Keeping the old rodeo rider up at nights was America's tenuous hold on its manufacturing base, which was slip, slip, slipping away, as if off a Brahman bull, and mostly to Japan.

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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.

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