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The Sunday Philosophy Club is a series of novels and novellas by Alexander McCall Smith. It is also the name of the first novel in the series, and an informal talking group founded by the main character Isabel Dalhousie. The series is set in Edinburgh. The title of the first book and of the series was suggested by McCall Smith's editor. [1]
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life is a book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans that aims to help readers organize themselves through journaling and design thinking. The New York Times best-selling book was published in 2016 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and utilizes a series of exercises throughout its eleven ...
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Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler. [3] [4] In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members [5] and 10,000,000 books had been added. [6] By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and thirty employees. [7]
The book garnered mixed reviews, with many reviewers comparing it unfavourably to McCall Smith's better-known series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The New York Times sees Isabel as a "(No. 2) Lady Detective Philosopher" (in comparison to the "No. 1 Lady Detective" Precious Ramotswe) and describes her philosophical musings as "less than riveting"; it concludes that the novel is "the ...
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose is a 2005 self-help book by Eckhart Tolle.The book sold 5 million copies in North America by 2009. In 2008 it was selected for Oprah's Book Club and featured in a series of 10 weekly webinars with Tolle and Oprah Winfrey.
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America is a 2001 book by Louis Menand, an American writer and legal scholar, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.The book recounts the lives and intellectual work of the handful of thinkers primarily responsible for the philosophical concept of pragmatism, a principal feature of American philosophical achievement: William James, Oliver ...