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A new look at the psychology and history of hiking and its connection to the concept of “awe” that has long been felt, but only recently understood The fact that every year millions of travelers flock to the dangerous wilderness regions of our nation’s parks, forgoing comfort and safety to...

An acclaimed science writer and cultural critic confronts the question of what it means to have a child in the face of climate catastrophe in this urgent call to imagine radically transformed futures. When Meehan Crist was eight months pregnant, a young woman asked her a difficult...

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A mix of philosophy, history, and journalism that illuminates individuals in closed off communities who have left society to find their own meaning—offering insight for everyone yearning to pursue a deeper, more fulfilled life When journalist and scholar Shira Telushkin was a girl, she was...

In this raucous tour of the history and psychology of innovation, one of today’s most entertaining science writers unpacks the five counterintuitive mental moves behind every breakthrough—and offers inspiration for anyone who dreams of inventing something new and making the world just a...

Brought to you by Penguin. In Future Words, Dominique Chen invites readers into a life shaped by multiple languages, cultures and disciplines. Born in Tokyo, Chen grew up moving between Japan, France and the United States, speaking several languages in overlapping ways. Here his journey – from...

A transformative, practical guide to true wellness and a life of abundance and balance, from the renowned astrophysicist, TED Fellow, and working mother. What would your life look like if you allowed yourself to rest? Dr. Aomawa Shields is a lifelong overachiever. While working harder than...

In alternating chapters, Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic student, Brother Spirit – a Cambridge University-trained mathematician and composer – share their insights on how Zen techniques can be used to enhance mental clarity, intuition and focus, essential qualities for achieving significant...

Beloved character Big Panda shares tips to discover a sense of calm, while his friend Tiny Dragon offers motivation to find hope, in a special two-in-one book from bestselling author and illustrator James Norbury—a collection of reflections and illustrations to provide peace, comfort, and...

How AI is transforming the lives of billions of animals—and what we can do about it. Like it or not, AI is rapidly reshaping human life. But what does it mean for other species? In AI, Animals, and Us, researcher Max Taylor explores the surprising world of whale translators, robot dogs...

An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of Seeing Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland...

2,400 years ago there was a sudden and dramatic burst of new ideas across the world. Simultaneously in Athens, Socrates was prompting his contemporaries to question their assumptions; in India, the Buddha was grappling with the boundary between the self and the world; and in China, Confucius was...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW FULLY REVISED ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST LOVED BOOKS ON HOW TO FIND LASTING PEACE AND HAPPINESS, BY RUPERT SPIRA, A LEADING SPIRITUAL THINKER AND AUTHOR WITH OVER A MILLION FOLLOWERS. Most of us spend our lives looking for peace in the world: in success...

We live in a world of deep deprivations. Billions lack access to health care and education. A great many people live on incomes below the poverty line. Political dissent is brutally suppressed in many parts of the world and a million or more are held in jail for speaking truth to power. At a...

A clear-eyed manual for building a life of meaning in the chaos of the modern world So you’ve realized life is meaningless. Religion is fake, your job is pointless, society is a charade, and everyone else is just pretending things are fine when, in reality, existential despair is the only...

In this refreshingly unfiltered guide, Sam Bercholz—founder of Shambhala Publications and a lifelong student and teacher of Buddhism—invites you to drop the pretense, roll up your sleeves, and get real about waking up. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience with some of the most influential Buddhist teachers of our time, Sam serves up the full spectrum of Buddhist teachings with a healthy dose of humor and zero sugarcoating.

Researcher and lecturer Carl Lorenz Cervantes explores the timeless wisdom, ancestral worldviews, and spiritual tools of Filipino psychology and culture—and offers Indigenous ways of knowing for all readers, Filipino and non-Filipino alike. Drawing from folklore, language, ethnography, and...

Today, the word “rhetoric” is typically used to criticize language that is empty or misleading. But the study of rhetoric was originally designed to drain false speech of its power. Rhetoric grew up in ancient Athens alongside the first democracy because the arguments of citizens were needed...

Being Mortal meets Four Thousand Weeks in this exploration of the human pursuit of immortality that asks what our fear of death might have to teach us—and what we might gain by embracing it. Humans have been seeking a cure for death since time immemorial. From the quest for the fountain of...

Vanessa Sasson brings early Buddhist history to life in this captivating retelling of Ajatasattu, the Magadhan king infamous for having imprisoned his father to take the throne and who later confesses to the Buddha, hoping for some reprieve from his now ongoing nightmares and regret. Drawing on...