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Happier Endings Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death
by Erica Brown
Hardcover: 2 Apr 2013
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A wise and affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death, written by a highly regarded spiritual teacher.
An Economist Gets Lunch An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
by Tyler Cowen
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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Provocative, incisive, and as enjoyable as a juicy, grass-fed burger, An Economist Gets Lunch will influence what you'll choose to eat today and how we're going to feed the world tomorrow.
The Antidote The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
by Oliver Burkeman
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: 5 Nov 2013
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A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head and forces us to rethink completely our attitudes toward failure, uncertainty, and death.
No Cheating, No Dying No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better
by Elizabeth Weil
Hardcover: 7 Feb 2012
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Written with charm and wit, No Cheating, No Dying investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it’s worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.
Eating Animals Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
Half the Sky Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
In Pursuit of the Common Good In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Repairing the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
by A. E. Hotchner, Paul Newman
Hardcover: Nov 2003
Paperback: 16 Sep 2008
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With rare glimpses into their zany style and their compassion for those less fortunate, Newman and Hotchner (founders of Newman's Own all-natural foods) have written the perfect non-management book, at once playful, informative, and inspirational.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 29 Apr 2008
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
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