From the influential and hugely popular "New York Times" columnist and bestselling author of "Bobos in Paradise" comes a landmark exploration of how human beings and communities succeed.

Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark,...

Labeled illustrations of a cat in various situations introduce basic words that are opposites, including "up" and "down", "open" and "shut", and "fast" and "slow".

Rhyming text describes a variety of cats and their activities.

"Describes the mountain pine beetle and how it has caused an epidemic of dead trees in the Rocky Mountains"--Provided by publisher.