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Upcoming Non-Fiction Releases March 2018
DIR By: TheFantastical
Date: March 21, 2018, 11:03 am
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Soon: What Science, Philosophy, Religion and History Teach Us
about the Surprising Power of Procrastination by Andrew Santella
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> An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal
tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history’s
greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists,
philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put
off what we’re supposed to be doing and why we shouldn’t feel so
bad about it.
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> Like so many of us, including most of America’s workforce, and
nearly two-thirds of all university students, Andrew Santella
procrastinates. Concerned about his habit, but not quite ready
to give it up, he set out to learn all he could about the human
tendency to delay. He studied history’s greatest procrastinators
to gain insights into human behavior, and also, he writes, to
kill time, “research being the best way to avoid real work.”
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> He talked with psychologists, philosophers, and priests. He
visited New Orleans’ French Quarter, home to a shrine to the
patron saint of procrastinators. And at the home of Charles
Darwin outside London, he learned why the great naturalist
delayed writing his masterwork for more than two decades.
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> Drawing on an eclectic mix of historical case studies in
procrastination—from Leonardo da Vinci to Frank Lloyd Wright,
and from Old Testament prophets to Civil War generals—Santella
offers a sympathetic take on habitual postponement. He questions
our devotion to “the cult of efficiency” and suggests that delay
and deferral can help us understand what truly matters to us.
Being attentive to our procrastination, Santella writes, means
asking, “whether the things the world wants us to do are really
worth doing.”
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Release Date - March, 13, 2018
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35008530-soon?ac=1&from_search=true
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life by Laura Thompson
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> It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her
first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A
brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns
her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime
writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four
million copies each year—more than thirty years after her
death—and it shows no signs of slowing.
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> But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally
pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in
which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including
those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the
many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably,
her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.
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> Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned,
and writing about her is a detection job in itself. With
unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and
notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her
grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations,
Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of
Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind this
mysterious woman.
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Release Date - March 6th 2018
Link
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35407580-agatha-christie?ac=1&from_search=true
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