Sounding the limits of life

Sounding the Limits of Life

What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--

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Life Without Limits

The amazing life story of Britain's world conquering triathlete, Chrissie Wellington.

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Limits of Neoliberalism

Examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in

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Sounding the Century: Bill Leader a Co

A major history of British music, especially folk music, based around the life of iconic sound engineer Bill Leader. Based on extensive and exclusive

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Rules Without Rulers – The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism

Is life without the state really possible, and, if so, what would such a life look like?

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Spacious Life – Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits

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The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits (1846046300)

Kniha - autor Wim Hof, 240 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná My hope is to inspire you to retake control of your body and life by unleashing the immense power of the mind. 'The Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Refined over forty years and championed by scientists acros...

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Excessively Obsessed, Find your passion, build your business, learn your limits, love your life Little, Brown Book Group

Modern, practical business and brand lessons from Natasha Oakley, Super Influencer and co-founder of Monday Swimwear and The Pilates Class....

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Little Life

A bruising and beautiful story of love, the limits of human endurance, and the tyranny of memory, adapted for the stage from Hanya Yanagihara's bestse

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Call of the Wild

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and ...he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a shi...

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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood - Bryson Bill

Anotace: From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up ...

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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood - Bill Bryson

<p>From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up w...

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The Dog of the North - Elizabeth McKenzie

<p>The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen</p> <p>‘Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last’ Karen Joy Fowler</p> <p>Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal with her grandfather, who is being m...

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The Singularity is Nearer

'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence' BILL GATESBy the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become 'superintelligent', vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling dramatic new interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to co...

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A Little Life (1447294831)

Kniha - autor Hanya Yanagihara, 720 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015, "A Little Life" is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. 'A singularly profound and moving work... Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you str...

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Snow Country - Kawabata Jasunari

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightl...

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Conquer Your Deliverance – How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

Being delivered and set free from sin and bondage doesn't mean that the enemy now considers you off limits. Focusing on key Bible strategies, John Ram

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A Little Life - Yanagihara Hanya

Anotace: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2016. Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts c...

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The Cure For Burnout: Build Better Habits, Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life - Ballesteros Emily

Anotace: Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to catch up? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you`re in need of a cure for burnout.Burnout management coach Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research and the tr...

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The Cure For Burnout: Build Better Habits, Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life - Emily Ballesteros

<p>Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to catch up? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you're in need of a cure for burnout.Burnout management coach Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research and the tri...

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On the Origin of Time: The instant Sunday Times bestseller - Thomas Hertog

<p>'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin ReesStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellect...

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On the Origin of Time: The instant Sunday Times bestseller - Hertog Thomas

Anotace: `A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking`s biggest legacy` Spectator`Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding` The Times`This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos` Sir Martin ReesStephen Hawking`s closest collaborator offers the intellec...

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Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is but a Dream... CD

Heavy metalová legenda z Kalifornie vznikla v roce 1999. Na debutu Sounding The Seventh Trumpet ještě koketovala s metalcore, později se přiklonila ke klasickému heavy metalu a hard rockovému stylu. Na konci nultých let se dočkala mainstreamového úspěchu, album Nightmare vydané v roce 2010 dokonce stanulo na prvním místě americké hitparády. Osmé studiové album americké h...

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Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is but a Dream... LP

Heavy metalová legenda z Kalifornie vznikla v roce 1999. Na debutu Sounding The Seventh Trumpet ještě koketovala s metalcore, později se přiklonila ke klasickému heavy metalu a hard rockovému stylu. Na konci nultých let se dočkala mainstreamového úspěchu, album Nightmare vydané v roce 2010 dokonce stanulo na prvním místě americké hitparády. Osmé studiové album americké h...

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Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Anotace: Jon Krakauer's classic account of a gifted young man who chose literally to walk away from his life. By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who, in 1992, walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which...

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Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark weaves a chilling tapestry of psychological horror and Southern Gothic charm, reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre. We invite you to join us on a journey into madness, where each encounter could be your last. With each step you take closer to unravelling Derceto's mystery, the eyes that watch from the darkness grow hungrier. E...

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King of Pride (Kings of Sin 2) - Ana Huang

A brand new steamy billionaire romance from the bestselling author of the Twisted series <p>She's his opposite in every way . . . and the greatest temptation he's ever known.Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos - and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified.With a cr...

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King of Pride - Ana Huang

Anotace: She´s his opposite in every way . . . and the greatest temptation he´s ever known. Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos - and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified. With a crucial CEO vote looming and a media empire at stake, the billionaire heir ...

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Acts of Violet - Montimore Margarita

Anotace: Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn`t been seen since, her hold on the public hasn`t wavered. While Violet sought out the spotlight, her sister Sasha, ever the responsible one, took over their mother`s salon and built a quiet life for her daughter, Quinn. But Sasha can never seem t...

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Acts of Violet - Margarita Montimore

<p>Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public hasn't wavered. While Violet sought out the spotlight, her sister Sasha, ever the responsible one, took over their mother's salon and built a quiet life for her daughter, Quinn. But Sasha can never seem to...

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The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman

<p>The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his so...

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Alone in the Dark (PC)

Alone in the Dark weaves a chilling tapestry of psychological horror and Southern Gothic charm, reimagining the iconic game that set the benchmark for the genre. We invite you to join us on a journey into madness, where each encounter could be your last. With each step you take closer to unravelling Derceto's mystery, the eyes that watch from the darkness grow hungri...

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SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix - Easton B. B.

Anotace: One woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir - the inspiration for the Netflix Original Series.<br> School psychologists aren't supposed to write books about sex. Doing so would be considered 'unethical' and 'a fireable offense'. Lucky for you, ethics was never my strong suit....

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The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change

Anotace: His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it`s critical.In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of New Zealand`s North Island. On a shoestring salary he measured carbon in the atmosphere, collecting vital data towards what became one of the most important discover...

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Clarinet Factory, Alan Vitouš – Echoes Of Colors MP3

Clarinet Factory a Alan Vitouš natočili během čtyř večerních live seancí album k první Modiglianiho výstavě konané v Praze. Hudba je inspirovaná obrazy, kresbami, ale hlavně životním příběhem italského génia, ale i jeho současníků, např. Františka Kupky. Vznikala na bázi společných zvukových improvizací a nese stopu neopakovatelného momentu a neobvyklého zvuku sklepního p...

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Clarinet Factory, Alan Vitouš – Echoes Of Colors FLAC

Clarinet Factory a Alan Vitouš natočili během čtyř večerních live seancí album k první Modiglianiho výstavě konané v Praze. Hudba je inspirovaná obrazy, kresbami, ale hlavně životním příběhem italského génia, ale i jeho současníků, např. Františka Kupky. Vznikala na bázi společných zvukových improvizací a nese stopu neopakovatelného momentu a neobvyklého zvuku sklepního p...

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Clarinet Factory, Alan Vitouš – Echoes Of Colors CD

Clarinet Factory a Alan Vitouš natočili během čtyř večerních live seancí album k první Modiglianiho výstavě konané v Praze. Hudba je inspirovaná obrazy, kresbami, ale hlavně životním příběhem italského génia, ale i jeho současníků, např. Františka Kupky. Vznikala na bázi společných zvukových improvizací a nese stopu neopakovatelného momentu a neobvyklého zvuku sklepního p...

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The Houseguest : And Other Stories - Dávila Amparo

Anotace: Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila`s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted--you`ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares co...

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Alone in the Dark Deluxe Edition

A Love Letter to Horror Fans Alone in the Dark: Digital Deluxe Edition is a treasure chest of carefully curated experiences designed to thrill. Whether you're revisiting the twisted atmosphere of the 1992 classic or stepping into Derceto Manor for the first time, this edition is packed with features that promise to captivate. From switching up character models for a taste...

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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (1529046521)

Kniha - 496 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction Novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds Now she's awakened a nightmare During a...

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Alone in the Dark Deluxe Edition (PC)

A Love Letter to Horror FansAlone in the Dark: Digital Deluxe Edition is a treasure chest of carefully curated experiences designed to thrill. Whether you're revisiting the twisted atmosphere of the 1992 classic or stepping into Derceto Manor for the first time, this edition is packed with features that promise to captivate. From switching up character models for a t...

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Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories (1838950044)

Kniha - autor Young-Ha Kim, 248 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná “Filled with the kind of sublime, galvanizing stories that strike like a lightning bolt, searing your nerves . . . It’s easy enough to see why Kim . . . is acclaimed as the best writer of his generation; pick up this book and find out for yourself.” — Nylon It’s been twenty-five years since I...

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The Little Prince - de Saint-Exupéry Antoine

Anotace: The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book`s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world`s most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and child...

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The Little Prince, 1. vydání - Antoine De Saint - Exupéry

<p>The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupery in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and childr...

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Pucking Around: The TikTok sensation - a why choose hockey romance - Emily Rath

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING TIK TOK SENSATION AND START OF THE JACKSONVILLE RAYS SERIES!I can't fall for a player, let alone three...My name is Rachel Price, and two months ago, I walked away from the perfect man. We shared one magical night. No names. No strings. I never thought I'd see him again. I was wrong.It turns out my perfect man is actually the playboy...

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Lally´s Game (Five Nights at Freddy´s: Tales from the Pizzaplex #1) - Cawthon Scott

Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this collection of three chilling stories that will haunt even the bravest FNAF player... <p> </p> <p>Some secrets are better left hidden . . . A forbidden artifact from her fiancé's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya...

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Lally´s Game (Five Nights at Freddy´s: Tales from the Pizzaplex 1) - Scott Cawthon; Andrea Waggener; Kelly Parra

Anotace: Three chilling Five Nights at Freddy's stories that will haunt even the bravest FNAF fan... Some secrets are better left hidden... A forbidden artifact from her fiance's past beckons to Selena... Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital... Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of F...

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Land's Edge

Tim WintonÂ’s homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits.

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Loved and Missed

Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms - a moving tragicomedy novel by the author of My Judy Garland Life.

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Loved and Missed

Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms - a moving tragicomedy novel by the author of My Judy Garland Life.

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Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a life lived at the very limits of human endeavour. An updated and revised edition of Mad, Bad a Dangerous to Know,

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Illogical

From the New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, a call to break through our limits and say yes to a life o

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White Oleander

A bestselling first novel about a young woman growing up the hard way, this is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, and the search for love and identity. When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her daughter must navigate a new reality--that of a series of foster homes, each its own universe, each with its own limits...

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Unbroken

Now a major film directed by Angelina Jolie to be released in 2014, this is the true story of one incredibly resilient WWII flier from the author of 'Seabiscuit'. On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extr...

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Dissidia Final Fantasy Play Arts Kai Akční figurka Lightning 25

Lightning joins the fight in Dissidia Final Fantasy, the game that pushes the limits of the Final Fantasy Series. This figure captures her character in its entirety, with both her feminine nature and strength as a fighter.Her signature hairstyle is clearly defined, with the slight transparency from the original game. Various parts are flexible, including her cape - which ...

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Bleach 29 (anglicky) - Kubo Tite

Anotace: Ichigo and his friends knew invading Hueco Mundo wouldn`t be easy, but even the lesser Arrancars are pushing them to their limits! Can Ichigo, Uryu and Chad find the inner strength to overcome the first line of attack, or will Orihime be stuck in Hueco Mundo forever?! Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts - he was born with the gift. When his...

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Mr Holmes - Cullin Mitch

Anotace: "Why`d she come here? Why`d she come to you?"A cloud passed over the sun, casting a long shadow across the gardens."Hope, I suspect," said Holmes. "It seems I am known for discovering answers when events appear desperate."It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends ...

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Snow Country, 1. vydání - Jasunari Kawabata

<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by th...

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Four Thousand Weeks - Burkeman Oliver

Anotace: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with `getting everything done,` Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers,...

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Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman

<p>What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophe...

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