The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
By: Bobby Azarian
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But…
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1. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati
4.25
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more
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"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
3. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
By: Sam Harris
3.90
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and relig… read more
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"Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love"-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
4. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more
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5. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Bernardo Kastrup
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more
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6. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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7. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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9. The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions-More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete-with Integral Buddhism as an Example
By: Ken Wilber
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A provocative examination of how the great religious traditions can remain relevant in modern times… read more
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10. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
11. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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12. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
13. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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14. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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15. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
By: Erik Hoel
3.68
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more
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16. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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17. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
By: Mark Solms
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more
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"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
18. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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19. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
By: Philip Goff
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radical… read more
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20. The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
By: Bobby Azarian
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But… read more
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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