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The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is: Beyond Belief to Love, Fulfillment, and Spiritual Awakening

Jon Bernie · Non-Duality Books
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

What do you really want - isn't it happiness? And what keeps you from being happy? Could it be that your need to cling so tightly to what you believe - about yourself and life, about how things should be - is what's holding you back? In The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is, a contemporary...
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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

R Laurence Moore · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

If the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects religious liberty, why doesn't it protect atheists?God occupies our nation's consciousness, even defining to many what it means to be American. Nonbelievers have often had second-class legal status and have had to fight for their...
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The Marriage Counseling Workbook: 8 Steps to a Strong and Lasting Relationship

Emily Cook PhD · Althea Press
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

With exercises and examples from real-life marriage counseling sessions -- The Marriage Counseling Workbook will reconstruct how you and your spouse think about, communicate with, and show love for one another.Many people want stronger marriages -- but few know how to create them. This...
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The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood

Irving Finkel · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 421
Format: Hardcover

The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history. Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis,...
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Ghost Box: Voices from Spirits, ETs, Shadow People & Other Astral Beings

CHRIS MOON · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Chris Moon was the first investigator to use the celebrated device known as the ghost box to facilitate real-time two-way communication with the spirit world. In Ghost Box, Chris shares the extraordinary spiritual contacts he's made with the box during investigations of famous haunted...
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Judas Son of Simon

Daniel Molyneux · Moriah Books
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback

"In Molyneux's skillful hands, the story comes alive in a new way that humanizes Judas and provides insight into the life of Jesus...Emotionally intense and intricately plotted, this provocative novel profiles Judas in unexpected ways." - Library Journal "It is better...
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Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism As We Know It

Burton L Visotzky · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Hard to believe but true:- The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet- The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers- Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas- Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews- Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue...
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The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

Adam Mendelsohn · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally...
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How to Talk to Angels: A Practical Guide to Asking for Guidance, Comfort & Strength

Lucinda Gabriel · Llewellyn
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Discover how to manifest the wonderful and gratifying life you deserve and desire with the help of your angels. Through their guidance, you can manifest better health, love, abundance, employment, and your life purpose.
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Life in Community: Joining Together to Display the Gospel

Dustin Willis · Moody Publishers
Format: Print book

WHAT MAKES A COMMUNITY EXTRAORDINARY?When people live in community moved by the gospel and marked by the Spirit, great things happen. They commit to one another. They grieve together, sing together, eat, pray, and play together. They love, serve, honor, encourage, and provide for each...
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Liberalism's Religion

Cécile Laborde · Harvard University Press
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover

Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state separate) . But recently this idea that religion requires a legal exception has come...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism

John Zmirak · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of controversial topics every American should understand. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism refutes misrepresentations and misconceptions about the Catholic Church...
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Why I Am a Salafi

Michael Muhammad Knight · Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book

The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a "Golden Age" from which all subsequent eras can only decline. In Why I Am a Salafi, Michael Muhammad Knight confronts the problem of origins,...
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Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols

Laura Tempest Zakroff · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Discover the Power of Line and Symbol Visual Magick for Everyone Sigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Tracing through history, art, and culture, this illustrated book offers an innovative and fresh approach to sigil magick that is accessible...
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Some Surprises from the Apostle Paul

William O Walker, Jr. · Polebridge Press
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

Controversial during his lifetime and ever since, the apostle Paul is not an easy historical figure to understand or like. Many have accused him of being homophobic and misogynistic, anti-Semitic, dogmatic, narrow-minded, prejudiced, and downright obtuse. Yet longtime Paul scholar William...
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