From one of the most talented and stylish writers in the US a beautiful passionate and intellectually dazzling response to modern culture - and a call for excess and abandon in an age of minimalism Becca Rothfeld one of our finest critics writes with the boldly s... Lees meer.

A spiky funny and intellectually dazzling response to modern culture - from BDSM to mindfulness to Sally Rooney Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power Kate Kellaway Observer A radical and important book James Wood author of Serious N... Lees meer.

An acclaimed debut author s glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of excess abandon and disproportion in essays ranging from topics such as Sally Rooney sadomasochism and women who waitAll Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural cr... Lees meer.

Inspiring hope solace and courage in living through our losses author Mart n Prechtel trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture--how the inability that many of us have to gri... Lees meer.

James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit Rivers on a long view are alive. They are born they change they shift their channels they forge new routes to the sea they move both grad... Lees meer.

The basic strategy we use for raising children teaching students and managing workers can be summarised in six words. Do this and you ll get that. We dangle goodies from candy bars to sales commissions in front of people in much the same way that we train the famil... Lees meer.

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In addition to a new translation of Praise of Folly this volume also includes other works by Erasmus. Pope Julius Barred from Heaven Epigram against Pope Julius II and a selection of his Adages. Together with the extensive annotation of the texts these help to set E... Lees meer.

We are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we re supposed to be happy. In Against Happiness the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving cult... Lees meer.

In this collection of essays Russell surveys the social and political consequences of his beliefs with characteristic clarity and humour. In Praise of Idleness is a tour de force that only Bertrand Russell could perform. Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of... Lees meer.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 1 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD NOW WITH NEW PREFACE Across the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better. better work better productivity better exercise better sex better food. DON T HURRY BE HAPPY. Almost... Lees meer.

Common Praise is the first major revision of Hymns A M for almost 50 years and is destined to become the essential new music resource for 21st century worship. 629 items from earliest sources to the present inclusive language where appropriate.... Lees meer.

We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us. This title delves into the gap between who we are and who we are not to discover whether not getti... Lees meer.

In our busy and hurried lives we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure treated as a respite from work becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more con... Lees meer.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by David Sibley best known for Henry V War Peace and Silent Witness. This definitive recording is translated by and includes an introduction by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan William. Taliesin s is one of the mo... Lees meer.