New York Times Bestseller From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain. But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out...

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. It covers all the core approaches to counselling, and takes a critical, questioning approach to issues of professional practice....

Build your confidence in your Spanish skills with practice, practice, practice! From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all those aspects of Spanish grammar that you might find a little intimidating or hard to remember. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar focuses on the practical aspects of Spanish as it's really spoken, so you are not bogged down by unnecessary technicalities. Each unit features crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of engaging exercises in a variety of...

The Fundamentals of Architecture, 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture. It is intended to unravel the complexity of architecture to explain its process and make it more accessible. It guides students through the rich history of the discipline, and introduces aspects of contemporary theory and practice. The book explores the process of architecture starting from the initial ideas and concepts, and how these ideas are informed by understanding site and context. It examines the impact of the physical environment and the historical ideas that have informed...

The novel treatise "Emile" is the main pedagogical composition of Rousseau, entirely devoted to the problems of educating a person. To express his pedagogical ideas, Rousseau created a situation where the educator begins to raise a child who has been left an orphan since childhood and assumes the rights and obligations of parents. And Emil is completely the result of his many efforts as an educator....

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player and mathematician, a representative of a positional school, and the second world chess champion (he won this title from Steinitz in 1894 and lost to Capablanca in 1921). Lasker retained the title of world champion for 27 years, which is a record achievement for chess. Even after losing the championship title, he continued to perform at the highest level until the age of 68....

José Raúl Capablanca - Cuban chess player, chess writer, diplomat, 3rd world chess champion (won the title in a match with Lasker in 1921, lost to Alekhine in 1927), one of the strongest chess players in the world in the 1910 - 1930s, winner of many international tournaments. In its heyday, Capablanca gained fame as a “chess machine”, equally masterly leading the party in the middlegame and the endgame and almost error-free. In official high-level meetings (since 1909), Capablanca lost only 34 games, and from 1916 to 1924 remained undefeated....

James Boyle is a Scottish legal scholar, writer, specialist in copyright, information law and the public domain. In his most recent intellectual property work, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Boyle argues that the current copyright system does not fulfill its original mission: to award and promote creativity....

The book by Emily Post “Etiquette” (a monument to American good manners) was published in its first edition in 1922. She was honestly addressed to a narrow layer of the American public. Emily Post's books were different from all previous ones. Firstly, she wrote them almost like fiction - on the examples of imaginary families, to which she gave speaking, directly phonvizinian surnames: The Eminents, The Toploftys, The Kindhearts. But the main thing - already in the first edition of the book "Etiquette" Emily Post offers a certain opportunity, purpose, seductive for the general reader: High...

The famous scientist Cheiro introduces us into the wonderful world of one of the most ancient sciences of human civilization - palmistry. One of the most popular and bright palmists, foretellers and clairvoyants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was William John Warner. But the world remembered him under the name Cheiro, which is an abridged version of the English word "palmistry." But the count himself had in mind a completely different interpretation of his pseudonym "Hiro" from the Greek "hand." Famous and powerful clients made him famous and wealthy, including politicians and...

One of Shakespeare’s most profound explicators is E.S. Bradley, a professor at Oxford University who has lectured on Shakespeare in Liverpool, Glasgow and Oxford. In this book, he laid the foundation for his outstanding book, Shakespeare's Tragedy, which provides a psychological analysis of the four tragedies that goes over to the philosophy of generalization: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth....

This updated 2018 Classic Edition contains the original version of William Strunk's The Elements of Style, plus a variety of enhancements that make this book even more useful. It is now being used as a textbook in classes at University of Minnesota, University of Texas, UC Berkeley, and elsewhere. Generations of college students and writers have learned the basics of English grammar from this short book. It was rated "one of the 100 most influential books written in English" by Time in 2011, and iconic author Stephen King recommended it as a grammar primer that all aspiring writers should...

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There is much to say. Many have a part in this story of our days. Their work is on the table. Yet no manuscript, no chapter, is a real beginning. One must start a book this way—with a fresh sheet in the machine and tell what he is going to tell about.... First of all, it has to do with the unfolding of the child mind; all the Stonestudy work has been for that, but the brimming wonder of it all is that we have chiefly been employed unfolding ourselves....