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1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI the Untold Storyby Peter LanceISBN 0060597259 (0-06-059725-9)
Softcover, Regan Books
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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle Eastby Naomi Shihab NyeISBN 0060504048 (0-06-050404-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East'Book summary:As she grieved over the "huge shadow [that] had been cast across the lives of so many innocent people and an ancient culture's pride" after September 11, 2001, poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye's natural response was to write, to grasp "onto details to stay afloat." Accordingly, Nye has gathered over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States. Devoted followers of the award-winning and beloved poet will recognize some of their favorites from her earlier collections (The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East, etc.), while absorbing themselves in her new haunting and evocative poems. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands that "recognize grapes, / and the damp shine of a goat's new skin." She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. Readers of all ages will be profoundly moved by the vitality and hope in these beautiful lines from Nye's heart. (Ages 9 to adult) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anwar El Sadat: In Search of Identity an Autobiographyby Anwar SadatISBN 0060137428 (0-06-013742-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anwar El Sadat: In Search of Identity an Autobiography'Book summary:There is also a clip from the USA today Thursday October 18, 1984 about his wife. Anwar el-Sadat became President of Egypt in 1970. In a relatively short time he has done more than most people have thought possible to bring his people toward the benefits of the twentieth century and , more recently, to bring peace to his part of the world! [via]
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Chasing Rumi : A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desireby Roger HousdenISBN 0060084456 (0-06-008445-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhiby William Dalrymple, Olivia FraserISBN 0006375952 (0-00-637595-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi'Book summary:'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters - from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj - William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately. He pursues Delhi's interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem. 'City of Djinns' is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India's past and present. [via]
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Concise Encyclopedia Of Islamby Cyril GlasseISBN 0060631260 (0-06-063126-0)
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0060523867 (0-06-052386-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.
Meanwhile, back in Europe ...
The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.
While ...
Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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The Confusion Ltdby Neal StephensonISBN 0060599340 (0-06-059934-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion Ltd'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. [via]
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A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angelsby Gustov DavidsonISBN 002907052X (0-02-907052-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Doubt: A History the Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinsonby Jennifer HechtISBN 0060097957 (0-06-009795-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doubt: A History the Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson'Book summary:In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwinand their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning,
This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists.
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From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestineby Joan PetersISBN 0060152656 (0-06-015265-6)
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God and the Universe of Faithsby John HickISBN 0006244416 (0-00-624441-6)
Hardcover, Fount Paperbacks
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Gods, Goddesses, and Myths of Creation: A Thematic Source Book of the History of Religionsby Mircea EliadeISBN 0060621362 (0-06-062136-2)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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The Great Theft : Wrestling Islam from the Extremistsby Khaled M. Abou El FadlISBN 0060563397 (0-06-056339-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Historical Atlas of the Religions of the Worldby Ismail R. Al-Faruqi, David Edward SopherISBN 0023364009 (0-02-336400-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditionsby Huston SmithISBN 0060674407 (0-06-067440-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions'Book summary:Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions. The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier editions, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of winsome text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight. [via]
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Introduction to the History of Mathematicsby Howard Whitley EvesISBN 0030295580 (0-03-029558-0)
Hardcover, Brooks/Cole Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the History of Mathematics'Book summary:This classic best-seller by a well-known author introduces mathematics history to math and math education majors. Suggested essay topics and problem studies challenge students. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS sections explain the time and culture in which mathematics developed and evolved. Portraits of mathematicians and material on women in mathematics are of special interest. [via]
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Islam & the Muslim Worldby Richard C. MartinISBN 0028656059 (0-02-865605-9)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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Islam and the Muslim Communityby Frederick M. DennyISBN 0060618752 (0-06-061875-2)
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Jerusalem Pokerby Edward WhittemoreISBN 0030185165 (0-03-018516-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Jerusalem, Shining Stillby Karla Kuskin, David FramptonISBN 0060235497 (0-06-023549-7)
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The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experienceby Jane GerberISBN 0029115744 (0-02-911574-4)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience'Book summary:Sephardic Jews form one of the two mainstreams of Jewish life - it was they who founded the first Jewish settlements in America, and they played an important role in colonial society. That history has been obscured by the subsequent arrival of German and Russian Jews whose greater numbers have dominated the American Jewish community for over a century. But the diaspora of Spanish Jews is older, and their longing for the vanished land of "Sepharad", their homeland for a 1000 years, provides one of the greatest themes in Jewish history. Now historian Jane Gerber for the first time traces their great story - rich in both events and personalities - from its ancient beginnings in Roman Iberia to the present day. Gerber shows how the Jews created a civilization in Spain that was both Jewish and secular long before the enlightened Age of Emancipation. Sephardic Jews achieved remarkable success within their "host" society, distinguishing themselves as theologians and philosophers, writers and artists, businessmen, courtiers, and medical men. This rich legacy of culture and accomplishment has inspired a just pride in Sephardic Jews that persists to this day; the Sephardic experience also sheds light on the possibilities for peaceful coexistence among Christians, Jews, and Arabs. The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 thus has a special pathos as the story of the wanton destruction of a flourishing community with roots going back a millenium or more. The book should also be a timely addition to the worldwide observances of the events of 1492 on their 500th anniversary. [via]
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Wayby Shah, Indries, SayedISBN 0060672552 (0-06-067255-2)
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Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Manby Seyyed Hossein NasrISBN 0044406207 (0-04-440620-7)
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The Perennial Philosophyby Aldous HuxleyISBN 006057058X (0-06-057058-X)
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Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers Who They Were, Why They Did Itby Terry McDermottISBN 0060584696 (0-06-058469-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Islamby Jamal J. Elias, Nancy D. LewisISBN 0028644832 (0-02-864483-2)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle Eastby Kemal KarpatISBN 0030576083 (0-03-057608-3)
Softcover, Praeger
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Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesusby Neil Douglas-KlotzISBN 0060619953 (0-06-061995-3)
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060199660 (0-06-019966-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
Readings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islamby Frederick M. Denny, John Corrigan, Martin S. Jaffee, Carlos M.N. EireISBN 0023250984 (0-02-325098-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Rumi : Hidden Music - Paintings and Poemsby Maryam Mafi, Azima Melita KolinISBN 000712032X (0-00-712032-X)
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The Sacred Paths Of The Westby Theodore M. LudwigISBN 0023721812 (0-02-372181-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sacred Paths Of The West'Book summary:For courses in Religions of the World, History of Religions, Comparative Religion, and Introduction to Religious Studies in departments of Religion, Religious Studies, Theology, and Philosophy.Unique in approach, this text combines an historical-descriptive presentation of individual religions with a comparative-thematic approach. It begins with a discussion of the basic human questions and concerns relating to religion--e.g., origin and identity, ultimate reality, human nature, and the good life--and then use these essential concepts to help describe the beliefs, practices, and historical development of each religion. As the work of a single scholar--much of it based on original research--this book offers a consistency and depth missing in many of the texts in this field. [via]
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Seeker After Truth: A Handbook of Tales and Teachingsby Idries ShahISBN 0060672579 (0-06-067257-9)
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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Killby Jessica SternISBN 0060505338 (0-06-050533-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill'Book summary:For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively -- to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola -- she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common.
Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how terrorist organizations are formed by opportunistic leaders who -- using religion as both motivation and justification -- recruit the disenfranchised. She depicts how moral fervor is transformed into sophisticated organizations that strive for money, power, and attention.
Jessica Sterns extensive interaction with the faces behind the terror provide unprecedented insight into acts of inexplicable horror, and enable her to suggest how terrorism can most effectively be countered.
A crucial book on terrorism, Terror in the Name of God is a brilliant and thought-provoking work.
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Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in AmericaISBN 0060528192 (0-06-052819-2)
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Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistanby Harriet LoganISBN 0060510870 (0-06-051087-0)
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When Religion Becomes Evilby Charles KimballISBN 0060506539 (0-06-050653-9)
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When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signsby Charles KimballISBN 0060556102 (0-06-055610-2)
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Where God Was Born: A Journey By Land To The Roots Of Religionby Bruce FeilerISBN 0060574879 (0-06-057487-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where God Was Born: A Journey By Land To The Roots Of Religion'Book summary:Bruce Feiler's latest book combines now familiar elements into his own peculiar, delightful alchemy. Any particular page may be found effortlessly weaving together strands of theology, biblical exegesis, physical exploration, history and personal reflection as Feiler continues his journey of discovery, looking at the common roots of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The Middle East has become a more dangerous place since the writing of his first book in this vein, Walking the Bible. But Feiler is impelled to answer his continued call, even when a flak jacket is necessary. He explores tunnels under Jerusalem. Goes to where David may have slain Goliath. Even looks for the Garden of Eden in Iraq while acknowledging that "the garden would never be found." It is this externalization of searches typically only made in the heart that fascinates us and brings power to Feiler's narrative. In one of the more compelling sections of the book, a meditation on Jonah, Feiler makes a persuasive argument that "God cares only that you conduct yourself in a moral way& And what might come across as preaching in another context is instead organic; Feiler's ideas seem to grow as much out of his travel and present-day experience as they do from Scripture and history. Of particular interest is his writing on King Cyrus II. He travels to Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, and finds an ancient precedent for religious tolerance in this king who helped the Jews build the Second Temple. Feiler provokes us to reflect that if the Bible itself can sing the praises of a king who accepted the various religions of those he ruled, perhaps there is hope we can find room for more tolerance in our own time. Highly recommended.--Ed Dobeas [via]
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Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religionby Carol P. Christ, Judith PlaskowISBN 0060613777 (0-06-061377-7)
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The classic anthology on feminist spirituality -- [via]
Now with an update preface in which the editors discuss its initial reception and continuing impact.More editions of Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion:
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Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religionby Judith Plaskow, Carol P. ChristISBN 0060613858 (0-06-061385-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion'Book summary:This collection of 20th-century feminist writings attempts to re-think the ideas and traditions of male-dominated Western religion. It provides an overview of contemporary feminist thinking on religion and should appeal to anyone interested in the feminist perspective. [via]
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedomby James R. Follain, John Follain, Rita Cristofari, ZoyaISBN 0060097825 (0-06-009782-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom'Book summary:Zoya's Story is a young woman's searing account of her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own life. An epic tale of fear and suffering, courage and hope, Zoya's Story is a powerful testament to the ongoing battle to claim human rights for the women of Afghanistan.Though she is only twenty-three, Zoya has witnessed and endured more tragedy and terror than most people do in a lifetime. Zoya grew up during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan and was robbed of her mother and father when they were murdered by Muslim fundamentalists. Devastated by so much death and destruction, she fled Kabul with her grandmother and started a new life in exile in Pakistan. She joined the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, which challenged the crushing edicts of the Taliban government, and she made dangerous journeys back to her homeland to help the women oppressed by a system that forced them to wear the stifling burqa, condoned public stoning or whipping if they ventured out without a male chaperon, and forbade them from working.Zoya is our guide, our witness to the horrors perpetrated by the Taliban and the Mujahideen "holy warriors" who had defeated the Russian occupiers. She helped to secretly film a public cutting of hands in a Kabul stadium and to organize covert literacy classes, as schooling-branded a "gateway to Hell" -- was forbidden to girls. At an Afghan refugee camp she heard tales of heartrending suffering and worked to provide a future for families who had lost everything.The spotlight focused on Afghanistan after the New York and Washington terrorist attacks highlights the conditions of repression and fear in which Afghan women live and makes Zoya's Story utterly compelling. This is a memoir that speaks louder than the images of devastation and outrage; it is a moving message of optimism as Zoya struggles to bring the plight of Afghan women to the world's attention. [via]
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedomby John Follain, Rita CristofariISBN 0060097833 (0-06-009783-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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