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When the going gets tough, it's time to get gritty. Written by a clinical-child and school psychologist and based in the latest research, The Grit Guide for Teens will help you build perseverance, resilience, self-control, and stamina.
As a teen, setting and reaching goals is an important part of growing up. Whether you want to do well in school, get into a good college, make friends, excel in sports, or master the fine arts
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Baruch Spinoza ha sido llamado el Príncipe de los Filósofos; Hegel dijo de él que la alternativa era: o Spinoza, o ninguna filosofía. Al sentar las bases para la Ilustración del siglo XVIII y la crítica bíblica moderna, incluyendo las concepciones modernas del yo y el universo, llegó a ser considerado uno de los grandes racionalistas de la filosofía del siglo XVII: tuvo el coraje de criticar el tradicionalismo de la religión, para ofrecer...
10) The prophet
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Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran's classic work of prose poetry, containing 26 fables where the titular prophet, Al Mustafa, tells lessons and stories about all aspects of the human condition -- love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer,...
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Widely accepted as a philosophical masterpiece, Ethics sets out to explain nothing less than the nature of God, the world, and how we should live. Rejecting some of the most deeply held presuppositions of classical and medieval thought, Spinoza makes the radical claim that God and the universe are in fact one and the same, a single substance with infinite attributes.
Ethics is famously complex, its elaborate and self-referential matrix of definitions...
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Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope.