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1. Reopening The Closing of the American Mind - Duke University Libraries Magazine

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/magazine/2007/10/28/reopening-the-closing-of-the-american-mind/

   Bloom conceived the book as “a meditation on the state of our souls, particularly those of the young, and their education.”

2. Internet Resources - Chinese Studies - LibGuides at Duke University

   https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289252&p=1929074

   Covering the areas of sutra, tantra, Kalachakra, dzogchen, and mahamudra meditation, the Archives presents material from all five (...)

3. Manuscript Mysteries, and the Making of Medical Authority: A Researcher’s Journey at the Rubenstein

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2025/02/12/manuscript-mysteries-and-the-making-of-medical-authority-a-researchers-journey-at-the-rubenstein-library/

   The letter references humoral theory mentioning the relative temperature of the liver as well as the questions about its role in conception (...)

4. LIFE Summer Research Grant Reflections: Sacred Geographies, Sacred Geometries - Duke University Libr

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2024/11/22/life-summer-research-grant-reflections-sacred-geographies-sacred-geometries/

   LIFE Summer Research Grant Reflections: Sacred Geographies, Sacred Geometries - Duke University Libraries Blogs Go Search Feature (...)

5. What to Read this Month: December 2018 - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2018/12/04/what-to-read-this-month-december-2018/

   Deftly plotted and vibrantly drawn, The Emperor of Shoes is a timely meditation on idealism, ambition, father-son rivalry and cultural (...)

6. Exhibition on Humanistic Buddhism at the IAS Gallery - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2024/04/02/exhibition-on-humanistic-buddhism-ias-gallery/

   Below is the text of the introduction to the exhibit, written by Alexander Atkins : Zen, Insight Meditation, and Tibetan Buddhism are (...)

7. Breaking Every Taboo: A Remembrance of Kate Millett (1934-2017) - The Devil's Tale

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2017/09/12/breaking-every-taboo-remembrance-kate-millett-1934-2017/

   These include Flying (1974) about her early years, Sita (1977) and Elegy for Sita (1979) the story of a tragic romantic relationship, The Loony (...)

8. The Best Books of the 21st Century: Top 20 Reads - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2024/08/01/the-best-books-of-the-21st-century-top-20-reads/

   The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman’s will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on (...)

9. What to Read this Month: October 2022 - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2022/10/12/what-to-read-this-month-october-2022/

   These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on (...)

10. What to Read this Month: March - Duke University Libraries Blogs

    https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/03/15/what-to-read-this-month-march/

    With haunting and stark language, Forager  is a fierce and empowering coming-of-age story and a timely meditation on the ways in which (...)