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

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

Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins (Ungar Peter)(Pevná vazba)

What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human species Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted

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

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

How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders (Suetonius)(Pevná vazba)

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars,

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

Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well (Tiberius Valerie)(Pevná vazba)

What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half

Most Human Human - What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive (Christian Brian)(Paperback / softback)

AI is on the brink of a new dawn. And so are we... Telling the difference between humans and computers used to be easy. But artificial intelligence is now so advanced that it is capable of behaving, and even thinking, in ways that have long been considered exclusive to humankind. The time has come

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

A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us about Living Well Without Perfection (Alpert Avram)(Paperback)

In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers meditation as a means to realize this ideal

Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death (Jones Peter)(Pevná vazba)

A revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality and the problems of old age, from the author of Veni, Vidi,

Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know (Aylett Ruth)(Pevná vazba)

The truth about robots: two experts look beyond the hype, offering a lively and accessible guide to what robots can (and can't) do. There's a lot of hype about robots; some of it is scary and some of it utopian. In this accessible book, two robotics experts reveal the truth about what robots can

Life Is a Startup: What Founders Can Teach Us about Making Choices and Managing Change (Wasserman Noam)(Pevná vazba)

This book shows us how to apply the habits of the most successful startup founders to our everyday lives. Like entrepreneurs, we all deal with uncertainty, toughdecision making, and necessary problem solving. This book offers important advice for those envisioning a change in their lives-from

The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities (Donovan Peter)(Paperback)

What can Cuban doctors, innovative ranchers in Saskatchewan, and the microbiome teach us about how to care for people and the Earth at the same time? In this richly layered book, Didi Pershouse takes us on a fast-moving, sharp-witted journey through her own life: from growing up with the

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

Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us about Empathy (Cohen Paula Marantz)(Pevná vazba)

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy 'Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable--and uncommonly timely. Especially now that so many younger readers are casting suspicious glances at Shakespeare, Of Human Kindness

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

God and Galileo: What a 400-Year-Old Letter Teaches Us about Faith and Science (Block David L.)(Pevná vazba)

A devastating attack upon the dominance of atheism in science today.Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The debate over the ultimate source of truth in our world often pits science against faith. In fact, some high-profile scientists today would have us

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

Past and Present: To Learn from History (Almqvist Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

What history teaches us: writers and theorists on the lessons of the pastHow can our understanding of the past help to solve our present political or economic conditions and conflicts? Edited by Swedish author Kurt Almqvist and historian Mattias Hessrus, the essays in this volume range from

What Would the Aunties Say? - A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life (Seda Anchal)(Pevná vazba)

Sum - Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Eagleman David)(Paperback / softback)

What happens to us when we die? And what does that tell us about being

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

What Coco Chanel Can Teach You about Fashion (Young Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the life, work and legacy of Coco Chanel in this snappy and stylish biography about artistic spirit, influence and attitude. Chanel's ethos captured the imagination of post-war women, releasing them from the corseted silhouette and changing what we wore forever. But how did Chanel think?