Browsing: Philosophy

Advice and How-To

The Power of Meaning

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Chart your course to a richer, more fulfilling life with this “enlightening guide to discovering meaning” (Publishers Weekly) in the everyday. “Reading it is a life-transforming experience” (New York Times bestselling author Susan Cain).

Bestsellers

Patient H.M.

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This New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of the Year explores the life of famed lobotomy patient Henry Molaison — and the controversial work of the doctors and researchers who studied him. “Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King… Mesmerizing” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

Astronomy

Black Holes & Time Warps

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A “superb” national bestseller (Carl Sagan) with more than 3,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads: From black holes to wormholes, our universe is filled with bizarre and mind-bending mysteries! “Deeply satisfying… [An] engrossing blend of theory, history, and anecdote” (The Wall Street Journal).

Astronomy

The Big Picture

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A New York Times bestseller and an NPR Best Science Book of 2016: This “brilliantly lucid” book (Kirkus Reviews starred review) takes on humanity’s big questions and illustrates the ways the universe works at the quantum, cosmic, and human levels — and how they all connect.

Bestsellers

When Breath Becomes Air

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A National Book Award–winning author explores how the “tragedy, betrayal, and heartbreak of war extend far beyond the battlefield” (Publishers Weekly): As World War I rages on, tuberculosis patients seek recovery at an upstate New York sanitarium, where discovery and distrust abound…