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Promise Land: My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“In writing this book I walked on hot coals, met a man making a weight-loss robot, joined a Healing Circle, and faced my debilitating fear of flying. Of all of these things, talking to my father about my mother’s death was by far the hardest.” The daughter of a widowed... |
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Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
Leonard Shlain · Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the potential for humankind through the life, art, and mind of the first true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. The author hypothesizes that da Vinci's staggering range of achievements demonstrates a harbinger of the future of our species. Da Vinci's... |
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Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
Susan Neiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Our culture is obsessed with youth-and why not? Whats the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience? The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident... |
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Great Dialogues of Plato
Plato · Signet
Format: Paperback
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Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love., |
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The Courage to Be: Third Edition
Paul Tillich · Yale University Press; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety.... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have... |
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Ronald Epstein · Scribner
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.As a third-year Harvard Medical... |
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The Wounds Within: A Veteran, a PTSD Therapist, and a Nation Unprepared
Joshua S. Goldstein · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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As America’s longest wars end, hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Wounds Within follows the iconic case of Marine Lance Corporal Jeff Lucey, who deployed early in the Iraq War, battled PTSD after returning... |
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
Daniel Goleman · Bantam
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before... |
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Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers
Nancy Sherman · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries--guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged-elude conventional treatment. Georgetown philosophy... |
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge · Pantheon
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These... |
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