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Gifts from Duke

Nancy Oates

Go Duke with your holiday shopping this year. Discover useful and one-of-a-kind items to delight everyone - Blue Devils fans or otherwise - on your gift list. Here's where to start:

Center for Integrative Medicine 3475 Erwin Road Treat the workaholic on your list to a half-day package ($145) at this oasis for de-stressing. Consider a massage ($95-$105) or an eight-week, mindfulness-based, stress-reduction course ($395). Give the seriously stressed a yearlong membership ($2,995), a three-day immersion ($2,995) or both ($5,795). Information: 660-6826 or www.dukeintegrativemedicine.org. The Terrace Shop Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens Popular items this year are the photo-laden book Sarah P. Duke Gardens: A Wonderful Wander ($44) and the 2009 calendar ($10), or a mug bearing the garden's pergola or iris bridge ($12). Duke employees and students receive a 20 percent discount in December. All profits benefit Duke Gardens. Information: 684-3698 or www.dukestores.duke.edu/retail/terraceshop. Lemur Landing Gift Shop Duke Lemur Center, Erwin Road Adopt a lemur ($50-$1,000) and help sponsor one of the animals at the center for a year. For gifts to go, try coffee from Madagascar ($10-$14.95) or Madagascar bourbon vanilla ($11.95-$19.95). Put an authentic-looking lemur on your back with a lemur backpack ($19.95) or try a Madagascar eco-friendly game, "Xeko Mission: Madagascar" ($20). Buy a children's book written in Malagasi and English ($12), and one will be donated to a child in Madagascar. All of the gift shop profits go toward caring for lemurs. Information: 489-3364 or www.lemurlanding.com. Duke University Box Office Bryan Center, West Campus Log on to order tickets for plays, concerts, dance productions and art exhibits. Information: 684-4444 or www.tickets.duke.edu. The Gothic Bookshop Bryan Center, Top Floor As college basketball season gets under way, Blue Devils fans can pick up Duke Basketball: A Pictorial History ($19.99) or Guardians of the Game, about great coaches with a foreword by Coach K (24.95). Basketball's not your thing? Check out the new coffee table book With God in Mind: Sermons on the Art & Architecture of Duke Divinity School ($34.95), which includes photographs of Duke's Goodson Chapel interspersed with a dozen sermons commissioned in honor of the Divinity School's new addition. Or for bird lovers, The Backyard Birdsong Guide, which includes an audio CD of birdsongs ($24.95). All books are discounted 10 to 20 percent. Information: 684-3986 or www.gothicbookshop.duke.edu.

Duke University Press One of the largest American academic publishing programs, the Press offers books you can order online, by phone or by fax. Popular items include The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball by John Roth ($34.95); Montrose ($34.95) about the historic gardens at the estate in Hillsborough, N.C.; a retrospective of American artist Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool ($39.95); and Driftless: Photographs from Iowa ($39.95). Information: 687-3600 or www.dukeupress.edu.

The Nasher Museum of Art Bookstore 2001 Campus Drive Stop by the bookstore to pick up a human muscle and skeleton puzzle ($23) or 600 Black Spots ($19.95), a pop-up book for adults and children. Also available, a Vy and Elle shopping bag made of recycled billboard fabric ($29) and a Toikka glass cardinal ($256), one of 15 glass birds that have been popular sellers. All profits benefit the Nasher Museum of Art.

A membership to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is a tax-deductible holiday gift that not only gives loved ones, friends and colleagues access to a superb collection of visual art all year long, but also a host of other benefits. A Dual/Family membership is $60 and offers benefits for two, and members of the Duke faculty and staff are eligible for the discount rate of $40. To give the gift of membership, call the Nasher Membership office at 684-3411 (offer is not available online) or to give yourself a membership you can click here.

Information: 684-5017 or www.shopnasher.dukestores.duke.edu.

Duke University Store Bryan Center Want to show off your Duke pride? Here's where you'll find everything from holiday ornaments ($5.95-$29.95), blankets ($32.95-$66.95), and totebags ($39.95-$105) to a 14-karat gold pitchfork bracelet ($2,395). Hot items include a Duke welcome mat ($35.95), a festive hat ($24.95) and a holiday stocking ($20.95). Information: 684-2344 or www.dukestores.duke.edu. Washington Duke Inn 3001 Cameron Blvd. Spring for dinner in the four-star Fairview Dining Room (around $50 per person) or an Executive Club membership ($299) that gives discounts on meals, rooms and pro-shop items, as well as an unlimited number of $5-off coupons for greens fees. At the Duke Golf Club shop, pick up a dozen Duke logo golf balls ($28-$60), a club cover ($19) or a divot tool witha magnetic ball marker ($16). Information: 490-0999 or www.washingtondukeinn.com. Touchable Art Gallery Duke Eye Center, Erwin Rd. Purchase three-dimensional artwork displayed for the enjoyment of the visually impaired in the lobby of the Duke Eye Center. Other art sales benefit the Health Arts Network at Duke (HAND), such as the handcrafted items from local artisans on display in the Duke South food court corridor, handcrafts from One World Market on display in the Eye Center reception gallery, and locally made arts and crafts on display in the north-south corridor of Duke North. Information: 684-0401 or www.dukeeye.org/about/touchable_art.html.