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Favorite Books of 2019
From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths.
What If: A French Illustrated Celebration of a More Possible World for the Children of Tomorrow
To be or not to be, bravely answered through the lens of could be.
Thoreau on the Long Cycles of Social Change and the Importance of Not Mistaking Politics for Progress
“The longer the lever the less perceptible its motion.”
Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Artist as a Voice of Resistance and an Instrument of Freedom
“To create today is to create dangerously… The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies… the strange liberty of creation is possible.”
Alan Lightman on the Longing for Absolutes in a Relative World and What Gives Lasting Meaning to Our Lives
“We are idealists and we are realists. We are dreamers and we are builders. We are experiencers and we are experimenters. We long for certainties, yet we ourselves are full of the ambiguities of the Mona Lisa and the I Ching. We ourselves are a part of the yin-yang of the world.”
Favorite Children’s Books of 2019
An emotional intelligence primer in the form of a tender illustrated poem, an empowered retelling of Cinderella, a meditation on what it means to have enough, a serenade to the art of listening as the gateway to self-understanding, and more.
Moral Wisdom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener’s Prophetic Admonition About Technology and Ethics
“The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life
How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.
The Paradox of Freedom: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Moral Aloneness and Our Mightiest Antidote to Terror
“Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine.”
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