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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
From its beginnings in 1919, with soldiers returning from the Great War, to its sputtering end in 1934, with the Great Depression, the New Negro Movement in arts and letters proclaimed the experience of African American men and women. This magnificent volume features a wealth of fiction and nonfiction works by 45 writers from that exuberant era..
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
The Portable Jung
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Head First : The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
Cousins’ pionering account of his personal triumph over severe illness was the precurser of hundreds of articles and books dealing with the mind’s ability to influence the body’s health. Head First depicts Cousins’ 10-year quest to find the proof that positive attitudes are actually biochemical factors which combat disease..
The Divided Self An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
Western medicine is only just beginning to value the curative powers of plants and herbs found in the Amazon rain forests. The story of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkins’s apprenticeship with shaman wise men of the area is truly an anthropological adventure, that also vividly clarifies what destruction of the rain forests may ultimately cost humanity.Photos..