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The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four sciences: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing on those pillars, humans spent 100,000 years spreading out into the galaxy: warring, exploring, partying — the usual. Then there was the fifth science. And that killed the empire stone dead. The Fifth Science is a collection of 12 stories, be...
Patrick OShaughnessy
Jul 13, 2021"Verbalizing visceral feelings about technology, whether attraction or repulsion, Kelly explores the “technium,” his term for the globalized, interconnected stage of technological development. Arguing that the processes creating the technium are akin to those of biological evolution, Kelly devotes the opening sections of his exposition to that anal...
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Mar 14, 2021Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about “networking.” Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal relationships, work life, and even your global impact. Are you an Expansionist, a Broker, or a Convener? The answer matters more than you think. . . . Yale professor Marissa King shows ho...
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Adam GrantAn inside look at modern open source software developers--and their applications to, and influence on, our online social world."Nadia is one of today's most nuanced thinkers about the depth and potential of online communities, and this book could not have come at a better time." --Devon Zuegel, director of product, communities at GitHubOpen source ...
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition. Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature. Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao ...
Patrick OShaughnessy
Feb 20, 2021
Living Life Backward
How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End
Only by keeping the end in mind can a person truly learn how to live in the here and now. Living in light of our death reorients us to our limitations as creatures and helps us see God’s good gifts right in front of us—enabling us to live wisely, freely, and generously. Drawing on wisdom from the book of Ecclesiastes, David Gibson teaches us to emb...
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Feb 20, 2021This is an absorbing account of a dialogue between leading Western scientists and the foremost representative of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet.For modern science, the transitional states of consciousness lie at the forefront of research in many fields. For a Buddhist practitioner, these same states present crucial opportunities to explore...
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Feb 20, 2021Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbells revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Heros Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all...
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Feb 20, 2021Among the oldest of India’s spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students – in ashrams, at family gatherings, in a royal court, and in the kingdom of Death. The sages share flashes of insight, extraordinary visions, the results of their investigation into consciousne...
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Caterina FakeWith hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years—and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death? In No Death, No Fear, the acclaimed teacher and poet examines our concepts of death, fear, and ...
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Feb 20, 2021Also recommended by
Chris EvansKrishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age--opening the door to transforming society and their relationships....
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Naval RavikantThe World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Metaphysics by Aristotle
One Up by Joost van Dreunen
The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
Brick by Brick by David Robertson
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Don't Just Roll the Dice - A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing by Neil Davidson
Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Luxury Strategy by Jean-Noël Kapferer
The Systems Bible by John Gall