Robert Wright: 71 books
Robert Wright Two-Book Bundle
Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In Three Nights in Havana and Our Man in Tehran, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life two key events that shaped Canada’s diplomatic psyche and forever changed how Canada was viewed by the rest of the world.
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first...
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.
In Nonzero:...
Why Buddhism is True
The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
From one of America’s most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer—and the...
by Robert Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Big-game hunting and trading in Central Africa from 1894 to 1904. The Robert Wright memoirs are an interesting and sometimes humorous window into the life of the European pioneers of Northern Rhodesia and the British East African Protectorate from 1894 to 1904. Robert and his brother David were initially...
by Robert Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology,...
Three Nights In Havana
Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself....
by Robert Wright Jr, Scott Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Step inside and meet the creatures that live on the dark side of the world ... or do they walk among us? Wander through thirteen short stories that will leave you wondering who the real monsters are.
Our Man in Tehran
The True Story Behind the Secret Mission to Save Six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis & the Foreign Ambassador Who Worked w/the CIA to Bring Them Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
For the true story behind Argo, read Our Man in Tehran
The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved...
Trudeaumania
The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
A Hill-Times Best Book of the Year
Nearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of...
by Robert Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The night of October 30, 1995, was like no other in Canadian history. The young, modern nation that the UN Human Development Index had ranked #1 for the two previous years now faced its greatest challenge: the possibility of fracturing as Quebecers made a fateful decision—whether...
令人神往的靜坐開悟：普林斯頓大受歡迎的佛學與現代心理學
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 1, 2018
● 我一直在等待一位實際且多疑的作者，來寫出一本關於佛教的書，而且必須好讀又清楚。現在終於有了這本！閱讀這本書，能踏上同時享受科學與精神的旅程。──現代正向心理學運動之父 馬丁．賽里格曼
●這是一本好書。結合進化心理學、哲學，還有佛教傳統經典和個人靜坐經驗，絕對獨特！──普林斯頓大學宗教系教授...
by Robert Wright Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Lubelle's moving to a new home. The big old yellow house is full of magic and adventure. What else? A monster under the bed!?!
by Robert Wright Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Ruby Red led a sheltered life, moving from town to town. Never able to put down roots, her mother was all she had. Then one night her mother is killed and Ruby was attacked by a werewolf. Luckily new allies come to her aid. Now Ruby's whole life is changed as she learns and understands her true heritage....
by Robert Wright Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Zombies, werewolves, and crazy vamps . . .
Just a typical day in Ruby Red's life.