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Wilson

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), president of the United States in 1913–1921, the main supporter of the League of Nations.

Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann

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• Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann
• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams

  Edward Wilson (1929–2021), an American biologist, ant researcher, and the originator of the idea of biophilia.

• The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, David Brooks

  Edward Osborne Wilson (1929 to 2021), an American biologist, the world's leading expert on ants and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

• The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything, Neil Pasricha

  Pasricha's school guidance counsellor, whose story opens the author's chapter on retirement.

• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal

  Timothy Wilson, an American social psychologist at the University of Virginia. He is known for the experiment in which people chose an electric shock over being bored alone with their thoughts.

• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

  Robert Wilson, an American radio astronomer and Arno Penzias's partner. Together they discovered the cosmic microwave background and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics.

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Robert Wilson, an American radio astronomer and Arno Penzias's partner. The noise in their antenna turned out to be leftover radiation from the Big Bang, and both shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for it.

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