David Brooks
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Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our “résumé virtues" -- achieving wealth, fame, and status -- and our “eulogy virtues,” those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed. Looking to some of the world|s greatest thinkers and...
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"As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood." And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better,...
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This scarce early work is both expensive and hard to finding its first edition. It is a fascination read for any atheist or theologian, but also contains much information that is still useful and interesting today. A thorough and detailed argument in favour of atheism that is written by an industrious and scrupulous author. Contents: The evolution of religious beliefs; The Koran, the Old and New Testaments; The prophets Mohammed, Jesus and Moses charlatans...
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"Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy--who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. This inner peace, David Brooks reveals, comes not from a life of self-centered achievement but a life of interdependence and commitment to others. In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four main commitments that define a virtuous and meaningful life: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy...
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Chris wants to believe that he is in total control of his life. But after a near-death experience, someone-or something-has appeared in his sleep each night, trying to tell him differently. His dreams take him to a grave site guarded by a hooded figure who shows him the faces of strangers destined to die soon. At first, he accepts this as some sort of brain malfunction caused by his accident. But when he meets a young woman in his waking hours who...
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AN ACCIDENT CAN CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE IN A SECOND...AND IT CAN ALSO CHANGE THE WORLD!Seven. I laid in bed, not wanting to leave the warmth and false sense of security one feels when wrapped in their own familiar bed sheets, slowly reviewing everything Harry had unfolded for me the previous night. God must be a man of few words. Seven. That was all He had supposedly passed along to Harry through His messenger, Gabriel. And according to...
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Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.
The first individuals to identify themselves as atheists lived in the 18th century during...
9) Raindrops
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Children's Press
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c1999
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Follows the water cycle, as a raindrop moves into a creek, into a stream, into a river, and to its end in a lazy ocean.
10) Catch that cat!
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Children's Press
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c1999
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Labeled illustrations of a cat in various situations introduce basic words that are opposites, including "up" and "down," "open" and "shut, " and "fast" and "slow."
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Poetry in America volume 7
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"Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden, featuring Samantha Power, Peter Sacks, David Brooks
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Diana (Zosia Mamet) moves back to New York City after a few years abroad and finds the perfect Brooklyn apartment for a fresh start. Yet on the first night in her new home, she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Ben (Matthew Shear) lives in the apartment below hers. After an awkward reunion, Diana proclaims her intentions for a genuine friendship. But as old wounds are opened, both Diana and Ben are forced to confront the true nature of their feelings....