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A gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred 'divinations' for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th-century ornithological books.How do we live with uncertainty? Maria Popova was navigating a challenging season, longing for...

The brand new lifestyle guide from Marie Kondo, explaining her principles to life, drawn from Japanese culture.In 2014, Marie Kondo became famous around the world, changed how we live, the relationship we have with the objects around us and taught us how to seek out the joy in our daily lives. Five ...

'An exquisite book that reminds us our minds aren't soloists but symphony players: we are wired for connection.'."-David Eagleman, PhD, author of Incognito and Livewired'A must-read for anyone who wants to feel better and live longer, one conversation at a time!' - Dr. Karan Rajan, author of This Bo...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brene Brown with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership#1 New York Times bestselling author Brene Brown with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris...

'Transformative and a fascinating read; this book will open your ears to the world of sound and change your life' Steven Bartlett, bestselling author of The Diary of a CEO'A fascinating insight into the power of sound' Susan Cain, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of QUIETEvery day, the sounds...

Two women ninety years apart ask themselves the same question- What is the difference between living, and feeling truly alive?We all want more free time. But do we know how to use it?'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Darian Leader, author of Is It Ever Just Sex?'Astounding, generous, and quietly ...

‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It w...

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves in the difficult times of life.THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING, LIFE-CHANGING PHENOMENON - SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eve...

'The rare read that might actually help you become a better person' ADAM GRANT'A fierce and brilliant call to arms for anyone who has been wondering whether there's more to life. (There is.)' TIM HARFORD'Gives us hope, humour and guidance at a time when all are in short supply' TIMOTHY SNYDER'Clear,...

Our first time publishing Pico Iyer, we are repositioning him as a New York Times bestselling, major spiritual thinker - with a book that speaks to the growing readership for MBS / wellnessFrom the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm t...

From The School of Life— a roadmap for the emotionally mature adultMost of us want to be more emotionally mature and better able to face up to life’s challenges with poise, confidence, kindness and good-natured intelligence. We want to be grown-ups!With gentleness and insight, How Emotionally Ma...

New York Times BestsellerBestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs and more—who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making...

The first book to explore the distinct personality style of the otrovert - someone who lacks the communal impulse and does not fit in with any social group, regardless of its members - and to reveal all the advantages of being an otrovert and how otroverts contribute to the world.If you were the kid...

takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life – one that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves.Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, it offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: ...

From New York Times bestselling co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse in youth mental health—and a scientifically proven path to health and strengthThere is no bigger public health story now than the collapse in youth mental health. The number...

In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy...

A powerful argument for reclaiming childhood - and all human relationships - from the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling authorJonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces - communities polarized ...

In , a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatr...

We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be expected to listen in a world of noise made by men.Like so many of us, Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating our every momen...

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the ...

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives.The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the â...

Compelling new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room by the Number One bestselling author, 'a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' (New York Times)'Illuminating, beautiful. This is a special book, full of little epiphanies' Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on LoveT...

'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.'Memory isn't all that we think it is. Each time we revisit even our most deeply ingrained memories, they can soften and consolidate, distorted. Yet they al...

One of the world's greatest thinkers investigates the logic and psychology of common knowledgeAs a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker's fascination is how we think about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the t...