Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there ... [Read More]
Philosophy. Metaphysics. Humanism. Existentialism. Stoicism. Epicureanism. Nietzsche. Get a shirt to display your love of philosophy. Perfect birthday or holiday gift for your mom, dad, brother, sister, partner, or classmate who is really into philosophy.
You can add a little inspiration to every day if you'll put these where you need the most - home, school, gym, work - wherever you might see them often. Its an age old rule. You are what you believe. These posters fill your mind with drive and inspiration for the day. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Henry Ford Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bon... [Read More]
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Talent Code unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow’s leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG AND LIBRARY JOURNAL Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing? In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs—and reveals what makes th... [Read More]
Four score and seven years and almost eight more score ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. A little more recently, the creators of the Unemployed Philosophers Guild brought forth a new business, conceived in creativity, and dedicated to the proposition that fun toys can also be intellectually and spiritually stimulating. Yes, in many ways we feel like Lincoln, though not quite as tall. And that's why we put such care and pride into our Abraham Lincoln Little Thinker doll. Abe stands... [Read More]
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.
In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing. It has become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies. The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since that time there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawkin's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, inclu... [Read More]
A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tale" (Wall Street Journal) and "popular history at its best" (Washington Post)The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government -- all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population... [Read More]
Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy. Edited and with an introduction by the columnist's son, Daniel Krauthammer, it is the most intimate and profound book yet by the legendary writer and thinker. In his decades of work as America's preeminent political commentator, Ch... [Read More]
An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. The book is organized around several key moments, such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three, a foundational trauma that, Mendes-Flohr shows, left an enduring mark on Buber's inner life, attuning him to the fragility of human relations.
A beautiful framed African-American motivational poster featuring President Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.The text on the poster reads: "Focus on the hard times ahead with thoughts of those who came before you. Focus on the mission ahead with thoughts of your roles as a leader in the community. Focus on the obligations of your family with thoughts of their needs first, personal needs last. Focus on the future of your people with thoughts of your course of actions to make their dreams come true by any menas necessary. "Yes you can!" Become the...Thinker!".Ships framed and r... [Read More]
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth―the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet― Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible w... [Read More]
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller.Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.The Daily Stoic offers 36... [Read More]
Written by an award-winning author and former diplomat with extensive experience in the Muslim world, this important history provides new insight not only into Islams achievements, but also the ancient resentments that fuel todays bitter
Who were the Renaissance scientists and philosophers? In The Renaissance Thinkers with History Projects for Kids, kids ages 10 through 15 meet five famous Renaissance thinkers, including Filippo Brunelleschi, Machiavelli, Copernicus, Thomas More, and Francis
This compendium offers a broad sweep of some of our service's most remarkable and memorable figures in the context of an evolving center for airpower education. An initiative of Gen Steven R. Lorenz, former Air
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern
In every sector of American Society, civility has declined - from vicious political rhetoric to attack in the blogosphere and lack of personal decency. Collected in this volume are the thoughts of some of the
The development of modern thought is traced through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavor since 1789No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention in this history:
The World's Leading Business Minds on Today's Most Critical ChallengesThe most innovative ideas from the Thinkers50India now produces a disproportionately high percentage of the business world's most influential thinkers. As globalization progresses, it is increasingly
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