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Stumbling on Happiness |
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Tuesday, 26 December 2006 |
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With style, and plenty of wit, Daniel Gilbert argues that what distinguishes humans from other animals is our ability to predict the future. Even so, our imagination does not always work wonders and we are often in the dark about what will make us happy – or unhappy. What's more, we are not much better when it comes to remembering past joys and sorrows. "Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy," says Gilbert. "Those books are located in the self-help section two aisles over, and once you've bought one, done everything it says to do and found yourself miserable anyway, you can always come back here to understand why." |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 January 2007 )
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Think |
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Sunday, 24 December 2006 |
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A clear introduction to the main questions of philosophy by the author of the The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy . This isn't a big tome, but an accessible little book, which fits nicely in your bag and is fun to dip in, should you feel in the mood for some thinking about how much we can really say we know, or whether we have free will, or maybe what the relationship between the mind and the body is. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 December 2006 )
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Never Let Me Go |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 Never Let Me Go  by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm not going to tell you what this book is about, because one of the pleasures of reading it is figuring out, bit by bit, what's going on – much as the characters themselves do, as they grow up. What I can say is that it takes place in England, in the late 90s, but that it's soon obvious this isn't the 90s England we are familiar with. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 December 2006 )
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Saturday |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 Saturday  by Ian McEwan. The latest Ian McEwan novel takes place in London on Saturday 15 February 2003, the day of the march against the war on Iraq. McEwan shows how even desirable lives – the protagonist, brain surgeon Henry Perowne, enjoys his work, loves his wife, and has warm and gifted children – cannot be completely insulated and protected from global concerns and outside threats. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 December 2006 )
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Emotional Intelligence |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
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Daniel Goleman argues that IQ doesn't tell the whole story about intelligence. He believes that a different kind of intelligence, emotional intelligence, plays a bigger role in people's lives. Emotional intelligence comes from qualities such as self-awareness, impulse control, persistance, motivation, empathy and social deftness, qualities which, in contrast with IQ, can be significantly changed by experience and education. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 December 2006 )
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by Daniel Gilbert.
by Simon Blackburn. 
by Daniel Goleman.