New York: Simon & Schuster/ TED, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this brief book, Iyer, a lifelong traveler investigates the "lives of people who have made a life seeking stillness: from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a PhD in molecular biology who left a promising scientific career to become a Tibetan monk, to singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for several years of living the near-silent life of meditation as a Zen monk." and he also draws on his own experiences. Illustrated with double page full color photographs by Icelandic/Canadian photographer Eydis S. Luna Einarsdottir. 74 pp. ISBN: 978-1476784724.