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The Qur'an: A Verse Translation

M.A.R. Habib - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Islam's founding text, rendered for the first time in flowing English verse.This monumental feat of translation, the product of a ten-year-long collaboration between one of our most respected scholars of Islam (Bruce B. Lawrence) and a poet and scholar of literature (M. A. R. Habib)...
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The Zenned Out Guide to Understanding the Wheel of the Year: Your Handbook to Honoring the Eight Seasonal Celebrations (Volume 5) (Zenned Out, 5)

Cassie Uhl - ‎Rock Point
Format: Hardcover

Connect with the divine power of Mother Earth by celebrating with the wheel of the year. The wheel of the year is made up of eight Sabbats or festivals that occur on or around the same day each year. The eight Sabbats happen during four solar events - the Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice,...
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The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

Dan Stone - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that "shatters many myths about the Nazis' genocide" (Sunday Times) , from one of the leading scholars of his generation."A stunning, original, concise analysis. ... Masterful."...
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The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Political Imagination)

Shaul Magid - Ayin Press
Format: Paperback

A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.. What is exile? What is diaspora? What is Zionism? Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations' answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond...
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Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (South Asia in Motion)

Douglas Ober - Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when...
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The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy―A Retelling for Our Times

John Zubrzycki - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

5,000 years of history -- from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood -- fill this masterful portrait of the world's most populous nation and a rising global power. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. India -- a cradle of civilization...
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Quantum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life

Deepak Chopra M.D. - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Joining forces with two leading scientists, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra offers a quantum leap for improving our physical and mental health.. In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today's most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist...
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The Slavic Myths

Noah Charney - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world.In the first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together...
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Stages of the Path and the Oral Transmission: Selected Teachings of the Geluk School (6) (Library of Tibetan Classics)

Thupten Jinpa - Wisdom Publications
Format: Hardcover

A major contribution to the literature on Buddhist practice according to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism from its foremost interpreter.. Although it was the last major school to emerge in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Geluk school has left an indelible mark on Buddhist thought...
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A History of Buddhism in India and Tibet: An Expanded Version of the Dharma's Origins Made by the Learned Scholar Deyu (Library of Tibetan Classics Book 32)

Dan Martin - Wisdom Publications
Format: Hardcover

The first complete English translation of an important thirteenth-century history that sheds light on Tibet's imperial past and on the transmission of the Buddhadharma into Central Asia.. Translated here into English for the first time in its entirety by perhaps the foremost living...
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