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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams on Our Stays Against Despair

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Where Love Goes When It Goes

Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

What Forgiveness Takes

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts

Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength

How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity

How to Bear Your Loneliness

Roots and the Meaning of Life

The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older

How to Save a Life: “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on the Power of the Smallest Kindnesses

Pi and the Seductions of Infinity

Einstein on Free Will and the Power of the Imagination

When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times

May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone

User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

How to Feel Whole in a Broken World: An Astronaut’s Antidote to Despair

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life