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The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
Owen Davies · Oxford University Press
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Beginning with the invention of writing in the ancient world, the author explores a wide range of magical beliefs and practices, the rise of the witch trials,... |
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Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions
Phil Zuckerman · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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David Brooks, The New York TimesAs secularism becomes more prominent and self-confident, its spokesmen have more insistently argued that secularism should not be seen as an absence — as a lack of faith — but rather as a positive moral creed. Phil Zuckerman, a Pitzer College sociologist,... |
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Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
Gary D Chapman · Northfield Pub
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
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Is technology bringÂÂing your family closer together or driving you farther apart?In this digital age, children are spending more and more time interacting with a screen and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with a parent. While technology can benefit us, it can also... |
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The Story of the Jews Volume 2
Simon Schama · Ecco
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover
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In the second of three volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth centurySimon Schama's great project continues and the Jewish... |
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The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present
John W. O'Malley S.J. · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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As Pope Francis continues to make his mark on the church, there is increased interest in his Jesuit background—what is the Society of Jesus, how is it different from other religious orders, and how has it shaped the world? In The Jesuits, acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley,... |
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The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
don Miguel Ruiz Jr. · Hierophant Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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The ancient Toltecs believed that life as we perceive it is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and all of our dreams come together to make the Dream of the Planet. Problems arise when we forget that the dream is just a dream and fall victim to believing that we have no control... |
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Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive
T. D. Jakes · FaithWords; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An instant 1 New York Times bestseller for six weeks, Bishop T.D. Jakess smash-hit INSTINCT shows readers how to tap into their God-given intuition to achieve ultimate success. Whether you call it following your heart, a gut feeling, a hunch or intuition, instinct-the inner knowledge bubbling... |
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: eBook
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A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activistWhen the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled Why Do They Hate Us? it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The response... |
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Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World
Mitchell Stephens · Palgrave MacMillan
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief... |
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Redeeming the Kamasutra
Wendy Doniger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken... |
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