A Simpler Life
By: The School of Life
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. Th…
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1. Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity
By: Edward Slingerland
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive s… read more
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2. Emotional Intelligence: Resilience
By: Daniel Goleman , Harvard Business Review , None , Shawn Achor , Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
3.75
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
How do some people bounce back with vigor from daily setbacks, professional crises, or even intense… read more
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3. How to Live in the City
By: Hugo Macdonald
3.64
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Building a relationship with a city is a lot like building a relationship with another person - jus… read more
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"It takes two to tango, but is alway takes one person to ask another to dance. Don’t sit and wait."-Hugo Macdonald, How to Live in the City
"It takes two to tango, but it always takes one person to ask another to dance. Don’t sit and wait."-Hugo Macdonald, How to Live in the City
"Your environment is larger than the sum of you and your own existence, your worries, your hopes and your fears."-Hugo Macdonald, How to Live in the City
"The Danish urban pioneer Jan Gehl made a wonderful illustration that shows the increasing detachment of humans from real life, the higher the storey of their building."-Hugo Macdonald, How to Live in the City
4. How to Worry Less About Money
By: John Armstrong
3.72
Format: 78 pages,
Dinheiro pode fazer voce feliz? Nossa relacao com dinheiro dura a vida inteira, mas livros sobre o … read more
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5. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
By: Alain de Botton
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be… read more
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6. The Practice of Practice
By: Jonathan Harnum
4.02
Format: 293 pages, ebook
Talent means nothing when it comes to getting better. Practice is everything. But exactly what is g… read more
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7. How Proust Can Change Your Life
By: Alain de Botton
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more
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"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
8. How to Stay Sane
By: Philippa Perry
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everyone accepts the importance of physical health: isn't it just as important to aim for the menta… read more
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9. The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
By: None , None
4.67
Format: 46 pages,
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of… read more
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10. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
By: Janet Malcolm
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more
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- essays
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
11. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
12. The School of Life: An Emotional Education
By: Alain de Botton
4.25
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more
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13. A Simpler Life
By: The School of Life
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. Th… read more
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- essays
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14. How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
By: Ed Winters
4.65
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Argue With a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time) is an essential companions for all vegans helpi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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"Exploring the arguments against something can often increase our conviction that we are right."-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
"The truth is, animal products are tasty. However taste does not provide a moral justification for what we do to animals, so vegans go vegan because they recognise that life is more important than tas…"-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
"Making positive choices in our lives is not about believing ourselves to be the sole person who can change something in its entirety, but instead recognising that we have a responsibility to play our…"-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)
15. A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
By: Alain de Botton
4.04
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compas… read more
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- audiobook
16. From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
By: Rob Hopkins
4.31
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinkin… read more
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17. Back Mechanic
By: Stuart McGill
4.51
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
In an age where a seemingly endless amount of gimmicky back products are in circulation, a definiti… read more
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18. Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities
By: Thomas Heatherwick
4.28
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most innovative designers comes a fiercely passionate manifesto on why so m… read more
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19. Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries
By: Oscar Farinetti
2.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to… read more
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20. First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home [A Cookbook]
By: Frankie Gaw
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
ABOUT FIRST GENERATION In this stunning exploration of identity through food, the blogger behind L… read more
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21. Improvise!: Use the Secrets of Improv to Achieve Extraordinary Results at Work
By: Max Dickins
4.09
Format: None pages, Audio CD
‘Improv’ performers look like creative geniuses, coming up with brilliant comedy on the spur of the… read more
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