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12 Major World Religions: The Beliefs, Rituals, and Traditions of Humanity's Most Influential Faiths

Jason Boyett · Zephyros Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

For billions of people, having a religious belief system provides purpose in life. For some, religion serves as a guide for moral behavior. Today's world is one in which our understanding of world religions is both understatedly important, as well as increasingly complex. After many...
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An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

Joseph Bottum · Image
Format: Hardcover

We live in a profoundly spiritual age--but in a very strange way, different from every other moment of our history. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together...
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Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

Raymond O. Faulkner · Barnes & Noble Publishing
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover

New Hardcover with dust jacket
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A Call for Revolution: A Vision for the Future

DALAI LAMA · William Morrow
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A RALLYING CRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED LEADERS OF OUR TROUBLED TIMES. This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message The Dalai Lama can give us about the future of our world. It's his rallying cry, full of solutions for our chaotic,...
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The Weight of Ink

Rachel Kadish · Mariner Books
Pages: 575
Format: Paperback

WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion." - Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women...
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The Qur'an

M A Abdel Haleem · Oxford University Press
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite...
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Colin Hawkins · Putnam Juvenile
Pages: 12
Format: Hardcover

A cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly. Features lift-the-flap illustrations.
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

Raymond Ibrahim · Da Capo Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam-the sword and scimitar-have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's...
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

Jalal al-Din Rumi · HarperOne
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers,...
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Impossible Truths: Amazing Evidence of Extraterrestrial Contact

Erich von Daniken · Watkins Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Impossible Truths showcases the classic, provocative von Däniken theories for a new generation. For more than four decades, Erich von Däniken has been elaborating his astounding thesis that the inhabitants of other planets have kept in contact with humanity since the earliest times and that...
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Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of Haunted Highways, Weird Encounters, and Legends of the Road

Annie Wilder · Tor
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Trucker Ghost Stories: a uniquely entertaining book by rising star Anne Wilder, about uncanny true tales of haunted highways, weird encounters, and legends of the road.It may have happened to you; it's happened to almost everyone who's ever driven down a highway at night, or in the fog,...
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The Reflexology Healing Handbook: Release Your Inner Energy with Your Fingertips to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress and Promote Healing

DENISE WHICHELLO BROWN · Chartwell Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Reflexology is a simple, noninvasive, harmless, and natural way to achieve optimum health. Firm pressure is applied with the thumbs and fingers to reflex points which are located on all parts of the hands and feet. By applying pressure on these points, all the organs, glands and structures...
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The Mood Book: Crystals, Oils, and Rituals to Elevate Your Spirit

Amy Leigh Mercree · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Manage your moods and change negatives into positives with this ritual-based guide to essential oils, meditations, mantras, crystal healing, and more. How are you feeling? The Mood Book wants to know! Organized into easy-to-follow sections based on your frame of mind, it contains powerful...
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The Books of Enoch: The Angels, The Watchers and The Nephilim:

Joseph Lumpkin · Fifth Estate, Incorporated
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback

Now buy this amazing volume for a special low price. The well known and acclaimed work of Dr. Joseph Lumpkin has been enlarged to include new research on the Books of Enoch, Fallen Angels, the Watchers, and the Nephilim. After presenting extensive historical backgrounds and brilliant translations...
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