishers Lunch</b></i>
The Outsider
Albert Camus · 1961
When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character.
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · 2023
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro · 2007
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson · 2008
Orientalism
Edward W. Said · 1979
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt · 2006
O Povo Brasileiro A Formação e o Sentido do Brasil
Darcy Ribeiro · 2015
Sophistical Refutations
Aristotle, Aeterna Press · 2015
The Law of Blood
Johann Chapoutot · 2018
