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The Market as God

Harvey Cox - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox's brilliant exegesis. And all of the world's problems -- widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty -- are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its "divine"...
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The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho Dalai Lama XIV - Shambhala
Format: Hardcover

His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind...
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The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

Margaret Leslie Davis - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it.For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible--of which there are fewer than 50 in existence--represents the ultimate...
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez - Liveright
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe "paradigm-influencing" book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism,...
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Plants That Speak, Souls That Sing: Transform Your Life with the Spirit of Plants

Fay Johnstone - Findhorn Press
Format: Paperback

Engage with the intelligence of nature to discover your unique role and deepen your spiritual path on Earth * Presents practical ways to rekindle your connection with nature and open up to plant consciousness as a way to enrich your spiritual path * Offers guidance on how to meet plant...
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Letters to a Young Muslim

Omar Saif Ghobash - Picador
Format: Paperback

**A New York Times Editors Pick**. From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a Young Muslim, a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in the twenty-first century. In a series of personal and insightful letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers...
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerThe renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia,...
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Chakra Rituals: Awakening the Wild Woman Within

Cristi Christensen - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Paperback

Learn how to tap into the single most perfect system living inside of each of us -- the seven Chakras.While Chakras have become trendy, sexy, cool, and very spiritual, few people today really know how to activate the Chakras' powerful energy for deep transformation. Cristi Christensen...
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The Book of Tarot: A Guide for Modern Mystics

DANIELLE NOEL - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback

"The Book of Tarot by Danielle Noel is not just a book - it is a work of art. Harness the power of your intuition with this deeply beautiful, sacred, modern guide to using tarot." - Rebecca Campbell, best-selling author of Light Is the New Black and Rise Sister Rise More than...
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America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Pamela Nadell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history.What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse...
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