Living Nonviolent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation
10 best books like Living Nonviolent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation (Marshall B. Rosenberg): The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Inny świat, Meditations on First Philosophy, Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
| Author | Steven Pinker |
| ISBN | 0142003344 |
“In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.”
—Helena Cronin, author of The Ant and The Peacock
“A mind blowing, mind openingexpos. Pinker's profoundly...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
| Author | Dana Thomas |
| ISBN | 0735224013 |
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it
What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something...
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
| Author | Robert Wright |
| ISBN | 0679763996 |
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office...
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
| Author | Jim Holt |
| ISBN | 0871404095 |
"Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" remains the darkest and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt now enters this fractious debate with his lively and deeply informed narrative...
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
| Author | Kristin Neff |
| ISBN | 0061733512 |
From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more self-compassionate and achieve your dreams in life
The relentless pursuit of high self-esteem has become a virtual religion—and a tyrannical one at that. Our ultracompetitive culture tells...
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Heralded by the New York Times and Time as the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond.
This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among...
| Author | Gustaw Herling-Grudziński |
| ISBN | 8308032303 |
Wspomnienia Gustawa Herlinga - Grudzińskiego z sowieckiego łagru w Jercewie pod Archagielskiem. Książka obok nieprzeciętnych walorów literackich jest przede wszystkim - co podkreśla w rozmowie Autor - dokumentalną relacją ofiary, kronikarza i badacza instytucji i mechanizmów...
Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872201929 |
Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0060747293 |
In 2006 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who calls Lama Surya Das the American Lama, said to an American audience, "It is not enough just to meditate and pray, which are always good things to do, but we also must take positive action in this world."
In the process of awakening, the Buddha realized that...
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
| Author | Stephen Jenkinson |
| ISBN | 1583949739 |
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places...
The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
| Author | Andy Puddicombe |
| ISBN | 1250104904 |
Quiet the mind, feel less stressed, less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day
Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK’s foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day...
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
| Author | The Arbinger Institute |
| ISBN | 1626564310 |
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon—not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended...
Leaving the Atocha Station
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 1566892740 |
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential...
Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real
| Author | Thomas d'Ansembourg |
| ISBN | 1892005212 |
In this English translation of the French bestseller, readers will learn simple, practical skills to step outside of their emotional masks to live a genuine, authentic life. Teaching everyday communication skills to respectfully express true feelings and the power of requesting wants without...
The Meaning of Human Existence
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0871401002 |
How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer...
Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition
| Author | Francisco J. Varela |
| ISBN | 0804730334 |
How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that...
Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo
| Author | Ailton Krenak |
| ISBN | 8535932410 |
Ailton Krenak nasceu na região do vale do rio Doce, um lugar cuja ecologia se encontra profundamente afetada pela atividade de extração mineira. Neste livro, o líder indígena critica a ideia de humanidade como algo separado da natureza, uma “humanidade que não reconhece que aquele rio que...
