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Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life, by Emily A. Austin

Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies In my first, diagnostic year at Sussex there was a required course in Philosophy. Turned out to be Brit logical positivism. Allegedly to help recent…

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Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time by Sheila Liming

Review by Annabel The New Year always brings with it a slew of self-help books about becoming the better/fitter/healthier/wealthier you. I look at these books and think – really? Why…

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The Art of Life Admin: How to do Less, do it Better, and Live More, by Elizabeth Emens

Review by Liz Dexter Emens is a professor of Law who made the discovery a while back that there was something invisible and other than “chores”, the stuff that goes…

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Irresistible: Why we Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching by Adam Alter
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Irresistible: Why we Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching by Adam Alter

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Before: Phone on bedside table, checked for the time whenever I woke up and checked for emails / Facebook updates if I woke sufficiently; a “quick”…

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All I Know Now by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Reviewed by Annabel Subtitled ‘Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully’, All I Know Now is part memoir, part advice guide for teens, by one of the big stars of vlogging. Carrie…

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