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Clothes by John Harvey
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
When we choose our own clothes, we know the choice is a sensitive matter and far from being merely superficial. "Clothes" considers the overlapping values that clothes have for us. Clothes both cover and advertise the bodies within them. They help make us the men and women we are, and help us to attract ...Show more
Deception by Ziyad Marar
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
Most of us think we are about 15 per cent cleverer, nicer, more attractive and better drivers than others think we are. It seems deception begins at home. After all the most convincing liars convince themselves first. Sellers and buyers, parents and children, friends and lovers must conceal from each ot ...Show more
Fame by Mark Rowlands
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once associated with excellence or achievement in some or other field of endeavour. But today we are obsessed wi ...Show more
Hope by Stan van Hooft
Category: unmapped | Series: The Art of Living Series
From the now iconic Barack Obama 'Hope' poster of the 2008 presidential campaign to the pit-head 'Camp Hope' of the families of the trapped Chilean miners, the language of hope can be hugely powerful as it draws on resources that are uniquely human and universal. We are beings who hope. But what does th ...Show more
Hunger by Raymond Tallis
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude of needs ...Show more
Illness by Havi Carel
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
What is illness? Is it a physiological malfunction or a social label? Is illness simply the absence of health? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? Can there be wellbeing within illness? Havi Carel addresses these questions by weaving together two per ...Show more
Pets by Erica Fudge
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
Why do we live with pets? What are these beings who are kin but not kind? How do we live with them? In "Pets" Erica Fudge traces many of the answers modern thinkers have offered in response. Moving from an analysis of the philosophical importance of the Lassie myth to philosophers' surprisingly common m ...Show more
RECOVERY THE SACRED ART by SHAPIRO RAMI
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Art of Spiritual Living Ser.
Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction--and from Self and SelfishnessTwelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step reco ...Show more
Recovery--The Sacred Art - The Twelve Steps As Spiritual Practice by Rami Shapiro; Joan Borysenko (Foreword by)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: The\Art of Spiritual Living Ser.
Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction--and from Self and Selfishness"Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step rec ...Show more
SPORT ART OF LIVING by MCGINN COLIN
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
Whether it's conkers in the schoolyard, kicking a football in the park, or playing tennis on Wimbledon Centre Court, sport impacts all of our lives. But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it has fo ...Show more
Science by Steve Fuller
Category: Art Books | Series: The Art of Living
In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best understood as the secular residue of a religiously inspired belief in divine providence. Our faith in science is the promise of a life as it shall be, as science ...Show more
Surrendered--The Sacred Art - Shattering the Illusion of Control and Falling into Grace with Twelve-Step Spirituality by Rami Shapiro
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Art of Spiritual Living Ser.
To live the surrendered life-a life no longer centered on control and hence no longer at odds with the ordinary suffering of everyday living. Rabbi Rami closely examines the first three steps of Twelve-Step recovery to help us cut through the denial, illusions, and falsehoods that bind us in our fight w ...Show more