Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
By: Brian Thomas Swimme
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The host and co-creator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, and an award-winning professor of evoluti…
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1. Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions … read more
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- philosophy
- astronomy
- nonfiction
- science
2. The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
By: Alan Lightman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreamsand Mr g,a meditation on the unexpected ways in which… read more
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- philosophy
- astronomy
- nonfiction
- science
3. The Power Of The Crone
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Audio CD
Entering the terrain of wisdom occurs at any age. We sometimes step, sometimes stumble, and are oth… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
4. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story
By: Brian Swimme
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Opens up not only the exhilarating truths that science reveals of the birth of the universe, but ho… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- astronomy
- science
5. The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
By: Mary Evelyn Tucker , Thomas Berry
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
6. Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality
By: Michael Harner
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal cl… read more
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7. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
By: Irvin D. Yalom
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sunis a profoundly encouragin… read more
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8. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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10. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
11. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
12. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
13. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
14. Take What You Need
By: Idra Novey
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more
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15. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
16. The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
By: Lisa Miller
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Whether it’s meditation or a walk in nature, reading a sacred text or saying a prayer, there are ma… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- science
17. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- science
18. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
20. The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine
By: Sophie Strand
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A deep exploration of the regenerative and magical secrets of sacred masculinity hidden in familiar… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
21. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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22. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- memoir
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
23. Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
By: Marcus Chown
4.04
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
24. Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
By: Chip Conley
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy “reminds us all t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
25. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
3.81
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
26. Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
By: Brian Thomas Swimme
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The host and co-creator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, and an award-winning professor of evoluti… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- astronomy
- science
27. The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
By: Jeremy Lent
4.25
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
28. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
29. DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.46
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Few lives have been as consequential for modern Mormonism as D. Michael Quinn. The son of a Mexican… read more
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30. In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
By: Nick Bunker
3.96
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War Halfway through the twen… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Meditations with Thomas Berry: With additional material by Brian Swimme (GreenSpirit Book Series)
By: Thomas Berry
4.22
Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of profound and inspiring quotations from one of the most important voices of our the… read more
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