Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
10 best books like Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (Barbara Bradley Hagerty): But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society, A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, The Day We Found the Universe, If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path, What the Buddha Taught
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0399184120 |
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close...
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
| Author | Daniel L. Schacter |
| ISBN | 0618219196 |
A groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost psychologists that delves into the complex behavior of memory.
In this fascinating study, Daniel L. Schacter explores instances of what we would consider memory failure—absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution,...
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve...
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
| Author | Marilyn Johnson |
| ISBN | 0061431605 |
In This Book is Overdue!, acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners. In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians more vital and necessary...
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that...
Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0007302568 |
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society.
On a damp weeknight in November,...
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
| Author | Dava Sobel |
| ISBN | 0802717934 |
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the...
The Day We Found the Universe
| Author | Marcia Bartusiak |
| ISBN | 0375424296 |
On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery dramatically reshaped how humans understood...
If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
| Author | Charlotte Kasl |
| ISBN | 0140195831 |
In this practical, playful, yet spiritual guide, Charlotte Kasl, author of the highly successful Finding Joy: 101 Ways to Free Your Spirit and Dance with Life, shows you what it would be like to have the ancient wisdom of the Buddha to guide you through the dating process. Kasl brings a compassionate...
| Author | Walpola Rahula |
| ISBN | 0802130313 |
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills...
| Author | Pete Holmes |
| ISBN | 0062803999 |
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.
Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0062515063 |
One of this century's most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung's rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace,opening them to an entirely new and hungry audience. His masterful works--including the best selling He, She, Inner Work,...
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0547350635 |
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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships
| Author | Suzanne Stabile |
| ISBN | 0830846425 |
Most of us have no idea how others see or process their experiences. And that can make relationships hard, whether with intimate partners, with friends, or in our professional lives. Understanding the motivations and dynamics of these different personality types can be the key that unlocks sometimes...
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
| Author | Safi Bahcall |
| ISBN | 1250185963 |
*Wall Street Journal bestseller
*Next Big Idea Club selection--chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season"
*Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019"
*Inc.com's "10 Business...
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
| Author | John Palfrey |
| ISBN | 0465042996 |
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues...
Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
| Author | Leonard Koren |
| ISBN | 1880656124 |
Some books are one-day reads, one-sitting reads, etc. This book was a one-bath read.
Our bath has lost almost all its enamel. It scratches my bum. Very Wabi-Sabi. My phone has a crack I refuse to fix. I like to slide my finger along smooth glass of the phone and feel the rupture. Very Wabi-Sabi....
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
| Author | Jacques Bonnet |
| ISBN | 1906694583 |
This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate...
The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation: Mindfulness, Concentration, and Insight
| Author | Richard Shankman |
| ISBN | 1626252939 |
Presented in a straightforward, accessible manner, The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation offers a practical guide to building a strong meditation practice, unifying mindfulness, concentration and insight into a single, integrated path of meditation.
Mindfulness and insight, clearly...
The Great Conversation is the ongoing process of writers and thinkers referencing, building on, and refining the work of their predecessors. This process is characterized by writers in the Western canon making comparisons and allusions to the works of earlier writers. As such it is a name used in the...
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
| Author | Alexandra Horowitz |
| ISBN | 1439191255 |
You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in the distance and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. The hum of the fluorescent lights;...
The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives
| Author | Lewis Howes |
| ISBN | 1623368626 |
At 30 years old, Lewis Howes was outwardly thriving but unfulfilled inside. He was a successful athlete and businessman, achieving goals beyond his wildest dreams, but he felt empty, angry, frustrated, and always chasing something that was never enough. His whole identity had been built on misguided...
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...
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
| Author | Frances Gies |
| ISBN | 0060925817 |
From bestselling historians Joseph and Frances Gies, whose books have been used by George R.R. Martin as source material for Game of Thrones, comes a classic book on innovation and technological change in medieval Europe
In this account of Europe’s rise to world leadership in technology,...
The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
| Author | Robert Oerter |
| ISBN | 0452287863 |
There are two scientific theories that, taken together, explain the entire universe. The first, which describes the force of gravity, is widely known: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. But the theory that explains everything else--the Standard Model of Elementary Particles--is virtually...
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
| Author | Gerd Gigerenzer |
| ISBN | 0670038636 |
An engaging explanation of the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink
Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better...
