The Universe In Verse by Maria Popova

Subtitled "15 portals to wonder through science and poetry", The Universe in Verse is a lovely illustrated volume of poetry and science, which explores the sense of wonder in life and our experiences, and how these two different things, literature and scientific discovery, overlap. It features chapters that start with a short essay about a …

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The Night School: Moonlight, Magic and the Mysteries of Being Human by Maia Toll

Subtitled "lessons in Moonlight, Magic and the Mysteries of Being Human", this book is set up as little short lessons that make up a course of nightly reading. There's a fictional teacher who addresses you and takes you through subjects like dreams, the moon and it's pull on us, divination and other things. It's beautifully …

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The Courage To Be Happy by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

A Socratic style dialogue between a youth and a philosopher, this book is the bestselling follow up to The Courage to be Disliked, both of which are a runaway success in Asia. It explores the teachings of Alfred Adler, who is an oft overlooked contemporary of Jung and Freud, but whose ideas ended up being …

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