Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple
10 best books like Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple (Kaoru Nonomura): Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, All Over Creation, Nature Girl, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, The Three Pillars of Zen, I Slept With Joey Ramone, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
| Author | Ronan Farrow |
| ISBN | 0316486639 |
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hellbent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to...
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
| Author | Jill Leovy |
| ISBN | 0385529988 |
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who...
Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes "terrorism" and to hit nonviolent activists with...
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0834800799 |
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
| Author | Ruth Ozeki |
| ISBN | 0142003891 |
A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community—from the celebrated author of My Year of Meats and A Tale for the Time Being.
Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away...
| Author | Carl Hiaasen |
| ISBN | 0307262995 |
If you're at all familiar with Carl Hiaasen's fiction, you pretty much know what to expect when you crack open one of his novels. Hiaasen, who probably invented the genre Wacky Florida Eco/Crime Fiction, has in the past been a brilliant satirist on crazy goings-on in Florida, and every novel he's written...
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
| Author | David Talbot |
| ISBN | 0062276166 |
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers
America’s greatest untold story: the United...
| Author | Philip Kapleau |
| ISBN | 0385260938 |
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism. An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs,...
| Author | Mickey Leigh |
| ISBN | 0743252160 |
When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Fast and frenetic in their leather jackets and torn jeans, the Ramones gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, influenced countless bands, and inspired the counterculture for decades...
The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
In this collection of essays, St. Louis journalist Sarah Kendzior tackles issues including labor exploitation, racism, gentrification, media bias and other aspects of the post-employment economy. Sample titles: "The Peril of Hipster Economics", "The Wrong Kind of Caucasian", "Survival is Not...
| Author | Annaka Harris |
| ISBN | 0062906712 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages.” --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics...
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
| Author | Donald J. Robertson |
The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help cleanse not only your house - but your soul.
Live clean. Feel calm. Be happy.
We remove dust to sweep away our worldly cares. We live simply...
"Po Chü-i (Bai Juyi, 772-846) oli Li Pon ja Tu Fun rinnalla yksi Kiinan klassisen T’ang-kauden suurista runoilijoista. Po on ihmisen monien tunteiden tulkki, joka on kuvannut runoissaan muun muassa eroa, ikävää ja yksinäisyyttä. Näihin omaelämäkerrallisiin aiheisiin Pon johdatti...
Ehkä tänä kesänä kaikki muuttuu
"Tiedän, että minun on tehtävä tälle kaikelle jotain ja vähän äkkiä. Mutta vielä hetken ajan minä haluan maata parvekkeella ja muistella entistä poikaystävääni." Näin ajattelee nuori nainen asunnossaan, jonne kantautuu ihmisten kiljunta Linnanmäeltä. Kohta on kesä, ja...
Break in Case of Emergency
An irreverent and deeply moving comedy about friendship, fertility, and fighting for one’s sanity in a toxic workplace.
Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job...
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
| Author | Christopher Wylie |
| ISBN | 1984854631 |
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.
Mindf*ck...
| Author | Mandy Berman |
| ISBN | 0399589341 |
A love triangle between two college friends and a charismatic professor alters the lives of everyone involved in this razor-sharp novel.
Fiona and Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling after the death of her...
