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Book Cover for: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger
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Ishmael (Quinn) Gates of Fire (Pressley) Tribe (Sebastian Junger) Hope Dies Last (or anything by Studs Terkel really) The Phantom Tollbooth πŸ₯Ί https://t.co/Ytpw61peQQ

Hardcover, 2016

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times, Studs Terkel

Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

Studs Terkel
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Ishmael (Quinn) Gates of Fire (Pressley) Tribe (Sebastian Junger) Hope Dies Last (or anything by Studs Terkel really) The Phantom Tollbooth πŸ₯Ί https://t.co/Ytpw61peQQ

Paperback, 2004

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry, Randolph M. Nesse

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

Randolph M. Nesse
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Nesse's Good Reasons for Bad Feelings is a p interesting book in this regard - the idea is that even our negative emotions like anxiety, depression etc are part of a naturally adaptive system to certain situations and their absence is harmful https://t.co/WPUf2Okz7C

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Book Cover for: One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder, Brian Doyle

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

Brian Doyle
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@tommycollison Sand Talk - indigenous perspectives on history and culture One Long River of Song (Brian Doyle's essay collection) Humble the Poet - Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths (heard him on a podcast re: self-love, seemed super cool dude) Reading Like a Writer (slowly making my way through πŸ˜…)

Paperback, 2020

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Hernan Diaz

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
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yo I finally started reading Hernan Diaz's Trust and it's SUCH a good example of how "tell not show" can totally work when the tell has style and verve 😯 i'm on like 3-5 highlights a chapter https://t.co/X1BFDEjXej

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fire, Sebastian Junger

Fire

Sebastian Junger
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Ishmael (Quinn) Gates of Fire (Pressley) Tribe (Sebastian Junger) Hope Dies Last (or anything by Studs Terkel really) The Phantom Tollbooth πŸ₯Ί https://t.co/Ytpw61peQQ

Paperback, 2002

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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