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While perusing these pages, you may hear an answer still echoing from centuries past.

By Julian Baggini

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The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us About Being Human and Living Well Arts & Culture Book Bites Happiness

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“The taste for alcohol wouldn’t have stayed in our gene pool unless it was doing some positive things.”

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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

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