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The point is : making sense of birth, death, and everything in between Cover Image Book Book
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The point is : making sense of birth, death, and everything in between

Eisenberg, Lee 1946- (author.).

Summary: Explores modern life and how to find meaning and purpose in personal and professional lives, providing research findings from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and through-provoking words of great thinkers including Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf.

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  • ISBN: 1455550469
  • ISBN: 9781455550463
  • Physical Description: xvi, 279 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: PART I: The beginning -- Meet the scribbler -- Inside the memory factory -- Authorized and unabridged -- First jottings -- A God-shaped hole -- Is the beginning important? -- PART II: The middle -- Beware the elbow -- Interlude: other voices -- Breathing space -- Paper and dust -- Who needs happiness? -- The James Dean story -- How we live on -- Snowbirds at sunset -- PART III: The end -- Ghost theory -- In search of a good ending -- Butterfly in the cafe -- A place in the shade -- Is there ever a right time? -- Chiseled and engraved -- Precious find -- Diaries dearest -- Writing a beautiful sentence.

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Subject: Life
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