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  The Entrepreneur's Guide to the...

  Dominic Hale

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  THE CLASSIC TEXT ON EASTERN PHILOSOPHY INTERPRETED FOR THE MODERN BUSINESS WORLD 
   
  The Tao Te Ching, written some 2500 years ago, has become the most influential text of Eastern philosophy. It teaches simplicity, humility, and 'non-action', and provides a wealth of insights for the modern entrepreneur. 
   
  The Entrepreneur's Guide to the Tao Te Ching contains the full text of The Tao Te Ching, with commentary breaking down each section by business journalist Dominic Hale. Illustrated with numerous case studies and containing quotes and tips from well-known leaders and innovators, The Entrepreneur's Guide to the Tao Te Ching will show you how to: 
   
  - Make the workplace a source of joy for your employees 
  - Learn the power of self-awareness to become a better leader 
  - Find balance between the different areas of the business 
  - Create a vision that resonates with your customers 
  - Give up control to achieve greater results

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  Wishing on a Star - A heart...

  Mandy Baggot

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  A single mum. A superstar athlete. A Christmas like no other.Anna Heath is divorced, a single mum and trying desperately to keep her life in order. Despite her friends' best efforts, Anna has stopped looking for love and is determined to give her daughter, Ruthie, a Christmas to remember.Sam Jackman has just been dealt with life-altering news, and all he could think to do was run. He's left his American football team back in the US, stuck a pin in a map, and landed in Richmond, London.When Anna and Ruthie literally bump into Sam on the snow-speckled streets, he finds himself being welcomed into their lives. But what begins as a night on the sofa turns into the start of something special...

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  The Story of Philosophy Francis...

  Will Durant

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  "The Story of Philosophy: Francis Bacon" by Will Durant offers readers a comprehensive exploration of the life and philosophical contributions of Francis Bacon, one of the most influential figures in the development of modern science and philosophy.
  In this illuminating work, Durant delves into Bacon's upbringing, education, and intellectual pursuits, providing readers with a detailed portrait of his life and times. He examines Bacon's major philosophical works, including "Novum Organum" and "The Advancement of Learning," offering insights into Bacon's innovative approach to knowledge and scientific inquiry.
  Durant explores Bacon's rejection of the traditional Aristotelian method of deductive reasoning in favor of empirical observation and inductive reasoning. He discusses Bacon's belief in the importance of experimentation and the systematic collection of data as the foundation of scientific progress.
  Through engaging prose and meticulous research, Durant illuminates Bacon's contributions to various fields of inquiry, including natural philosophy, politics, and education. He highlights Bacon's vision of science as a means of improving human life and advancing civilization, emphasizing his advocacy for the practical application of scientific knowledge for the betterment of society.
  "The Story of Philosophy: Francis Bacon" is not only a biography of Bacon but also a study of his enduring legacy. Durant situates Bacon within the broader context of Renaissance humanism and the scientific revolution, providing readers with a comprehensive overview of the intellectual currents of his time.
  Accessible to both scholars and general readers, "The Story of Philosophy: Francis Bacon" is a compelling exploration of one of history's most influential thinkers. Durant's insightful analysis and engaging narrative style make this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of philosophy, science, or the Enlightenment era.

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  The Correction of Taste - The...

  Denis Donoghue

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     'Donoghue was alert to the idea of the unsayable, as he circled around the idea of language itself as pliable material, all the more beautiful for that and worthy of our full consideration, but yielding at times to further levels of mystery...' from foreword by Colm Tóibín   
  In this last written work, the internationally renowned Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue brings an acute critical intelligence to bear on the late novels of Henry James. One of the greatest novelists in the English language, Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-British author who is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism.
  James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881) was the central achievement of his early period. The Turn of the Screw (1898) was a high-point of Gothic literature. In The Correction of Taste, Denis Donoghue offers a close reading of James's final novels, taking as his starting point an observation by T.S. Eliot about the function of literary criticism. Exploring a succession of works such as The Ambassadors (1903), The Wings of the Dove (1902) and The Golden Bowl (1905), Donoghue brings into sharp focus the complex layers of James's literary genius.

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  On Collective Memory

  Maurice Halbwachs

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  How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach’s writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. 
  Halbwachs’ primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus’ life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts. 
   
  With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory.

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  Systemic - How Racism Is Making...

  Layal Liverpool

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  Layal Liverpool spent years bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one failing to diagnose her dermatological complaint. Just when she'd grown used to the idea that she had an extremely rare and untreatable skin condition, one dermatologist, after a quick exam, told her that she had a classic (and common) case of eczema and explained that it often appears differently on darker skin. Her experience stuck with her, making her wonder whether other medical conditions might be going undiagnosed in darker-skinned people and whether racism could, in fact, make people sick. 
   
   
   
  The pandemic taught us that diseases like Covid disproportionately affect people of color. Here, Liverpool goes a step further to show that this disparity exists for all types of illness and that it is caused by racism. In Systemic, she shares her journey to show how racism, woven into our societies, as well as into the structures of medicine and science, is harmful to our health. Refuting the false belief that there are biological differences between races, she goes on to show that racism-related stress and trauma can however, lead to biological changes that make people of color more vulnerable to illness, debunking the myth of illness as the great equalizer. Liverpool reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed, untreated, and unsafe, and tells us what we can do about it.

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