As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harpers, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in Americas culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide uspolitical, social, religiousJacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because were doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply arent thinking.

As a storm threatens one night, a little girl wonders aloud about the world, about herself. This film explores thoughts of the universe, without making concessions or providing answers.

Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion-beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions. Journey of the Mind is the first book to offer a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos. The journey begins three...

Beloved friends Big Panda and Tiny Dragon journey through the seasons of the year together. And, although they often get lost, it leads them to discover many beautiful things. They explore the hardships and happiness that connect us all. They learn how to live in the moment, how to be at peace with uncertainty and how to find the strength to overcome life's obstacles, together. Writer and artist James Norbury illustrates the adventures of Big Panda...

"The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old...

Grounded in decades of scientific research, a renowned neuroscientist and a clinical psychologist look the ways that the science of sensation can provide the key to overcoming patterns of self-judgment and negative thinking.

"In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can't...