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  • Breakfast with Socrates

    An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

    What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Driving with Plato

    The Meaning of Life's Milestones

    Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history’s greatest minds illuminate life’s turning points.In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought the power of philosophy down to earth by proving, in a very engaging and entertaining way, that human moments meet big ideas on a regular ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • On Modern Poetry

    From Theory to Total Criticism

    All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line, 'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists.Drawing on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition between them, proposing instead a 'total criticism' that draws ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Reality Test

    Still relying on strategy?

    How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational pursuit, can't deal with the messy reality of life.More helpful are these practical questions ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Stranger Than We Can Imagine

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  • The Practicing Mind

    Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life ? Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

    Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. If wed given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, wed never have learned to walk, tie our shoes, or ride a bike. So why, as adults, do we often throw in the towel when at first we dont succeed? Modern lifes technological speed, habitual multitasking, and promises of instant gratification dont help. But in his study of how we learn ... Read more

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  • Mastery

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    The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

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  • Breakfast with Buddha

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  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

    The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNNDespite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese ... Read more

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