Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry into Science, Philosophy, and Perception
By: Steve Hagen
4.12
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
In this wise and original book, science writer and Zen priest Steve Hagen helps us to perceive the …
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1. Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
By: Joseph Campbell , David Kudler
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as "other people's religion." But he also said that one of th… read more
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- philosophy
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2. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
3. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more
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4. Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution From the Origin Of the Universe
By: None
3.95
Format: 315 pages,
Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really te… read more
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5. Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
By: Michael S. Gazzaniga
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in recent years: Since physical laws … read more
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6. Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more
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7. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
By: Richard Rohr
4.23
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more
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"The ego hates losing – even to God."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
8. The Necessity of Atheism
By: None
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the relig… read more
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9. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
By: Tim Flannery
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettabl… read more
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10. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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11. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
12. The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again
By: Justin Brierley
4.43
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Could We Be Witnessing a Return of Belief in Our Generation? Justin Brierley is convinced that in … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
13. The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
By: Robert Pantano
4.36
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of essays that journey through philosophy and grapple with the increasingly relevant p… read more
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- philosophy
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- spirituality
- psychology
14. Calypso
By: David Sedaris
4.11
Format: 272 pages, ebook
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever la… read more
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- nonfiction
"In France the most often used word is “connerie,"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other."-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We’re like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other’s hands and missing every time"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award."-David Sedaris, Calypso
15. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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- psychology
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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
16. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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17. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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18. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
19. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more
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- science
20. 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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21. The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment
By: Aldous Huxley
4.14
Format: 336 pages, ebook
“A genius . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Y… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"The triumph of humanism is the defeat of humanity."-Aldous Huxley, The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment
"Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system."-Aldous Huxley, The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment
"The politics of those who regard eternity as the ultimate reality are concerned with the present and with the ways and means of organizing the present world in such a way that it will impose the fewe…"-Aldous Huxley, The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment
22. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
By: Eric Weiner
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectua… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"No wonder so many philosophers walked. Socrates, of course, liked nothing more than strolling in the agora. Nietzsche regularly embarked on spirited two-hour jaunts in the Swiss Alps, convinced “all …"-Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
23. Awake: It's Your Turn
By: Angelo DiLullo
4.62
Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition
You can wake up from the dream of separation. If you know what that means, then you’re in luck, thi… read more
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24. China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen
By: David Hinton
4.13
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by ren… read more
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25. No Path to Enlightenment: The I before I am - exposing the illusion of your Self
By: Colin McMorran
4.56
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The illusion of the Self is the belief that you are your thoughts, in other words, the personal ide… read more
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26. Experiencing God Directly: The Way of Christian Nonduality
By: Marshall Davis
4.57
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
We can know God directly. We can have immediate awareness of oneness with God in the present moment… read more
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27. 853 Hard To Believe Facts
By: Nayden Kostov
3.92
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
I admit that most trivia books are insufferably boring. This book, however, is loaded with fun and … read more
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28. Chancing It: The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
By: Robert Matthews
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Make your own luck by understanding probability Over the years, some very smart people have thought… read more
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29. Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry into Science, Philosophy, and Perception
By: Steve Hagen
4.12
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
In this wise and original book, science writer and Zen priest Steve Hagen helps us to perceive the … read more
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- zen
- psychology
- philosophy
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- spirituality
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30. The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
By: P.J.E. Peebles
3.88
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in… read more
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31. 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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