Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
5 best books like Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Martha C. Nussbaum): The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, The Hair of Harold Roux, The Business of Being a Writer
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how
Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and University of California professor...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1420926993 |
I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
| Author | Jane McGonigal |
| ISBN | 0224089250 |
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. What's causing this mass exodus? According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal the answer is simple: videogames are fulfilling genuine human needs....
In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel...
The Business of Being a Writer
Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and productive career...
