Sam Harris
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. Waking Up is for the 30 percent of Americans who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. Throughout the book, Harris argues...
4) Lying
Author
Publisher
Four Elephants Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
"Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In [this book] ... Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie"--Dust jacket flap.
6) Free will
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that free will is an illusion but that this truth should not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom; indeed, this truth can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith. This important and timely work delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, the world can...
Author
Publisher
Rivertowns Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this completely revised and updated 2024 edition, Sam Daley-Harris uses his decades of experience leading and coaching citizens' advocacy groups to expand that road map and create an indispensable guide to engaged citizenship, an inspiring master class in transformational advocacy."--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The performer and first winner of Star Search presents a collection of essays about friendship, the celebrity life, and getting sober, exploring such subjects as growing up gay in America's Bible belt and attending Liza Minnelli's wedding.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Bake It Better, Instagram and TikTok star Matt Adlard shares his tried-and-true baking approach to help home chefs advance from intermediate-level to master baker-all at their own pace. Each chapter has a dedicated theme, with recipes offering techniques to show you how to elevate your baking from refreshingly refined to extraordinarily elegant.--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at its best: sincere and probing, funny and unpredictable,...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An essential guide to baking that takes away the fear of baking failure by combining easy-to-follow, science-based advice with 100 reliable and delicious recipes for both novices and more experienced bakers--from a renowned pastry chef. "Her palate and mind thrill me in equal measure and I cannot wait to read, learn from, and celebrate this book."--Samin Nosrat Sift begins with the foundational ingredients that underpin great bakes--flour, sugar,...
Author
Publisher
Quadrille, an imprint of Hardie Grant Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Why do we choose to cook the things we do, when we do? Most of the time, it is simply so we can eat what we really fancy; a subconscious response to a constantly fluctuating state of mind and appetite that's influenced by mood, season, weather, memory, occasion, outside events and internal feelings"--Back cover.
20) 2:37
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story of six high school students and the day that will change their lives forever. Each one, including a popular jock, an awkward outcast, a fragile beauty, an academic overachiever and a closet homosexual, has a dark secret. Every secret carries its own tortuous weight. And for one of them, the pressure will explode today at exactly 2:37.