Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb
Charles Garfield, Robert Ed. Garfield. Mariner Books, $24.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-15-600495-4
The ""Shanti"" caregiving method is explained by its inventor. (May)
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Reviewed on: 05/12/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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