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Become the Force: 9 Lessons on How to Live as a Jediist Master
Daniel M. Jones - Watkins Publishing
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For anyone who has watched and fallen in love with the Star Wars films and wanted to become a Jedi (just as Daniel M Jones did as a young boy) . This is the first and only Jedi Bible.Daniel M Jones founded the Church of Jediism in 2007 following the Jedi Census phenomenon of 2001;... |
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An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division
DALAI LAMA - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In this brief, urgent "appeal to the world," His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses our time of division, calling on us to draw upon the innate goodness of our shared humanity to overcome the rancor, mistrust, and divisiveness that threaten world peace and sustainability. "I... |
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The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Christopher Hitchens - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants... |
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The Leap: Launching Your Full-Time Career in Our Part-Time Economy
Robert Dickie - Moody Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The economy has made major leaps in the past decade. Have you made the leapalong with itWork is different for this new generation than it was in the past. Long-term careers are on the way out, ane gigspart-time, contract, or freelance workare becoming more common. Whether youre in the midst... |
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Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest
JANE SIMON AMMESON - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
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Before the Civil War, a network of secret routes and safe houses crisscrossed the Midwest to help African Americans travel north to escape slavery. Although many slaves were able to escape to the safety of Canada, others met untimely deaths on the treacherous journey -- and some of these... |
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The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands
Klaus Wivel
Format: Print book
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"More than any other recent book, this work sets out with absolute clarity and sometimes uncomfortable honesty the intolerable reality of life for Christians in the Middle East today ... a deeply intelligent picture of the situation, without cheap polemic or axe-grinding, |
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Tao II: The Way of Healing, Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality
Zhi Gang Sha Dr. - Atria Books; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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Millions of people are searching for secrets,wisdom, knowledge, and practical techniques to heal, rejuvenate, prolong life, and move toward immortality. The way to accomplish all of these is to reach and meld with Tao. This book, the successor to Tao I: The Way of All Life, reveals the highest... |
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No Quick Fix: Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It's Harmful
Andrew David Naselli - Lexham Press
Format: Paperback
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Every Christian struggles with sin and wants to be victorious in the fight.Higher life theology--also known as Keswick theology--offers a quick fix for this struggle. It teaches that there are two categories of Christians: those who are merely saved, and those who have really surrendered... |
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The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
Philip Jenkins - HarperOne
Format: Print book
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The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic... |
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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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By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture
Sheila S Blair - Other Distribution
Format: Hardcover
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Considered by Muslims as the only true art, calligraphy has played a prominent role in Islamic culture since the time of the prophet Muhammad. Exploring this central role of the written word in Islam and how writing practices have evolved and adapted in different historical contexts, this... |
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The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice
Meido Moore - Shambhala
Format: Paperback
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The first accessible beginner's guide to Rinzai Zen practice.The recognition of the true nature of oneself and the universe is the aim of Rinzai Zen--but that experience, known as kensho, is really just the beginning of a life of refining that discovery and putting it into practice... |
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Disruption: Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community
Mark DeYmaz - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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Current church planting, growth, and development strategies cannot be sustained.We need to work smarter in our rapidly changing world.We must become disruptive. And yet we typically hesitate to embrace change. We like our traditions. We prefer our familiar patterns and comfortable ruts.... |
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Divide Me By Zero
Lara Vapnyar - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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"In her superb and poignant new novel, Lara Vapnyar writes about love and other difficulties with the same passion, wit, and probing intelligence to be found in all her writing. Among its many treasures, Divide Me By Zero contains fascinating explorations of the fraught, tangled nature... |
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Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story
Jack Miles - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner.How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity -- a religion inextricably... |
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The Last Adam: A Theology of the Obedient Life of Jesus in the Gospels
Brandon D Crowe - Baker Academic
Format: Paperback
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There is much discussion today about how we are to understand the life of Jesus in the Gospels. What was Jesus doing between his birth and death and how does this relate to salvation? This book corrects the Christian tendency to minimize the life of Jesus, explaining why the Gospels include... |
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Live in Grace, Walk in Love: A 365-Day Journey
Bob Goff - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved and bestselling author Bob Goff provides you with a year's worth of inspiring, unexpected, thought-provoking teaching that will prepare you for the day ahead.Bob Goff's first two books, Love Does and Everybody, Always, spent dozens of weeks each as New York Times bestsellers... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City
YOSEF GARFINKEL - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable excavation of a previously unidentified city in Israel from the time of King David, shedding new light on the link between the bible and historyKing David is a pivotal figure in the Bible, which tells his life story in detail and gives stirring accounts of his deeds, including... |
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Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
Henri J. M. Nouwen - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Timeless wisdom for life from one of the great spiritual masters of our age." - James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage In this never-before-published work of inspiration, the bestselling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son offers a compelling... |
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Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft
Gabriela Herstik - Penguin Audio
Format: Paperback
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The ultimate guide to witchcraft for every woman craving a connection to something bigger, using the tools of tarot, astrology, and crystals to discover her best self.In these uncertain times, witchcraft, astrology, tarot, crystals, and similar practices are seeing a massive resurgence,... |
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God's Hand on America: Divine Providence in the Modern Era
Michael Medved - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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The national radio host and bestselling author of The American Miracle reveals the happy accidents, bizarre coincidences, and flat-out miracles that continue to shape America's destiny. "A hopeful message for our troubled times . . . Michael Medved has an eye for a story, and a preternatural... |
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Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
Stephen Batchelor - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little... |
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Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It
David L Bahnsen - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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The left and right have gone to great lengths to blame the problems plaguing our society but neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems - nor are they the cure. Across the globe a "revolt" of sorts is taking place... |
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A Daughter's Truth
Gale - Kensington
Format: Paperback
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Emma Lapp tries to be the perfect daughter, to earn the loving embrace of her family and her Amish community in Pennsylvania. Yet she can't quite win her mother's smile - or her forgiveness for a transgression Emma can't quite place . . . Emma knows she's a reminder of her mother's greatest... |
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God in the Qur'an
Jack Miles - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those... |
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God's Favorites: Judaism, Christianity, and the Myth of Divine Chosenness
Michael Coogan - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A noted biblical scholar explores how the claim of divine choice has been used from ancient times to the present to justify territorial expansion and prejudice.The Bible describes many individuals and groups as specially chosen by God. But does God choose at all? Michael Coogan explains... |
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The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
Roger Crowley - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for the Holy Land. After a desperate six weeks,... |
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Bounds of Their Habitation: Race and Religion in American History
Paul Harvey. - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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There is an "American Way" to religion and race unlike anyplace else in the world, and the rise of religious pluralism in contemporary American (together with the continuing legacy of the racism of the past and misapprehensions in the present) render its understanding crucial.... |
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God: A Human History
REZA ASLAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity's quest to make sense of the divine, and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the well-worn portrayal... |
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Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Eric Kurlander - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler's personal obsession... |
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Myths & Legends: An illustrated guide to their origins and meanings
Philip Wilkinson - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Norse mythology - in this comprehensive guide.What did Japanese mythology say about the beginning of the Universe? How did Oedipus become the classic tragic hero in Greek mythology? Who brought about the origin... |
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Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 194144
Isaac Matarasso - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover
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When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) , almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and only 2,000 returned. A Jewish doctor named... |
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View
Tim Crane - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers... |
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The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
Stephen Silverstein - Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Print book
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As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized... |
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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Krista Tippett - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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"I'm a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I've learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations." Peabody Award-winning... |
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Gerard Russell - Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
Format: Audio CD
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Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated... |
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Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Mikhal Dekel - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story -- the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors -- has never been fully toldAuthor Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt... |
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Mecca: The Sacred City
Ziauddin Sardar - Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious.... |
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The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World
Donald B. Kraybill - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices. They interpret the distinctive practices of the Amish... |
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Seven Types of Atheism
John Gray - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheismWhen you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions -- secular or religious -- are highly questionable. If this... |
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Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen
Adeena Sussman - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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"The pages of this book ooze with [Adeena's] passion for the romance and beauty of Israeli cuisine. The recipes are soulful, elemental and stunningly delicious."--from the foreword by Michael SolomonovIn an Israeli cookbook as personal as it is global, Adeena Sussman celebrates... |
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The Gods of Olympus: A History
Barbara Graziosi - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Print book
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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 Private Lives of the Sun Signs
Katharine Merlin - Glitterati Incorporated, 2015.
Format: Print book
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For more than twenty years, astrologer Katharine Merlin has penned monthly horoscopes for Town&Country magazine, producing once of the magazine's most widely-read and beloved columns and now the most visited site on the Hearst corporate website for each of its 16 magazines. In The Private... |
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HausMagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft
Erica Feldmann - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Harness the power of magic to create a beautiful, healing living space with this unique illustrated guide from the founder of HausWitch, the popular Salem, Massachusetts, store and online lifestyle brand.Anyone looking to put together their ideal home - full of beauty, comfort, protection,... |
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Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
James Porter Moreland - Crossway
Format: Hardcover
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The debate about biological origins continues to be hotly contested within the Christian church. Prominent organizations such as Biologos (USA) and Faraday Institute (UK) insist that Christians must yield to an unassailable scientific consensus in favor of contemporary evolutionary theory... |
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God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Louis S. Warren - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling... |
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Thinking about God: Jewish Views
Kari H. Tuling - The Jewish Publication Society
Format: Paperback
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Who - or what - is God? Is God like a person? Does God have a gender? Does God have a special relationship with the Jewish people? Does God intervene in our lives? Is God good - and, if yes, why does evil persist in the world? In investigating how Jewish thinkers have approached these and other... |
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Killing History: Jesus in the No-Spin Zone
Robert M. Price - Prometheus Books
Format: Book
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Killing Jesus the bestselling blockbuster by Bill OReilly claims to be a purely historical account of the events in the life of Jesus leading up to his crucifixion New Testament scholar Robert M Price a member of the Jesus Seminar shows how unfounded this claim is in this critical review... |
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
David I. Kertzer - Random House; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports... |
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God's Generals: The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad
Richard A. Gabriel - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Examines how the military experience of three religious founders shaped their spiritual legacy.It is one of the more startling facts of military history that the founders of three of the four "great religions" - Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam - were also accomplished field generals... |
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The Hotel Neversink
Adam OFallon Price - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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A 2020 Edgar Award Winner!"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen Kings Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." -- Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden StateThirty-one years after workers first broke ground,... |
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When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Duane R. Bidwell - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration into the lives of people who embrace two or more religious traditions, and what this growing community tells us about change in our societyIn the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static, and singular. But some people regularly cross... |
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The Three Questions: How to Discover and Master the Power Within You
DON MIGUEL RUIZ - HarperElixir
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved spiritual teacher builds on the message of his enduring New York Times and international bestseller The Four Agreements with this profound guide that takes us deeper into the tradition of Toltec wisdom, helping us find and use the hidden power within us to achieve our fullest... |
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Demystifying Islam: Tackling the Tough Questions
Harris Zafar - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Despite heightened interest in the study of the Muslim faith, for many people Islam remains shrouded in mystery and confusion. What really is Shariah law? How is a Muslim to understand Jihad? Does Islam oppose Western values such as free speech or freedom of religion? What place do women... |
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Odin: Ecstasy, Runes, & Norse Magic
Diana L Paxson - Weiser Books
Format: Paperback
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Odin is arguably one of the most enigmatic and complex characters in Norse mythology. Revered since the Viking Age, Odin has been called the greatest of the gods -- the god of words and wisdom, runes and magic, a transformer of consciousness, and a trickster who teaches truth. He is both... |
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Prayer Partners: How Praying with Someone Can Multiply Your Blessings
August Gold - Harmony; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Wherever two or more are gathered…” Master a uniquely powerful spiritual practice that maximizes your prayers! Prayer Partners helps you to do what the greatest spiritual masters throughout history have urged us to do: pray with one another. In these pages,... |
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of NPRs Great Reads of 2016. "A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories ... absorbing ... [and] intellectually intriguing." - The New York Times Book Review. From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history... |
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Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil
Colin Duriez - IVP Books
Format: Paperback
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The battle between good and evil -- in both the seen and unseen worlds -- was as clearly at play in the era of C. S. Lewis and his friends in the Oxford literary group, the Inklings, as in our own era. Some of the members of the Inklings carried physical and psychological scars from World... |
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Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
Ram Dass - HarperOne; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Ram Dass’s long-awaited Be Love Now is the transformational teaching of a forty year journey to the heart. The author of the two-million-copy classic Remember, Be Here Now and its influential sequel Still Here, Dass is joined once more by Rameshwar Das—a collaborator from the Love... |
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Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
JOHN FEA - Eerdmans
Format: Hardcover
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A historian's acute take on current American politics "Believe me" may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump's lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting the Christian heritage, the refrain is constant. And to the surprise of many, about eighty percent... |
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Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels
Marie D Jones - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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The devil goes by many names, and his tribe is legion. Throughout human history, we have been obsessed with the dark opposites of God and angels, light, and mercy. Whether it is our religious and sacred texts, folklore and myths of old, legends, fairy tales, novels, or the movies and television... |
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Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
Robert Roth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller A simple, straightforward exploration of Transcendental Meditation and its benefits from world authority Bob Roth.Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld. Ray Dalio and Ellen DeGeneres. Gwyneth Paltrow and Howard Stern. Tom Hanks and Gisele Bndchen. What... |
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Norman: The Doll That Needed to Be Locked Away
STEPHEN LANCASTER - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback
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When paranormal investigator Stephen Lancaster brought home an old doll from an antique shop, he had no idea what bizarre and terrifying things were about to occur. From Day One, Norman the doll raised Hell. He caused sudden infestations of rats and spiders. He frightened dogs and put children... |
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Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
T. D. Jakes - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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Follow God's process for growth and find hope in life's darkest moments with Bishop T.D. Jakes' uplifting stories and advice from his own faith journey.In this insightful book, #1 New York Times bestselling author T.D. Jakes wrestles with age-old questions: Why do the righteous suffer?... |
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Heather Dune Macadam - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory... |
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Handbook of Denominations in the United States 13th Edition
Craig D. Atwood - Abingdon Press; 13 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A helpful resource for clergy, laity, journalists, and researchers, this authoritative guidebook to U.S. religions is grouped in family categories of Abrahamic religions, arranged chronologically: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The information for each group within these families has been... |
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Why I Am a Hindu
Shashi Tharoor - Scribe US
Format: Paperback
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India's leading public intellectual, Shashi Tharoor, lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts, major texts and everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, from worship to pilgrimage to caste. He is unsparing in his criticism of extremism and unequivocal in his belief... |
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Crafting Love: Sharing Our Hearts through the Work of Our Hands
Maggie Oman Shannon - Red Wheel Weiser Conari
Format: Paperback
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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done." --Vincent Van GoghAs the future unfolds before us, it seems people are getting busier, more distracted,... |
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Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power
ELLEN R WALD - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise.The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term... |
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Debbie Cenziper - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling... |
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God and the Afterlife
Jeffrey Long - Harperone
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the largest near-death experience study in history, involving 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions, including nonbelievers, God and the Afterlife presents startling evidence that a Supreme Being exists - and there is amazing consistency about what he is like.In... |
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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
MICHAEL SHERMER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific... |
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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
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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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The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East
Efraim Karsh - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The continuing crisis in Syria has raised questions over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics. To Western intellectuals, foreign policy experts, and politicians, empire and imperialism are categories that apply exclusively to Europe... |
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The Phenomenon of Man
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Visionary theologian and evolutionary theorist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect, and his great spiritual faith to building a philosophy that would reconcile religion with the scientific theory of evolution. In this timeless book, which contains... |
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The House of Islam: A Global History
Ed Husain - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies of Islam and the inner psyche of the Muslim world from the bestselling author of The Islamist `Islam began as a stranger,' said the Prophet Mohammed, `and one day, it will again return to being a stranger.' The gulf between... |
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Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Serinity Young - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In WomenWho... |
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Spirit Clans: Native Wisdom for Personal Power and Guidance
David Carson - Hampton Roads Publishing
Format: Paperback
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For thousands of years, Native American tradition has taught that we all carry within us an ancient blessing, a spirit clan that connects us to the earth. Our spirit clan may be an animal, or a plant, a stone, or some special object that has taken on spiritual power. Your clan is a reservoir... |
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Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships
Jana Duggar - Howard Books; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Its All About Relationships! In this delightful and very personal book, the four oldest Duggar girls share their hearts and their core beliefs, explaining that its all about relationships! Relationship with self The girls share their own personal journeys to self-acceptance and navigating... |
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Letters to a Young Muslim
Omar Saif Ghobash - Picador
Format: Paperback
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**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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Dungeons and Drawings: An Illustrated Compendium of Creatures
Blanca Martinez de Rituerto - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Who hasn't been fascinated by monsters? This book collects some of the best creatures from Dungeons & Dragons, setting them out in an informative illustrated bestiary for beginners and enthusiasts alike.Whether they're beasts, spirits, demons, or even aliens, most fantasy worlds... |
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The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
THICH NHAT HANH - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh - - one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today... |
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Witchcraft: A Handbook of Magic Spells and Potions
Anastasia Greyleaf - Wellfleet Press
Format: Paperback
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A must-have volume for any occultist's library.Featuring a host of information about witchcraft throughout history, this book features magic, spells, potions and voodoo, and much more, all highlighted by more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations. |
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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters
GARRY WILLS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join... |
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Your Personal Horoscope 2018
Joseph Polansky - Harper Thorsons
Format: Paperback
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Your complete one-volume guide to the year 2018. This fantastic and in-depth book includes month-by-month forecasts for every sign and all you need to know to find out what is in store for you in the year ahead.The only one-volume horoscope you'll ever need.Your essential guide to love,... |
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The Tongue of Adam
Abdelfattah Kilito - New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language -- one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. "These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome,... |
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Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
Leigh Eric Schmidt - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists--as these godless freethinkers came to be known... |
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Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
Gregory A. Boyd - Fortress Press
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd tackles the Bible's biggest dilemma.The Old Testament God of wrath and violence versus the New Testament God of love and peace it's a difference that has troubled Christians since the first century. Now, with the sensitivity of a pastor... |
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Ghost Towns of the West
Philip Varney - Voyageur Press
Format: Paperback
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Ghosts Towns of the West is the essential guidebook to the glory days of the Old West!Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,... |
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Intuition on Demand: A step-by-step guide to powerful intuition you can trust
Lisa K - Findhorn Press
Format: Paperback
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Has your intuition been giving you messages but you don't know what they mean? Do you find it hard to trust your intuition because you think you might be making it up? Would you like to have intuitive guidance at your fingertips, but you're not sure if your intuition is working... |
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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Ronald Hutton - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence - and often a painful death - in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically... |
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Defeating Jihad
Sebastian Gorka - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Since September 11, 2001, America has been at war. And that's about all anyone can say with certainty about a conflict that has cost 7,000 American lives and almost $2 trillion. As long as the most basic strategic questions - Who is the enemy? Why are we fighting? - remain unanswered, victory... |
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Poets of the Bible: From Solomons Song of Songs to Johns Revelation
Willis Barnstone - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way . . . with evocative simplicity." -- Robert Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature, University of California, BerkeleyThe worlds greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major poets... |
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The Wicked Shall Decay: Charms, Spells and Witchcraft of Old Britain
A D Mercer - Three Hands Press
Format: Paperback
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'The Wicked Shall Decay' collects spells, charms, and occult magical formulae that were once regularly in practice in rural Victorian Britain. At the birth of the Industrial Revolution, folk magic was still very much in currency, and often constituted an 'occult poetry'... |
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Christmas in Illinois
James Ballowe - University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Christmas seems to have been always with us. It is that time of year when we expect good cheer and goodwill, a moment's respite from the year's vicissitudes, solace during difficult times," writes James Ballowe in his introduction to Christmas in Illinois. This book is about... |
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A Call for Revolution: A Vision for the Future
DALAI LAMA - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A RALLYING CRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED LEADERS OF OUR TROUBLED TIMES. This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message The Dalai Lama can give us about the future of our world. It's his rallying cry, full of solutions for our chaotic,... |
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The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Peter Enns - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God's Word.Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,... |
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Silver's Spells: Magick for Love, Protection, and Abundance
Silver RavenWolf - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Hardcover
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SILVER RAVENWOLF'S COMPLETE COLLECTION OF EFFECTIVE SPELLS Bestselling author Silver RavenWolf presents more than one hundred of her best spells and mixtures for love, protection, and abundance -- all in one powerful, easy-to-use book. Open the door to personal wealth with spells for bringing... |
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Guided: Reclaiming the Intuitive Voice of Your Soul
Hans Christian King - Enliven Books
Format: Print book
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Access your intuition and explore your true divine, timeless nature with the science-based teachings of Hans King, "one of the top five psychics in the country" (Miami Herald) .Award-winning psychic Hans King provides a clear and thorough path for connecting to the invisible side... |
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The Spirit of the Quakers
Geoffrey Durham - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practice? The Religious Society of Friends—also known as Quakers-—believes that everyone can have a direct experience of God. Quakers express this in a unique form of worship that inspires them to work for change in themselves... |
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Evidence That Demands a Verdict
Josh McDowell - Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook
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The modern apologetics classic that started it all is now completely revised and updated--because the truth of the Bible doesn't change, but its critics do. With the original Evidence That Demands a Verdict, bestselling author Josh McDowell gave Christian readers the answers they needed... |
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Medium: A Step-by-Step Guide to Communicating with the Spirit World
Konstanza Morning Star - Llewellyn Worldwide
Format: Print book
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Mediumship is a basic skill that can be learned and perfected through practice. Discover how mediumship works and how you can build a strong spiritual foundation so that your ability to communicate with the spirit world will flourish. Medium is a beginner-friendly book designed to help... |
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
Owen Davies - Oxford University Press
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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Hidden But Now Revealed: A Biblical Theology of Mystery
G. K. Beale - IVP Academic
Format: Book
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2014 Readers' Choice Award Winner When reading through the Bible, it is impossible to ignore the troubling fact that Israel and its leaders—and even Jesus' own disciples—seem unable to fully grasp the messianic identity and climactic mission of Jesus. If his true deity,... |
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