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The Power of Intention (2004) explores the connection between human beings and the creative potential of God and the universe. This feel-good guide to spirituality examines the true meaning of intention and explains how we can all live more purposeful lives.

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Dr. Wayne W. Dyer was an American author with a focus on self-help and spirituality. Dyer’s first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), became one of the best-selling books of all time; it has sold more than 100 million copies.

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The Eight Master Lessons of Nature (2019) is a reflective treatise on what nature can teach us about living well. Carefully observing many forms of life, from forest mushrooms to mighty elephants, the guide reveals valuable lessons they may hold for us. In doing so, it invites us to look again at the wild world around us with a renewed sense of awe and wonder.

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Gary Ferguson is an award-winning author, naturalist, and public speaker specializing in the intersection of ecology and psychology. He’s authored more than 25 books including The Carry Home, Shouting at the Sky, and Hawks Rest, which was the first ever to be named Book of the Year by both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Associations.

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The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) is an influential essay that contributed significantly to the philosophical movements of existentialism and absurdism. The essay asks whether life is worth living in a world emptied of religious meaning and considers whether suicide is the only appropriate response to the void of meaninglessness. Ultimately, the essay advises against suicide, arguing that the meaninglessness of existence is, in fact, the condition for a fulfilling life lived with freedom, passion, and happiness.

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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, and journalist whose work centered around existentialist themes. He’s perhaps most famous for his works of literature, especially The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

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Midlife (2017) is a philosophical guide to navigating the troubles that middle age can present. Drawing on thinkers from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century England, it offers gentle solace in the face of midlife’s woes.

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Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Specializing in ethics, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology, he has also written extensively on public philosophy. He is the author of Knowing Right from Wrong, Practical Knowledge, and Reasons Without Rationalism.

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How to Be an Epicurean (2019) brings the ancient philosophy of Epicureanism into the modern age. This fascinating “theory of everything” is about much more than seeking pleasure, and it can help you live an enjoyable, moral, and meaningful life today.

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Catherine Wilson is a philosopher who has taught in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She’s currently Visiting Presidential Professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She’s written several other books on Epicureanism, including A Very Short Introduction to Epicureanism, as well as books on the philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and René Descartes.

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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction (2014) is an accessible introduction to the complex field of epistemology. Epistemology is concerned with the nature of knowledge itself. What can we know? And how do we know that we know it? Knowledge surveys epistemological thinking from the ancient Greeks to contemporary philosophy, shining a bright light on this fascinating field of thought.

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Jennifer Nagel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. A highly respected epistemologist, her work focuses on the nexus of knowledge and belief. In addition to Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction, she’s written numerous academic articles on the topic of knowledge

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