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Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970

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By Charles Johnson — 1990

Charles Johnson approaches contemporary black literature through the lens of phenomenology, drawing on philosophers such as Heidegger, Husserl, Satre, and Dufrenne to address the aesthetic and epistemological questions surrounding the black experience as expressed by Black American authors.

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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 Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness

Every day modern medicine announces the arrival of yet another “wonder drug” or “miracle procedure” to a world increasingly wary of expensive high-tech cures.

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Larry Dossey
2007
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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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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture...

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Arthur Herman
2014
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