Shelf Discovery

A Tibetan Buddhist teacher pairs meditation instruction with modern neuroscience to argue that happiness is a skill the mind can be trained in.

Ancient Toltec wisdom distilled into four simple principles for personal freedom: be impeccable with your word, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions, and always do your best.

A practical, mind-body workbook that draws on therapy, somatic practice, and mindfulness to help readers move from trauma recovery toward genuine growth.

A memoir in essays about shedding the expectations placed on women, leaving a marriage, and learning to trust one’s own inner knowing.

A young neurosurgeon’s posthumously published memoir, written after a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis, about what makes a life meaningful in the face of death.

A memoir of a woman diagnosed with autism in her mid-thirties, exploring a lifetime of masking and what it means to finally understand herself.

Blends neuroscience, meditation, and quantum-inspired ideas to argue that we can rewire habitual thoughts and emotions to create a new self.

A guide to spirituality without religion that explores meditation, consciousness, and the illusion of the self from a secular, rational perspective.

A short, pointed argument that free will is an illusion, and an exploration of what that means for morality, justice, and how we live.

A Jungian analyst’s brief guide to the disowned parts of the psyche and how integrating them leads to wholeness.

A psychiatrist’s method for surrendering negative emotions rather than resisting them, as a pathway to inner peace and freedom.

The master of modern yoga moves beyond the poses to describe yoga as a journey through body, energy, mind, and spirit toward wholeness.

An accessible exploration of yoga’s ten ethical guidelines and how to practice them in everyday life.

An program teaching on putting surrender into daily practice by letting life unfold rather than fighting it. A companion to "The Untethered Soul" by the same author.

A follow-up to "The Untethered Soul" that explains how stored mental and emotional patterns bind us, and how to let them go.

Singer’s memoir of decades spent saying yes to whatever life presented, a practice that led him from solitary meditation to founding a spiritual community and a major software company.

Tests ancient wisdom from thinkers like Buddha and Plato against modern psychology to uncover what actually makes people happy.

Examines why we so often misread people we don’t know, and how those misunderstandings can have serious consequences.

Explores rapid cognition and the snap judgments we make in an instant, including when they serve us well and when they fail us.

Revisits his debut book to examine the darker side of social epidemics and the hidden forces that shape them.

Argues that extraordinary success depends less on individual genius than on opportunity, culture, timing, and practice.

A sweeping history of humankind, from the cognitive revolution to the present, tracing how shared stories allowed our species to dominate the planet.

An evolutionary biologist explains how the human body evolved and why the mismatch between our ancient bodies and modern lives fuels many chronic diseases.

Investigates how modern humans have lost the ability to breathe properly and how changing the way we breathe can transform our health.

Written as a letter to his teenage son, a searing meditation on what it means to inhabit a Black body in America.

Argues that America’s racial hierarchy functions as a caste system, drawing comparisons with India and Nazi Germany.

A therapist examines how racialized trauma lives in the body and offers somatic practices for healing.

A landmark argument that mass incarceration in the United States functions as a modern system of racial control.

Makes the case for intellectual humility and the power of rethinking our beliefs, opinions, and assumptions.

A former professional poker player shows how to make better decisions under uncertainty by separating the quality of a choice from its outcome.

Uses the Bhagavad Gita and stories of real people to explore how to find and live out your true calling.

A journalist’s account of weekly visits with his dying former professor and the life lessons they shared.

A collection of daily meditations offering short, gentle reflections for a year of spiritual growth and self-discovery.

A poetry collection that works through releasing trauma, mother and father wounds, breaking old patterns, and realizing self-worth, touching on grief, inner child wounds, and self-love.