The Relaxation Response
10 best books like The Relaxation Response (Herbert Benson): Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, The Second Mountain, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, Existential Psychotherapy, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
| Author | James D. Hornfischer |
With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same...
Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
| Author | Brian Rea |
| ISBN | 1452172552 |
Even Death cares about his work-life balance...
Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he use up his accrued vacation time, that is. In this humorous and heartfelt book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea, readers take a peek at Death's journal entries...
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
| Author | Brian Greene |
| ISBN | 0307265633 |
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?
There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent...
| Author | David Brooks |
| ISBN | 0812993268 |
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
| Author | Sabine Hossenfelder |
| ISBN | 0465094252 |
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular...
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0307990443 |
In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross, Macintyre returns with the untold...
Existential Psychotherapy
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465021476 |
I love this book! I've heard people, again and again, make the assertion that philosophy, and in particular existential philosophy, has no real-life, down-to-earth, practical use. Well, Irvin Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy proves that to be false.
Yalom draws on the insights of existentialism...
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
| Author | Ari Shavit |
| ISBN | 0385521707 |
A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today
My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel...
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
| Author | Matthew D. Lieberman |
| ISBN | 0307889092 |
We are profoundly social creatures – more than we know.
In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. ...
Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being
| Author | Christiane Northrup |
| ISBN | 1401945163 |
Though we talk about wanting to “age gracefully,” the truth is that when it comes to getting older, we’re programmed to dread an inevitable decline: in our health, our looks, our sexual relationships, even the pleasure we take in living life. But as Christiane Northrup, M.D., shows us...
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
| Author | Lisa Randall |
| ISBN | 0062328514 |
Bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door and one of today's most influential and highly cited theoretical physicists, Professor Lisa Randall once again effortlessly delivers fascinating science to the general reader. Weaving together the cosmos' history and our own...
We did it! Dear husband and I took our pastor's challenge to ‘read the Bible and the Catechism in a year’. We began on the 4th of February last year and we followed this guide a handy little fold-out which you mark off as you go. We would read a couple chapters from the Old Testament, something from the...
The Science of Storytelling
‘One of my absolute favourite writers’ Decca Aitkenhead
Who would we be without stories?
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships,...
Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting
| Author | Wayne W. Dyer |
| ISBN | 1401937276 |
This book is dedicated to your mastery of the art of realizing all your desires. The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination. Everything that now exists was once imagined. And everything that will ever exist must first be imagined.
Wishes Fulfilled is...
| Author | Sally Hetherington |
| ISBN | 0648490327 |
"I realised that for organisations to be sustainable, they needed to be run by local staff. And for local staff to run organisations, they needed to be empowered."
When Sally Hetherington was 25, she packed up all her belongings and bought a one-way ticket to Cambodia, determined to make a difference....
Life Code: The New Rules For Winning in the Real World
| Author | Phillip C. McGraw |
| ISBN | 0985462736 |
The rules for living in the real world have changed, because the world we live in has changed. Much of the conventional wisdom the last generation has passed on just doesn’t apply like it once did. If you want to win, and win big, and, more importantly, keep what you work so hard for, you need a crystal-clear...
| Author | Brian Kilcommons |
| ISBN | 0446675385 |
Instead of Going Out of Your Mind, Get into His. The only American to study and work with the renowned Barbara Woodhouse, Brian Kilcommons solves all those "bad dog" problems that drive owners crazy-and shows you how to raise a puppy into a happy, perfectly behaved dog. The trick is to understand how dogs...
I Am: Wishes Fulfilled Meditation
| Author | Wayne W. Dyer |
| ISBN | 1401937640 |
The two words I am are the name of God. As Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explains, “I discovered while reading James Twyman’s book The Moses Code that the sounds you will be hearing in this CD were the result of some intense research to reproduce the exact sounds associated with the name of God found in the...
I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life
| Author | Joel Osteen |
| ISBN | 1455516783 |
Embrace God's blessings every morning and experience the glory of His promises with thirty-one powerful Scripture lessons based on a regular, favorite feature of Joel Osteen's sermons at Lakewood Church.
Broken into thirty-one segments, this book defines the most powerful blessings...
Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health
| Author | Joel Fuhrman |
| ISBN | 0062286706 |
Do you want to eat delicious food that allows you to lose weight and keep it off permanently without hunger or deprivation?
Do you want to throw away your medications and recover from chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes?
Do you want to maintain your good...
The Estrogen Window: The Breakthrough Guide to Being Healthy, Energized, and Hormonally Balanced--Through Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond
| Author | Mache Seibel |
| ISBN | 1623366747 |
In The Estrogen Window, Dr. Mache Seibel, international health expert and leading authority on women’s wellness and menopause, presents groundbreaking research that explains how every woman has a window of opportunity to begin estrogen replacement.
If begun at the right time, estrogen...
Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
| Author | Stephan Talty |
| ISBN | 0547614810 |
Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent?
Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich — and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis....
Proof of God: The Shocking True Answer to the World's Most Important Question
| Author | Ptolemy Tompkins |
| ISBN | 1501161547 |
A Seeker, a Scientist, and the Stunning Answer to the World’s Oldest Question
Ptolemy Tompkins, collaborator on the New York Times bestselling Proof of Heaven and Proof of Angels, is at his lowest point, personally and professionally, when he meets with an astrophysicist with a message for...
The Testosterone Syndrome: The Critical Factor for Energy, Health, & Sexuality-Reversing the Male Menopause
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
| Author | Anil Ananthaswamy |
| ISBN | 0618884688 |
In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the nature of the "dark matter" that makes up almost a quarter...
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
| Author | Lucas Delattre |
| ISBN | 0871138794 |
Fritz Kolbe held fairly low-ranking positions in the German foreign ministry. He had joined the ministry in the 1920s because of the opportunity to travel. Never a Nazi party member, he became increasingly unhappy with his government. During World War II, he was able to make contact with Allen Dulles,...
The Illuminati Formula Used to Create a Total Mind Controlled Slave
The truth is more horrifying than fiction. The lengths of evil the Illuminati goes to for control and dominance knows no bounds. They actually take pleasure in their evil and abuses as well like sadists. Even to write and describe it would take a strong mind and courage. While the methods used by the Illuminati...
Set in London, New York, and San Francisco from the late nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, Domina is the inspiring saga of one woman's personal and professional triumph against the prejudices of her time.
Beautiful and courageous, Samantha Hargrave dares to...
| Author | Carl R. Rogers |
| ISBN | 1614278725 |
2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Active Listening," first developed by Rogers and Farson, is a therapeutic technique designed to promote positive change in the client. Active listening is a communication...
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an...
