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Taming the Tiger Within
Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Taming the Tiger Within is a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, converting fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life-a wise and exquisite guide for bringing harmony and healing to one's life and relationships.
Acclaimed...
No Death, No Fear
Comforting Wisdom for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.
With...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." --His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.
The...
Fragrant Palm Leaves
Journals, 1962-1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Best known for his Buddhist teachings, Thich Nhat Hanh has lived in exile from his native Vietnam since 1966. These remarkable early journals reveal not only an exquisite portrait of the Zen master as a young man, but the emergence of a great poet and literary voice of Vietnam. From his years as a...
The Shape of the Ruins
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.**
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and...
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.
Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist, the conscience of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges’ decisions,...
by Lewis Black
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
What do we believe? And in God's name why?
These are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little Faith. And he's come up with some answers. Or at least his answers. In more than two dozen essays...
by Frank Kelly Rich
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Attempting to deconstruct America's joyless obsession with sobriety, The Modern Drunkard offers today's befuddled drinkers a comprehensive and instructive manual on the delights of alcohol culture, how to be a good drunk, how to drink, and how to do it well. Through articles, anecdotes, cartoons,...
The Little Red Guard
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
**A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick
Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China**
When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death....
Fingerprints of God
What Science Is Learning About the Brain and Spiritual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
From the award-winning NPR religion correspondent and author of Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled humanity for generations: Can science explain God?
Is spiritual experience...
The Art of Gathering
How We Meet and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
**"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at home, in our communities, and beyond.**
In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues...
Voodoo Histories
The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
**"Meticulous in its research, forensic in its reasoning, robust in its argument, and often hilarious in its debunking... a highly entertaining rumble with the century's major conspiracy theorists and their theories." --John Lahr, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Tennessee...
Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam.
It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening...
by Ira Byock
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
**From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well.
Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone.**
This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings...