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A Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics - From How to Win Friends and Influence People to the Chimp Paradox by James M. Russell
Category: Mind Body Spirit
From Dale Carnegie''s How to Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936, which has sold over 30 million copies to date, to the mind management programme of Professor Steve Peters'' The Chimp Paradox, a concise and insightful guide to seventy of the most influential self-help books ever publishe ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking - From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics by James M. Russell
Category: Culture
Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question. The titles covered include thought-p ...Show more
Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics by James M. Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Brief Histories
This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tradition. While written from within the Christian tradition, and offering introductions to the writings of medieval mystics, ...Show more
Elementary - The Periodic Table Explained by James M. Russell
Category: Science
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, is one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly predicted ...Show more
Elementary - The Periodic Table Explained by James M. Russell
Category: Science
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly pre ...Show more
Forking Trolley An Ethical Journey to the Good Place by Russell James M
Category: Philosophy
Never Eat Shredded Wheat - Weird Ways to Remember Things by James M. Russell
Category: Languages and Reference
The mnemonics that many of us learned as children are simply a shortcut to help locate information within your memory. For instance, rather than remember that the clockwise order of the points of the compass is North, East, South, West, we remember the mnemonic "Never Eat Shredded Wheat," and the combin ...Show more
Plato's Alarm Clock - And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions by James M. Russell
Category: Children's
We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn't seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future . but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn't know how to catch a fish or start ...Show more
The Forking Trolley - An Ethical Journey to the Good Place by James M. Russell
Category: Food and Drink
A new armchair guide to ethics and moral philosophy, from the trolley problem to the balloon debate. Inspired by the hugely popular Netflix sitcom The Good Place, which uses a comic format to examine moral dilemmas and schools of ethical thought, this is a brief tour of the main issues that face humans ...Show more
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