1-Sentence-Summary: Life Worth Living is a guide to finding your own answers to life’s biggest questions, based on a popular Yale class, drawing on a wide variety of examples, religions, philosophies, and historical individuals, so you can discover how you should live for maximum meaning and significance.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Starry Messenger looks at the big, human debates of our time — from gender and race to beauty and truth to religion, politics, and war — from a cosmic, scientific angle, bringing the context of the universe to our greatest problems, thus showing us how, with perspective, insight, and empathy, we can solve them together.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Art of Aliveness is a collection of 14 ideas to let your life feed off a creative practice and vice versa, rooted in personal anecdotes, backed up with practical exercises, and full of inspiration to live a rich, well-integrated life.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Enchantment is a personal exploration of the four elements and their power to reconnect us to the planet, other people, and ourselves as we re-emerge from a global health crisis feeling busier than ever before.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Awe is an investigation into a universal, powerful, much needed emotion we know next to nothing about, showing us that only when we feel a sense of wonder can we be wonderful human beings, and how to find that feeling not just in once-in-a-lifetime experiences but even amidst the slowly turning wheels of everyday life.
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1-Sentence-Summary: 8 Rules of Love offers a 4-stage model of love, loosely based on Indian tradition, along with 8 rules to help us progress through it and become more emotionally mature people in the process.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Creative Act is an inspiring guide to making art as a consistent practice, informed by mindfulness and an open, playful way of being more so than by catering to the whims of the market.
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1-Sentence-Summary: A Tale of Two Cities tells the stories of two connected families in 18th-century London and Paris, exploring everything from love and loss to murder and family intrigue, thus teaching us about history, ethics, and the complexity of human relationships.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Never Finished is an inspiring blueprint for leveling up in the game of life that never ends, offering 8 evolutions of thought, painful truths, and motivating stories to help you smash any and all glass ceilings in your life.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Bittersweet explains where emotions like sorrow, longing, and sadness come from and what their purpose in our lives is, as well as helping us deal with grief, loss, and our own mortality.
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