Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

8 best books like Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic (Ingrid D. Rowland): The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?, Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Author	Jonathan Haidt
ISBN	0307377903

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual...

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Author

Jonathan Haidt

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.

The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for...

The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

Author	Seth Godin
ISBN	1591846072

In Seth Godin’s most inspiring book yet, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun. But he ignored that warning and plunged to his doom. We’ve retold this myth, and...

Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less

Author	Michael Hyatt
ISBN	0801075262

Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion's share--many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week--leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great.

Most people think...

The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague

Author	Peter Marshall
ISBN	0802715516

Rudolf II—Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the
Romans—is one of history's great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign (1576–1612) roughly mirrored that of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and while her famous court is widely recognized...

A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

Author	Nicholas A. Basbanes
ISBN	0060580801

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion...

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Author	Austin Kleon
ISBN	1523506644

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...

The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers

Author	Alex Banayan
ISBN	0804136661

The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.

The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented...