">>>>> Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy) <<<<<

&quotLook within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.&quot &nbspMeditations instructs and inspires through its calm and unblinking reckoning with the elemental difficulties of human life, and its emphasis on virtue rather than pleasure as the key to inner peace.  &nbsp Presented here in a specially modernized version of the classic George Long translation, one of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121&#8211180), outlines a philosophy of commitment to virtue above pleasure and tranquility above happiness. &nbsp Ascending to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121&#8211180) found his reign beset by natural disasters and war. In the wake of these challenges, he set down a series of private reflections, incorporating the Stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. This eloquent and moving work 

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">>>>> The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy) <<<<<

&quotLearned ignorance,&quot the recognition that God is beyond us and our knowing capacities is the theological concept for which Nicholas of Cusa is most famous. Despite God's apparent absence Nicholas offers original ways to think about God that would unite his presence with his absence. He called these proposals &quotconjectures&quot (coniecturae). Conjecture and conjecturing are central to the methodology of Nicholas's philosophical theology and to his thinking about human knowledge.By using concrete examples from the everyday life of his times as symbolic imagery Nicholas makes what we say about God imaginatively available and theoretically plausible. He called such conjectural symbols &quotaenigmata&quot (= &quotsymbolic or 'enigmatic' conjectures&quot) because they partially clarify and likewise point to an exact truth that is beyond us. Novel and imaginative, Nicholas's conjectural examples break with the traditional medieval Aristotelian examples and provide further 

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">>>>> DreamWorks Trolls - Get Back Up Again Little Music Note Sound Book - Play-a-Song - PI Kids <<<<<

&quotJoin Poppy, Branch, and more trolls on a musical adventure!Your little one can press 6 sound buttons to play &quot&quotGet Back Up Again,&quot&quot and other Trolls related sounds, and sing along to the lyrics printed in the book. They can also participate in activities designed to get little readers involved in the action on each page.This sound book is special because:&quot

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">>>>> Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky <<<<<

&quotJohnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read.&quot&nbsp&nbsp&#8212&nbspNew York Times Book ReviewA fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

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">>>>> The Myth of the Closed Mind: Understanding Why and How People Are Rational <<<<<

&quotIt's like talking to a brick wall&quot and &quotWe'll have to agree to disagree&quot are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument. It's often claimed that some people - fundamentalists or fanatics - are indeed sealed off from rational criticism. And every month new pop psychology books appear, describing the dumb ways ordinary people make decisions, as revealed by psychological experiments. The conclusion is that all or most people are fundamentally irrational. Ray Scott Percival sets out to demolish the whole notion of the closed mind and of human irrationality. A key aspect of Percival's approach is to identify &quotthe persuader's predicament&quot, the situational logic of the propagandist. Percival contends that a propagandist is faced with a trade-off between his message being closed to criticism and the message reaching and converting as many people as possible. It is possible to 

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">>>>> Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics) <<<<<

&quotIt is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us...without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry.&quotFor several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning derived mainly from the Stoic principles, which had originally been developed some centuries earlier in Athens. This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the austere ethical ideals of Stoicism&#8212the wisdom of the self-possessed person immune to overmastering emotions and life&#8217s setbacks&#8212while valuing friendship and the courage of ordinary men, and criticizing the harsh treatment&nbsp of slaves and the cruelties in the gladiatorial arena. The humanity and wit revealed in Seneca&#8217s interpretation of Stoicism is a moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 

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">>>>> Radical Spirits: India?s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions <<<<<

&quotIn the company of a brave and determined young woman, Radical Spirits takes us to the fraught social and religious frontier between two cultures, India and America in the late 1800s. The journey makes for a captivating story, every page granting insights into the age-old struggle to surmount entrenched borders and barriers.&quot-- Robert Kanigel, author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and Eyes on the StreetIn 1883, an eighteen-year-old Indian woman named Anandi Joshee sailed alone from Calcutta to New York with the goal of becoming a doctor. At the time there were no schools for girls in India. Also, the few doctors (who were all male) were not permitted to treat female patients. Having witnessed the suffering of women, Anandi hoped to help create a culture that saw women as deserving and capable of equality with men.Anandi faced critics in India and skeptics in America. Her mentor was her husband Gopal, who tutored her at home and fostered her ambition. Her unexpected champion was 

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">>>>> Bitcoin: Everything divided by 21 million <<<<<

&quotImagine, everything there is and everything that will ever be, divided by 21 million.&#8221 This book opens with a difficult invitation that immediately makes us question the way we think and presents us with the challenge of bitcoin.In a brilliantly simple way, Knut Svanholm, embarks on an exploration of how we think, our relationship with time, money, and value, and how they are fundamentally intertwined in each of us. With Knut at the helm, we journey through economics, game theory, mathematics, alchemy, philosophy, and violence to ultimately reach the most critical societal paradigm shift in society, bitcoin. A new origo, a point zero.In his book, Svanholm, not only addresses how bitcoin works and our symbiotic relationship with it, he goes beyond that. With his masterful command of metaphors and examples he addresses the most pressing concerns of our time: inflation, climate change, perpetual debt, and wasteful consumption, and helps us understand how the shortsighted 

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">>>>> The Feminine Mystique <<<<<

&quotIf you&#8217ve never read it, read it now.&quot &#8213Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah MagazineLandmark, groundbreaking, classic&#8213these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of &#8220the problem that has no name&#8221: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women&#8217s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. This 50th&#8211anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna 

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">>>>> Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood <<<<<

&quotIf this book feels like it&#8217s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that&#8217s because it is.&quot -- San Francisco ChronicleIn this timely and necessary book, New York Times&nbspopinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today&#8217s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communitiesClose your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing and she installed that gleaming kitchen backsplash herself (watch her TikTok for DIY tips). She seamlessly melds work, wellness and home and during the depths of the pandemic, she also ran remote school and woke up at 5 a.m. to meditate.You may read this and think it&#8217s bananas you have probably internalized much of it.Journalist Jessica Grose sure had. After she failed to meet every one of her own expectations for her first pregnancy, she devoted her 

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