Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he...
How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer
Bart D. Ehrman
In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many "answers" that often contradict one another....
The first significant Jewish philosopher is recognized as Philo (ca 13 BC - 45/50 AD), who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. His biblical commentaries (written in Greek) powerfully influenced...
Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society ? the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. Those of us who sit...
The Tao Te Ching is one of the world's most revered sources of spiritual wisdom. This program presents the best-loved and most authoritative modern English translation (by Gia-fu Feng and Jane...
“David Shields has accomplished something here so pure and wide in its implications that I almost think of it as a secular, unsentimental Kahlil Gibran: a textbook for the acceptance of our fate on...
On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written THINGS I OVERHEARD WHILE TALKING TO MYSELF,...
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom
It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now—twelve million copies later—in a new foreword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of...
