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The Illustrated Mahabharata: The Definitive Guide to India s Greatest Epic

Bibek Debroy · DK
Pages: 509
Format: Hardcover

An illustrated guide to India's greatest epic, which has shaped Indian thought for over 3,000 years, with stories from all 18 chapters, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Harivamsa.The Illustrated Mahabharata brings the world's longest epic to life. With more than 500 stunning images showcasing...
 
 
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,...
 
 
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...
 
 
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...
 
 
The Timepiece

Beverly Lewis · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

As the only daughter, Sylvia Miller of The Tinderbox has always held a special place in her Old Order family, one Adeline Pelham jeopardizes when she shows up at the Millers' Hickory Hollow farm. It isn't that Adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of the painful...
 
 
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...
 
 
The Monster of Lake LaMetrie:

Wardon Allan Curtis · Cryptofiction Classics
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

This early work by Wardon Allan Curtis was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Monster of Lake LaMetrie' is a short story told through extracts of a diary written by a professor and medical doctor. It tells...
 
 
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...
 
 
Louisiana Haunted Forts

Elaine Coleman · Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Although there are numerous books about Louisiana, little information about the forts are included and none combines the forts with ghost stories. Louisiana has five distinct regions, and all have historic forts, ranging from French rule to Spanish, Confederate, Federal, and even Privateer....
 
 
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,...
 
 
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...
 
 
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...
 
 
The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game

Rizwan Virk · Bayview Books
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback

Written by well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur and MIT-educated computer scientist Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis brings together disparate fields to explore one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time: The Simulation Hypothesis. Whether you are a computer scientist,...
 
 
A History of Judaism

MARTIN GOODMAN · Princeton University Press
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millennia

Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A...