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Walking the Exodus: My Journey in the Footsteps of Moses

Margaret Malka Rawicz · Urim Publications
Pages: 526
Format: Hardcover

Leading biblical scholars and archaeologists have argued about the actual route of the biblical Exodus from Egypt for decades. Discover the route Moses and the Israelites took as they fled Egypt three and a half millennia ago. Along with her Bedouin guide, Rabia, Margaret Rawicz treks through...
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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation

Andrew B Newberg · Avery
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help readers experience its many benefits. In this original and groundbreaking book, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman turn their attention...
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A Reluctant Malachi

Thomas J Quinlan · HaveScripts
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback

A RELUCTANT MALACHI is a collection of Thomas J. Quinlan's sometimes serious, sometimes ribald, and often hilarious homilies, reflections, fantasies, and writings which point in the direction his beloved Catholic Church must go in the age of Vatican II. Between jousts at the ludicrous...
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Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education

Adam Laats · Oxford University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students. They sell themselves as "experiences" that transform young people in unique ways. The conservative evangelical Protestant network of higher education has been no different. In the twentieth...
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Break Out!: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life

Joel Osteen · FaithWords
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

We were not created to just get by with average, unrewarding or unfulfilling lives. God created us to leave our marks on our generations. Every person has seeds of greatness planted within by the Creator. When life weighs upon us, pushing us down, limiting our thinking, labeling us in negative...
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Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, from Apple to Isis

Peter Conrad · Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Weaves ancient myth into modern celebrity and consumerist culture to expose the absurdity and occasional insanity of twenty-first-century society, economy, and politicsDespite a proclaimed respect for scientific reason, humans are still as intrigued by myth as their remote ancestors. Laptops...
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The Spirit of Saint Francis: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Pope Francis · Franciscan Media
Format: Hardcover

Some people want to know why I wished to be called Francis. For me, Francis of Assisi is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation.  -- Pope Francis, March 16, 2013. Published in cooperation with the Vatican, this original collection brings the life...
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Revangelical: Becoming the Good News People We're Meant to Be

Lance Ford · Tyndale Momentum
Format: Book

When you hear the word evangelical, do you think “good news”? That’s what the word means, and it’s what we are meant to be. Yet the surrounding culture often views us as exactly the opposite. Calling yourself an evangelical too often means you are seen through...
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Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

Gale · MacMillan
Pages: 820
Format: Hardcover

The second edition of this well-received two-volume study of Islam updates and adds to its predecessor 40 percent new content. It updates and revises most of the original 500 entries and adds new topics to reflect changes in the Muslim world since 2004, from the emergence/re-emergence...
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Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It

J SCOTT TURNER · HarperOne
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is - and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward.Scott Turner...
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The New Dare to Discipline

James C. Dobson · Tyndale Momentum; Reissue edition
Format: Book

Much-needed answers to your toughest parenting questions! Why are boundaries so important? Do children really want limits set on their behavior? My spouse doesn’t seem to care about discipline; why I am I stuck being the “bad guy?” Is it okay to spank my child, or will...
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Indra's Net

Rajiv Malhotra · HarperCollins Publishers India
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

It is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked any semblance of unity before the British period, and that the contours of contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters. Such arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor...
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The Everything Answer Book: How Quantum Science Explains Love, Death, and the Meaning of Life

Amit Goswami · Hampton Roads Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Goswami's basic premise is that quantum physics is not only the future of science, but is also the key to understanding consciousness, life, death, God, psychology, and the meaning of life. Quantum physics is an antidote to the moral sterility and mechanistic approach of scientific...
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An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings....
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