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  • How To Know Your Self

    The Art & Science of Discovering Who You Really Are

    **"Self-help you can use." —The Wall Street Journal"Captures the tone of the charismatic professor." —Kirkus Reviews**A thinking person's guide to self-awareness, How to Know Your Self also shows how you can use self-knowledge to live a happier life.Most of us live with a low-grade sense that something's off. A background hum of anxiety, regret, or dissatisfaction we can't quite name. We try ... Read more

    Was $21.89 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Enchanted America

    How Intuition & Reason Divide Our Politics

    America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a ... Read more

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  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

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  • Fat Politics

    The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

    It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Democracy in Suburbia

    Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond popular stereotypes, Democracy in Suburbia answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs. Eric Oliver offers a rich, engaging account ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fat Politics

    The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

    It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    How To Know Your Self

    The Art and Science of Discovering Who You Really Are

    Narrated by J.Eric Oliver ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was an illusion?For more than twenty years, University of Chicago professor J. Eric Oliver has taught a legendary course—The Intelligible Self—that students routinely describe as life–changing. Now, in How to Know Your Self, he brings the best of that classroom experience to readers everywhere, guiding us through the most profound and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Letting Go

    The Pathway of Surrender

    This groundbreaking bestseller describes a simple and effective way to let go of challenges from world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, spiritual teacher, and researcher of consciousness, David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.“Letting Go” is a guide to helping to remove the obstacles we all have that keep us from living a more conscious life, it is truly a life-changing book. Many of us have ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Enlightenment 2.0

    by Joseph Heath ...
    The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In Defense of Food

    An Eater's Manifesto

    #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food RulesFood. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Map of Consciousness Explained

    A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

    Since its introduction in the bestselling Power vs. Force, The Map of Consciousness has become a foundational framework for understanding human behavior, emotional states, and spiritual evolution.Designed as an accessible primer to Hawkins’s broader body of work, this book combines clear explanations, visual charts, practical applications, affirmations, and reflective exercises to help readers ... Read more

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  • Whose Freedom?

    The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

    by George Lakoff ...
    Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "freedom." The United States can strike preemptively because "freedom is on the march." Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words "freedom," "free," and "liberty" were used forty-nine times."Freedom" is one of the most ... Read more

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