Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us about Connection, Community, and Ourselves (O'Connell Caitlin)(Pevná vazba)

Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us about Connection, Community, and Ourselves (O'Connell Caitlin)(Pevná vazba)

Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others. Behavioral ecologist and world-renowned elephant scientist Caitlin O'Connell dives into the rituals of elephants, apes, zebras, rhinos, lions, whales, flamingos, and

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

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

Everything must change: Philosophical lessons from lockdown (Bufacchi Vittorio)(Pevná vazba)

Taking its cue from Michel de Montaigne, this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the 'art of living'. It examines eight themes from a philosophical perspective, including attitudes to old age, populism and life under lockdown, arguing that the crisis presents opportunities to create a more

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

Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz (Barrett Frank J.)(Pevná vazba)

What Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach us about leadership How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Here's what the world's best leaders and teams do: they improvise. They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a scripted plan or a safety net that

Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom (Yetunde Pamela Ayo)(Paperback)

Nautilus Book Award Gold Recipient. Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With contributions by Acharya Gaylon Ferguson, Cheryl A. Giles, Gyōzan Royce Andrew Johnson, Ruth

Prisoners of History - What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves (Lowe Keith)(Pevná vazba)

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

Do You Know About Animals? - Brilliant Answers to more than 200 Amazing Questions! (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Answers trivia questions about wild animals for kids through engaging facts and beautiful pictures of animals. This book focuses on wild animal facts that kids really want to know about and the questions that they ask, helping them learn easily about everything from penguins to

Beyond Past Lives - What Parallel Realities Can Teach Us about Relationships, Healing, and Transformation (Kelley Mira)(Paperback / softback)

People are able to transform powerfully when they experience the stories and the profound lessons of their past lives. In this book, the author shares the life-changing lessons that she has learned from her clients to help you find support and understanding, and to empower you in your

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

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 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

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?

Sense of Place: Design Inspired by Where We Live - Caitlin Flemming, Julie Goebel, Stephanie Russo

Explore how the world around us can inspire meaningful, personal, and beautiful interiors to make a house a home in Sense of Place by interior design experts and Travel Home authors Caitlin Flemming and Julie Goebel. For anyone interested in curating a home that is personal, functional, and

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

Show and Tell - How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations (Roam Dan)(Pevná vazba)

Teaches us how to make presentations. This title provides a simple five-step path to take us from jitters and complexity to confidence and

Wild Child - A Journey Through Nature (McAnulty Dara)(Pevná vazba)

Take a nature walk with Dara McAnulty and learn all about our native birds, animals, trees and

Vesper Flights (MacDonald Helen)(Pevná vazba)

Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from

Swim!: How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success (Bond Walter)(Pevná vazba)

A fascinating story about the power of networking, connection, and mentorship Written as an engaging parable, Swim How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success brings to life real-world challenges (and their solutions) and presents them in

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 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,

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