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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
M. Scott Peck · 316 pages
Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B Peterson · 416 pages
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate a
Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope
Mark Manson · 288 pages
We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to techn
The Courage To Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Read by Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm and January LaVoy. 6 hours, 28 minutes unabridged.
The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 59)
James Hollis · 127 pages
Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining and reorienting the personality, a necessary rite of passage between the extended adolescence of th
The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 322 pages
Summary:One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how readers can attain the same inner peace
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Miguel Ruiz · 164 pages
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. A New York Times bestseller for over a decade An international bestseller publishe
The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decision
Rolf Dobelli · 384 pages
The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning — essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid “cognitive errors” and make better choices in all aspects of their lives. Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it? Or continued doing something you knew was bad for
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene · 378 pages
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some
Too soon old, too late smart
Gordon Livingston · 164 pages
Gordon Livingston was awarded the Bronze Star for valor during the Vietnam War. He offers advice gleaned from his patients during his thirty years of professional work.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · 802 pages
From Goodreads: Selected by *The New York Times Book Review* as a Notable Book of the Year The author of *The New York Times* bestseller *The Stuff* of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as *New York Times* bestselling author Steven Pin
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
R.D. Laing · 222 pages
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas Szasz · 320 pages
The author believes that what is nowadays accepted as mental illness is whatever psychiatrists say it is - and that psychiatry has, with increasing zeal, defined more and more kinds of behavior as mental illness. What is termed mental illness is in fact behavior disapproved of by the speaker.
Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
Erich Fromm, D.T. Suzuki, Richard Martino, Richard J. DeMartino · 180 pages
Study combining aspects of religion and psychotherapy by leading psychoanalyst, an authority on Buddhism, and a student of Zen Buddhism in Japan.
The Principles of Psychology, Vol 1
William James · 689 pages
One of the greatest classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America's most important philosopher.
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
Arthur C Brooks
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
Melanie Joy · 224 pages
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik · 288 pages
A revelatory examination of how babies and young children think draws on new scientific understandings to identify links between key behaviors and subsequent abilities, explaining how the latest findings offer profound insight into the nature of being human.
Power vs. Force
David R. Hawkins · 330 pages
Presents a study of kinesiology, a science based on the testing of an all-or-none muscle response stimulus, and claims that the techniques described can provide people with the means by which to calibrate levels of truth and determine whether they are being misled in most any situation.
Man and His Symbols
C.G. Jung, Joseph L. Henderson, Aniela Jaffe, Jolande Jacobi, Marie-Louise von Franz · 320 pages
Excerpt from back cover: "This book, which was the last piece of work undertaken by Jung before his death in 1961, provides a unique opportunity to assess his contribution to the life and thought of our time, for it was also his first attempt to present his life-work in psychology to a non-technical public...What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service bot