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The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss
embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the
footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how
each-from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir-offers practical
and spiritual lessons for today's unsettled times. We turn to
philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a
dif ferent perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new
ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face
regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for
philosophy and travel in a globe-trotting pil grimage that uncovers
surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from
Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train
(the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of
miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island,
Frankfurt, and points in between to recon nect with philosophy's
original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful
lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Beauvoir and
20th-century Paris, Weiner's chosen philosophers and places provide
important practical and spiritual lessons as we navigate today's
chaotic times. In a "delightful" odyssey that "will take you places
intellectually and humorously" (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner
invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of
wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most
vital questions. The Socrates Express is "full of valuable
lessons...a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent
simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls
them in deeper and deeper" (NPR).
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted
self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from
America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the
crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a
beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to
investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in
Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in
the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in
all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative
to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North
Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights,
Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering
travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier
destinations and dispositions.
What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the
same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and
economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The
Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in
between... After years of going to the world's least happy
countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to
travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and
discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. *He discovers the
relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely
wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) *He goes to Thailand, and
finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. *He goes to the
tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an
official policy of Gross National Happiness! *He asks himself why
the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the
world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates
in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into
a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of
Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer
achieve: to make you happier.
We contemplate for the same reasons we travel: to see the world
from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty and find new
ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face
regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for
philosophy and global travel in a pilgrimage that uncovers
surprising life lessons from philosophers around the world, from
Marcus Aurelius to Arthur Schopenhauer, Confucius to Montaigne.
Traveling by train he traversed thousands of miles, making stops in
Athens, Delhi, Massachusetts, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points
in between, to recapture philosophy's original purpose: teaching us
how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient
Athens to Simone de Beauvoir and twentieth century Paris, Weiner
invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of
wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most
vital questions.
This book deals with the essential factors in the personalization
of treatment for primary breast cancer. These include host issues,
lymph node surgery, radiation therapy, and preoperative systemic
treatment requiring specialized knowledge, multidisciplinary care
experience, techniques, and research. Locoregional treatment in
conjunction with systemic treatments is another important factor,
with options for local therapy significantly affected by genetic
BRCA mutation. Axillary treatment issues have become top priorities
in recent primary breast cancer care, and these are highlighted in
the book's presentation of technological advances in lymph node
mapping and diagnosis, axillary clearance in patients with nodal
metastasis, and the role of axillary surgery. Attention is also
given to locoregional treatment after preoperative systemic
therapy. Because therapeutic impact differs depending upon
biological characteristics such as tumor subtype, local therapy
should be based both on tumor biology and on therapeutic response
in parallel. Associated translational research and mathematical
prediction tools such as nomograms also are introduced. This book
provides the essence of primary breast cancer care, particularly
its individualization with novel therapeutic concepts and
strategies, and will greatly benefit physicians and clinical
investigators in breast cancer institutions.
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scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by
default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed
to him by a well-meaning nurse. ""Have you found your God yet?""The
thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him
on a far-flung journey to do just that.
Weiner, a longtime "spiritual voyeur" and inveterate traveler,
realizes that while he has been privy to a wide range of religious
practices, he's never seriously considered these concepts in his
own life. Face to face with his own mortality, and spurred on by
the question of what spiritual principles to impart to his young
daughter, he decides to correct this omission, undertaking a
worldwide exploration of religions and hoping to come, if he can,
to a personal understanding of the divine.
The journey that results is rich in insight, humor, and heart.
Willing to do anything to better understand faith, and to find the
god or gods that speak to him, he travels to Nepal, where he
meditates with Tibetan lamas and a guy named Wayne. He sojourns to
Turkey, where he whirls (not so well, as it turns out) with Sufi
dervishes. He heads to China, where he attempts to unblock his
"chi; "to Israel, where he studies Kabbalah, "sans" Madonna; and to
Las Vegas, where he has a close encounter with Raelians (followers
of the world's largest UFO-based religion).
At each stop along the way, Weiner tackles our most pressing
spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens when we
die? How should we live our lives? Where do all the missing socks
go? With his trademark wit and warmth, he leaves no stone unturned.
At a time when more Americans than ever are choosing a new faith,
and when spiritual questions loom large in the modern age, MAN
SEEKS GOD presents a perspective on religion that is sure to
delight, inspire, and entertain.
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