The Tao Is Silent

8 best books like The Tao Is Silent (Raymond M. Smullyan): How the Mind Works, Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young, The Essential Tao, L'étranger

How the Mind Works

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0393318486

In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...

Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human

Author	Susan Blackmore
ISBN	0195179595

In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the concept of consciousness.

The interviewees, ranging from major philosophers to renowned...

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Author	Miklós Nyiszli
ISBN	1559702028

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known...

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...

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Author	Alan W. Watts
ISBN	0394704681

In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human...

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	1480537373

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation.

As edited by Dan Wakefield,...

The Essential Tao

Author	Thomas Cleary
ISBN	0641535414

The four stars are for the translation. Ranking the Tao Te Ching or Chuang Tzu is a fairly hilarious idea, equivalent to rating the New Testament. No book of any sort is more important to my way of thinking and, to the extent I can stay centered and uncentered, acting, in the world. Taoism is grounded in notions...

L'étranger

Author

Jacques Ferrandez

Le jour où sa mère est morte, Meursault a remarqué qu'il faisait très chaud dans l'autobus qui le menait d'Alger à l'asile de vieillards, et il s'est assoupi. Plus tard, dans la chambre mortuaire, il a apprécié le café que lui offrait le concierge, a eu envie de fumer, a été gêné par la violente...