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Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation: Relax, Replenish, and Rejuvenate
Heather Dawn Godfrey PGCE BSc · Healing Arts Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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A hands-on guide showing how essential oils can support and enhance meditative and mindful practices * Details safe and effective methods to incorporate essential oils into your mindfulness or meditation practice * Explains the many ways essential oils benefit the mind, such as how odors... |
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The Return to Judaism: Descendants from the Inquisition Discovering Their Jewish Roots
Sandra Malamed · Daniel & Daniel Publishers
Format: Book
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During the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, many Jews were forcibly converted to the Catholic faith. These Conversos, as they were called, were required to give up their religion, their traditions, and in some cases even their names. During the 1990s, historian Sandra Malamed conducted... |
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The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know®
James L. Gelvin · Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings?... |
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Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
Katherine Ozment · Harperwave
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Meet "the Nones" - In this thought-provoking exploration of secular America, celebrated journalist Katherine Ozment takes readers on a quest to understand the trends and ramifications of a nation in flight from organized religion.Studies show that religion makes us happier, healthier... |
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Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals
Nick Redfern · Visible Ink Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Claims and counter-claims. Accusations and allegations. NSA spying and suppressed evidence. Cover-ups and threats. Documented connections and intrigue. Suggestions of a New World Order. Are we to believe the coincidences are mere chance? Might the paranoid be on to something? Who really... |
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
James Carroll · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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James Carrolls urgent masterly Jerusalem Jerusalem uncovers the ways in which the ancient city became a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth That fervor animates American history as much as it does the Middle East in the present as deeply as in the past... |
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The Marriage of Opposites
Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 369
Format: Print book
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"A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro - the Father of Impressionism.Growing... |
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Day of the Dead: 20 Creative Projects to Make For Your Party or Celebration
SUSIE HODGE · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
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Celebrate The Day of the Dead with 20 Fun Projects!The growing popularity of Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead - can be seen in the increased number of festivals, music concerts, art fairs, altar nights, arts-and-crafts events, costume contests, and candlelit processions (including... |
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel
Alice Hoffman · Scribner
Pages: 504
Format: Book
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Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert.... |
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The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved a level of influence nearly unimaginable before the Arab Spring. The Brotherhood was the resounding victor in Egypt's 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, and six months later, a leader of the group was elected president. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's... |
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Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder
Matt Axelrod · Jason Aronson
Pages: 203
Format: Print book
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Recent years have seen an increased interest in Jewish life, its culture, and its celebrations. There are many new students of Judaism, often potential converts or members of interfaith families who are seeking to learn more about the religion and its rituals. Unfortunately, many of the existing... |
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Adina Hoffman · Schocken; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter seriesOne May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several... |
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