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How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most (Paperback)

How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most

From Publishers Weekly

A warmhearted introduction to philosophy that blends Eastern and Western intellectual traditions with specific exercises to enhance the reader’s ability to think philosophically for herself. Over the course of 10 topics ranging from Simplicity to Joy, and with a decided emphasis on self-improvement, McCarty (Little Big Minds) discusses a wide variety of philosophers, ranging from such canonical figures as Plato and Sartre to those—like Charlotte Joko-Beck—who sit closer to the New Age end of the spectrum. Throughout, the author emphasizes the ability of active reflection to improve lives, by promoting open-mindedness, the awareness of cultural diversity, social understanding and the ability to recognize priorities. Though the book contains little that is not already common currency among self-help manuals, its focus on philosophizing as a group activity and on the everyday practice of thinking, supplemented by each chapter’s collection of exer (more…)

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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (Hardcover)

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

From Publishers Weekly

Author and conservative talk radio host Levin (Rescuing Sprite, Men in Black) takes on the Statist, a liberal straw man, in this collection of polemics against left-wing tenets (like “economic and social justice”), touchstones (like the New Deal) and institutions (strongholds of liberal thought like academia and the mainstream media). With “an insatiable appetite for control” and a veil of “moral indignation,” Levin finds the Statist not only in congressional Democrats and President Obama’s White House, but in “neo-Statists” like compassionate conservative Michael Gerson, and the Fed and Treasury under G.W. Bush. Many of Levin’s arguments reiterate familiar tropes, including a “strict constructionist” view of the Constitution that sees Social Security as patently un-American. Predictably, Levin opposes the extension of health benefits, derides global warming (implicating Obama’s “global warming czar” as a leader in “the Socialist International’s C (more…)

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Learning to Love Yourself: Finding Your Self-Worth [Paperback]

Learning to Love Yourself: Finding Your Self-Worth

From Publishers Weekly

The director of a Texas clinic that specializes in treating chemical dependencies and family problems, Wegscheider-Cruse gears this guide specifically to adult children of alcoholics and generally to anyone suffering from low self-esteem. She offers a definition of self-worth”my valuable identity deserving all good things”and urges readers to change damaging habits, rethink past experiences and develop new behaviors that enhance emotional growth. Her detailed advice is sometimes sensibleto raise self-worth, she writes, we need to become aware of of the “forces of our past which have held us back.” But sometimes she is unhelpful, as when she suggests that those who cover their low self-worth with compulsive busyness “make home-made bread” or “build a birdhouse.” Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Learning to love yourself is a journey to self worth. According to the author, it is necessary for us to get rid of our (more…)

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