The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation
The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation offers a practical guide to building a strong meditation practice by unifying mindfulness, concentration, and insight into a single, integrated approach.
The Little Book of Big Change
Little changes can make a big, big difference! In The Little Book of Big Change, psychologist Amy Johnson shows you how to rewire your brain and overcome your bad habits—once and for all.
Lincoln’s Last Speech
What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about “reconstruction?” His final speech gives a clear indication of what his postwar policy might have looked like—one that differed starkly from what would emerge in the tumultuous decade that followed.
The Four Freedoms
Jeffrey A. Engel joins together with five other leading scholars to explore how each of Roosevelt’s freedoms evolved over time, for Americans and for the wider world.
Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
In his sequel to Ignorance, Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors—and that this is a good thing!
Liberating Ourselves
Why do we bother to search? What is it that brings us to determine that our comfortable, more or less pleasant life is not adequate and that we need to look for something more?
Connecting with Coincidence
For the first time since Carl Jung’s work, comes bold new research that explains scientifically how we can identify, understand, and perhaps even control the frequency of coincidences in our everyday lives.
Pass the Jelly
Pass the Jelly is hilarious and profound. It’s full of mind-opening insights on living and rules-to-live-by wisdom that will stick with you long after you finish listening. Gary Crowley has seen through many of the false ideas and assumptions we have about life, and he presents a simple, down-to-earth, yet seldom-considered wisdom on improving our human condition.
A Sense of the Cosmos
Western science has operated for centuries on the assumption that we can understand the universe without understanding ourselves. We are just now seeking to make the necessary connection between the general laws of nature to those of our own (inner) nature. But the job won’t be done with “massive injections of the new consciousness;” we cannot democratize the sacred by cheapening its demands.