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Author |
: Darby English |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2019-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300230383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300230389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Describe a Life by : Darby English
From the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, issues of race, representation, and violence inform this interrogation of art and its necessity in times of crisis.
Author |
: John Koenig |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501153662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501153668 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by : John Koenig
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
Author |
: Clayton M. Christensen |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2017-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781633692572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1633692574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics) by : Clayton M. Christensen
In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Author |
: Alice Munro |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2012-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307961044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307961044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dear Life by : Alice Munro
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE© IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro’s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro’s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.
Author |
: Keith Richards |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 451 |
Release |
: 2010-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316128568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316128562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life by : Keith Richards
The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.
Author |
: Erwin Schrödinger |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 1967 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015002296260 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis What is Life? the Physical Aspect of the Living Cell & Mind and Matter by : Erwin Schrödinger
Author |
: Jordan B. Peterson |
Publisher |
: Random House Canada |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2018-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345816023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345816021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis 12 Rules for Life by : Jordan B. Peterson
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.
Author |
: Virginia Woolf |
Publisher |
: Good Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2023-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547779483 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mrs. Dalloway by : Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
Author |
: Hanya Yanagihara |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2016-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804172707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804172706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Little Life by : Hanya Yanagihara
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author |
: Viktor E Frankl |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2013-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448177684 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448177685 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man's Search For Meaning by : Viktor E Frankl
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.