Hay una capacidad que yace en el corazón de cualquier persona o comunidad: la de ver a los demás ?en su sentido más profundo? y hacerlos sentir valorados, respetados y comprendidos. Sin embargo, a nuestro alrededor hay personas que...
Todas ellas comparten una trayectoria vital común, que podríamos describir como la silueta de dos montañas: en cuanto terminan los estudios emprenden una carrera profesional, y a partir de entonces empiezan a escalar la ladera que...
Vivimos en una cultura que nos enseña a anhelar el éxito y labrar una carrera deslumbrante, pero que da poco aliento a la humildad, la compasión y la honestidad, indispensables para forjar el carácter y cultivar nuestra vida...
The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want....
We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us?
Writing well, and persuasively, is not only a discipline that can be learned, it is one deeply rooted in the classical arts of rhetoric and polemic. This book introduces the essential skills, rules, and steps for producing effective political prose approp...
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life....
From the influential and hugely popular "New York Times" columnist and bestselling author of "Bobos in Paradise" comes a landmark exploration of how human beings and communities succeed.
This antiquarian book contains a fascinating treatise on atheism, religion, and science. A thought-provoking and informative exploration of the ostensibly opposed ideas and beliefs of science and popular religion, this volume is highly recommended for...
In his bestselling work of âcomic sociology,â David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo , to describe todayâs upper classâthose who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise...
A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all...