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Continuing with the Buddhism theme — using moral and evolutionary psychology Robert Wright demonstrates that the Buddhists knew the best way to respond to the human condition long before we understood what causes human suffering in scientific terms. [Reviews]

Journalist Michael Booth, a many-years resident of Copenhagen, lightheartedly explores the oft-repeated but little-investigated belief that Scandinavian and Nordic countries are the happiest places on earth. [Reviews]

 

After a surviving a catastrophe and losing his mother, a work of art changes a boy’s life. Really loved this, would recommend to anyone. Extremely readable and intriguing — almost a thousand pages and not one moment of slog. 

 

Science-minded meditation adept Shinzen Young presents his uniquely systematic style of meditation in empirical terms, all the way to enlightenment. Utterly fascinating for the experienced meditator; the later chapters will confuse the hell out of everyone else.