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The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
Ethan Nichtern · North Point Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A lively exploration of contemporary Buddhism from one of its most admired teachersDo you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?... |
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The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Jamie James · Farrar
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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According to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In The Glamour of Strangeness, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them."... |
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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
Ariel Leve · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences... |
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Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
Catrine Clay · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement.Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict... |
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Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Joseph T Hallinan · Crown Publishers
Pages: 260
Format: Print book |
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings' astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception - of ourselves and the world around us - is much more... |
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American Philosophy: A Love Story
John J Kaag · FSG
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundIn American Philosophy, John Kaag--a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career--stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once... |
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The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
Marina Cantacuzino · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Examining themes of forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict transformation, this book brings together the personal testimonies of both survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence and asks the question whether forgiveness may have more currency than revenge in an age which seems locked... |
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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
David Wood · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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From Pulitzer Prize-ÂÂwinning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book,... |
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Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals
Joel E Dimsdale · Yale University Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book |
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When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests,... |
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