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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer New Inspiration » Spirituality & Religion June 15, 2013 0 By Christian Wiman Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern... Read more Read reviews Write review	17	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 06, 2012 0 By Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia’s parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy.... Read more Read reviews Write review	123	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir March 03, 2012 1 By Terry Tempest Williams The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebratesTerry Tempest Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.”Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of... Read more Read reviews Write review	169	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Thinking, Fast and Slow Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment November 03, 2011 0 By Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never... Read more Read reviews Write review	370	Editor rating 5.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice October 07, 2011 0 By Thomas L. Friedman Michael Mandelbaum America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our... Read more Read reviews Write review	241	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)