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The "Talmud": A Biography
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension,... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
JEFF GUINN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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"A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe) - the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York... |
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Magic In Islam
Michael Muhammad Knight - Tarcher
Format: Print book
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The progenitor of "Muslim punk rock" and one of today's freshest spiritual voices pushes back against the common assumption that the historic faiths have no occult or magical tradition in this richly learned historical and personal journey through the practice of magic in Islam.Magic... |
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My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer's Eden
Shalev, Meir - SCHOCKEN BOOKS INC
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A joyful round of the seasons in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow. On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up to the west, Meir Shalev has a large garden, "neither neatly organized... |
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Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof
Roger Clarke - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceRoger Clarke tells this the story that inspired Henry James The Turn of the Screw and many other gloriously weird stories with real verve, and also a kind of narrative authority that tends to constrain the skeptical voice within an erudite and richly... |
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
Anne Lamott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it."Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening... |
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Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
Katherine Ozment - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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Meet "the Nones" - In this thought-provoking exploration of secular America, celebrated journalist Katherine Ozment takes readers on a quest to understand the trends and ramifications of a nation in flight from organized religion.Studies show that religion makes us happier, healthier... |
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The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel
Steven Fine - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world's oldest continuously used... |
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