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In Masters of Mindfulness, 11 top researchers and proponents of mindfulness discuss what modern science and contemporary research have revealed about this ancient practice and the many ways in which it can benefit your life. These 22 lectures present a unique and extraordinary opportunity, bringing a diverse group of renowned specialists together in one place for the first time to share their own personal experiences and their latest research, and to guide you through several mindfulness exercises.

Nina Siegal, an accomplished journalist and novelist, weaves together excerpts from the daily journals of collaborators, resistors, and the persecuted—a Dutch Nazi police detective, a Jewish journalist imprisoned at Westerbork transit camp, a grocery store owner who saved dozens of lives—into a braided nonfictional narrative of the Nazi occupation and the Dutch Holocaust, as individuals experienced it day by day.

Joshua Eubanks and Paul Sims moved to Brooklyn, for very different reasons. Joshua, a young black man, came with his single mother to escape the crime and despair of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Paul left his life of privilege in Long Island to study Judaism with the Hasidic Lubavitch movement. They live in two different worlds separated by a few city blocks, but their hearts both yearn for Rachel Weissman who is torn between her aspiration to become a doctor and her obligation to the restrictions of her religion.

Kurt Khoury and his wife Marla have a good marriage. In fact, they have a great marriage. Marla is the most kind, loving, and supportive person Kurt has ever met. To Marla, Kurt is the most caring, supportive, and honest man that she knows. But Kurt hasn't been honest about one thing. And it's something big. It also is part of his new job. The tension settles in when Marla confronts Kurt and realizes that there is something he isn't telling her. But she doesn't realize just how deeply involved Kurt truly is. He has done the unthinkable. Something unfathomable.