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The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction

The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tendern...

6 months ago 23

The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship

The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence...

6 months ago 24

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Ric...

6 months ago 20

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerabi...

6 months ago 25

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of Symbiosis

Octavia Butler on Religion and the Spirituality of...

6 months ago 21

The Bird That Is Your Life

The Bird That Is Your Life

6 months ago 24

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and P...

6 months ago 25

The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”

The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Ar...

6 months ago 21

Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying

Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, ...

6 months ago 18

Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive Writing

Marianne Moore on the There Elements of Persuasive...

6 months ago 25

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking

The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on C...

6 months ago 21

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and D...

6 months ago 21

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

The Woman Who Saved Native Song

6 months ago 25

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, ...

6 months ago 25

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy...

6 months ago 27

Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

6 months ago 22

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Mos...

6 months ago 19

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The ...

6 months ago 19