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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Bart D. Ehrman · HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesuss divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human...
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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

Amir R Alexander · Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery,innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment...
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The Weight of Glory

C S Lewis · HarperOne
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, contains nine sermons delivered by Lewis during World War Two. The nine addresses in Weight of Glory offer guidance, inspiration, and a compassionate apologetic for the Christian faith during...
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The Hotel Ione - A Hotel with Spirit

Milly Jones · 23 House
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

Since its original opening in the late 1800s, the Hotel Ione has seen many seasons - fires that ravaged it, loving owners who rebuilt it, and various periods of remodeling and restoration. It has operated under different names over the years: the Union Hotel, the Golden Star, the Stacy...
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Human by Design: From Evolution by Chance to Transformation by Choice

Gregg Braden · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

Human by Design invites you on a journey beyond Darwin's theory of evolution, beginning with the fact that we exist as we do, even more empowered, and more connected with ourselves and the world, than scientists have believed possible.* * *In one of the great ironies of the modern world,...
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Truth about Muhammad: The Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

Robert Spencer · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Muhammad: a frank look at his influential (and violent) life and teachingsIn The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded...
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Charting the Soul: Astrology, Characterology and the Human Energy Field

Rebekah J S Hirsch · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Charting the Soul is a synthesis of knowledge and understanding from the three fields of astrology, psychology and energy healing. The author is a professional astrologer, energy healer and process facilitator and she poses the idea that the three disciplines are three overlapping ways...
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Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids

Susan Stiffelman · New World Library
Format: Print book

Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons - refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests - can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease...
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The Art of Power

Thich Nhat Hanh · HarperOne; 1ST edition
Format: Book

"Power is good for one thing only: to increase our happiness and the happiness of others. Being peaceful and happy is the most important thing in our lives and yet most of the time we suffer, we run after our cravings, we look to the past or the future for our happiness."Turning...
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An Introduction to Islamic Law

Joseph Schacht · Clarendon Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

This book presents a broad account of the present knowledge of the history and outlines the system of Islamic law. Showing that Islamic law is the key to understanding the essence of one of the great world religions, this book explores how it still influences the laws of contemporary Islamic...
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Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle Over Their Last Invention

Joel Martin · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Edison closely following the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye. This led to the last and least-known of all Edison's inventions, the spirit phone. His former associate, now bitter...
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No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

Raheem Kassam · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones" - where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away - can be attested to by its many victims. Now Raheem Kassam,...
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Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy

Douglas A. Smith · White Pine Mountain
Format: Book

In the midst of a successful business career, Doug Smith received life-altering news that set him on an entirely new journey to understand what leads to truly joyful, meaningful living-in other words, what leads to happiness. Through research and study, he began to understand that what...
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Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

David Limbaugh · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller!In Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and former professor of law, approaches...
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