{"product_id":"changing-my-mind-isbn-9781912559695","title":"Changing My Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed—about politics, books, words, memories, and more—in this wise and fascinating new book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world and other people. It puts an end to vacillation, uncertainty, weak-mindedness. It seems to make us stronger and more mature. Well, we would think that, wouldn't we?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these engaging and erudite essays, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books, about memories, about age and time.\"Barnes is always a compelling essayist, steering clear of polemical thinking to carefully consider all angles of a topic, and the range of his references, from Dadaists to John Maynard Keynes, constantly astounds.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“It feels right for Barnes to approach his topic through autobiography, in the first person. This genre goes back to Descartes’ Meditations: epistemology as memoir. And like Descartes before him, Barnes confronts the specter of self-doubt.” —Kieran Setiya,\u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A witty, personal reflection on the ways we continually convince ourselves that 'we are consistent human beings rather than seaweed tossed around by the tides.'\" —Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that humility, like a muscle, atrophies without use . . . But, as Barnes has the courage to show in his latest book, it must be tested regularly, and kept accessible enough to be employed at the ready, lest we find ourselves inexplicably, but undeniably, mistaken.\" — J.R. Patterson, \u003ci\u003eNew Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulian Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of thirteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Noise of Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Only Story\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays, and three books of nonfiction, including the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) number-one bestseller \u003ci\u003eLevels of Life \u003c\/i\u003eand the winner of the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia, \u003ci\u003eNothing to Be Frightened Of\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur.","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300878733541,"sku":"NP9781912559695","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781912559695.jpg?v=1767723557","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/changing-my-mind-isbn-9781912559695","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}