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The Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder and How It Shaped the Science vs. Scripture Divide
The Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder and How It Shaped the Science vs. Scripture Divide

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Lost Cat: An Illustrated Meditation on Love, Loss, and What It Means To Be Human
Lost Cat: An Illustrated Meditation on Love, Loss, and What It Means To Be Human

“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”

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Advice to Little Girls: Young Mark Twain’s Little-Known, Lovely 1865 Children’s Book
Advice to Little Girls: Young Mark Twain’s Little-Known, Lovely 1865 Children’s Book

“Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to ‘sass’ old people unless they ‘sass’ you first.”

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Prospero’s Precepts: 11 Rules for Critical Thinking from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Prospero’s Precepts: 11 Rules for Critical Thinking from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds

To be or not to be certain — an exercise in the art and science of doubt.

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The Art of Observation and Why Genius Lies in the Selection of What Is Worth Observing
The Art of Observation and Why Genius Lies in the Selection of What Is Worth Observing

How to master the crucial difference between the empirical and the intuitive.

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Givers, Takers, and Matchers: The Surprising Psychology of Success
Givers, Takers, and Matchers: The Surprising Psychology of Success

Counterintuitive insight on what makes people thrive from the wunderkind of organizational psychology.

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The Art of Living: A 1924 Guide to Uncertainty, Love, and Finding Your Purpose
The Art of Living: A 1924 Guide to Uncertainty, Love, and Finding Your Purpose

“Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts.”

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The Science of How Your Mind-Wandering Is Robbing You of Happiness
The Science of How Your Mind-Wandering Is Robbing You of Happiness

Why the secret of life remains in the living.

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How Abraham Maslow and His Humanistic Psychology Shaped the Modern Self
How Abraham Maslow and His Humanistic Psychology Shaped the Modern Self

What 1960s counterculture had to do with the timeless quest for self-actualization.

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Afterwords: Moving Letters of Condolence on Virginia Woolf’s Death
Afterwords: Moving Letters of Condolence on Virginia Woolf’s Death

T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, H.G. Wells, and others grapple with the ineffable.

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