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Former FBI agent Navarro provides insights into human behavior, teaching readers how to assess credibility and predict actions.
Former FBI agent Navarro provides insights into human behavior, teaching readers how to assess credibility and predict actions.
Examines the limits of population growth in relation to food supply.
This book presents a simple yet profound prayer to help individuals overcome internal obstacles and live a fulfilling life.
A devotional offering daily messages to inspire and uplift women, fostering a closer relationship with God.
In ‘How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain’, psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges the classical theory of emotions and proposes a new theory called the Theory of Constructed Emotion. This theory suggests that emotions are not universally pre-programmed in our brains and bodies, but rather they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.
Altered Carbon is a cyberpunk novel that explores themes of identity, mortality, and society in a future where consciousness can be transferred to new bodies.
Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse, is a philosophical novel that explores the journey of a young Nepalese man named Siddhartha during the time of Buddha. The story charts Siddhartha’s spiritual evolution through his experiences with asceticism, sensuality, materialism, and eventual enlightenment.
A Peace to End All Peace’ by David Fromkin provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent formation of the modern Middle East. Covering the period from 1914 to 1922, the book delves into the geopolitical, military, and diplomatic maneuvers that led to the redrawing of the map of the Middle East by the Allied powers after World War I. Fromkin meticulously examines the roles of key figures, the impact of colonial ambitions, and the unforeseen consequences of the treaties that ended the Ottoman Empire, shaping the conflicts and complexities of the present-day Middle East.