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"We congratulate ourselves when we resist the donut in the office breakroom. We celebrate our restraint when we hold back from sending an email in anger. We feel virtuous when we wake up at dawn to get a jump on the day. We put others' needs ahead of ourown and believe this makes us exemplary. In On Our Best Behavior, journalist Elise Loehnen explains that these impulses--often lauded as unselfish, distinctly feminine instincts--are actually ingrained...

Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy, Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of full-hearted engagement with the Zen path.

Investigates whether the miraculous appearances and physical phenomena of the solar dance seen by hundreds of people in 1917 might actually have been visible signs of an alien visit to Earth rather than the activity of a supernatural deity.