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What Is Veiling?
Sahar Amer · The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer's evenhanded approach is anchored in sharp cultural... |
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Sekret Machines: Gods: Volume 1 of Gods Man & War
TOM DELONGE · TO THE STARS
Pages: 454
Format: Print book |
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An exceptional examination that "plays the role of an intellectual Indiana Jones, expertly guiding readers through crumbling, vine-laden Mayan temples; the stunning iconography of ancient Egypt and the esoteric creation myths of antediluvian India, Africa and China" written by award-winning... |
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Haunted Bridges: Over 300 of America's Creepiest Crossings
Rich Newman · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Restless Spirits and Supernatural Thrills More than 300 bridges with eerie phenomenon that span space and time Across the country hundreds of bridges harbor some of the creepiest paranormal activity known to man. Invisible hands reach out and touch unsuspecting travelers. Residual ghosts... |
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Cursed in Pennsylvania: Stories of the Damned in the Keystone State
Mark Nesbitt · Globe Pequot
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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In Cursed in Pennsylvania, Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson recount tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across the state the Keystone State. The pages will bring to life these stories, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck,... |
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Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values
Nonie Darwish · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Western countries are ignorant of true Islamic values, says Nonie Darwish. Darwish is an Egyptian-American, former-Muslim human rights activist who is frustrated with mainstream America's talk of tolerance and assimilation. In Wholly Different, Darwish sets non-Muslims straight about tenets... |
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The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder: As Experienced by Alberto Villoldo, John Perry Barlow, Larry Dossey, and Others
Sidian Morning Star Jones · Bear & Co
Pages: 232
Format: Print book |
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Eyewitness accounts of Rolling Thunder's remarkable healings, legendary control over the weather and animals, and inspiring teachings* Includes accounts of Rolling Thunder by his grandson Sidian Morning Star Jones, Stanley Krippner, Alberto Villoldo, Larry Dossey, William Lyon, Jean... |
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The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho Dalai Lama XIV · Shambhala
Pages: 168
Format: Print book |
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind in compassion... |
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Alon Confino · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred In this gripping new analysis Alon Confino draws on an array... |
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife
Leslie Kean · Crown
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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"While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither... |
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The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream
Chris Lehmann · Melville House
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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A grand, brilliantly written work of American historyWe think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were cold, austere, and pious, and Christianity continued pure and uncorrupted until the industrial revolution got in the way. In The Money Cult, Chris Lehmann argues that... |
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Esoteric Empathy: A Magickal & Metaphysical Guide to Emotional Sensitivity
Raven Digitalis · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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While traditional psychics receive mental impressions, empaths naturally have their emotional receptors turned on high. Empathy can give rise to profound healing, love, and spiritual and magickal progression -- or, if left uncontrolled, it can be a painful experience of emotional overload.... |
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