The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well 0691205434, 9780691205434

The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well 9780691211206

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711–177

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A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection 0231200021, 9780231200028

In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of

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A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection 9780231553391

Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhi

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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully 9781250074669, 9781250074652, 1250074665

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. S

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India: What Can It Teach Us? 9789389560985

A collection of the lectures of Max Muller, India: What it Can Teach Us portrays India, especially Vedic India, as an ep

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Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living [Course Book ed.] 9781400838356

An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will fos

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What Animals Teach Us about Politics 9780822376057

In this concise book, the noted theorist Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." Treating the hum

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This Exquisite Loneliness : What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity 9780593492512, 9780593492529

A examination of the life and work of six brilliant minds of the twentieth century, intent on answering the question “Wh

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To Try All Sorts of Lives: What Katherine Mansfield can Teach Us about Writing, Living and Noticing Things 9781529191677, 152919167X

Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her lif

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Memories and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory 9780262029711, 0262029715, 9780262330657, 0262330652

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