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Books are shelved under mind and spirit

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Bookstore employees have to carefully navigate the friction of where to place these dense, complicated texts. They are universally banished to the Body, Mind & Spirit aisle, safely kept away from the serious academic textbooks. This retail categorization lumps highly complex charting systems right next to books about communicating with garden fairies.

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