NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks observes, There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood. And yet we humans don t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person s story should you pay attention to? Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and his determination to grow as a per

Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of the widely praised Wherever YouGo, There You Are shows how the power of mindfulness can bringprofound changes to your personal life. As stress continues toexact a toll on everyday life, we are increasingly turning toancient, meditative methods, which have been tested by science, toreduce stress and become more focused and healthy in our everydaylives. Jon Kabat-Zinn has been for decades at the forefront of themind/body movement and the subsequent revolution in medicine andhealth care, both demystifying it and bringing it into themainstream. In Coming To Our Senses, he shares his belief thatevery human has the capacity to mobilize deep, innate resources forcontinual learning, growing, healing and transformation throughmindfulness. Woven into eight parts, Coming To Our Senses: Usesanecdotes and stories from Kabat-Zinn's own life experiences andwork to illustrate the realm of healing possibilities: Offers aremarkable insight into how to use the five senses - touch,hearing, sight,

An Apple Store customer asks for the latest iPhone in black but suddenly changes to white when he sees others choosing it. A citizen of a former communist country picks~ a drink at random; soda is soda, he says. A young man and woman decide to marry--knowing that they'll meet for the first time on their wedding day. In THE ART OF CHOOSING, Columbia University profes- sor Sheena Iyengar, a leading expert on choice, asks fascinating questions: Are our choices innate or created by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have? What's the relationship between choice and freedom? Drawing on her award-winning, discipline: spanning research, this remarkable book illuminates the joys and challenges of choosing--and shows us how we can choose better, one choice at a time.