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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New...

In this groundbreaking classic, investigative journalist Lynne McTaggart reveals a radical new paradigm—that the human mind and body are not separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting with this vast energy sea, and that consciousness may be central...

What happens when human beings are created with powerful needs, commanded to suppress them, and then made to feel guilty for struggling? Created Guilty examines one of the most uncomfortable questions in Christian theology: whether certain religious rules can be reconciled with the human nature God is said to have created. Rather than assuming that every desire is morally permissible, it carefully distinguishes between rules that protect others from violence, coercion, exploitation, and betrayal and prohibitions that restrict legitimate human goods without preventing comparable harm. At the...

THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Acclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents is changing our world From 2010, as teens traded in their flip phones...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Philip Stevens. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Brooke. Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma of these events led to his great masterpiece of...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and...

A major work of interdisciplinary nonfiction that redefines how we understand life, agency, and intelligence What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant toward light, the dive of hawks toward their prey—these are purposeful actions. But where does that purpose come from, and...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year So Far A lyrical exploration of the world’s wildest, most forbiddingly remote places—and the humans who have always been there, by “the best non-fiction writer of her generation,” according to The Times From the blacksand beaches of Iceland, to river...

Winner NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS in Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture's most painful and unresolved issues. American culture focuses on...

The Geometry of God: Understanding the Revolutionary Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza is a compelling exploration of one of history’s most daring and misunderstood thinkers. Baruch Spinoza, the exiled philosopher of Amsterdam, redefined the very nature of God, freedom, and human existence. His vision of a universe governed by reason, necessity, and divine unity would influence the Enlightenment, shape modern science, and continue to inspire seekers of truth centuries later. In clear and engaging language, The Geometry of God guides readers through Spinoza’s life, ideas, and enduring legacy....

An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing—and its troubling implications for today. Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening—unless we know where to look. As Rebecca...

Shamanism for Beginners – Shamanic Journeying – Power Animals – Nature-Based Spirituality – Core Shamanism – Drumming Meditation – Earth-Centered Practice – Spiritual Ethics What if the path to a deeper relationship with nature did not require dramatic claims, borrowed titles, or blind belief—but attention, discipline, respect, and a willingness to listen? Shamanic Practice for Beginners is a grounded three-book collection for readers who feel drawn to shamanic and earth-based practice yet want to begin without sensationalism, cultural appropriation, or unsafe shortcuts. ...

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family. Most people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and...

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already...

Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely...

Ancient Philosophy - Aristotle for Beginners - Greek Philosophy - Philosophy Made Easy - Logic and Critical Thinking - Ethics and Virtue - Political Philosophy - Great Thinkers What if one thinker could help you understand reason, nature, happiness, politics, persuasion, art, and the structure of reality itself? For more than two thousand years, Aristotle has stood at the center of Western thought. He was the student of Plato, the teacher of Alexander the Great, the founder of the Lyceum, and one of the most ambitious minds the world has ever known. But for many readers, Aristotle still ...

Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this...

An expert on otters dives into their wild and wondrous world You’ve heard of a murder of crows and a pride of lions—but what about a romp of otters? In this informative and entertaining book, animal behaviorist Heide Island takes readers on an odyssey through otterdom, focusing on a family...

Spinoza is a philosophical and literary fresco that breathes life and voice back into one of history’s most fascinating thinkers. Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), excommunicated at 23 and rejected by his own community, chose exile, solitude, and poverty to follow a unique path: that of a radical vision where God and Nature are one, and freedom is born from understanding. Michel Tessier does not deliver an academic treatise here, but a vivid, narrative work in which centuries collide. Through a series of powerful, imagined dialogues, Spinoza meets major figures: Descartes, his methodical ...

Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her...