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Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash best-seller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living.

Giordano Bruno wurde 1548 zu Nola geboren. Er war ein Universalgelehrter, der an zahlreichen Universitäten Europas unterrichtet hat und immer wieder wurde er aufgrund seiner Ansichten von der katholischen Kirche verfolgt, verteufelt und schließlich am 17. Februar 1600 auf dem Campo dei Fiori in Rom verbrannt, nachdem er 7 Jahre von der Inquisition in deren Kerkern inhaftiert war. Nach seinem Verständnis ist sämtliche Materie und alles Leben inklusive der Seele ewiger Bestandteil einer ewigen Umwandlung. Seine philosophischen Gedanken hatten Einfluss auf u. a.

From the author of?the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,? a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter. Can one person change the world? In his acclaimed and...

What if a freer, richer life doesn’t come from gaining more, but from letting go? This Japanese bestselling phenomenon reveals how you can access your true self by letting go of everything in your life that no longer serves you. In 2010, Daisuke Yosumi left his prestigious role as a hitmaker...

From one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a sweeping work of musical criticism, examining the distance between the performer and their audience "Not since Virgil Thomson have we had a music critic with as wide ranging a view as Edward Said."—Studs Terkel...

From one of the world’s foremost neuroscientists and acclaimed author of Descartes’ Error comes a bold new theory of the origins—and consequences—of human consciousness Throughout his illustrious decades-long career, Antonio Damasio has been at the leading edge of science’s enduring...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COURAGE TO BE DISLIKED The day you stop trying to be special is the day you start living for yourself—free of the agonies of comparison, and more confident than ever. Is it any wonder we all want to be special? We're taught that a meaningful...

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. This Very Short Introduction explores his extraordinary life and thought. His complex system of criticism is difficult for many, but it is coherent in its combination of a Judaic theological perspective with cultural Marxism. Benjamin's distinctive approach considered literary criticism, visual media, and the impact of cosmopolitanism. This innovative messianic understanding of history would go on to inspire countless critics and even entire schools of academia.

Why has the UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) problem never gone away, despite repeated efforts by science, the military, and the state to explain or dismiss it? For most of the twentieth century, reports of unidentified flying objects were treated as cultural error: cranks, hoaxes...

In dieser Folge berät der Götterrat die Anträge dreier ambitionierter Neulinge um Aufnahme in den erlauchten Olymp und dem damit verbundenen Unsterblichkeitsstatus. Dabei handelt es sich um die Fleisch gewordenen Personifikationen des Reichtums, der Armut und um Fortuna. Die Argumente des Reichtums sowie der Armut werden geschickt entkräftet, doch der Logik von Fortuna sind die Götter nicht gewachsen und schließlich spricht Jupiter ein Machtwort.

Our ability to make a fist is what distinguishes humans from every other species, including primates. The fist has played a crucial role in the birth of language and appears in nearly every form of nonverbal communication. We use our fist to protest oppression, give pleasure, knock on doors, give daps, and (inaccurately) measure our heart. Yet the fist is also a sign of someone on the edge. This book asks what happens when we lean over the edge of what a fist can do and symbolize.

A bold and incisive manifesto on the ways sexism is used to exploit women in a capitalistic system through the personal lens of dating and influencer culture from a prominent journalist and cultural critic in the Netherlands. Young women find themselves constantly pulled between opposing forces...

After nearly a decade behind the obituaries desk at the paper of record, Roberts knows obits aren't really about deaths. In fact, they usually only mention dying once. Over the course of the nearly 1,500 obituaries he has written throughout his career, he has instead come to understand that they're about distilling an entire life lived—for someone whose name he may have learned that morning...

An immersive and awe-inspiring exploration of the diversity of life on earth that reveals humans are far from the only intelligent species in our restless, ever-evolving world What does it mean to be alive, to be conscious, to possess a soul? If the Big Bang was an effect without a discernible...

A revelatory, long-awaited, and definitive intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in...

A bold, expansive argument for a new way to understand immoral art in our time of cultural and political upheaval In this unconventional journey through the history of art, philosopher and artist Daisy Dixon explores works of art that society has condemned as depraved, obscene, or dangerous...

A gentle yet powerful blend of ancient wisdom and modern wellness that shows how seasonal living can enrich your days. In the Chinese Five Element system, which links nature’s cycles to our emotional, physical, and spiritual selves, there are five seasons: spring, summer, late summer, fall...

A transformative and philosophical investigation into how we ask questions, full of practical advice on how we can harness the power of questions for ourselves We live in a world that wants answers. Answers provide solutions to our problems, teach us about the world, and help us navigate our...

A lyrical exploration of the world’s wildest, most forbiddingly remote places—and the humans who have always been there, by an award-winning and critically acclaimed writer From the blacksand beaches of Iceland, to river crossings deep in the Amazon jungle, to the barren beauty of Antarctica...

Brought to you by Penguin. The search for life in the Universe is one of the biggest questions for humanity. In this explosive book, Steven Benner argues we've been looking in the wrong place. In 1976, NASA landed two Viking missions on Mars specifically tasked with looking for current (or...