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Breaking the Color Line: 1940 to 1946

By Library of Congress

In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball changed forever when Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Robinson into the major leagues in 1947.

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Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Joan Borysenko, co-founder and director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School, describes the clinic’s ten-week program for learning to “mind the body” through a medical synthesis of neurology, immunology, and psychology.

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Joan Borysenko, Andrew Weil (foreword)
2007
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The Breakout Principle: How to Activate the Natural Trigger that Maximizes Creativity, Athletic Performance, Productivity, and Personal Well-Being

In The Breakout Principle, the bestselling author of The Relaxation Response delivers the ultimate self-help principle—simple instructions to activate a powerful biological trigger that converts conflict and confusion into clarity and extraordinary performance, a state athletes refer to as “the...

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Herbert Benson, William Proctor
2004
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The Struggle Is My Life

“My political beliefs have been explained in my autobiography, The Struggle Is My Life.” —Nelson Mandela.

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Nelson Mandela
1990
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

Organized chronologically and divided by the four venues in which he was held as a sentenced prisoner, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela begins in Pretoria Local Prison, where Mandela was held following his 1962 trial.

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Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter (editor), Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (foreword)
2018
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history—and then go out and change it.

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Nelson Mandela
1995
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Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness

Awakening Joy is more than just another book about happiness. More than simply offering suggested strategies to change our behavior, it uses time-tested practices to train the mind to learn new ways of thinking.

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James Baraz, Shoshana Alexander, Jack Kornfield (foreword), Ram Dass (preface)
2012
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Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office.

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Arianna Huffington
2015
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