Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear’s insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end—that is, the purpose—of living. How to persist in the face of planetary ca

In dit boek ontwaart de sociaal psycholoog Jonathan Haidt een pijnlijke paradox: terwijl we onze kinderen in de fysieke wereld meer en meer beschermen

Het lijkt wel alsof we de toekomst zijn gaan ervaren als een onafwendbaar noodlot. We graven ons in om rampen als klimaatopwarming, oorlog en economis

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping and prismatic story of community, c

Na haar studie trekt Phyl weer bij haar ouders in. Ze gruwt van haar baantje, heeft schrijfambities maar weet niet hoe nu verder. Dat verandert wannee

Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths' hold the key to a happier, more fulfilled life?In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonath

De 24-jarige zorgvernieuwer Teun Toebes heeft een missie: de levenskwaliteit van mensen met dementie verbeteren. Hij woont al jaren op de gesloten afd

In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an

Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we s

Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is

Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It's not about

Everywhere we look in contemporary culture, knowingness has taken the place of thought. This book is a spirited assault on that deadening trend, espec

Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry—psychoanalysis and moral philosophy—that seem to have little to say to e

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction“Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give mea

Plenty Coups, last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground and they could not lif

In april 2021 reisden auteur Jonathan Littell en fotograaf Antoine d’Agata naar Kyiv om onderzoek te doen voor een nieuw boek in opdracht van het Baby

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world   “[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a p

'The premier satirist of great British crapness is on killer form in this gag-a-minute mystery' Observer'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat... Coe i

Toen Manuel, de jongere broer van Jonathan Maas, in 1978 werd geboren, was meteen duidelijk dat er iets niet in orde was. Zijn schedel was te klein en