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Essential. The group of scientists involved with the creation of this book: Paul Ekman, Daniel Goleman, and Richard Davidson are at the forefront of affective neuroscience (the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion) and its attendant social sciences.
The life of Solomon Northup. This book gives you an insight as to what life is like when living under a great injustice. Forgot the film, this book is hard hitting.
I met Shannon Moroney at a restorative justice conference in November of 2011.
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world.
A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house, the colonel stared at the portrait of the famous military hero –The Colonel, long executed.
Written by the editor of Elle magazine following a severe, incapacitating stroke who wrote this book letter by letter with his speech therapist. It describes his experience of being in hospital, poor communication of healthcare staff & being objectified.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who questions life and wonders if it has any meaning or value. Frankl's reason for writing his life affirming book:
This is a true story of a young teen named Maddie, who while undergoing chemotheraphy saw something on TV that changed the way she saw the world, and her role in it. Touched by vision of an orphaned boy in Africa, Maddie was moved to help.
Lindqvist has amassed a body of evidence in this enlightening history of bombing warfare, making use of a huge range of historical sources.