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The View from Ninety: Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life

The View from Ninety: Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life - Hardcover

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Charles HandyPublish date:2025-08-26Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hutchinson RadiusISBN-13:9781529154801ISBN-10:1529154804UPC:9781529154801Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, ManagementWeight:1.25Product ID:SCTRT8FS5M
FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE EMPTY RAINCOAT AND UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS.

A Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025

Over a span of seven decades, Charles Handy was, variously, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher. Not even a stroke as he approached the age of 90 dimmed his intellectual curiosity or his immense zest for life.

In this, his final book, written from the vantage point of a contemplative old age and drawing on his articles for The Idler he shares his thoughts on the big questions with which we all grapple:

What things really matter?
What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant?
How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us?
How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? How do we cope with grief and loss?

Drawing in part on his own experience, in part on the wisdom of others, he sets out the principles of enjoying a fulfilled and contented life, and gently points the way to the practicalities of achieving it.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hutchinson RadiusISBN-13:9781529154801ISBN-10:1529154804UPC:9781529154801Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, ManagementWeight:1.25Product ID:SCTRT8FS5M
Charles Handy was a writer, broadcaster and teacher, as well as a former oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Gods of Management, The Second Curve and 21 Letters.

Charles Handy died on 13 December 2024 at the age of 92. The View from Ninety, his final book, draws on articles first published in The Idler magazine.
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius

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