Five Invitations - Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully (Ostaseski Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Five Invitations - Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully (Ostaseski Frank)(Paperback / softback)

The co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us about Living Fully (Ostaseski Frank)(Paperback)

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every

The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety - Frank Tallis

An highly original account of psychology through the discipline's great practitioners ( Freud, Jung etc) and their thoughts. It functions both as narrative and by extension a sophisticated self-help book. To be compared with Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Alain de Botton's The Consolations of

Frighteners - Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore (Laws Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A celebratory exploration of what our morbid tendencies can teach us about humanity, society and spirituality from the 'Sinister

What Dementia Teaches Us About Love (Gerrard Nicci)(Paperback / softback)

The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia (Salamon Gayle)(Paperback)

What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in

Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World (Kumar Krishan)(Paperback)

What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire

Thank You for Arguing - What Cicero, Shakespeare and the Simpsons Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (Heinrichs Jay)(Paperback / softback)

If I Get to Five: What Children Can Teach Us about Courage and Character (Epstein Fred)(Paperback)

'This book is a testament to the extraordinary depth, powers, and resiliency of children's spirits.' --Marion Wright Edelman, president, Children's Defense Fund If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind human being. The medical world knows him as Fred Epstein, M.D., the

Life Finds a Way - What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity (Wagner Andreas)(Paperback / softback)

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and

In Love with the World - What a Monk Can Teach You About Living from Nearly Dying (Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur)(Paperback / softback)

The renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher recounts the adventure story of his life and brush with death during his four-year wandering retreat, combined with innovative meditation techniques for a more enlightened and happier

How to Live. What To Do.: How great novels help us change - Josh Cohen

What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Virginia

Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live (Sellars John)(Paperback / softback)

Watching Over Us - What the Spirits Can Teach Us About Life (Van Praagh James)(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling author James Van Praagh is the celebrity medium whose work is a major inspiration behind the hit TV show 'Ghost

Gametek (Engelstein Geoffrey)(Paperback)

What games can teach us about life, the universe and ourselves. If you shuffle a deck of cards what are the odds that the sequence is unique? What is the connection between dice, platonic solids and Newton's theory of gravity? What is more random: a dice tower or a number generator? Can you

Act of Living - What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety (Tallis Frank)(Pevná vazba)

An highly original account of psychology through the discipline's great practitioners ( Freud, Jung etc) and their thoughts. It functions both as narrative and by extension a sophisticated self-help book. To be compared with Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Alain de Botton's The Consolations of

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man’s 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of - Benjamin Ferencz

What a century of life experience can teach us about happiness, ambition, courage, love and how to make the most of the lives we've been given. How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in America during the Great Depression, won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, landed on the

Two Dogs and a Parrot - What Our Animal Friends Can Teach Us About Life (Chittister Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Joan Chittister invites us to embrace and celebrate the deep bond between humans and animals. Our companion animals draw us out of ourselves and show us what it truly means to be

The Psychology of Sex (Barker Meg John)(Paperback)

What can psychology teach us about sex?How do different bodies and brains respond sexually?How can we prevent people being stigmatised for their sexuality?The Psychology of Sex takes you on a tour through the different ways that psychologists have created and sustained certain understandings of sex

Two Beats Ahead - What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation (Panay Panos A.)(Paperback / softback)

Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die (Nadler Steven)(Pevná vazba)

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for 'abominable heresies' and 'monstrous deeds,' the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's

UX Fundamentals for Non-UX Professionals: User Experience Principles for Managers, Writers, Designers, and Developers (Stull Edward)(Paperback)

What can a WWII-era tank teach us about design? What does a small, blue flower tell us about audiences? What do drunk, French marathon-runners show us about software? In 40+ chapters and stories, you will learn the ways in which UX has influenced history and vice versa, and how it continues to

The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well (Baggini Julian)(Pevná vazba)

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's

The Social Instinct. What Nature Can Teach Us About Working Together

'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare ourselves to others?Why do we cooperate?The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. In The Social