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Below are the best books we could find featuring parker j palmer.

Parker J. Palmer, PhD, is an American writer, speaker, teacher, and activist. His work, informed by Quaker teachings, addresses a variety of topics, including education, leadership, depression, spirituality, community and social change, and aging.

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Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning

Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to: empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding; help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills; support students’ sense of connection...

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A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

In these pages, some of today’s most wonderful culture-makers—writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers—reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character.

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Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose.

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The Company of Strangers: Christians & the Renewal of America’s Public Life

In this award-winning book, Parker J. Palmer offers a compelling vision of a disciplined inward search that strengthens our commitment to our communities. Palmer reminds us that a truly profound spiritual life leads us toward the God who makes us a community.

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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous, and practical work—intensely personal as well as political—is not about them, "those people" in Washington, D.C.

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To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey

This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process.

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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach.

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On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old

From beloved and bestselling author Parker L. Palmer comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to the brink of everything.

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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life

Wisdom that’s been inspiring, motivating, and guiding teachers for two decades, The Courage to Teach speaks to the joys and pains that teachers of every sort know well.

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