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Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic... -
Landscapes by Christine Lai
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught with ecological collapse and geopolitical upheaval, Landscapes explores memory, empathy, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal...Categorized as:
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSee the world. Then make it better.I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion...Categorized as:
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Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks by Alex Berenson
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world... -
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life... -
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals... -
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWeaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals...Categorized as:
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?Sand Talk provides a template for living... -
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators...Categorized as:
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant - a must read' Tim SpectorYou may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there.The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance... -
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives todayHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get... -
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what’s true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected... -
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Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today by The School of Life
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture — drawn from the works of those philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, artists and novelists whom we believe have the most to offer to us today... -
Total Cat Mojo: The Ultimate Guide to Life with Your Cat by Jackson Galaxy
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis comprehensive cat care guide from the star of the hit Animal Planet show "My Cat from Hell," Jackson Galaxy, shows us how to eliminate feline behavioral problems by understanding cats' instinctive behavior. Cat Mojo is the confidence that cats exhibit when they are at ease in their environment and in touch with their natural instincts--to hunt, catch, kill, eat, groom, and sleep... -
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRebel Ideas examines the power of 'cognitive diversity' - the ability to think differently about the world around us. It explains how to harness our unique perspectives, pool our collective intelligence and tackle the greatest challenges of our age - from climate change to terrorism... -
I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World by Milan Kordestani
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA straightforward look at the history and the art of maintaining courteous communication in an increasingly divided world.Have you ever been in a conversation that, after volleying back and forth, ended with the words, “I’m just saying . . -
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
Wir sind doch alle längst gleichberechtigt by Alexandra Zykunov
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings»Wenn das Patriarchat kommt dann sagt es nicht ›Achtung, ich werde Dich unterdrücken‹, sondern es sagt: ›Toll, wie viel dein Mann dir zuhause hilft.‹ Alexandra Zykunov hat gesammelt, was wir uns nicht mehr anhören sollten. «Lara Fritzsche »Wütend, lustig und prägnant. Alexandra Zykunov erklärt patriarchale Muster so, dass sie alle verstehen und danach sofort abschaffen wollen... -
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnited Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times)...Categorized as:
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Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives by Anne Michaud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Why They Stay" explores the reasoning and motivation of wives who stay with their politician-husbands after they cheat.Hillary Clinton couldn't have known in 1998 how her husband's high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She couldn't be sure, but she took the gamble... -
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMeadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global... -
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?Looking at the headlines--a global pandemic, the worsening climate crisis, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed...Categorized as:
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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try"... -
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world...Categorized as:
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael J. Knowles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.” —CANDACE OWENS "The most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZ A New We Win, They Lose The Culture War is over, and the culture lost... -
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEconomics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies. Its outdated theories have permitted a world in which extreme poverty persists while the wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. And its blind spots have led to policies that are degrading the living world on a scale that threatens all of our futures... -
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going...
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