Roots of Yoga
10 best books like Roots of Yoga (James Mallinson): Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The House of the Dead, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, The Upanishads, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Food for Free (Collins Gem), The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
| Author | Thomas Sowell |
| ISBN | 0465081452 |
This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world,...
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
| Author | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| ISBN | 0805073698 |
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with nearly 90,000 copies in print
Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0143036556 |
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0486434095 |
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
| Author | Jordan B. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0415922224 |
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jordan Peterson offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140441638 |
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
| Author | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| ISBN | 0374227764 |
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
| Author | Colin Woodard |
| ISBN | 0670022969 |
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another...
Food for Free (Collins Gem)
| Author | Richard Mabey |
| ISBN | 0007183038 |
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.
This is the perfect pocket guide for aspiring foragers. Over 100 edible plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating...
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
| Author | Olivia Laing |
| ISBN | 1250039576 |
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting...
Letters to a Young Contrarian
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0465030335 |
From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks,...
| Author | James Wasserman |
| ISBN | 0811864898 |
For millennia, the culture and philosophy of the ancient Egyptians have fascinated artists, historians, and spiritual seekers throughout the world. Now, this reissue of a Chronicle Books classic brings to light once more the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani—the most beautiful of the...
| Author | Leslie Kaminoff |
| ISBN | 0736062785 |
See inside every yoga pose! With clear, expert instruction and full-color, detailed anatomical drawings, Yoga Anatomy depicts the most common asanas to provide a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.
From breathing to standing...
| Author | Ivo Andrić |
| ISBN | 1559702362 |
Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleanic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtley, Tolstoyan. In its portray of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties,...
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
| Author | Richard Tarnas |
| ISBN | 0452288592 |
From a philosopher whose history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell & Huston Smith comes a book tracing the connection between cosmic cycles & archetypal patterns of experience. Drawing on years of research & on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Tarnas explores the planetary...
Transgender: Fact or Fetish - Reality or Delusion?
“Quite frankly, my research on autogynephilia was biased.” This astonishing admission from trans-advocate, Felix Conrad, is prompted by an e-mail from a young reader who has fallen into clinical depression because she believes she is not transgender, but has ‘a fetish.’
Chasing...
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance
| Author | Rupert Sheldrake |
| ISBN | 0892815353 |
This is a really important book. I've heard about Sheldrake and the morphogenic field for years, but never pursued it until now.
As other reviewers here note, this book is rather technical. Accessible if you have a good science education, otherwise I would suggest downloading one of the excellent...
Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena and Vibration
| Author | Hans Jenny |
| ISBN | 1888138076 |
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