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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness December 27, 2012 0 By Richard Dawkins Dave McKean Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide... Read more Read reviews Write review	133	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir December 08, 2012 0 By Susannah Cahalan One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all—showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier,... Read more Read reviews Write review	128	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir October 12, 2012 0 By Joe Mozingo “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes prize-winning journalist Joe Mozingo. Growing up, he knew that his mother’s ancestors were from France and Sweden, but he heard only suspiciously vague stories about where his father’s family was from—Italy, Portugal, the Basque country. Then one day, a college professor told him his name may have come from sub-Saharan Africa, which... Read more Read reviews Write review	142	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself Hot Our World » Conscious Business October 12, 2012 0 By Sheila Bair “When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC’ logo on the doors of the nation’s banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center of the financial crisis, speeding the takeover of failing banks and pressing the mortgage industry... Read more Read reviews Write review	118	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
A Random Book about the Power of ANYone Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment October 12, 2012 0 By Talia Leman You can be greater than you know how to be. In a world where you are pushed to know more, this book will prove that your greatest asset is often not knowing. In a world where you are told it’s all in the planning, this book will encourage you to keep your cart ahead of your horse... Read more Read reviews Write review	97	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion October 12, 2012 1 By Mark Nepo MARK NEPO MOVED AND INSPIRED millions of people with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening, a spiritual daybook that draws on his awakening through cancer to offer life lessons from all the spiritual traditions. In his continuing exploration of the human journey, Nepo has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,”... Read more Read reviews Write review	185	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis Hot Our World » Conscious Business August 24, 2012 0 By Daniel Cariat IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms. As he did in his hard-hitting and widely read New York Times Magazine article "Dr. Drug... Read more Read reviews Write review	110	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Free Will Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness August 03, 2012 0 By Sam Harris A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will... Read more Read reviews Write review	75	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness August 03, 2012 0 By Sam Harris Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become... Read more Read reviews Write review	66	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment June 28, 2012 0 By Lynne McTaggart A BOLD NEW VISION FOR A NEW WORLD Our way of life isn’t working anymore. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their neighborhoods—and even their hope for a just society. We urgently need a new story to live by, based on fairness—not simply on the accumulation of wealth and “survival of the fittest.” The... Read more Read reviews Write review	65	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 01, 2012 0 By Brendon Burchard From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Millionaire Messenger, an electrifying and inspiring book that provides the keys to motivating yourself to satisfy your highest, most essential creative and intellectual needs. In the hyper-connected, hyper-digitized world in which we are living, the time has come to revise Abraham Maslow’s classic “hierarchy of needs”—a... Read more Read reviews Write review	220	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think Hot Our World » Ecology & Sustainability March 26, 2012 0 By P.M. Forni Peter H. Diamandis Steven Kotler Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future,... Read more Read reviews Write review	219	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing Hot Meta-Reality » Science & Consciousness January 12, 2012 0 By Lawrence M. Krauss “WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERESOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at... Read more Read reviews Write review	369	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Love For No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment January 12, 2012 0 By Marci Shimoff In Love for No Reason, transformational expert Marci Shimoff offers a breakthrough approach to experiencing a lasting state of unconditional love—the kind of love that doesn’t depend on another person, situation, or romantic partner, and that you can access at any time and in any circumstance. This is the deepest and truest form of love and is the key... Read more Read reviews Write review	102	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment November 09, 2011 0 By Chip Conley Using brilliantly simple math that illuminates universal emotional truths, Emotional Equations crystallizes some of life’s toughest challenges into manageable facets that readers can see clearly—and bits they can control. Popular motivational speaker and bestselling author Chip Conley has created an exciting, new, immediately accessible visual lexicon for mastering the age of uncertainty. Making mathematics out of emotions may seem... Read more Read reviews Write review	225	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment November 08, 2011 1 By Martha Beck Finding Your Way in a Wild New World is a remarkable path to the most important discovery you can make: the knowledge of what you should be doing with your one wild and precious life. It’s a journey to the thing that so fulfills you that, if someone told you, “It’s right outside—but watch out—it could kill you!” you’d... Read more Read reviews Write review	345	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir August 21, 2011 0 By Robert Jay Lifton On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return home—changing his life plans entirely—so that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform. He had plunged into uncharted... Read more Read reviews Write review	271	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment May 14, 2011 1 By Martin Seligman “This book will help you flourish.” With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is. Traditionally, the goal of psychology has been to relieve human suffering, but the goal of the Positive Psychology movement, which Dr. Seligman has... Read more Read reviews Write review	412	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 4.3 (1)
The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment April 12, 2011 0 By Lynne McTaggart For centuries, Western science and many Western cultures have taught us to think of ourselves as individuals. But today, a revolutionary new understanding is emerging from the laboratories of the most cutting-edge physicists, biologists, and psychologists: What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things. The Bond. ... Read more Read reviews Write review	421	Editor rating 4.7 User rating 4.7 (2)
The Story of Stuff Hot Our World » Ecology & Sustainability February 23, 2010 0 By Annie Leonard How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need... Read more Read reviews Write review	406	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life Hot Our World » Conscious Business February 13, 2010 0 By Robin Sharma For more than fifteen years, Robin Sharma has been quietly sharing with Fortune 500 companies and many of the super-rich a success formula that has made him one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world. Now, for the first time, Sharma makes his proprietary process available to you, so that you can get to your absolute best... Read more Read reviews Write review	581	Editor rating 4.7 User rating 0.0 (0)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Hot Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion February 06, 2010 1 By Chris Hedges Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of... Read more Read reviews Write review	214	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment March 29, 2009 0 By Marci Shimoff What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career, a big bank account, or the perfect mate? What if it didn't take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out -- no matter what's going on in your life? In Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being... Read more Read reviews Write review	418	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too Hot Our World » Conscious Business August 05, 2008 0 By James Galbraith The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first... Read more Read reviews Write review	462	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)