Product Description: Man vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch of NPR's "Marketplace" is economics explained, pure and simple, for the layperson who wouldn't know a "bond" from an "option," and who believes that a "future" is when we'll all have flying cars. Here is an illuminating, insightful, and wonderfully witty journey of discovery through the often confusing financial markets, offering clear, relatable explanations and definitions of the system's various instruments, yet less simplistically than the popular...read more

Product Description: The explosive rise and shining future of Santa Fe's informatics industry, where scientists are converting abstract theory into real profit. How did a small southwest town transform itself into a hotbed of research science, advanced technology, and money? Tracking key figures in Santa Fe's emerging industries, Ed Regis explains how entrepreneurial scientists are using complexity theory and powerful, experimental computer programs to create practical—and profitable—applications...read more

Product Description: It''s the ultimate technology: nanotechnology—the attempt to build ordinary objects from the atoms up, molecule by molecule. So named because its building blocks are the smallest pieces of matter, nanotechnology will give us complete control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build any substance or structure permitted by the Laws of Nature...read more

Product Description: There’s no trying in meditation.If you can breathe, you can meditate. Just as water naturally runs downhill and leaves float naturally to the ground, we are all naturally able to settle into meditation. Meditation doesn’t require trying; rather, meditation comes out of just allowing―not doing, just being...read more

Product Description: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD-MEDAL WINNER FOR 2015There’s no trying in meditation. Just as water runs naturally downhill … just as leaves float naturally to the ground … we can all settle naturally into meditation. Not trying, just allowing—not doing, just being...read more

Movie fans and spiritual seekers, unite! In Cinema Nirvana, meditation teacher and award-winning film critic Dean Sluyter illuminates the hidden enlightenment teachings of Casablanca, Jaws, The Graduate, The Godfather, Memento, and ten other classic films, revealing spiritual wisdom in everything from 007’s secret weapons to the colors of the Seven Dwarfs’ eyes.So grab your popcorn, sit back, and prepare to have your mind opened. Cinema Nirvana is a funny but wise, practical but wildly entertaining guide to finding enlightenment—one movie at a time.

Building on the Ten Commandments, a meditation teacher introduces ten important guidelines for leading an enlightened life that explain how to transform one's life by subtly shifting one's moment-to-moment experiences. Original. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

In thirty-three short, illustrated chapters, a humorous and revealing collection illuminates the insights into spirituality and the nature of the universe latent in popular songs, jingles, jokes, sayings, and nursery rhymes. Original. 15,000 first printing.