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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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The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus
JAN ASSMANN · Princeton University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann,... |
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How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
Robert Joustra · Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bentThe world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse - cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios - in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse... |
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The Book
Tyndale House Publishers. · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 1280
Format: Paperback
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The Book, a contemporary, easy-to-understand Bible is available in the fastest growing Bible translation, the New Living Translation. The Book will impact the hearts and lives of people worldwide through the authoritative yet easy-to-read New Living Translation that brings the Good News... |
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The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story
Marie Kondo? · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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From the #1 New York Times best-selling author and lifestyle/cleaning guru Marie Kondo, this graphic novelization brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using Kondo's advice and inspiration.Marie... |
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Project Blue Book: The Top Secret UFO Files that Revealed a Government Cover-Up
Brad Steiger · Red Wheel
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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A new edition of the blockbuster book that revealed the top-secret findings of the US government about UFOs.Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, while publicly dismissing the existence of UFOs, the United States Air Force was engaged in a secret program for evaluating every report of unidentified... |
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Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door
Barbara Mahany · Abingdon Press
Format: Book
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Barbara Mahany believes the sacred is all around, within finger's reach--here to be gathered, culled, collected, through the simple yet complex art of paying attention, of savoring the moment, of cultivating stillness. Making room for God and illuminating the Godly specks in the everyday.... |
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Redeeming the Kamasutra
Wendy Doniger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken... |
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Biography of Silence: An Essay on Meditation
Pablo D'Ors · Parallax Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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A publishing phenomenon in Spain: a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple.With silence increasingly becoming a stranger to us, one man set out to become its intimate: Pablo d'Ors, a Catholic priest... |
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The shipwrecked mind : on political reaction
Mark Lilla · New York Review Books
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone... |
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God at the Crossroads of Worldviews: Toward a Different Debate about the Existence of God
Paul Seungoh Chung · University of Notre Dame Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have defined and argued for their views not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkward.... |
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Replacing Darwin: The New Origin of Species
Nathaniel T Jeanson · Master Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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If Darwin were to examine the evidence today using modern science, would his conclusions be the same? Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published over 150 years ago, is considered one of history's most influential books and continues to serve as the foundation of thought... |
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Who Is Jesus?
Greg Gilbert · Crossway Books
Pages: 138
Format: Print book
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A famed historian once noted that, regardless of what you think of him personally, Jesus Christ stands as the central figure in the history of Western civilization. A man violently rejected by some and passionately worshipped by others, Jesus remains as polarizing as ever. But most people... |
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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food
Roger Horowitz · Roger Horowitz
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Kosher USA follows the fascinating and surprising journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. Drawing on episodes from the lives of the author's own family, it traces how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among... |
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