Thoreau's Axe

Thoreau's AxeAuthor: Caleb Smith ISBN: 9780691214771 Publisher: Princeton University Press Year first published: 09 May 2023 Pages: 208 Format: Hardback How nineteenth century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious" Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may

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and charts her changing significance over the course of two centuries to scholars whose deep investments in her life tell a history of its own

but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway

enormous expectations

and Trystan will have to trust each other and work together to stop Trystan’s father from forging an empire

While married to her fourth husband

touched everyone who watched it and won huge praise for the honesty and bravery he showed in talking about his emotions and experiences

led by Honore Grandissime

the metaphysics it needs

will she learn to stand on her own two feet

philosophical hermeneutics and the history of ideas

who beat them