17 Top nonfiction books like The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions by Jay L. Garfield

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The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions

By: Jay L. Garfield

4.41

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The Meaning of Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions is an invigorating way …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions by Jay L. Garfield , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Exploring Metaphysics

By: None , David Kyle Johnson

4.00

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Length: 11 hours and 24 minutes What comes to mind when you hear the word “metaphysics”? Forget th… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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2. Great World Religions: Hinduism

By: Mark W. Muesse

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Audio Cassette

AUDIO CASSETTE COURSE. read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"The Hindu tradition speaks of four “goods"

-Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism

"Śiva is both the creator and destroyer of the universe, movement and tranquility, light and darkness, male and female, celibate and promiscuous. These paradoxes serve to symbolize the limitlessness a…"

-Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism

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3. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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4. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

By: Will Durant

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle,… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time

By: Sean Carroll

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Audio CD

Time rules our lives. From the rising and setting of the sun to the cycles of nature, the thought p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. 12 Essential Scientific Concepts

By: The Great Courses , Indre Viskontas

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Audible Audio

Length: 12 hours and 5 minutes Science is such a vast arena of knowledge that people looking for a … read more

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8. A History of India (The Great Courses #8350)

By: Michael H. Fisher

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Audiobook

Over 5,000 years, India has been home to a rich tapestry of peoples and cultures. Two of the world'… read more

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9. The Art of Happiness

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Howard C. Cutler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else aroun… read more

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10. The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium

By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author of the bestselling Flow(more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring … read more

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11. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
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12. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.16

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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13. How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

By: Julian Baggini

3.69

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • science
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14. Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

By: Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Distilled to its essence, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy known as Stoicism is a philosophy of p… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions

By: Jay L. Garfield

4.41

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The Meaning of Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions is an invigorating way … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • theology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • society
  • science
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16. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.81

Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio

Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civiliz… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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17. The Science of Storytelling

By: Will Storr

4.06

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The gift of story is wisdom"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

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18. Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal

By: Kyler Shumway

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

We’ve all been told, at one point or another, to "just be yourself." Whether you are starting schoo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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19. How to Boost Your Physical and Mental Energy

By: Kimberlee Bethany Bonura

3.74

Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio

Wouldn't it be great if you could wake up every morning with an unending reserve of energy? Get a s… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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20. Changing Body Composition Through Diet and Exercise

By: Michael J. Ormsbee

4.03

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Should you avoid red meat and eat only carbs, or avoid carbs and focus on healthy fats? Will 500 cr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. The Science of Natural Healing

By: Erminia Guarneri

4.12

Format: None pages, Audio CD

In the 21st century, the Western paradigm for healthcare is changing. Notwithstanding the great str… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

15 Top audiobook books like The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions by Jay L. Garfield

Transform Your Habits

Exploring Metaphysics

None , David Kyle Johnson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Great World Religions: Hinduism

Mark W. Muesse

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Will Durant

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time

Sean Carroll

4.11

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14 Top audiobook books like Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World by Massimo Pigliucci

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War (The Great Courses, #9456)

Andrew R. Wilson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World

Robert Garland

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

Ryan Holiday

4.04

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