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The Whole-Brain Child: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

Why do children sometimes become overwhelmed by emotions they cannot explain, and what can adults do besides simply demanding that they calm…

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The Art of Loving: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

What if our biggest problem in love is not finding the right person, but learning how to love well? Erich Fromm’s The…

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The Upanishads: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

What are the oldest questions human beings have asked about consciousness, reality and the self? The Upanishads are not a single book…

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Autobiography of a Yogi: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi is part spiritual autobiography, part pilgrimage and part introduction to Indian yogic traditions. Yogananda describes his…

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The Sabbath: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

What if the most important part of time is not how much of it we have, but whether we can experience it…

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The Guide: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

R. K. Narayan’s The Guide begins with Raju, a man whose life has been built around improvisation. He becomes a railway guide,…

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The Art of Happiness: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

Most people say they want to be happy, yet we often organize life around goals that postpone happiness into an imaginary future:…

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Contagious: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

Why does one idea spread while another disappears? Why does one product become something people cannot stop talking about while a similar…

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The Alchemist: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

What if the treasure you are searching for is real, but the journey to find it changes what you believe treasure means?…

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Being Mortal: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights

Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal examines what happens when medicine confronts the limits of cure. As people age or develop serious, life-limiting illness,…

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