Bodymind
10 best books like Bodymind (Ken Dychtwald): The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness, Across the Nightingale Floor, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The History of Bees, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Course in General Linguistics, Grass for His Pillow, Poetics, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Power vs. Force
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
| Author | Oren Harman |
| ISBN | 0393067785 |
The moving tale of one man's quest to crack the mystery of altruism, an evolutionary enigma that has haunted scientists since Darwin.
Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest?
Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the...
Across the Nightingale Floor
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1573223328 |
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden,...
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
| Author | Thomas S. Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0226458083 |
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit...
In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees, to their children, and to one another against the backdrop of an...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
Course in General Linguistics
| Author | Ferdinand de Saussure |
| ISBN | 0812690230 |
The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480036 |
Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow,...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140446362 |
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...
| Author | David R. Hawkins |
| ISBN | 1561709336 |
David R. Hawkins details how anyone may resolve the most crucial of all human dilemmas: how to instantly determine the truth or falsehood of any statement or supposed fact. Dr. Hawkins, who worked as a "healing psychiatrist" during his long and distinguished career, uses theoretical concepts from...
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
| Author | Benjamin Lee Whorf |
| ISBN | 0262730065 |
The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of...
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
| Author | Neil Postman |
| ISBN | 0679750312 |
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic...
The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection
From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes this thought-provoking, inspirational memoir on the magic that happens when you just let go
Spirituality is meant to bring about harmony and peace. But the diversity of our philosophies, beliefs, concepts, and...
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
(Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky (see Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky/Fyodor Dostoevsky/Feodor Dostoevsky) or Dostoïevski (see Fiodor Dostoïevski/Fiódor M. Dostoievski/Fédor...
He knew what she was thinking. Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet. He remembered the way they had looked, the expression on their faces, or as much of...
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
| Author | Neil Postman |
| ISBN | 0385290098 |
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.
Introduction
Crap detecting
The medium is the message, of course
The inquiry method
Pursuing relevance
What's worth...
| Author | Meyer Levin |
| ISBN | 1941493025 |
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert,...
| Author | Ori Hofmekler |
| ISBN | 0938045482 |
Full of pseudoscience and emotional writing. He makes it very appealing to a younger male audience by selling it as the way the spartans, and other warrior cultures ate, which is pure bs.
Do you really think spartans, roman legionaires and the like were concerned about meal timing and ate the...
