In Why Grow Up the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with urgent relevance today Becoming an adult today can seem a grim prospect As you grow up you are told to renounce most of the hopes & dreams of your youth & resign yourself to a life that will be a pale dilution of the adventurous important & enjoyable life you once expected But who wants to do any of that? No wonder we live in a culture of rampant immaturity argues internationally-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman when maturity looks so boring In Why Grow Up Neiman explores the forces that are arrayed against maturity & shows how philosophy can help us want to grow up Travel both literally & as a metaphor has been seen as a crucial step to coming of age by thinkers as diverse as Kant Rousseau Hume & Simone de Beauvoir Neiman discusses childhood adolescence sex & culture & asks how the idea of travel can help us build a model of maturity that makes growing up a good option & leaves space in our culture for grown-ups Refuting the widespread belief that the best time of your life is the decade between sixteen & twenty-six she argues that being grown-up is itself an ideal one that is rarely achieved in its entirety but all the more worth striving for ...

The eagerly awaited follow-up to the best-selling Why Beethoven Threw the Stew What did Haydn&s wife use for curling-paper for her hair? What did Schubert do with his old spectacles case? Why was Dvorak given a butcher&s apron when he was a little boy? Why did Tchaikovsky spit on a map of Europe? Why did Faure find a plate of spinach on his face? And why did Handel waggle his wig? In Why Beethoven Threw the Stew renowned cellist Steven Isserlis set out to pass on to children a wonderful gift given to him by his own cello teacher
- the chance to people his own world with the great composers by getting to know them as friends In his new book he draws us irresistibly into the world of six more favourite composers bringing them alive in a manner that cannot fail to catch the imagination of children encountering classical music for the first time Once again the text is packed with facts dates & anecdotes interspersed with lively black-&-white line illustrations making this an attractive & accessible read for children to enjoy on their own or share with an adult& If Why Beethoven Threw the Stew does not turn your child into a music lover the chances are nothing will& Daily Mail
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Ned (Bryan Cranston) an overprotective dad visits his daughter at Stanford where he meets his biggest nightmare Her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend Laird (James Franco) A rivalry develops & Ned&s panic level goes through the roof when he finds himself lost in this glamorous high-tech world & learns Laird is about to pop the question Actors Zoey Deutch Bryan Cranston James Franco Megan Mullally Keegan-Michael Key Directors John Hamburg Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Ned (Bryan Cranston) an overprotective dad visits his daughter at Stanford where he meets his biggest nightmare Her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend Laird (James Franco) A rivalry develops & Ned&s panic level goes through the roof when he finds himself lost in this glamorous high-tech world & learns Laird is about to pop the question Actors Zoey Deutch Bryan Cranston James Franco Megan Mullally Keegan-Michael Key Directors John Hamburg Producers Stuart Cornfeld Dan Levine Ben Stiller Format PALNumber of discs 1 ...

Based on Dr Fisher's groundbreaking personality type study in which she analyzed the personalities of more than 28000 matchcom users Why Him? Why Her? provides a formula for long-term love that is based on cutting-edge discoveries in evolutionary neurology 304 pages ill Fisher Helen ...

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war Orwell's timeless uncompromising essays are more relevant entertaining & essential than ever in today's era of spin ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD' Essential' Marlon James Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015' One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla editor of The Good Immigrant'A wake-up call to a country in denial' Observer In 2014 award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race & racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it She posted a piece on her blog entitled Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' Her words hit a nerve The post went viral & comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences Galvanised by this clear hunger for open discussion she decided to dig into the source of these feelings Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class & race Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely & essential new framework for how to see acknowledge & counter racism It is a searing illuminating absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today ...

In Why Information Grows rising star Cesar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economics What is economic growth? & why historically has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions geography finances & psychology But MIT professor Cesar Hidalgo argues that in order to fully grasp the nature of economic growth we need to transcend the social sciences & turn to the science of information networks & complexity The growth of economies he explains is deeply connected with the growth of order
- or information At first glance the universe seems hostile to order Thermodynamics dictates that over time order will disappear But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets Our cities are such pockets where information grows but they are not all the same For every Silicon Valley Tokyo & London there are dozens of places with underdeveloped economies Why does the US economy outstrip Brazil&s & Brazil&s that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston&s Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed? In each case the key is how people companies & the networks they form process information
- it is all about their knowledge knowhow & imagination As Hidalgo compellingly shows economies are made from networks of people & society is a collective computer The problem of economic development is in fact the problem of making these networks more powerful A radical new interpretation of global economics Why Information Grows overturns traditional assumptions about the development of economies & the origins of wealth & takes a crucial step toward making economics less the dismal science & more the insightful one

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Artists ask questions when they make art
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A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now
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