Buddhism, Booze, and the Four Noble Truths

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Religion appears to be about God, messiahs, churchgoing, and morality, but that is only the appea...

For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the ...

From the school yard to the workplace, there's no charge more damning than 'you're being unfair!'...

Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the...

The author examines the various interpretations of form and function in science and philosophy, r...

Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patter...

Profound and amusing, this book provides a viable approach to answering the perennial questions: ...

'An illustrated, graphic-novel-style primer on the teachings of Buddha. With a biting sense of hu...

A comprehensive modern-day bestiary.--The New Yorker