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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaretby Judy BlumeISBN 060602123X (0-606-02123-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Believe in the God Who Believes in Youby Robert H. SchullerISBN 0553288679 (0-553-28867-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Believe in the God Who Believes in You'Book summary:Let the world's premier positive thinker, Robert H. Schuller, help you create a positive mental image of yourself and the God who believes in you! He will show you the God of love who offers what no other force--or source--can: a solid foundation for a healthy, humble pride. And if you thought the Ten Commandments were merely a set of negative, old-fashioned rules, think again! Dr. Schuller has found them to be timeless, positive prescriptions for a renewed sense of self-worth that will help you live life to the fullest. [via]
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Bhagavad Gita: A New Translationby Stephen MitchellISBN 0609810340 (0-609-81034-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation'Book summary:On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. This poem of patently Indian genius sprouted an immense tree of devotional, artistic, and philosophical elaboration in the subcontinent. The scene is a battlefield with the prince Arjuna pitted against his own family, but no sooner does the poem begin than the action reverts inward. Krishna, Arjuna's avatar and spiritual guide, points the way to the supreme wisdom and perfect freedom that lie within everyone's reach. Worship and be faithful, meditate and know reality--these make up the secret of life and lead eventually to the realization that the self is the root of the world. In this titular translation, Stephen Mitchell's rhythms are faultless, making music of this ancient "Song of the Blessed One." Savor his rendition, but nibble around the edges of his introduction. In a bizarre mixture of praise and condescension, Mitchell disregards two millennia of Indian commentary, seeking illumination on the text from Daoism and Zen, with the Gita coming up just shy of full spiritual merit. Perhaps we should take it from Gandhi, who used the Gita as a handbook for life, that it nourishes on many levels. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Bhagavad-Gitaby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553213652 (0-553-21365-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata. [via]
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The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of Warby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553353403 (0-553-35340-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War'Book summary:"The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the "Mahabharata." [via]
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Bible Code II : The Countdownby Michael DrosninISBN 0670032107 (0-670-03210-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bible Code II : The Countdown'Book summary:Bible Code II: The Countdown starts with 9/11 and counts down to Armageddon. For 3000 years a code in the Bible remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer, and it reveals events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written. Often world-shaking events are predicted in advance -- and then happen exactly as foretold. Do we really have only years to survive? Or can the Bible code help save our world? Can we use it to change our future? This is the thrilling sequel to the #1 bestseller that shook the world. [via]
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The Big Book for Our Planetby Aliki, Ann Durell, Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0525451196 (0-525-45119-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Biology of Religionby Vernon Reynolds, Ralph TannerISBN 0582300215 (0-582-30021-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Brothers Kby David J. DuncanISBN 0553563149 (0-553-56314-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Brothers Kby David James DuncanISBN 055337849X (0-553-37849-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Christian Doctrine of God: Dogmaticsby Emil BrunnerISBN 0664243045 (0-664-24304-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Christian Theology: An Introductionby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0631160795 (0-631-16079-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christian Theology: An Introduction'Book summary:This is a completely revised and updated edition of one of the leading introductions to Christian theology. Assuming no previous knowledge, it introduces readers to the main ideas and key debates, as well as to the leading thinkers who have influenced Christian thinking over the last two thousand years.
- Provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Christian theology, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject.
- Outlines and explains all the main ideas and key debates that have influenced Christian theology, and identifies and explores the work of leading thinkers.
- Introduces basic vocabulary, explains all technical terms, and translates every Latin, Greek and German word or phrase.
- Includes a special section on 'Theological Resources on the Internet' and a dedicated web site linked to this book.
- Written in a clear, straightforward and easily accessible style.
- A comprehensive, one-stop, freestanding, and fully cross-referenced volume on Christian theology.
- The Christian Theology Reader, also by McGrath, is designed as a helpful accompaniment to this book.
More details on the third edition of Christian Theology: An Introduction can be found on the accompanying website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcgrath [via]
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Softcover, Blackwell Pub - Christian Theology: An Introduction: ISBN 0631160787 (0-631-16078-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Christian Theology: An Introduction: ISBN 0631225277 (0-631-22527-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Christian Theology: An Introduction: ISBN 0631160795 (0-631-16079-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
- Provides an excellent introduction to the basics of Christian theology, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject.
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City of Godby AugustineISBN 0606310711 (0-606-31071-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Color of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0552124753 (0-552-12475-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colour of Magic'Book summary:The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that ... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--and everything else he can think of--while marshalling a profusion of characters through a madcap adventure. The Colour of Magic is followed by The Light Fantastic. --Blaise Selby [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553211757 (0-553-21175-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? so begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of st. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... A man who cannot escape his own conscience [via]
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Dear God II : What Religion Were the Dinosaurs?by David HellerISBN 0553293281 (0-553-29328-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaosby Ian StewartISBN 0631232516 (0-631-23251-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos'Book summary:We'd better get used to chaos because it certainly isn't going anywhere. Mathematician Ian Stewart--who is also a very talented writer--shares his insights into the history and nature of the highly complex in Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos. While his delightful phrasings will draw in nearly every reader, those with a strong aversion to figures and formulae should understand that it will be slow going. Chaos math suffuses everything from dreaming to the motion of the planets, and Stewart's words can never match the precision of his numbers. Persistence pays off, though; there are so many "aha" moments of insight herein that it almost qualifies as a religious text. The second edition has been partially revised in the wake of 1990s research, and three exciting new chapters report on prediction and other applications of chaos mathematics. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Does God Play Dice: The Mathematics of Chaosby Ian StewartISBN 0631168478 (0-631-16847-8)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Todayby Margot AdlerISBN 0670283428 (0-670-28342-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Equusby Peter Shaffer, A. BurkeISBN 0582097126 (0-582-09712-6)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equus'Book summary:An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, "Equus" is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. "Equus" is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence. [via]
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Womenby Sherry R. Anderson, Patricia HopkinsISBN 0553352660 (0-553-35266-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Womenby Sherry Ruth Anderson, Patricia HopkinsISBN 0553075616 (0-553-07561-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women'Book summary:The eagerly anticipated paperback edition of a pioneering look at women's spirituality that has helped thousands of women redefine traditional beliefs and rediscover their own unique spiritual heritage. Drawn from workshops and interviews conducted across the country, 100 women--including Maya Angelou and Marion Woodman--share stories of their spiritual awakenings. Serial rights to New Age Journal. [via]
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Free to Be a Familyby Marlo ThomasISBN 0553345591 (0-553-34559-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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GeetaISBN 0571061575 (0-571-06157-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Genesis of Ethicsby Burton L. VisotzkyISBN 0609801678 (0-609-80167-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert MasonISBN 0618275649 (0-618-27564-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative'Book summary:Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original.[via]More editions of Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative:
God And Contemporary Scienceby Philip ClaytonISBN 0567041735 (0-567-04173-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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God Has Many Namesby John HickISBN 066424419X (0-664-24419-X)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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God's Gift to Womenby Don PatersonISBN 057117762X (0-571-17762-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Good News New Testament: The New Testament in Today's English Versionby American Bible SocietyISBN 0553246739 (0-553-24673-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Honest to Godby John Arthur Thomas RobinsonISBN 0664244653 (0-664-24465-3)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Honest to Godby Rowan Williams, Douglas John Hall, John Arthur Thomas RobinsonISBN 0664224229 (0-664-22422-9)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honest to God'Book summary:This is the fortieth anniversary edition of John Robinson's classic text. Honest to God is a bracing and engaging call to re-examine outdated and troublesome images of God.
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The Iliadby Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0670835102 (0-670-83510-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics. [via]
It Happened in Boston?by Russell H. GreenanISBN 0553257188 (0-553-25718-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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J.B.by Archibald MacLeishISBN 0573610916 (0-573-61091-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Just Plain Fancyby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0553058843 (0-553-05884-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Living Endby Stanley ElkinISBN 0525481583 (0-525-48158-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living End'Book summary:Killed during a senseless holdup, kindhearted Ellerbee finds himself on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme park Heaven and inner-city Hell, where he learns the truth about God's love and wrath. Reprint. NYT. [via]
The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0575019581 (0-575-01958-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Masks of God: Primitive Mythologyby Joseph CampbellISBN 0670460125 (0-670-46012-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Repliesby Rene Descartes, John Cottingham, Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0521558182 (0-521-55818-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies'Book summary:This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It is based on the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Killing a sixty-ton sperm whale that could destroy a boat with a flick of its massive tail was no easy task. Whalemen of the early nineteenth century were not just hunters, they were also explorerssailing on the uncharted sea in search of some of the largest creatures on earth. The most famous whale of all? Moby Dick.[via]
Here are Ishmael, Queequeq, Ahab, and of course, Moby Dick, rendered anew in a dynamic comic book adaptation of one of the greatest American novels ever written. The book also includes information about Herman Melville, facts about whales, and the history of the whaling industry. With all the flare and blaze of Melvilles original story, Moby Dick is sure to intrigue a new generation of readers with this fast-paced and electric portrayal of the famous battle between man and beast.More editions of Moby Dick:
Mysterium Paschaleby Hans Urs Von BalthasarISBN 0567095347 (0-567-09534-7)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Mysterium Paschale : Theology of the Easter Mysteryby Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Aidan NicholsISBN 0567291758 (0-567-29175-8)
Softcover, Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited
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Mysticismby Evelyn UnderhillISBN 0525470735 (0-525-47073-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Naming The Silences: God, Medicine, and the Problem of Sufferingby Stanley HauerwasISBN 0567040410 (0-567-04041-0)
Softcover, T&t Clark Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naming The Silences: God, Medicine, and the Problem of Suffering'Book summary:Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look-in vain-for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality. [via]
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Nietzsche: The Gay Scienceby Bernard Williams, Adrian Del Caro, Josefine NauckhoffISBN 0521636450 (0-521-63645-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche: The Gay Science'Book summary:Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as "perhaps my most personal book", when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to Nietzsche's own thought and most influential on later thinkers. This volume presents the work in a new translation by Josefine Nauckhoff, with an introduction by Bernard Williams that elucidates the work's main themes and discusses their continuing importance. [via]
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0553208071 (0-553-20807-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. [via]
Noah's Arkby Jane RayISBN 0525446532 (0-525-44653-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Paradise Lost and Other Poemsby John MiltonISBN 060603885X (0-606-03885-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. [via]
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creekby Annie DillardISBN 0613376498 (0-613-37649-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'Book summary:Through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, Annie Dillard shares her keen observations, poetic sensibilities, introspective reflections, and reverence for her surroundings to show us the world outside as we have never seen it before, in this winner of the 1975 Pulitizer Prize for nonfiction.. [via]
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A Play in Two Actsby Peter ShafferISBN 0573608725 (0-573-60872-5)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0606342397 (0-606-34239-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Portable Nietzscheby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0670010626 (0-670-01062-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portable Nietzsche'Book summary:The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the worlds leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, Few writers in any age were so full of ideas, and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted.The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmanns definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsches four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsches development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature. Newsweek [via]
Practical Mysticismby Albert O. HirschmanISBN 0525470492 (0-525-47049-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spiritualityby John HorganISBN 061844663X (0-618-44663-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The River Whyby David James DuncanISBN 0553344862 (0-553-34486-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River Why'Book summary:Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as our era's most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a remote riverbank cabin to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning -- ultimately fruitful beyond his wildest dreams. Stylistically adept and ambitious in scope, The River Why is a touching and powerful novel by an important voice in American fiction. In a new Afterword written for this twentieth-anniversary edition, David James Duncan reflects on the genesis of his book and on the surprising link between fishing and wisdom. [via]
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Son of Rosemaryby Ira LevinISBN 0525943749 (0-525-94374-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Songs of Innocence and Experienceby William BlakeISBN 0670657492 (0-670-65749-2)
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The Story of Godby Robert M.L. WinstonISBN 0593054938 (0-593-05493-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Press
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Systematic Theologyby Wolfhart PannenbergISBN 0567080684 (0-567-08068-4)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Takingby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0553584502 (0-553-58450-2)
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The Tao of Physicsby Fritjof CapraISBN 055326379X (0-553-26379-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Tibetan Book of the Deadby Padma Sambhava, Robert A.F. ThurmanISBN 0553370901 (0-553-37090-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead'Book summary:Imagine that as you leave your body at death, you hear the voice of a loved one whispering in your ear explanations of everything you see in the world beyond. Unlike other translations of Bar do thos grol (or The Tibetan Book of the Dead), Robert Thurman's takes literally the entire gamut of metaphysical assumptions. Thurman translates Bar do thos grol as The Great Book of Natural Liberation through Understanding in the Between. It is one of many mortuary texts of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism and is commonly recited to or by a person facing imminent death. Thurman reproduces it for this purpose, explaining in some depth the Tibetan conception of postmortem existence. Over as many as 12 days, the deceased person is given explanations of what he or she sees and experiences and is guided through innumerable visions of the realms beyond to reach eventual liberation, or, failing that, a safe rebirth. Like a backpacker's guide to a foreign land, Thurman's version is clear, detailed, and sympathetic to the inexperienced voyager. It includes background and supplementary information, and even illustrations (sorry, no maps). Don't wait until the journey has begun. Every page should be read and memorized well ahead of time. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Trinity: Evidence and Issuesby Robert A. MoreyISBN 0529106922 (0-529-10692-2)
Hardcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 055321439X (0-553-21439-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel "all of life within." In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George Willard, and played out against the backdrop of Winesburg, Anderson's loosely connected chapters, or stories, coalesce into a powerful novel.In such tales as "Hands," the portrayal of a rural berry picker still haunted by the accusations of homosexuality that ended his teaching career, Anderson's vision is as acute today as it was over eighty-five years ago. His intuitive ability to home in on examples of timeless, human conflicts-a workingman deciding if he should marry the woman who is to bear his child, an unhappy housewife who seeks love from the town's doctor, an unmarried high school teacher sexually attracted to a pupil-makes this book not only immensely readable but also deeply meaningful. An important influence on Faulkner, Hemingway, and others who were drawn to Anderson's innovative format and psychological insights, Winesburg, Ohio deserves a place among the front ranks of our nation's finest literary achievements. [via]
Wisdom Without Answers: A Brief Introduction to Philosophyby Daniel Kolak, Raymond MartinISBN 0534534651 (0-534-53465-1)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Wisdom Without Answers: A Guide to the Experience of Philosophyby Daniel Kolak, Raymond MartinISBN 0534145981 (0-534-14598-1)
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World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolutionby Christopher HillISBN 0670003980 (0-670-00398-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution'Book summary:Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic. In "The World Turned Upside Down" Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. [via]
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