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Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Own Destiny

Sadhguru
Format: Hardcover

What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins. The mechanism that decrees that we cannot evade the consequences of our own actions. In reality, karma has nothing to do with reward and punishment. Karma simply means action: your action,...
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

Niall Ferguson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Break Out!: 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life

Joel Osteen - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

We were not created to just get by with average, unrewarding or unfulfilling lives. God created us to leave our marks on our generations. Every person has seeds of greatness planted within by the Creator. When life weighs upon us, pushing us down, limiting our thinking, labeling us in negative...
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The Message of The Qur'an

Muhammad Asad - Book Foundation
Format: Print book

A fresh look at Muhammad Asad's classic English translation and explanation of the Qur'an is offered in this redesigned and updated edition of his work. A new typeset and index is complimented with a prologue by the distinguished British Muslim Gai Eaton and original artwork by internationally...
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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
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 Gods of Olympus: A History

Barbara Graziosi - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Print book

An elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present dayThe gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just...
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The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times

Jonathan Cahn - Frontline
Format: Hardcover

This May Be the Most Explosive and Amazing Thing You've Ever ReadIs it possible that an ancient blueprint holds the secret behind the events of our times?Could this blueprint lie behind the rise and fall of leaders and governments?Could events that took place nearly three thousand years...
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7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

MARY C M D NEAL - Convergent Books
Format: Paperback

In this inspired follow-up to her million-selling To Heaven and Back, Dr. Mary Neal shares untold stories about her encounters with Jesus and powerful insights about how the reality of heaven can make each day magnificent. Dr. Mary Neal's unforgettable account of a 1999 kayaking...
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