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How To Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
2024 || Paperback || Katy Milkman e.a. || Penguin Putnam Inc
Play
How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
2010 || Paperback || Stuart M.D. Brown e.a. || Penguin Putnam Inc
From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives
We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral...
Between Past and Future
2006 || Paperback || Hannah Arendt e.a. || Penguin Putnam Inc
From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, "a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day" (Harper's Magazine)
Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the tr...
How to Disappear
Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
2024 || Paperback || Akiko Busch || Penguin Putnam Inc
It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice.
In our networked and image-saturate...
The Singularity Is Nearer
When We Merge With Computers
2024 || Paperback || Ray Kurzweil || Penguin Putnam Inc
The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions of followers, hundreds of books, major films (Her, Lucy, Ex Machina), and thousands of articles. During the succeeding decade many of Kurzweil's pr...
The Hidden Globe
How Wealth Hacks the World
2024 || Paperback || Atossa Araxia Abrahamian || Penguin Putnam Inc