For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. A Force for Good explains how to turn our compassionate energy outward, with true stories of people who are putting his ideas into action, showing their lasting and meaningful effects. Revelatory, motivating, and highly persuasive, this is arguably the most important work from one of the world's most influential spiritual and political figures, in tandem with Goleman's empirical perspective. 

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"Long Island librarian Simon Watson knows loss. His mother purposely drowned herself and his father died a few years later. The little sister he had to raise ran off and now contacts him only infrequently. One day Simon receives an unsolicited book in the mail, posted from a book dealer, [which] documents some previous suicides by drowning dating back to the early nineteenth century. . .More sleuthing turns up the startling information that these doomed women were, in fact, ancestors of his mother. . .Simon then has to figure out if this family curse will claim his sister's life as well. . ." - Booklist

"After over a decade away from writing novels, Kundera (Ignorance) returns with this slight lark about four laissez-faire Parisians. In the tradition of existential comedies, the drama is in the dialogue. The four characters -- Alain, Ramon, Charles, and Calibana spend their days in Paris's gardens, museums, and cafes, chatting and philosophizing [about] disparate, seemingly random issues: Stalin's decision to rename a German town Kaliningrad, a marionette play that Charles imagines, a fake language Caliban invents for dinner parties. . .This novel is a fitting bookend to Kundera's long career intersecting the absurd and the moral. . ." - Publishers Weekly 

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2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien planet has somehow become entangled with one of the Long Earth worlds and its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the new universe the Long Earth they have inadvertently discovered. World-building, the intersection of universes, the coexistence of diverse species, and cosmic meaning are among the mind-expanding themes explored in this exciting new installment of the Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

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