Best Social Sciences Books
Category100 of 1,921 books320 recommendations totalThe social science books economists, sociologists and anthropologists recommend most — inequality, cities, migration and institutions. Each title links back to the fieldwork, and to who recommended it.
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Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the Worldand Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Readers of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think seeking engagement for all reading groups can gain further insight with this essential resource as a guide to aid your discussions. New York Times bestselling book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is written by the global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling. He defines factfulness as 'the stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.' In Factfulness, Rosling, a Professor of International Health, offers a radically new explanation to the simple questions about global trends. He explains why this happens. He also reveals the ten instincts that collectively distort our perspective. Bill Gates says that Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is "one of the most important books I've ever read." Gates says that this book is "an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." In this comprehensive look into Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, you'll be equipped to prepare with the following: Discussion aid which includes a wealth of prompts and information Overall plot synopsis and author biography Thought-provoking discussion questions for a deeper examination Creative exercises to foster alternate "if this was you" discussions And much more! Note to readers: This is a companion guide based on Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. This is meant to enhance and aid your reading experience, not to replace it. We strongly encourage you to purchase the original book before purchasing this unofficial companion guide.
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A Memoir of the Obama White House
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Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga & gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of human nature. Illustrated.The book is divided into four sections:Journey: The Transformation: Dr Richard Alpert, PhD into Baba Ram DassFrom Bindu to Ojas: The Core BookCookbook for a Sacred Life: A...

The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World
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Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
?A manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.? ?Zadie Smith?The best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.? ?Margaret Atwood?No one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read The Gift and remain unchanged.? ?David Foster WallaceBy now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orc...
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcityand our flawed responses to itshapes our lives, our society, and our cultureWhy do successful people get things done at the last minute Why does poverty persist Why do organizations get stuck firefighting Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends These questions seem unconnected, y...
SelfCongratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in educa...
The nowclassic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure ou...

Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism
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Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Where do ideas come fromIn Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch provides a rare window into his methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.Lynch describes the experience of "diving within" and "catching" ideas like fish a...

A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
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Embrace the Possible
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How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
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A Personal Statement
The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index....

Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will stay in your heart forever."Angela Duckworth, author of GritEmpathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand people who aren't like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006...
Engineer Your Path to Joy
Mo Gawdat is the Vice President of Business Innovation at Google’s [X]. Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an equation based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy.In 2001, Mo Gawdat, a remarkable thinker and leading technolo...
Selections from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania.Between the three of them,...

What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of g...
The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps, and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind
Proven solutions for a better night's sleep, from the "sleep guru" to elite athletesOnethird of our lives3,000 hours a yearis spent trying to sleep. The hours we spend in bed shape our moods, motivation, alertness, decisionmaking skills, creativity...in short, our ability to perform. But most of us have disturbed, restless nights, relying on ...
Ellen J. Langer, Harvard professor of psychology, determines that the mindless following of routine and other automatic behaviors lead to much error, pain and a predetermined course of life. In this thoughtprovoking book, her research has been "translated" for the lay reader. With anecdotes and metaphors, Langer explains how the mindlessas oppos...

A Book About Hope
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Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life
“An invaluable operating manual,” says Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of Delivering Happiness. Using brilliantly simple logic that illuminates the universal truths in common emotional challenges, popular motivational speaker and bestselling author Chip Conley has written “a fresh, original guide to an authentic and fulfilling life.”With a forew...
How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology ha...
The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Dealexplaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on b...
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as ?one of the most preciou...
Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
Since the 2016 election, college campuses have erupted in violent protests, demands for safe spaces, and the silencing of views that activist groups find disagreeable. Who are the leaders behind these protests, and what do they want In Panic Attack, libertarian journalist Robby Soave answers these questions by profiling young radicals from across ...
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
A New York Times BestsellerForeword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When firstyear graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiplechoice survey on urban povertyand impress his professors with his boldn...
G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in 1940, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathe...
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to ?The Three Little Pigs,...

How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genresliterary biography and selfhelp manualin the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life Proust underst...
the world faces myriad challenges yet we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21st Century, how do we deal with natural disasters, tackle global warming, achieve better nutrition, educate children...and address countless other urgent global issuesIf you want to change the world, this inspiring and enlightening book is for you. Bjørn Lombo...
A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
How do we love in a time of rage How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves Valarie Kaur?renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer?describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no...
New Expanded Edition
Compiled from Bruce Lee?s notes and essays and originally published in 1975, this iconic volume is one of the seminal martial arts guides of its time. The science and philosophy behind the fighting system Lee pioneered himself?jeet kune do?is explained in detail, depicted through hundreds of Lee?s own illustrations. With the collaboration of Lee?s ...
Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early...
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1944, Bureaucracy is a classic fundamental examination of the nature of bureaucracies and free markets in juxtaposition to various political systems. Bureaucracy contrasts the two forms of economic management—that of a free market economy and that of a bureaucracy. In the market economy entrepreneurs...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this infl...
Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think....

Charles F. Haanel's groundbreaking work an inspiration for the megaselling The Secret has returned with fresh advice for the modern age What would be possible if you could unlock your entire mental potential The Master Key System is one of the classic works in the "science of thought" tradition. Charles F. Haanel's timeless work has been re...
Christian Nationalism in the United States
Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt moral failings Why do many Americans advocate so vehemently for xenophobic policies, such as a border wall with Mexico Why do many Americans seem so unwilling to acknowledge the injustices that ethnic and racial minorities experience in the United State...
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe gro...
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.In a new foreword, noted peace ex...

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America and Our Imperiled World
"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America's unique role in the world." Tom Friedman, The New York Times A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the worldand what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.Recent years have brought deeply disturbing d...

New Constructs of Mind and Reality
The classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality.• Defines culture as a "cosmic egg" structured by the mind's drive for logical ordering of its universe.• Provides techniques allowing individuals to break through the vicious circle of logicbased systems to attain expanded ...
9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power
The Motivation Manifesto is a poetic and powerful call to reclaim our lives and find our own personal freedom. Its a triumphant work that transcends the title, lifting the reader from mere motivation into a soaringly purposeful and meaningful life. I love this book. Paulo CoelhoThe Motivation Manifesto is a pulsing, articulate, ferocious call to cl...

Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships
New from Helen Palmer, a "leading teacher and practitioner of the Enneagram" (San Francisco Chronicle), the first Enneagram book to give practical advice, in fascinating detail, on how to have the best possible relationships in love and business....
Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy.Who will be in power in the 21st century Governments Big business Internet titans And how do we influence the futureDigital Technology, is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust is fuelling political uncertainty; inequality is fuelling economic uncertainty; and massive technolo...
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a narrow derision of religion in the name of an often very vaguely understood 'science'. John Gray's stimulating and extremely enjoyable new book describes the rich, complex world of the atheist tradition, a tradition which he sees as in many ways as rich as that of religion itself, as well a...

Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rosetinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who the...
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a a fullscale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, base...
How One Thing Leads to Another
Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of atoms and planets Unlikely as it may seem, such laws now seem to be emerging from attempts to bring the tools and concepts of physics into the social sciences. These new discoveries are part of an...
Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering
Why do we suffer Is there a purpose to our pain Noting that human beings have wrestled with such questions for thousands of years, Phillip Moffitt has found answers for his own life in Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Reflecting on his own journey from Esquire magazine editorinchief to Buddhist meditation teacher, Moffitt provides a fresh pe...

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the "collected schizophrenias" but to those...
An unabridged edition to include: The Treasure House Within You How Your Own Mind Works The MiracleWorking Power of Your Subconscious Mental Healings in Ancient Times Mental Healings in Modern Times Practical Techniques in Mental Healings The Tendency of The Subconscious Is Lifeward How to Get the Results You Want How to Use the Po...

An Immigrant's Manifesto
A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue headon. Drawing on his own experience...

What are you afraid of Public speaking; asserting yourself; making decisions; being alone; intimacy; changing jobs; interviews; going back to school; ageing; ill health; driving; dating; ending a relationship; losing a loved one; becoming a parent; leaving home, failure, believing in yourself...Internationally renowned author Susan Jeffers has hel...

His Private Conversations
Secret conversations at Hitler's headquarters from July 1941 to November 1944 were all recorded for posterity. This book documents those conversations where Hitler talked freely of his aims, his early life, and his plans for world conquest....
Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives in their relationships, and you?ll hear stories of many u...
Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy Are you sick of being told that you are ?too sensitive? Do you struggle to respect a lesssensitive partner Or have you given up on love, afraid of being too sensitive or shy to endure its woundsStatistics show that 50 percent of what determines divorce is genetic temperament. And, if you are one of t...
Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
What is higher consciousness and why should it matter to you The New York Times bestselling author of You Are the Universe helps us unlock our peak human potential which can positively affect our physical health, our mind and brain, and the deep wells of our spirituality. What is the state of flow that some of us experience during periods of What ...

How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
"[Schulte's] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America's leisure time, and how do we get it back"?Lev Grossman, Time When awardwinning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discove...
The New Japanese Minimalism
The bestselling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo?he?s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn?t...

This present book contains the author's principal conclusions, or the principal things he learned politically in his journey from socialism to freedom. Upton Sinclair wrote that often we merely ?go from one extreme to the other.? The author says, on the contrary, the step is shorter from hardheaded classstruggle socialism to a firm defense of the...

A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life
The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night?s rest. With the art of lucid dreaming?or becoming fully conscious in the dream state?you can find creative inspirations, promote emotional healing, gain rich insights into your waking reality, and much more.Now, with...
When it first appeared, Nancy Friday's tabooshattering bestseller My Secret Garden created a mixed storm of outrage and exhilaration. Those women who feared their erotic fantasies called it pornographic. Those women who read it recognized in its pages the hidden content of their own sexuality.More outspoken and graphic than any book before its tim...
Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations
This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963....
If you are puzzled by other people or want to improve the impression you give, knowing about body language could be the key. In this book you'll discover how the body reveals what people really mean and how you can use your body and your expressions to improve your selfimage to others. It explores why we give the signals we do, how to read the mos...

Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
?If there is a candidate for ?Living Buddha? on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.? ? Richard Bakerroshi In The Heart of the Buddha?s Teaching, now with added material and new insights, Thich Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism an...

Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
An essential exploration of why and how women?s sexuality works?based on groundbreaking research and brain science?that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a ?pink pill? for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it Well, for reason...
Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issuesand does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken ideas about urban problems, income differences, malefemal...
A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Love might not be what we think it is. We all seek the happiness that comes from loving and being loved, yet we often find ourselves dissatisfied in our relationships and unable to grasp the cause. Thich Nhat Hanh here shows the way to overcome our recurrent obstacles to love?by learning to be mindful, open, and present with ourselves and others. A...
The Birth of the Prison
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner?s body to his soul. Librarian note: an a...
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience. Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strikestrokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, horrendous accidentsand see how the victim coped. In many cases survival was miraculo...
An 8Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
Imagine an 8week program that can help you overcome depression, anxiety, and stressby simply learning new ways to respond to your own thoughts and feelings. That program is mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy (MBCT), and it has been tested and proven effective in clinical trials throughout the world. Now you can get the benefits of MBCT any time...

A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
Experience the Transformational Power of Buddhism?s Psychology of the Heart with Bestselling Author Jack Kornfield You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom?and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers t...

Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cuttingedge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about itNo one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end...

Taming a Powerful Emotion
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A Workbook for Clients and Clinicians
Theoretically sound, yet practical and easytouse, The CBT Toolbox guides you through evidencebased exercises to help navigate the road to recovery. For a client's use on their own or for use in a therapeutic setting, this book will teach how to overcome unhealthy life patterns, providing fresh and proven approaches to help: identify triggers f...

A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
A revolutionary, sciencebased approach to meditation from a neuroscientist turned meditation master, The Mind Illuminated is an accessible, stepbystep toolkit for anyone looking to start?or improve?their daily meditation practice.The book that bestselling meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg raves ?brings the path of meditation to life,? The Mind ...

A True Story
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out....
Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief
Between 1993 and 2000, a series of groundbreaking experiments revealed dramatic evidence of a web of energy that connects everything in our lives and our world?the Divine Matrix. From the healing of our bodies, to the success of our careers, relationships, and the peace between nations, this new evidence demonstrates that we each hold the power to ...

The Watercourse Way
A lucid discussion of Taoism and the Chinese language . . . profound, reflective, and enlightening. Boston GlobeAccording to Deepak Chopra, Watts was a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic T...
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray for a landmark study to understand their ...
CBT and ACT Skills to Help You Build Social Confidence
Wouldn?t it be nice if you could just flick a switch and make your shyness go away No more worrying about what others think about you, no more embarrassment in front of other people. You could just relax and feel comfortable and confident, the way you probably think everyone else feels. If you struggle with shyness, you?re all too familiar with th...
There are plenty of books out there on how to survive a zombie apocalypse, allout nuclear war, or Armageddon.But what happens when it feels like the world is ending every single time you wake up That's what having anxiety is like and How to Survive the End of the World is here to help. Or at least make you feel like you're not so alone.From hel...

Tips and Techniques for Insight, Creativity, and Personal Growth
Aimed at beginners, Lucid Dreaming, Plain and Simple shows the reader how to enter and fully experience the lucid dreaming. Among the amazing things Waggoner and McCready teach readers are how to:consciously decide what actions to performexplore dream space (or the contents of your subconscious)interact with dream figuresconduct personal and scient...

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Compass)
Ramana Maharshi was one of the most significant spiritual teachers to emerge from India during the first half of the century, and remains widely admired. This recent collection of conversations between him and the many seekers who came to his ashram for guidance contains the essence of his teaching. His concern throughout his long life of imparting...
Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th century. The central work by one of the century's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world. Known as 'the Bi...
People of all ages, backgrounds, and circumstances struggle with low selfesteem. This longawaited, fully revised second edition of the bestselling The SelfEsteem Workbook includes uptodate information on brain plasticity, and new chapters on forgiveness, mindfulness, and cultivating lovingkindness and compassion.If your selfesteem is based s...
Smaller Habits, Bigger Results (Volume 1)
I had experimented with personal development strategies for a decade. When I accidentally started my first mini habit?and the changes I made were actually lasting?I realized the prior strategies I relied on were complete failures. When something works, that which doesn't work is exposed. The science in Mini Habits exposes the predictably inconsiste...
A StepByStep Program
When anxious feelings spiral out of control, they can drain your energy and prevent you from living the life you want. If you're ready to stop letting your anxiety have the upper hand, The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety, Second Edition can help you to recognize your anxiety triggers, develop skills to stop anxious thoughts before they ta...
How Anxious Attachment Can Make You Feel Jealous, Needy, and Worried and What You Can Do About It
Has your romantic partner called you clingy, insecure, desperate, or jealous No one wants to admit that they possess these qualities; but if you find yourself constantly on the alert, anxious, or worried when it comes to your significant other, you may suffer from anxious attachment, a fear of abandonment that is often rooted in early childhood ex...
Born in the late 5th century AD, Boethius was a Roman statesman and philosopher who would come into the service of the Ostrogothic ruler of Italy, Theodoric the Great. Ultimately he would rise to the position of magister officiorum, the head of all the government and court services. In 523 AD he would find himself accused of treasonous corresponden...
The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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