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"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""-- Provided by...
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English
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Drawing from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history and education, one of the nation's leading writers and commentators helps us become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen.
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2009.
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1st Harper Perennial Modern classics ed.
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xi, 312 pages, 28 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."
With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains...
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Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2006
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200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in...
9) The prophet
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1952 [c1951]
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107 p. illus. 22 cm.
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English
11) Waiting
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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First edition.
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292 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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An array of essays delivers an impassioned critique of contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who and what human beings are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite errors and depredations.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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208 p.
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English
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An accessible introduction to philosophy explores the ideas of such leading intellectuals as Plato, Confucius, and Simone de Beauvoir while inviting readers to consider how universal questions have been fundamental to the development of scientific study,religious beliefs, and ideas about freedom.
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Scribner
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2024.
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112 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass explains how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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xxiv, 386 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.