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Psychedelic Marine: A Transformational Journey from Afghanistan to the Amazon
Alex Seymour - Park Street Press
Format: Print book
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A vivid portrait of both the traumas of war and the shamanic healing ceremonies of ayahuasca* Explains how our culture lacks rites of passage and how shamanic ritual can fill this gap* Reveals how ayahuasca frees your consciousness from inherited beliefs, fears, and traumatic experience,... |
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Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
Nancy L Rosenblum - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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"Love thy neighbor" is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. The moral principles prescribed... |
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
Hala Alyan - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and upheaval. For Hala Alyan, this is a year in which the past - memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith - winds itself... |
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The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Jill Filipovic - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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What do women want? It's a time-old question, but if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done, you discover that what they want is happiness. Despite what recent books, articles, or tv shows would have you believe, real women are less concerned... |
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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
Arthur Kleinman - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began... |
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The Art of Creative Thinking: 89 Ways to See Things Differently
Rod Judkins - Perigee Books
Format: Print book
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Get ready to get inspired In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them... |
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Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
Shankar Vedantam
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a counterintuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success.Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities, and to the planet. But in Useful... |
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