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Life and Letters of James David Forbes
A wide-ranging 1873 biography of a Victorian Scottish physicist who was also Britain's 'father of Alpine adventure'.
Life and Letters of James David Forbes
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Mindfulness and Its Discontents
Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an emphasis on self-responsibility and self-promotion. Rather than a way to promote human development and social justice, McMindfulness covertly reinforces neoliberalism and capitalism, the very self-promoting systems that worsen our suffering. In Mindfulness and Its Discontents, David Forbes provides a...
Life and Letters of James David Forbes (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Life and Letters of James David Forbes This biography is the work of three writers, each working separately and, in a great measure, independently of the other two. This subdivision of labour has, I am aware, serious drawbacks, and would not have been resorted to, had any one person been found who could have undertaken adequately to describe the various aspects of Forbes' life and work. But, in default of a writer who could do this, it was thought better to portion out the work to three writers, than to have it inadequately done by one. No doubt the book has in this way lost something in symmetry, but it is hoped that it may have gained more in thoroughness and completeness. In ...
2000 Band Names
If anyone regards this as a work of comedy, the author will be highly offended. Highly. Offended.
