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Walpola Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught is an influential introduction to Buddhist philosophy and practice. Rather than beginning with Buddhism as a collection of…
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What should a person do when every available choice seems morally difficult? The Bhagavad Gita begins with Arjuna facing a battlefield in which he…
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What if Christianity is not primarily a collection of isolated rules, but a claim about what reality is like and what kind of transformation…
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Music is so familiar that we often forget how strange it is. A sequence of sounds can make people dance, cry, remember a place,…
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Why do everyday objects sometimes feel strangely difficult to use? Donald A. Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things argues that many frustrations blamed on…
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Why do some populations contain unusually high numbers of people who remain active and independent into old age? Dan Buettner’s The Blue Zones investigates…
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Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score explores how traumatic experiences can continue to affect people long after the original danger has…
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Why do some people recover from demanding physical challenges more easily than expected, while others struggle with fatigue, motivation or illness? John J. Ratey…
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Modern nutrition advice often turns eating into a battlefield of competing claims: low-fat versus low-carb, supplements versus whole foods, individual nutrients versus complete diets.…
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Friendship is often treated as one of life’s pleasant extras, yet philosophers and psychologists have repeatedly recognized it as central to human flourishing. In…
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John Gottman and Nan Silver’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work presents a research-informed framework for understanding why some relationships remain resilient while…
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Why do some households with ordinary incomes accumulate substantial wealth while people earning far more can remain financially fragile? Thomas J. Stanley and William…
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