This book can be understood as a journey of observation and study on some stimuli from different disciplines. A look that provides suggestions for fighting the degradation (including anthropological) that we are experiencing as inhabitants of this planet. To "focus" the eyes, like tightening the pupils to see better, he makes use of storytelling. He tells of the Walking, Thinking, Traveling, Listening, Reasoning and Feeling of Nature. Nature embodied by one of its most successful creations...

Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we ...

Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and...

The renowned author of Flow shares a "wise, humane inquiry" into the evolution of consciousness—and how we can rewire our minds for contemporary life ( Publishers Weekly).In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's bestselling Flow, he introduced readers to a radical new theory of happiness. Now in The Evolving Self—his breakthrough sequel—he demonstrates how we can understand and overcome our evolutionary shortcomings in order to build a stable...

From one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life.**"Eloquently argues that living fully in the here and now requires that one heed the lessons of the past." —**New York TimesWhat makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such measures has led us astray. Work fills our days with anxiety and pres...

The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially constructed." The human appreciation for art is innate, and certain artistic values are unive...

“Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kil...

“Brimming with ideas. . . . The Origins of Creativity approach[es] creativity scientifically but sensitively, feeling its roots without pulling them out.”—EconomistIn a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a “luminous” (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson argues, have their roots in human creativ...

150 REAL GRE Verbal Reasoning questions--direct from the test maker!The best way to prepare for the Verbal Reasoning measure of the GRE revised General Test is with real GRE test questions--and that is what you will find in this unique guide! Specially created for you by ETS, it offers 150 actual GRE Verbal Reasoning questions with complete explanations. Plus, this guide includes an authoritative overview of the GRE Analytical Writing measure, complete with sample writing tasks a...

"Truly a great and life changing read!"This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.Building on Gregory Bateson’s famous book Towards an Ecology of Mind ...

150 REAL GRE Verbal Reasoning questions—direct from the test maker!The best way to prepare for the Verbal Reasoning measure of the GRE® General Test is with real GRE test questions--and that is what you will find in this unique guide. Created by the actual test maker, the Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions, Volume 1 provides 150 actual GRE Verbal Reasoning questions with complete explanations. This guide also includes an authoritative overvie...

Global sustainability in the 21st century seems to be an elusive goal. There are too many issues, too many problems—and, increasingly, too many people—to make the major changes required in the time various experts tell us we have left before it’s too late.To create a sustainable future, we need to change the game itself. We cannot simply try to solve our problems one at a time. Instead, we need to reimagine sustainability in all its dimensions—social, cultural, environmental and ec...