Author: Richard M. Ryan & Edward L. Deci
Excerpt: Choice, acknowledgment of feelings, and opportunities for self-direction were found to enhance intrinsic motivation because they allow people a greater feeling of autonomy.
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Author: Judith Grisel
Book length: 256 pages
Excerpt: Despite arranging things to my own liking, by eliminating limits and responsibilities and partying nonstop—I was entirely discontented.
The Role of the ‘Ulamā’ in the Thoughts of ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghudda (Article)
Author: Emad Hamdeh
Excerpt: “I have nearly a hundred teachers whom I learned from, each of whom had their unique methodology. I never adhered to the sayings of any one of them simply because he was my shaykh and teacher. Instead, I adhere to what I consider to be correct and believe to be true or preponderant.”
Do You Really Believe in Angels? (Article)
Author: Zohair Abdul-Rahman
Excerpt: Taking care of one’s personal hygiene can have an impact on one’s mind by attracting angels who engage in positive whisperings.
Book on the Etiquette of Marriage
Author: Al-Ghazali
Book length: 124 pages
Excerpt: Know that good character with her is not simply withholding harm from her, but rather bearing harm from her, and exercising patience and forbearance when she acts foolishly or in anger.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone *
Author: Lori Gottlieb
Book length: 432 pages
Excerpt: For many men, their therapist is the first person with whom they have shared their feelings about marriage, self-esteem, identity, their parents, and their childhood.
The Bible: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John Riches
Book length: 176 pages
Excerpt: During the First Crusade, Hebrew chronicles recount that some Jewish communities, faced with massacre or forced conversion, chose collective martyrdom.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Authors: Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Book length: 315 pages
Excerpt: An adoptee’s academic abilities are far more influenced by the IQs of his biological parents than the IQs of his adoptive parents.
Enjoining Good, Forbidding Evil
Author: Ibn Taymiyyah
Translator: Salim Abdallah ibn Morgan
Book length: 66 pages
Excerpt: Enjoining what is right should neither result in the loss of a greater good nor cause a greater harm.
The Formative Years of an Iconoclastic Salafi Scholar (Article)
Author: Emad Hamdeh
Excerpt: Prior to Albānī there was little interest in authenticating hadīths; they used to say the knowledge of hadīth was ‘cooked, eaten, and digested.’