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9780770437633 | Broadway Books, March 3, 2015, cover price $15.00
This is a Guardian Best Book of 2014 and a 2014 Brain Pickings Best Book on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully Why is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an athlete who chokes? In all these cases, spontaneity is elusive. In Trying Not to Try, Edward Slingerland shows us how we can harness its power and become more effective. We've long been told that the way to achieve our goals is through careful reasoning and conscious effort, but recent research suggests that many aspects of a satisfying life are best pursued indirectly. The early Chinese philosophers knew this, and they wrote extensively about how we can achieve wu-wei (ooo-way) - an effortless, spontaneous way of being in the world. Through stories of mythical creatures and drunken cart riders, jazz musicians and Japanese motorcycle gangs, Slingerland effortlessly blends Eastern thought and cutting-edge science to show us how we can embody a spontaneous way of being and live more fulfilling lives.
Hardcover:
9780857863478 | Canongate Books Ltd, April 3, 2014, cover price $28.60
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9781782114451 | Gardners Books, April 3, 2014, cover price $25.25 | About this edition: This is a Guardian Best Book of 2014 and a 2014 Brain Pickings Best Book on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully Why is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting?
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9780770437619 | Crown Pub, March 4, 2014, cover price $26.00
Product Description: What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics...read more
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9780521877701 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2008, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture.
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9780195138993 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 27, 2003, cover price $130.00
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9780195314878 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 24, 2007, cover price $51.00
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