This step-by-step guide to achieving happiness is the most significant book of its kind since Daniel Goleman’s runaway bestseller, Emotional Intelligence.

Although we are materially better off than ever before, surveys show that we are depressed and listless. In his revolutionary book, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard shows that happiness is not…

A Sunday Times bestseller, this new paperback is an elegant and inspiring short guide to the art of meditation: another instant classic from the bestselling author of Happiness.

Into the Mirror examines the materialism of the modern world through the profound teachings of Mahayana Buddhism and offers an accessible and powerful method for investigating the way our minds…

Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize-winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he…

In the tradition of Ricard’s bestseller The Monk and The Philosopher comes a book that explores some of humanity’s enduring philosophical questions. Invites readers into an intimate and insightful conversation…

Originally published in France as Plaidoyer pour l'altruisme by NiL aeditions, September 2013 –Title page verso.