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Alain de Botton has a knack for putting historic wisdom in a contemporary context. He also seems to suffer from a host of insecurities which he attempts to relieve using classic historical arguments. A think man’s self-help manual, Consolations might ...more "
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This is not a diet book. Taubes convincingly describes the personalities and politics that have built the consensus on healthy diets over the past 100 years. In the process he shreds the conventional wisdom linking modern diet to heart disease, obesi
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