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"In Flip Thinking, Berthold Gunster, the founder of the Dutch omdenken--or flip thinking--philosophy, presents fifteen strategies to transform your thinking away from limitations and negativities and towards possibilities and opportunities. From disrupting (turn all the rules upside down) to flaunting (play up what you want to hide) and from importing (get the enemy on board) to amplifying (do more of what works), Gunster's strategies and stories...
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English
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"What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale professors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western culture, a crisis that, they propose, can be ameliorated by searching, in one's own life, for...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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xiii, 105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
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English
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"As artist-in-residence at the Zen Hospice Project Guest House, Wendy MacNaughton experienced firsthand how difficult it is to know what to do when we're sharing final moments with a loved one. Using a framework of "the five things" taught to her by a professional caregiver, How to Say Goodbye provides a model for having conversations of love, respect, and closure: with the words "I forgive you," "Please forgive me," "Thank you," "I love you," and...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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In The Joy of Science, Jim Al-Khalili presents eight lessons that serve as a guide to thinking and living life a little more scientifically. It is a gentle entrée to the conceptual core of what science is and the spirit of how it is practiced, which will help any reader understand how to live a more rational life and benefit from doing so.
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Apress
Pub. Date
[2024]
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1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations
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English
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This book explores, from a high level, the parallels between the evolution of humans and the evolution of machines. The book reviews practical questions about the future of AI but also engages in philosophical discussions about what machine intelligence could mean for the human experience. The book focuses on what is intelligence and what separates intelligent species from non-so-intelligent ones. It concludes this section with the description of...
6) In the dark
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English
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"They came in the dark, and took the narrow path that only witches used. Everyone said that's what they were . . .But what if everyone was wrong? Watch what happens when one girl steps into the woods and gets to know these newcomers. The spooky black cat? Meet Mingus! The broomsticks and cloaks? Cloth and wooden handles. And those shadows in the sky? Handmade kites, fluttering in the breeze. When the breeze becomes a blustery storm, everything changes...including...
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Worthy
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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xxvi, 240 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"This is a book that asks “what good is God?” when he doesn’t always make sorrow go away or soothe every fear. It is a book that explores our aversion to sadness and counts the costs of our unrelenting commitment to optimism. This is a book that insists there is holiness to be found even in our unhappiness."--
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xi, 132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxvii, 203 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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English
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"In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and...
12) Sun house
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
Description
When a little puffin gets lost in a thick fog, he discovers the closer he moves in, the more he sees.
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Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xxxix, 327 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation. Zinn's history is popular, but it is also massively wrong. Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in...
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st Free Press trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"There are at least two kinds of games", states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. "One could be called finite; the other infinite". Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life - they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may...
16) La guitarrista
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When Canta finds a guitar in the trash, she is one step closer to becoming a rock star. Even though the guitar is broken and she doesn't know how to play, nothing can stop Canta from going after her dreams!"--Provided by publisher.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A professor of philosophy discusses the unique place of twins in the world, including their representations in art, myth and popular culture, with illustrations by her identical twin sister.
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English
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"Like many people today, Brigid Delaney was searching for answers to timeless questions: How can we be good? Find inner peace? Properly grieve? Tame our insecurities, such as the fear of missing out? Determine what truly matters? Centuries ago, the Stoics pondered many of these same questions. And so, at an important inflection point in her own life, Brigid decided to let these ancient philosophers be her guide. Brigid is rash where the Stoics are...
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Tyndale Momentum, a Tyndale nonfiction imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xiv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Modern Miss Mason is your invitation into an adventure, a call to turn a corner on your already incredible journey of parenting and let Leah Boden show you the fresh face of an age-old perspective on motherhood, childhood, and education. As a young mother and new home educator, Leah was overwhelmed by the breadth of available resources. How to know which to choose? What would best guide and inspire her children? Whose voices should she trust? That's...
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