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1) Candide

Author

Voltaire

Series

Bantam classic
Candide

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

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The story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another.

2) Emotional: how feelings shape our thinking

Author

Mlodinow, Leonard

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"For millennia, we have viewed thinking and feeling as fundamentally opposed processes. According to this persistent, age-old belief, to truly live well we must marshal our logical and rational capacities to master our emotions. This perceived dichotomy lies at the heart of our historical pursuits in theology, philosophy, and psychology. But extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience, including neuroimaging and other related technologies,...

3) Rationality: what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters

Author

Pinker, Steven

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker...

4) 7 lessons from heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-filled Life

Author

Neal, Mary C

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Compact Disc, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspired follow-up to the million-copy bestseller To Heaven and Back, Dr. Mary Neal (featured in the Netflix original series Surviving Death) shares untold stories about her encounters with Jesus and powerful insights about how the reality of heaven can make each day magnificent.

“If you want practical ways to bring more...

5) The Islamic enlightenment: the struggle between faith and reason : 1798 to modern times

Author

De Bellaigue, Christopher

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Compact Disc

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A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we knew, The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory...