The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago at about the same time when Buddha expounded the Dharma in India and Pythagoras taught in Greece. The Tao Te Ching is probably the most influential Chinese book of all times. Its 81...
Behind the problems that routinely plague our organizations and families, you'll find individuals who are either unwilling or unable to deal with broken promises. Colleagues break a rule, coworkers miss a deadline, friends fail to live up to...
**"Read this book to connect with your highest self. "
**-- Susan Cain, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *Bittersweet* and *Quiet
* "We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find...
Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.In these pages you will hear from Steven Pinker, who asks, "Why is there peace?"; Robert Sapolsky, who examines violence among...
'Philosophy begins in wonder,' said Plato. Descartes agreed that 'wonder is the first of all emotions'. Wonder is the impulse behind all scientific and philosophical endeavour, art and spirituality. It is the most fruitful human sense: fuelling our...
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**A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even...
Misleading title (why not Jews, Greeks and Romans? After all it was the Romans who annihilated the Jewish community of Cyrene), awkward construction, a book partially useful, occasionally irritating-these will probably not be unfair...