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The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us

Bruce Feiler - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about...
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Sam Harris - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harriss latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books,...
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Wild Witchcraft: Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies

Rebecca Beyer - S&S/Simon Element
Format: Hardcover

Learn how to cultivate your own magical garden, begin your journey with folk herbalism, and awaken to your place in nature through practical skills from an experienced Appalachian forager and witch.Witchcraft is wild at heart, calling us into a relationship with the untamed world around...
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The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition

Amy Kittelstrom - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkersToday we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side...
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Biohack Your Brain: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power

Kristen Willeumier - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A neuroscientist's groundbreaking, science-driven plan for revitalizing, nourishing and rejuvenating your most essential asset - your brain.Your brain is the most essential organ in your body. The brain and spinal cord are intimately connected to every bodily system and organ, so when...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Karen Armstrong - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
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Living with the Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs

NEIL MACGREGOR - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.Until fairly recently, religion as a major...
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Seven Types of Atheism

John Gray - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

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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Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence

Shane Claiborne - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback

Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history....
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Herbal Remedies for Beginners: Natural Ways to Treat Ailments

Sandra Kynes - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback

Quick and Easy Remedies for Holistic Health This impressive book contains almost 200 recipes for herbal remedies that anyone can use, even if you've never worked with herbs. Expert Sandra Kynes shows how herbal remedies can treat everything from the flu to kidney stones and can be made...
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