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A book about the two parallel existences of adults and children: the adult dimension (snooze) and the child's world, in which treasure maps, pirates and loyal dog-human friends feature heavily.

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In Summer 2013, a graduation speech given by the idiosyncratic novelist, short-story genius and children’s author George Saunders went viral.

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The prospects are clear: we will live longer. The number of people aged 65 and up will increase over the next few decades. Society will change as a result, but how? Connectedness is a powerful tool rooted in human nature. By unfolding the nature of relationships
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Creative Confidence takes the reader through the "design thinking" method that promotes "empathic listening skills" as a prerequisite of the creation of human-centric products.

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Homeless persons are among the most misunderstood people in America. We clump the whole lot of them into a pile called "the homeless" and seem to be OK with them living, in some cases, like stray dogs.

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‘In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood, / for I had lost the right path.’

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What would you do if the unthinkable happened? Reg Thompson's collection of letters to his daughter is an eloquent and unsparing attempt to answer this question that no parent wants to think about.

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    Machines will have personalities, a father tells his students and his young son who's peeping out from behind the lecture hall projector with wide enquiring eyes.
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"They've turned me into the psycho I've become," complains the unsteady voice in a taped phone conversation. "They" are the entertainment industry. The "psycho" is Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, a manic-depressive paranoid schizophrenic with a peculiarly haunting musical talent.

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The Aubrey – Maturin series of novels set at the time of the Anglo-French wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is one of the great achievements of twentieth century historical fiction, matching the empathetic genius seen in the works of Paul Scott and J. G. Farrell.

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