Friendship in the Age of Loneliness: An Optimist's Guide to Connection 9780762472260, 9780762472277, 9781549133329

Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism 0739175815, 9780739175811

We live in an age of economics. We are encouraged not only to think of our work but also of our lives in economic terms.

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Living Connected: An Introvert’s Guide to Friendship 2021940360, 9781563095368, 9781563095375

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Banking Matters: An essential guide to commercial banking in an age of disruption 9798720951177

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The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan 9780520383500

Loneliness is everybody’s business. Neither a pathology, nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Sever

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How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship 9780691183893

A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world where social media, onli

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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection 9780393070316, 2008015099

A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it. John T. Cacioppo's groundbr

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The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness 1526161443, 9781526161444

This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up lon

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Triumph of the optimists 0691091943, 9780691091945

Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience. In the 1950s, who but the most rampant optimist would have

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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection 9781400830596

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two st

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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess 9780691208497

What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented li

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