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Aspen Ideas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith
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.@PeteButtigieg's "Trust" & @ClintSmithIII's "How the Word is Passed" are on our summer reading list. The list features titles by #AspenIdeas speakers. Find your favorite today! https://www.aspenideas.org/articles/reading-list-aspen-ideas-2021

Paperback, 2022

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel Van Der Kolk
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Trauma can literally change how our brain functions and have unexpected physical manifestations. So how do we heal? Hear from Bessel van der Kolk, bestselling author of "The Body Keeps the Score" in this talk from the 2023 Winter Words season. Listen Now: https://t.co/3oGb8R3kaP https://t.co/6u0D7zdn0L

Paperback, 2015

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Learn more: Color and paint, A. P

Learn more: Color and paint

A. P
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Founder and CEO of @bumble @WhitWolfeHerd shares her thoughts on what it means to be in the relationship business and how she gets motivated by the word "no." Learn More: https://t.co/h9OcPT8nTt https://t.co/5AWyFN0GLx

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Book Cover for: Long Covid: Examining Long-Term Health Effects of Covid-19 and Implications for the Social Security Administration: Proceedings of a Workshop, National Academies of Sciences Engineeri

Long Covid: Examining Long-Term Health Effects of Covid-19 and Implications for the Social Security Administration: Proceedings of a Workshop

National Academies of Sciences Engineeri
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Chronic illnesses, including autoimmune disease and #LongCovid, are often misunderstood and marginalized within our medical system. Author @meghanor shares her experience and inspiration for her best-selling book, The Invisible Kingdom➡️ https://t.co/zFAMYGg0Rk #AspenIdeasHealth https://t.co/BvK3SFJt4u

Paperback, 2022

$23.00Member price:$21.85 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, Gretchen Rubin

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Gretchen Rubin
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Are you truly tuned into the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and textures that surround you? Ahead of her #LifeInFiveSenses book talk at #AspenIdeasHealth, best-selling author @GretchenRubin shares how she reconnected to her senses – and how you can too! https://t.co/bc2YJHuVXb

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Book Cover for: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan
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.@michaelpollan's book, "How to Change Your Mind" is one of the best books of the year, according to @nytimes. https://nyti.ms/2rcJL6K He spoke about the book in the #AspenIdeas #podcast. Listen here: https://bit.ly/2Smg0Me

Paperback, 2019

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book