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Gaslighted by God: Reconstructing a Disillusioned Faith
Tiffany Yecke Brooks - Eerdmans
Format: Hardcover
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"We have a right to encounter God where we are. We have a sacred responsibility to experience God authentically." What happens when the God we've been taught to believe in seems powerless to help us in the struggles of life? What do we do when the God we personally encounter... |
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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – and Why We Believe Their Confessions
Saul Kassin Ph.D - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time - in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world's leading expert on false confessions, explains how interrogators... |
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The Secrets of Words
Noam Chomsky - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such... |
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Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection
Kate Bowler - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything... |
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Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
Pete Davis - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given movie - and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers that it's too late to watch anything at all. In a book borne of an idea first articulated... |
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Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Natalie Hodges - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback
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A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?Uncommon... |
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How to Think Like a Philosopher
Daniel Smith - Michael O'Mara
Format: Paperback
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Introducing you to some of the great themes of philosophical thought and the ideas of the individuals who have shaped them. |
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
Christopher Blattman - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A seasoned peacebuilder and acclaimed expert on violence explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war and how to interrupt that deadly processIt's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions... |
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