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How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be        fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her,        paradoxically gave Madame de Stal a freedom that enabled her to be as        active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth        centuries was...

Abraham Lincoln, Princess Diana, Rick in Casablanca--why do we perceive certain        people as heroes? What qualities do we see in them? What must they do to win our        admiration? In Heroes, Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals offer a stimulating        tour of the psychology of heroism, shedding light on what heroism and villainy...

This collection of papers represents a wide range of opinions concerning the mental health implications of religious belief and practice....

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Dogen and the Lotus SutraAs a religion concerned with eternal salvation, Zen is based on and grew out of a        Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific        materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood        outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, ephemeral...

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