Zen and the Brain

8 best books like Zen and the Brain (James H. Austin): This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, Much Ado About Nothing, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Twelfth Night, Ishmael, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Author	Naomi Klein
ISBN	1451697384

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...

The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

Author	Joseph E. LeDoux
ISBN	0684836599

"You're reading that for *fun*?" "Yup."

Okay so it wasn't really "fun", reading this book, and god knows it took me nearly the entire summer to finish it, but here are some crazy tidbits about our emotional brain:

You know how sometimes you wished you could will yourself to feel a certain...

Much Ado About Nothing

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482751

Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

Twelfth Night

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482778

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto...

Ishmael

Author

Daniel Quinn

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender...

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

Author	Joseph E. Stiglitz
ISBN	0393075966

Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order.

The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America...

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

Author	Margareta Magnusson
ISBN	1501173243

A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating...