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Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Serinity Young · Oxford University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women... |
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Chinese Astrology: Understanding Your Horoscope
Amber Books · Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chinese Astrology is a beautifully illustrated guide with easy to use instructions to help you understand the fundamental ideas and determine the more advanced aspects. Each page includes a newly commissioned artwork of a Chinese character, from the animals of the Zodiac to the Five Phases... |
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What's Wrong with Mindfulness
Robert Rosenbaum · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Mindfulness seems to be everywhere - but are we sure that's a good thing? Teachers Sallie Jiko Tisdale, Gil Fronsdal, Norman Fischer, and more explain how removing mindfulness from Buddhism may set a dangerous precedent. Mindfulness is in fashion. Oprah loves it, Google teaches it to employees... |
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Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
Robert Roth · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A simple, practical, and straightforward guide to meditation from Bob Roth, a world authority on Transcendental Meditation who has spent forty-five years helping people access their innate creativity and power with TM, having personally taught students ranging from Fortune 100 CEOs to Oprah... |
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Pepper, Silk & Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East
Marvin Tokayer · Springfield, NJ
Pages: 316
Format: Print book
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Pepper, Silk & Ivory reveals a missing page in Jewish history, the amazing stories of Jews who both benefited from and contributed to the Far East. Here you will read about the juvenile delinquent who later became known as the uncrowned Jewish king of China; the woman who refused to give... |
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Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
Thich Nhat Hanh · HarperOne; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a message from our very own heart ... .Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most important voices of our time, and we have never needed to listen to him more than now." - Sogyal RinpocheFear... |
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American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present
Philip Gorski · Princeton University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Was the United States founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders actually envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage... |
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You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner
Joel Osteen · Faithwords
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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In YOU CAN, YOU WILL, Joel Osteen shares eight undeniable qualities of winners that can help you to reach your potential and achieve new levels of success in your life. You are created to be a winner. Get these eight principles deep down on the inside and boldly go in the direction of your... |
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Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms
Tim Tebow · WaterBrook
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
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Who are you when life is steady? Who are you when storms come? Most of us have been on the receiving end of rejection, a broken dream, or heartbreak. And while this is not an easy space to go through, when we are grounded in the truth, we can endure the tough times. In this powerful book,... |
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
Keith Stewart Thomson · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis - our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears,... |
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God in the Qur'an
Jack Miles · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who submit... |
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Graeme Wood · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive, electrifying account of the strategy, psychology, and theology driving the Islamic StateTens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives to join the Islamic... |
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A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World
Thomas Moore · Gotham; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow-up to his classic Care of the Soul. Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who've turned away from religious institutions - and others who have lived wholly without religion - hunger... |
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Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times
Jacques Vallee · Tarcher; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena. In the past century, individuals, newspapers,... |
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