Summer Care Package: 2022

A guidebook for reimagining a world where communities are treated with dignity, care and respect. This book gives us permission to move away from cancel culture and into visioning change and healing. Have courageous conversations. Move away from reaction and towards response. Take care of oneself while fighting for others. Expand one's imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment. Make justice joyful. Practice active forgiveness. Make space for difficult feelings and honor mental health. Practice non-harm and cultivate compassion.

This beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the "strange jewels" that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, explores one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit. The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with stories and photographs from Jane's remarkable career, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today.

A short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. Piketty shows human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship.

This book reveals scientists and monks reaching across cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions. Is there neuroscientific evidence that meditation will help you pay attention, think better, control and even eliminate negative emotions? Are Buddhists right to make compassion a fundamental human emotion, and Western scientists wrong to have neglected it? The Dalai Lama at MIT shows scientists finding startling support for some Buddhist claims, Buddhists eager to participate in neuroscientific experiments, as well as misunderstandings and laughter. Those in white coats and those in orange robes agree that joining forces could bring new light to the study of human minds.

A falling apple inspired the law of gravity--or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But why do such stories endure as explanations of how science happens? Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present.

An expert on social and consumer neuroscience, Marci reviews mounting evidence that overuse of smart phones and social media is rewiring our brains, resulting in a losing deal: the neglect of sustaining relationships in favor of weaker and more ephemeral ties. The ability to connect and form strong social bonds is fundamental to human experience and emerged through unique structures in our brains. But technologies and ubiquitous access to media have hijacked our need to connect intimately with others and threaten parts of the brain associated with attention, emotion, and memory, altering how we communicate and relate. Rewired provides evidence-based solutions for restoring tech-life balance.