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Muhammad: His Character and Conduct

Adil Salahi

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Muslims all over the world see Muhammad as God's last messenger to mankind, and, for every community...

Transformative Imagery: Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change and Growth

Leslie Davenport, Martin L. Rossman, Rachel Naomi Remen and Emmett E. Miller

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Guided imagery is a transformative practice for reducing stress, healing mind and body, and...

Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres

Peter Pesic

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Polyphony -- the interweaving of simultaneous sounds -- is a crucial aspect of music that has deep...

Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Diving-bell and the Butterfly in Books

Jul 2, 2019

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This is a short memoir with snip-bits of chapters. The late Bauby had locked in syndrome, this is one of the reasons that makes this book remarkable. Being unable to speak or move, his story is captured by a friend through the authors blinking with his left eye. He finds a way to rearrange the alphabet in order of letter usage in French. This is not a heart rendering account of a man trapped in (as he calls it) a cocoon, but rather a snap shot of the way he copes, the way his memory allows him to heighten his imagination, the way he separates his existence from the outside world and the way his mind saves him from boredom.
Beautifully written with a conversational tone, this is a wonderful glimpse into the mind of a person whose body no longer works.