Guidance from the Greatest: What the World War Two Generation Can Teach Us about How We Live Our Lives (Mortimer Gavin)(Paperback)

Guidance from the Greatest - What the World War Two generation can teach us about how we live our lives (Mortimer Gavin)(Pevná vazba)

A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and collective response in the face of

Guidance from the Greatest: What the World War Two Generation Can Teach Us about How We Live Our Lives (Mortimer Gavin)(Paperback)

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The Queen The Coronavirus pandemic forced the great British

Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End (Gibson David)(Paperback)

What if it is death that teaches us how to truly live? Keeping the end in mind shapes how we live our lives in the here and now. Living life backward means taking the one thing in our future that is certain--death--and letting that inform our journey before we get there. Looking to the book of

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

Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us about Our History and Ourselves (Lowe Keith)(Pevná vazba)

A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about

Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life (Pigliucci Massimo)(Pevná vazba)

How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science. In Answers for Aristotle, Pigliucci argues that the

The Right to Sex

Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about todayHow should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by

How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess (Horace)(Pevná vazba)

What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections

How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live - Peter Cave

In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness of touch, he addresses questions such as: Is

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis (Willingham Emily)(Pevná vazba)

A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own. The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not shape the penis--or the human attached to it--to have

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Jones Saeed)(Paperback)

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives--winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a 'moving, bracingly honest memoir' (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected by The

Creating The World We Want To Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future (Grenville-Cleave Bridget)(Paperback)

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world. Written by eminent

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

The Everything Kids' Environment Book: Learn How You Can Help the Environment-By Getting Involved at School, at Home, or at Play (Amsel Sheri)(Paperback)

You Can Help Our Earth Live Longer!Everything we do has an impact on the world around us--from the clothes we wear and food we eat to the gardens we grow and the trash we throw away. And to take the best care of the earth--and ourselves--it's important to make smart choices. With The Everything

Messy - How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World (Harford Tim)(Paperback / softback)

The new book from the author of The Undercover Economist shows us how we can lead messier lives - and why we

How Democracies Die - The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future (Levitsky Steven)(Paperback / softback)

How Democracies Die How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling

Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State (Cottam Hilary)(Paperback)

How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of

Flourish: How the Love of Christ Frees Us from Self-Focus (Brownback Lydia)(Paperback)

What Keeps Us from Flourishing? We all long to live out our faith with daily joy, but so often that joy eludes us. Why is that? More often than we realize, it's because we've absorbed messages that curve us in on ourselves. These messages have even crept into the church, disguised as truth. It's

The Little Book of Resilience: How to Bounce Back from Adversity and Lead a Fulfilling Life (Johnstone Matthew)(Paperback)

The Little Book of Resilience is about how we can fortify our lives mentally, emotionally and physically. It is not about what happens when we get knocked down but more about what happens when we get up again. It is a book about what resilience is and how we grow and maintain it. The first step in

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

Hidden Lives of Dreams - What They Can Tell Us and How They Can Change Our World (Powell Melinda)(Paperback / softback)

Tap into the magic of your dreams and discover better, more balanced sleep with this revelatory new book from Melinda Powell, Director of the Dream Research

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

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Duhigg Charles)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of

To Live From The Heart - Mindful Paths To The Sacred (Kennedy Stanislaus)(Pevná vazba)

Reveals how prayer can play an important part in all our lives, lifting our spirits and offering us hope and support in good times and bad. This book includes mindful meditations, prayers, proverbs and essays has helped to sustain Sister Stan through the