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The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we ¿nd magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, öcial archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live-in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society we...

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A lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection through poetry.Religion once formed the rhythms and structures of society: marking time with calendars, carving out space for contemplation, creating connection, reinforcing legacy and morality. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show.So where shall we find our magic? How do we celebrate milestones? Which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inqu...

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A tour de force, "Funny "is a stunning masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological, tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a ...

Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions. From Confucius to Galileo and Emily Dickinson to Stephen Hawking, this is an account of humanitys greatest doubters and disbelievers who drove history forward.

On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed ...

In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest 'intellectual virtuosos, ' who are also humani...

Historian Hecht looks at contemporary happiness advice and, with a newfound historical perspective, liberates readers from the scolding, quasi-scientific messages that insist there is a formula for happiness and offers real lessons that have stood the test of time.

Hecht repurposes texts and creates a magic echo chamber, bringing the lines and lyrics of long-gone friends to the table.

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Hecht channels her grief for 2 friends lost to suicide into a search for history's most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act.

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Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions. From Confucius to Stephen Hawking, this is a history of humanitys greatest doubters and disbelievers who drove history forward.

Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions. From Confucius to Stephen Hawking, this is a history of humanitys greatest doubters and disbelievers who drove history forward.