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Short Stories From Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe sixteen short stories collected here were written between 1891 and 1917 by the Bengali poet, writer, painter, musician and mystic, Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Throughout these stories, Tagore's main interest is people and the kaleidoscope of human emotions, as men and women struggle with the restrictions and prohibitions of contemporary Hindu society... -
![The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn]()
The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn Adventure of the Mind and SpiritFather Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers all him B, but his enemies say he’s something else: the Antichrist...Categorized as:
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![Amongst Women by John McGahern]()
Amongst Women by John McGahern
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMoran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past... -
![Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig]()
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in... -
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![The Cocktail Party: A Comedy by T.S. Eliot]()
The Cocktail Party: A Comedy by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas... -
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Thérèse by François Mauriac
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom the moment she walks from court having been charged with attempting to poison her husband, to her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude and waiting, the life of Thérèse Desqueyroux is passionate and tortured. The victim of a hostile fate, Thérèse, as Mauriac said of her ‘belongs to that class of human beings … for whom night can end only when life itself ends... -
![Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris]()
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsMere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion...Categorized as:
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![... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager by Viktor E. Frankl]()
... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager by Viktor E. Frankl
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsDer 1945 niedergelegte Bericht »Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager« und die 1946 geschriebene dramatische Skizze »Synchronisation in Birkenwald«, die in diesem Band zusammengefaßt sind, wollen nicht Mitleid erregen oder Anklage erheben. Noch weniger geht es um die Situation des Grauens...Categorized as:
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it... -
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The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn a fun-filled presentation before a live audience, Gary Chapman helps you identify your personal love language. He also helps you understand the love language of your spouse. Then he provides practical suggestions for enriching your marriage by practicing the other love language...Categorized as:
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Sur Les Traces De Siddharta by Thich Nhat Hanh
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'The Buddha was the source. Venerable Svasti and the young buffalo boys were rivers that flowed from the source. Wherever the rivers flowed, the Buddha would be there.'In Old Path White Clouds, scholar, poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh retells the story of the Buddha in his owninimitably beautiful style...Categorized as:
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Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA beautiful book, as beautiful in the simple clarity of its wisdom as in the terrible beauty of the transformation to which it calls us...Categorized as:
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![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart...Categorized as:
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Wayne Koestenbaum
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves... -
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![The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig]()
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsMore than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback!The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham's Timeless Wisdom for Today's Market ConditionsThe greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide...Categorized as:
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![Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott]()
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead...Categorized as:
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![Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama XIV]()
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama XIV
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves...Categorized as:
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![Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda]()
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAutobiography of a Yogi is one of the best-selling spiritual biographies of all time. The book is not merely read it is treasured and cherished by millions of spiritual seekers throughout the world...Categorized as:
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![Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki]()
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 31 ratings"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic...Categorized as:
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![Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein]()
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIncorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe’s original translation Footnoted remarks in the earlier...Categorized as:
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![The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh]()
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh...Categorized as:
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![Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm]()
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941...Categorized as:
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![Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee]()
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRobert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni...Categorized as:
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![The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull]()
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBollingen Series XX. Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix...Categorized as:
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![The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler]()
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsNearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that "the very motion of our life is towards happiness...Categorized as:
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![The Elements of Style, Annotated and Updated for Present-Day Use by William Strunk Jr., Stanford Pritchard]()
The Elements of Style, Annotated and Updated for Present-Day Use by William Strunk Jr., Stanford Pritchard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsABOUT THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE: UPDATED FOR PRESENT-DAY USE “The ancients wrote at a time when the great art of writing badly had not yet been invented. In those days to write at all meant to write well.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. I was originally born in Ohio.... Well, that's interesting, I thought, as I absentmindedly listened to the sports announcer on the radio...Categorized as:
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![Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz]()
Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPositive wisdom and helpful insights on how to be a successful person Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery...Categorized as:
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![Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil]()
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals...Categorized as:
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![Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack]()
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe two volumes of 'Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom' have inspired a whole generation of students of the Tarot. Described by many as ‘the Bible of Tarot readers’, the books brought awareness of myth and modern psychology to the Tarot’s ancient esoteric symbolism. Now, for the first time, the texts for 'The Major Arcana' and 'The Minor Arcana' appear in one volume... -
![Between Parent and Child by Haim G. Ginott]()
Between Parent and Child by Haim G. Ginott
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStrengthen your relationship with your children with this revised edition of the book by renowned psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott that has helped millions of parents around the world.In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family relationship specialist Dr. H...Categorized as:
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