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Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
Amos Oz · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world. "Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction... |
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Spirit Clans: Native Wisdom for Personal Power and Guidance
David Carson · Hampton Roads Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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For thousands of years, Native American tradition has taught that we all carry within us an ancient blessing, a spirit clan that connects us to the earth. Our spirit clan may be an animal, or a plant, a stone, or some special object that has taken on spiritual power. Your clan is a reservoir... |
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Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition
Erich Von Daniken · Berkley
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Now in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword and afterword by the author, this is the groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens.Immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance, Chariots of the Gods endures... |
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The Jewish Joke: A Short History?with Punchlines
DEVORAH BAUM · Pegasus Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Heard the one about the Rabbi and the cow from Minsk? Look no further than this witty compendium, a fascinating and revealing celebration of the great Jewish Joke.Comedy is full of famously funny Jews, from Groucho Marx to Sarah Silverman, from Larry David to Jerry Seinfeld. This smart... |
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Muhammad: Forty Introductions
MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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He is one of the most contested and explosive historical figures in the world. Muhammad: Forty Introductions offers a distinct and nuanced take on the life and teachings of Muhammad the prophet, using a traditional genre of Islamic literature called the forty hadiths collection. Hadiths... |
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Life Lessons: 125 Prayers and Meditations
Julia Cameron · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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This book of prayers and affirmations by bestselling author of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron, is full of inspiration and encouragement. Beautifully packaged, these pocket prayers are perfect for carrying around or sharing as a gift.All too often we yearn for a more spiritual life but tell... |
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No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are
Jack Kornfield · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and mindfulness Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be happy now, this minute, with the keys to inner freedom.In his first major book in several years, the inspiring author of the classic A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield,... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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The Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
VICTORIA GLENDINNING · The Overlook Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue, and danger in a period of great upheavalIn 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women -- even the privileged... |
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Seven Types of Atheism
John Gray · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheismWhen you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions -- secular or religious -- are highly questionable. If this... |
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Untouchable
Jayne Ann Krentz; Amanda Leigh Cobb; Recorded Books, Inc. · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Ikhwan al-Safa' (The Brethren of Purity) were the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity of lettered urbanites that was principally based in Basra and Baghdad. This brotherhood occupied a prominent station in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide... |
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The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us
Bruce Feiler · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family,... |
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Awakening the Chakras: The Seven Energy Centers in Your Daily Life
Victor Daniels · Destiny Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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An in-depth guide to understanding and balancing the chakras* Provides meditations, mantras, and other methods to work with each chakra* Details each chakra's positive and negative qualities, their gifts and challenges, and how they interact with each other* Examines the psychological... |
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Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know®
JOHN L DELONG-BAS NATANA J ESPOSITO · Oxford University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Most Americans and Europeans have by now heard of Shariah. In the West, politicians, media commentators, televangelists, and others have stoked fears that Muslims intend to impose a repressive rule based on Shariah in America and Europe. Shariah has been portrayed as a medieval system that... |
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