John Tierney
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We don't think about time much, do we? Time surrounds us. We can't think about it any more than a fish can imagine the water in which he swims. Einstein said time is an illusion. Henri Bergson sees it as "duration, a natural flow. A Buddhist would see it as a circle, a priest as eternity's antechamber, a historian a history of human development and decay. On the other hand, a lawyer might see his hours as billable units, and a psychiatrist might see...
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China has been China for four thousand years; concealment may be a reaction to a past redolent of autocracy, but it seems prevalent in all aspects of Chinese life. Confucius' idea of keeping the masses ignorant in order to make them easier to govern remains in force. We in America have had, or had until just recently, an underlying assumption that things are going to get better and better. This idea of long-term success is alien to Chinese culture,...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm
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"Eminent social scientist Roy F. Baumeister stumbled unexpectedly upon this fundamental aspect of human nature. To find out why financial losses mattered more to people than financial gains, Baumeister looked for situations in which good events made a bigger impact than bad ones. But his team couldn't find any. Their research showed that bad is relentlessly stronger than good, and their paper has become one of the most-cited in the scientific literature."--Amazon.com....
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Join Elmo and the Sesame Street gang as they travel along asking kids to sing their favorite songs, act out nursery rhymes, lullabies, and just plain silly songs. Also, features the brand new Sesame Street segment, "Hero Guy!"