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Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
Mugambi Jouet · University of California Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these social changes? In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues,... |
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Kabalah Yoga: Embodying the Hidden Power of the Sacred Hebrew Letters
Audi Gozlan · Reveal Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Audi Gozlan, a certified yoga instructor and the founder of Kabalah Yoga, offers a book that fuses the practice of yoga with the ancient wisdom of Jewish mysticism, teaching you how to awaken the secret energy of each Hebrew letter in order to enliven your practice and experience the hidden... |
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Holy Rascals: Advice for Spiritual Revolutionaries
Rami M Shapiro · Sounds True
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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God is real. Everything we say about God is made up. Holy Rascals is a rousing call to anyone ready to go beyond "isms" and ideologies, and live in the world as a liberating force of justice, compassion, and joy."Holy rascals are spiritual culture jammers who use humor, play,... |
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Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation
Willis Barnstone · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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"The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way . . . with evocative simplicity." -- Robert Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature, University of California, BerkeleyThe world's greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major... |
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Ian Johnson · Pantheon
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today - its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world's great... |
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networksMost history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states,... |
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Herbal Magic: Wicca Beginner guide to Herbs and plants for Rituals and Spells
Scott Markson · Independently published
Pages: 93
Format: Paperback
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Wicca has fascinated people for generations and there are countless books about it, but most of them are written by expert witches for other expert witches to read. This book takes a more introductory tone and focuses that introduction on a single aspect of Wicca: the use of herbs and plants... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE · Harper Wave
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels
Marie D Jones · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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The devil goes by many names, and his tribe is legion. Throughout human history, we have been obsessed with the dark opposites of God and angels, light, and mercy. Whether it is our religious and sacred texts, folklore and myths of old, legends, fairy tales, novels, or the movies and television... |
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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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A Reader's Guide to the Bible
John Goldingay · InterVarsity Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Approaching the Bible for the first time can be intimidating. At sixty-six books, nearly 800, 000 words, and numerous kings, prophets, and deliverers, as well as priests and apostles, where should you begin? In what order should you read it? Why are there narratives here and over there,... |
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Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story
Stuart Kaplan · U.S. Games Systems Inc.
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story brings together the work of four distinguished scholars who have devoted years of research to uncover the life and artistic accomplishments of Pamela Colman Smith. Known to millions as the creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951)... |
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