The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa

9 best books like The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa (Thubten Yeshe): Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's, Permanent Record, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization, Randomize, The Ascent to Godhood

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

Author	John Elder Robison
ISBN	0307395987

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label...

Permanent Record

Author	Edward Snowden
ISBN	1250237238

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

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...

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...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Author	Alain de Botton
ISBN	0679779159

Words Are Your Homeland

One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Author

Austin Kleon

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting...

America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Author

Graham Hancock

Listening Length: 17 hours and 16 minutes

The concluding volume of the Fingerprints of the Gods trilogy.

Could shattering secrets about the deep past of humanity await discovery in North America?

Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists...

Randomize

Author

Andy Weir

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number...

The Ascent to Godhood

Author	J.Y. Yang
ISBN	1250165881

The Protector is dead.

For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead....