The Romance of Commerce and Culture is a lively and provocative history of how art and intellect formed an alliance with consumer capitalism in the mid-twentieth century and put Aspen, Colorado, on the map.

The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform, Revised Edition

James Sloan Allen

Arts & Photography

University Press of Colorado

The author engagingly explores some fifty classic works (mainly but not exclusively from the West) to elucidate their contents and draw out ideas valuable for understanding human life in this world and for living that life well. Worldly Wisdom has a distinctly humanistic slant, with a suggestion of a thinker's self-help book.

Worldly Wisdom: Great Books and the Meanings of Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Frederic C. Beil, Publisher

William James, the radical modern philosopher and father of American psychology, found habit and will to be the secret of a good life. He elaborated this discovery into a philosophy of life that runs through his many scintillating writings, ranging from psychology and religion to pragmatism and war. Always he urged people to cultivate habits of mind---especially the habits of will, including the power to break bad habits---that give us self-mastery, alert us to truth, equip us to act, and lend zest to life. In the extensive introduction James Sloan Allen shows how William James came to his philosophy of life and how he played it out in ideas and works that have immediate value today. In the selections that are included in the book, we see William James weaving this philosophy through classic writings on habit and its uses, consciousness and the discipline of the will, the efficacy of belief and clues to morality, the truths of experience, and the strenuous life and its rewards. Who can resist learning secrets of life? That was, after all, William James's subject.

William James on Habit, Will, Truth, and the Meaning of Life

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Frederic C. Beil

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