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BOOK REVIEW: Fragments by Heraclitus

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BOOK REVIEW: Fragments by Heraclitus

Written around twenty-five hundred years ago, Heraclitus declared that energy is the essence of the matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. Fragments if a form of collected writings by the Greek, since the title and the context of the book both suggest that. Share this:Click t

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Book Review: The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

Pages: 416, Kindle edition Published: August, 2011 (current edition) Cover Rating: 3/5 Goodreads | Buy from Amazon Last month was all about work and productivity. The older me (self two years ago) would be scared of the term of productivity. Since the start of this year, I am reading and learning ab

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BOOK REVIEW: Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg

I am a strong believer in effective communication skills which are vital for success. One thing I can assure you from my experience is that loud, bitter and violent communication never leads to fulfilment. Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication is a book about avoiding just that. He takes the

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BOOK REVIEW: Project Bodi by Hosein Kouros-Mehr

Pages: 219, Kindle Edition Published: September 2017 Cover Rating: 3/5 How many science fiction books you have read on the future of out species? Out of them, how many are dystopian? Recently, I watched Blade Runner and I liked the flying cars. What if the occurrence of changes are dystopian not as

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BOOK REVIEW: Ikigai – The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Pages: 192, Kindle Edition Published: August 2017 by Penguin Books Cover Rating: 5/5 The positive attitude and emotional awareness of Japanese is appealing to anyone since it is directly associated with health. It is known that people of Japan have longest life expectancy in the world. Don’t we all

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BOOK REVIEW: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

First Published: 1938 Originally titled La Nausée and published in 1938, is Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel and an exploration of his early thoughts and ideas on existentialism that are elaborated in his later works. This book even though comes under the category of fiction is a difficult one to revi

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BOOK REVIEW: Become What You Are by Alan Watts

Pages: 146, Kindle Edition First Published on: 1955 Cover Rating: 4/5 Buy From Amazon This not the first Alan Watts book I have read. To read this one, I made myself familiar with his writing and philosophy by reading his other books such as The Wisdom of Insecurity (on someone’s recommendation in p

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