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You know you should be meditating, so what's stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation will finally take meditation mainstream.

To many journalists, the perfect interview seems more like luck than skill, but it's actually the result of careful planning and good habits. Let Dean Nelson show you how to nail it every time.

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us.

Following the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine, a decade and a half of civil turbulence existed.

Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.

This collection features historical speeches given by those aspiring to win over voters and gain positions of power. This collection includes speeches by Franklin D.

British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.

Joyce Carol Oates chronicles her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State.

These letters illuminate the revered American author's thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and relationships as never before, serving as a sequel to her beloved books and a snapshot of

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a "spending fast" will help you get on the road to living debt-free.

In 2006, an oddball group of bankers and traders from some of the world's largest financial institutions made a startling realization: LIBOR--the London interbank offered rate, which determines the

Jam packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be.

From growing up dirt poor in Mexico to becoming a lowly dishwasher in the US and finally a person you might almost think is perpetually in a state of nirvana, this is the story of a truly fascinati

The true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their

While it never discounts the difficulties of living with autism, this book offers inspiring stories and practical advice drawn from Dr. Prizant's four-decade career.