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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi...
The Architecture of Happiness
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o...
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: The Astonishing Science behind How Everyday Hobbies Help You Relax
Our Emotional Sixth Sense Neuroscientific studies are finding that our brain circuits for emotions are just as tangible as circuits for our other five senses. Advanced imaging techniques can now observe this. Recent fascination with colouring -in for adults joins a long list of techniques that have been...
The Good Daughter
The acclaimed, "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Kept Woman" delivers another stand-alone novel in which a lawyer returns to the South to defend a teenage girl of a heinous crime....
Frankissstein: A Love Story
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.From New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes her most anticipated book since Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, J...
Kiwi Baby
Will the egg EVER hatch? This is a story for all children eagerly awaiting a new sibling. 'When Baby wakes up, will she hop and jump?' 'Not yet, Kiwi Iti, these things take time.' Helen Taylor's gentle text and exquisitely detailed illustrations show that growing a family takes patience and love, but is...
Bushido: the Soul of Japan (Penguin Great Ideas Series)
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'. O...
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