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Spirituality and Religion March 2024
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The mindful body : creating chronic health in an age of possibility
by Ellen J. Langer
"A groundbreaking account of the power of our thoughts to improve our health-by the "mother of mindfulness" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes astatic or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments-our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight-can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer's life's work proves the fault in that logic. She has spentmore than forty years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing power of being mindful-present in the moment and not distracted by memories or projections into the future. In The Mindful Body she unpacks her findingsand boldly demonstrates how our thoughts and perspectives have the potential to shape our well-being for the better.
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The end of Eden : wild nature in the age of climate breakdown
by Adam Welz
Inviting us to meet wild species on our own terms in a range of ecosystems spanning the globe, this radical new kind of environmental journalism connects humans to nature in a more empathetic way than ever before and encourages us to defend the natural world before it's too late.
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| Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion GibsonUsing witch trials as a framework, University of Exeter professor Marion Gibson looks at the dramatic and informative history of witchcraft in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with a special focus on the social dynamics between accused witches (often people who threaten the established social or political order) and the people who persecute them. |
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Misbelief : what makes rational people believe irrational things
by Dan Ariely
Grounded in years of study as well as his own experience as a target of disinformation, a preeminent social scientist explores the behavior of“misbelief,” analyzing the psychological drivers that cause otherwise rational people to adopt deeply irrational beliefs.
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Killing the witches : the horror of Salem, Massachusetts
by Bill O'Reilly
Revisiting the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, during which more than 200 people were accused, this dramatic history of the Puritan tradition and how the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the US depicts good, evil, community panic and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
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The quickening : creation and community at the ends of the Earth
by Elizabeth A. Rush
Documenting the 2019 voyage of 57 scientists to Thwaites Glacier to learn about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, this astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change and motherhood presents a new kind of story—one preoccupied with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future.
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A light in the dark : surviving more than Ted Bundy
by Kathy Kleiner Rubin
"In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs. He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. Bundy bashed me once in the head with the log and then attacked my roommate. He heard me moaning and came to finish me off. He never let his victims live. But he stopped suddenly when a bright light filled the room. He fled the sorority house and the light disappeared. Bundy wasn't my first brush with death, and he wasn't my last. I've long been a survivor."--Back cover
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