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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Emil Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot... (more)
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Nothing
by Janne Teller
"Nothing matters." "From the moment you are born, you start to die." "The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. You'll live to be a maximum of one hundred. Life isn't worth the bother!" So says Pierre Anthon when he decides that there is no meaning to life, leaves the classroom, climbs a plum tree, and stays there. His friends and classmates cannot get him to come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to... (more)
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
Stories
by Miranda July
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With... (more)
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Law of Attraction
The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't
by Michael J. Losier
You may not be aware of it, but a very powerful force is at work in your life. It's called the Law of Attraction and right now it is attracting people, jobs, situations and relationships in your life - not all of them good! If your life feels as if it has turned south and taken on the characteristics of a bad soap opera, it's time to pick up this book.
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Happiness Hypothesis
Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt
In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn't kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives.
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Chop Wood, Carry Water
by Rick Fields
Over 140,000 copies sold. An authoritative resource tool and essential companion on any spiritual journey. Practical and inspirational. A must for anyone who wants to integrate the wisdom of spiritual tradition into daily living.
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Teaching As a Subversive Activity
by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
by Robert Fulghum
Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo—a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten . Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world. He has written a new preface and twenty-five essays, which add even more potency to a common, though no less relevant, piece of wisdom: that... (more)
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On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton
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The Will to Meaning
Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
by Viktor Emil Frankl
Frankl discusses logotherapy--man's motivation to search for meaning in his life--in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum". 11 line drawings.
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Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences (VOICES)
by Nathan Shedroff, Stephen Diller
“ We’re now hip-deep, if not drowning, in the ‘experience economy.‘ Here‘s the smartest book I‘ve read so far that can actually help get your brand to higher ground, fast. And it‘s written by people who not only drew the map, but blazed these trails in the first place.” –Brian Collins, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Brand Integration Group In a market economy characterized by... (more)
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Care of the Soul
A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
by Thomas Moore, Peter Thomas
This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.
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The Hidden Key to Harry Potter: Understanding the Meaning, Genius, and Popularity of Joanne Rowling's Harry Potter Novels
by John Granger
What you need to know about The Hidden Key to Harry Potter: 1) It is the first critical study to unlock the inner meaning of Harry Potter by treating the series seriously as literature along the lines of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. 2) It is the first exposé to identify Joanne Rowling as a Christian who consciously writes Christian Fantasy in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. 3) It... (more)
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A Leader Becomes a Leader
Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation
by J. Kevin Sheehan
A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)
by Neale Donald Walsch
Conversations with God Book 1 began a series that has been changing millions of lives for more than ten years. Finally, the bestselling series is now a movie, starring Henry Czerny ( The Pink Panther and Clear and Present Danger ) and Ingrid Boulting ( The Last Tycoon ). Produced and directed by Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come ) and distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films... (more)
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Your Soul's Plan
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
by Robert Schwartz
Please note that as of March 24, 2009, Courageous Souls is out of print. It has been reissued under the new title, Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (ISBN 9781583942727). Courageous Souls explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we re born for purposes of spiritual growth. The book... (more)
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Knitticisms . . . And Other Purls Of Wisdom
by Kari A. Cornell
As anyone who’s ever picked up yarn and needles with the intent of learning to knit will tell you one of the most important attributes that all new knitters should have in their knitting basket is a sense of humor. "Knitticisms . . . And Other Purls of Wisdom" is a fun, light look at the world of knitting featuring purls of knit wit and wisdom. Along with brilliant color photographs, historical... (more)
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish... (more)
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The Element Encyclopedia series
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols
by Adele Nozedar
Publisher:In this book you will find the definitive A-Z guide to the ancient meanings of signs and symbols, some of which have been lost for thousands of years. From different cultures and religions across the world, here are signs of magic and mystery, secret alphabets, scripts, and numerology. Find out why Masonic Temples have black and white checkered floors, where in the Natural World the Golden Mean... (more)
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Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things
by Alister E. McGrath
We live in an age when the growth of the Internet has made it easier than ever to gain access to information and accumulate knowledge. But information is not the same as meaning, nor is knowledge identical with wisdom. Many people feel engulfed by a tsunami of facts in which they can find no meaning. In thirteen short, accessible chapters McGrath, author of the bestselling The Dawkins Delusion, leads the reader... (more)

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