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Acts of the Apostlesby Johannes MunckISBN 0385009143 (0-385-00914-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of the Apostles'Book summary:The Acts of the Apostles is volume 31 in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, each by a preeminent scholar. The late Johannes Munck was Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Dr. Munck, who was in the United States in 1964-1965 as Visiting Professor in New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, died shortly after his retum to Denmark. The Danish text had been put into English before he died, The manuscript was carefully revised by W E Albright, the co-General Editor of the Anchor Bible series before his death, and Dr. C. S. Mann, the author of the Anchor Bible commentary on Mark. Professor Abram Spiro of Wayne State University and Dr. Leona Running of Andrews University have also been of great assistance.
Dr. Spiro's discovery that Acts VII is a tract written by a Samaritan convert has been of crucial importance for our understanding of the beginnings of Christianity. We now know that the roots of the primitive Church struck deep into the subsoil of Jewish sectarian life, including especially the Pharisees, Essenes, followers of John the Baptist and Samaritans.
This volume presents rich new evidence for the historical continuity of Judaism and Christianity as well as for the early date and reliability of Acts, which has been systematically down-graded by twentieth-century historians and theologians. [via]More editions of Acts of the Apostles:
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American Pastoralby Philip RothISBN 0375701427 (0-375-70142-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Pastoral'Book summary:Philip Roth's 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century's most divisive and explosive of decades, the '60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle as he reconstructs the halcyon days, circa World War II, of Seymour "the Swede" Levov, a high school sports hero and all-around Great Guy who wants nothing more than to live in tranquillity. But as the Swede grows older and America crazier, history sweeps his family inexorably into its grip: His own daughter, Merry, commits an unpardonable act of "protest" against the Vietnam war that ultimately severs the Swede from any hope of happiness, family, or spiritual coherence. [via]
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An Aquinas Readerby Mary T. Clark, ThomasISBN 038502505X (0-385-02505-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Bacchae of Euripidesby C.K. WilliamsISBN 0374522065 (0-374-52206-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bacchae of Euripides'Book summary:From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides.[via]
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Beyond Our Selvesby Catherine MarshallISBN 038072202X (0-380-72202-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0385092105 (0-385-09210-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Buddha from Brooklyn: A Tale of Spiritual Seductionby Martha SherrillISBN 0375726489 (0-375-72648-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cabalby Michael DibdinISBN 0375707700 (0-375-70770-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Yearby David Ewing DuncanISBN 0380793245 (0-380-79324-5)
Softcover, Bard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year'Book summary:In his latest book, David Ewing Duncan traces the development of our modern-day calendar and describes how people's experiences are shaped by their conception of time. Duncan postulates that all this concern with time started when a Cro-Magnon man decided to mark off the days of the lunar cycle on an eagle bone. After recounting the slow evolution of the calendar through the centuries, the author laments how time oriented our society has become: "There are moments when I am hopelessly late, or cannot possibly fit anything else into my schedule, when I sigh and wish that Cro-Magnon man 13,000 years ago in the Dordogne Valley had set aside his eagle bone and gone to bed."
The book is organized in chronological order and focuses mainly on the centuries leading up to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar (our modern calendar) by the Catholic Church in 1582. Along the way, Duncan describes the ancient calendars of many cultures all over the globe, from India to Egypt to the Mayan empire. During the Middle Ages, Christian churches discouraged scientific inquiry on the theory that it was wrong to question the nature of God's creation. This severely hampered the refinement of the calendar and the advancement of many academic pursuits. By the 16th century, Europe's calendars were 11 days out of sync with the solar year, which meant Easter was being celebrated on the wrong day. An infusion of knowledge from India and the Middle East helped Europeans get back on track. Duncan profiles the many mathematicians, philosophers, and monks who made organizing time their life's work. This book honors the efforts of those scholars and examines the way politics and religion influenced societal perceptions of time through the ages. --Jill Marquis [via]
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Chronicles IIby Jacob MyersISBN 0385037570 (0-385-03757-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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City of Glassby Bob Callahan, Paul Auster, Art Spiegelman, David Mazzucchelli, Paul KarasikISBN 038077108X (0-380-77108-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Glass'Book summary:I cannot possibly offer enough praise for David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 's adaptation of City of Glass. While some critics found it to be a dry choice of books to turn into a comics, I think the interplay between image and text only heightens the original metafictional narrative. The treatment of the first speech by the crazy antagonist, Peter Stillman--in which the word balloons trail from random objects such as a broken television and a bottle of ink--is brilliant. Neon Lit: Paul Auster's City of Glass deftly illustrates why comics is a perfect format for exploring fictions about text: the words become visible objects of the story. [via]
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Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditionsby Lex HixonISBN 0385129076 (0-385-12907-6)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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Contemplation in a World of Actionby Thomas MertonISBN 0385025505 (0-385-02550-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Coyote Blueby Christopher MooreISBN 0380725231 (0-380-72523-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coyote Blue'Book summary:This is an accelerating comedy with shadows setting off the wry, polished humor. Trickster deities thrive on contrariety, which is why one finds them bringing life into dead landscapes and disorder into order. A Santa Barbara insurance salesman's too-tidily-contained lifestyle, far from the Crow reservation he grew up on, is an irresistible target for Coyote, who wants to make sure his chosen people don't forget him. Coyote descends on Sam Hunter like one of Job's plagues, albeit a charmingly disingenuous one. "Why me? Why not someone who believes?" asks Sam, suffering from god-induced chaos. "This is more fun," says Coyote. He's right. [via]
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Creative Ministryby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0385126166 (0-385-12616-6)
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Critique of Pure Reasonby KantISBN 0385075340 (0-385-07534-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of Pure Reason'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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D'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giantsby Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'AulaireISBN 0385049080 (0-385-04908-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Demonsby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Joseph FrankISBN 0375411224 (0-375-41122-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a novel-pamphlet in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russiaa novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevskys greatest. [via]More editions of Demons:
Encountering Mary: Visions of Mary from LA Salette to Medjugorieby Sandra L. Zimdars-SwartzISBN 0380718855 (0-380-71885-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Equusby Peter ShafferISBN 0380003570 (0-380-00357-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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]
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Estherby Carey A. Moore, Rosalind MooreISBN 0385004729 (0-385-00472-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Faith Works : Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacherby Jim WallisISBN 0375501762 (0-375-50176-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Peter Sis, Randall JarrellISBN 0374527865 (0-374-52786-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sís's dark, dreamy illustrations[via]
Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook--"Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest")--and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--"Gretchen's Room"--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell.
This elegant new edition features numerous beautiful line drawings and jacket lettering by the renowned Czech artist Peter Sís, author of the award-winning books Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei and Tibet: Through the Red Box.More editions of Faust:
The Flight of Peter Frommby Martin GardnerISBN 0374521875 (0-374-52187-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Genesisby Ephraim A. SpeiserISBN 0385008546 (0-385-00854-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genesis'Book summary:Genesis is Volume I in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Using authoritative evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and comparative religion, the author presents some startling conclusions about the first book of the Bible. He proves, for example, that the famous opening phrase, "In the beginning," is not true to the meaning of the first word, that the designation "Torah" for the Pentateuch is a misnomer, that the best-known stories of Genesis are grounded in pagan mythology. Speiser is an iconoclast in the tradition of Abraham; he exposes the false in order to help achieve truth. As he says in his introduction, he "is not motivated by mere pedantry...but by the hope that each new insight may bring us that much closer to the secret of the Bible's universal and enduring appeal." [via]More editions of Genesis:
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God Is My Broker : A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growthby Brother Ty, Christopher Buckley, John TierneyISBN 0375500065 (0-375-50006-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Is My Broker : A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth'Book summary:The whole point of a monastic existence is to put aside worldly things. Brother Ty, the narrator of God Is My Broker, has put them aside with a vengeance, and his task is all the more impressive when you consider just how many he used to possess. "I had traded the life of a Wall Street trader," he tells us, "for the contemplative life, my briefcase for a rosary, the roar of the trading floor for Gregorian chant." Hunkered down in a rural monastery, he seems finally to have escaped the iniquities of Mammon, along with rush-hour traffic and a major drinking problem.
A vow of poverty, however, isn't what it used to be. The monastery of Cana is falling to pieces. And Cana Nouveau--the wine the brothers have always produced to sustain themselves--has hit a new, undrinkable low. As the desperate abbot looks to Deepak Chopra and Anthony Robbins for advice, Brother Ty begins to get financial tips from the Supreme Insider: "That day God had revealed Himself to be our broker." Sometimes, of course, the Lord speaks in mysterious ways. Even a stray line from the Song of Solomon may encourage the narrator to take a flier on Apple Computer stock: "Comfort me with apples. It sounded like a 'buy' recommendation to me." By heeding his divine broker at every turn, however, Brother Ty manages to transform the monastery into a financial powerhouse. His story amounts to the funniest bit of ecclesiastical satire since J. F. Powers's Morte D'Urban. What's more, the authors send up the entire self-help industry with hilarious expertise, concluding God Is My Broker with what even Deepak Chopra would recognize as a home truth: "The only way to get rich from get-rich books is to write one." [via]
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A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryanby Michael KazinISBN 0375411356 (0-375-41135-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryan'Book summary:Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biographythe first major reconsideration of Bryans life in forty yearsaward-winning historian Michael Kazin illuminates his astonishing career and the richly diverse and volatile landscape of religion and politics in which he rose to fame. Kazin vividly re-creates Bryans tremendous appeal, showing how he won a passionate following among both rural and urban Americans, who saw in him not only the practical vision of a reform politician but also the righteousness of a pastor. Bryan did more than anyone to transform the Democratic Party from a bulwark of laissez-faire to the citadel of liberalism we identify with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1896, 1900, and 1908, Bryan was nominated for president, and though he fell short each time, his legacya subject of great debate after his deathremains monumental. This nuanced and brilliantly crafted portrait restores Bryan to an esteemed place in American history. [via]
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Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greeceby Gustav SchwabISBN 0375714464 (0-375-71446-4)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece'Book summary:From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy.
Here are Icarus flying too close to the sun, mighty Hercules, Achilles and that darn heel, the Trojans and their wooden horse, brave Perseus and beautiful Andromeda, wandering Odysseus and steadfast Penelope. Their stories and the stories of the powerful gods and goddesses who punish and reward, who fall in love with and are enraged by the humans they have created, are set forth simply but movingly, in language that retains the power and drama of the original works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Homer. In Gustav Schwabs masterful retelling, they are made accessible to readers of all ages. [via]More editions of Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece:
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The Gospel According to John : Chapters I-XIIby Raymond E. BrownISBN 0385015178 (0-385-01517-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Gospel According to Luke I-IXby Joseph A. FitzmyerISBN 0385005156 (0-385-00515-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Gospel According to Luke Vol. 28B : Chapters X-XXIVby Joseph A. FitzmyerISBN 0385155425 (0-385-15542-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Great Lion of God: A Novel About St. Paulby Taylor CaldwellISBN 0385000421 (0-385-00042-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Lion of God: A Novel About St. Paul'Book summary:This classic, epic novel by the acclaimed novelist Caldwell, is a fascinating, moving and spiritual story about St. Paul, and the life and times of the Jews, Romans and early Christians during the time of Jesus and shortly thereafter. It is a rich and textured work that combines Caldwell's wonderful literary skills with a profound spiritual depth that reveals the amazing story of Paul, the persecutor turned Apostle, and the powerful impact he had on his times and long after. [via]
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The Hanukkah Bookby Marilyn Burns, Martha WestonISBN 0380715201 (0-380-71520-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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A History Of The Jews In The Modern Worldby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0375414975 (0-375-41497-5)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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How the Pope Became Infallible: Pius IX and the Politics of Persuasionby August HaslerISBN 0385158513 (0-385-15851-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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I Corinthiansby William F. Orr, James S. WaltherISBN 0385028539 (0-385-02853-9)
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The Illustrated I Chingby R.L. WingISBN 0385177895 (0-385-17789-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated I Ching'Book summary:This companion to The I Ching Workbook offers an easily accessible yet powerfully enlightening tool that will help readers understand the I Ching's way of knowledge and grasp the principles behind the world's most ancient book.
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Shelly Eversley, Robert Reid-PharrISBN 0375761152 (0-375-76115-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence, writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.
The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the authors final changes to his masterwork. [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassac the African:
Isaiahby John L. McKenzieISBN 0385053908 (0-385-05390-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Joseph Smith, the First Mormonby Donna HillISBN 038500804X (0-385-00804-X)
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Journal of a Soulby Joannes XxiiiISBN 0385148429 (0-385-14842-9)
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Julieby Catherine MarshallISBN 0380698919 (0-380-69891-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lancelotby Walker PercyISBN 0380018616 (0-380-01861-6)
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Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a "nuthouse" with memories that don't seem worth remembering until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence. It began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter. That discovery touched off his obsession to reverse the degeneration of modern America and begin a new age of chivalry and romance. With ever-increasing fury, Lancelot would become a shining knight -- not of romance, but of revenge . . . [via]More editions of Lancelot:
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Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, Peter WashingtonISBN 0375403175 (0-375-40317-5)
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It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjeana man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective JavertHugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital dramahighly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implicationsof the redemption of one human being. [via]More editions of Les Miserables:
Lift up Your Heartby Fulton John SheenISBN 0385090013 (0-385-09001-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Luther, an Experiment in Biographyby Harry Gerald HaileISBN 0385159609 (0-385-15960-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Mark : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby C. S. Mann, Patrick MannISBN 0385032536 (0-385-03253-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in Americaby Louis MenandISBN 0374528497 (0-374-52849-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'Book summary:If past is prologue, then The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand may suggest an intellectual course for the United States in the 21st century. At least Menand, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, thinks so. This enthralling study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey shows how these four men developed a philosophy of pragmatism following the Civil War, a period Menand likens to post-cold-war times. Together, "they were more responsible than any other group for moving American thought into the modern world."
Despite this potentially forbidding theme, The Metaphysical Club is not a dry tome for academics. Instead, it is a quadruple biography, a wonderfully told story of ideas that advances by turning these thinkers into characters and bringing them to life. Menand links them through the Metaphysical Club, a conversational club formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872. It lasted but a few months, and references to it appear only in Peirce's writings (its real significance seems rather limited), though Holmes and James were both members. (Dewey was much younger than these three, and more an heir than a contemporary.) It is difficult to describe in a sentence or two what they accomplished, though Menand takes a stab at it: "They helped put an end to the idea that the universe is an idea, that beyond the mundane business of making our way as best we can in a world shot through with contingency, there exists some order, invisible to us, whose logic we transgress at our peril." Academic freedom and cultural pluralism are just two of their legacies, and they are linchpins of democracy in a nonideological age, says Menand.
A book like this is necessarily idiosyncratic, yet at the same time this one is sweeping. It presents an accessible survey of intellectual life from roughly the end of the Civil War to the start of the cold war. Dozens of figures receive fascinating thumbnail sketches, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin to Jane Addams and Eugene Debs. The result is a grand portrait of an age that will appeal to anyone with even a modest interest in the history of philosophy and ideas. --John Miller [via]
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Models Of Revelationby Avery Robert DullesISBN 0385179758 (0-385-17975-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Mythologyby Neil Philip, Neil PhillipISBN 0375801359 (0-375-80135-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythology'Book summary:From the mighty Zeus of Ancient Greece to the trickster Coyote of Native America, a host legendary icons spring to life in this comprehensive overview of world mythology. With a cultural and topical approach, Mythology examines the various interpretations of phenomena such as creation, afterlife, deities, and heroes from the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Native American, Asian, Celtic, African, Maya, Inca, and Hindu traditions. Stunning color photographs and a rich array of artifacts and renderings highlight the influence of mythology on the arts and world religions. [via]
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New Testament: The Authorized or King James Version of 1611by John DruryISBN 037540550X (0-375-40550-X)
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John Drury's clear, marvelously erudite, and richly detailed introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The New Testament reminds us why the King James Version, first published in 1611, has been the favorite of English readers for centuries. Despite a plethora of new translations in the second half of the twentieth century, the King James Version retains its power and appeal because "it has the intrinsic value of a classic and is an enduring masterpiece."
Drury outlines the fascinating history of this magisterial translation, marveling at the "patient generosity" with which the translators sifted through and distilled a century of previous scholarship. He points out that their work has endured not only because of the astonishing care they took to reflect faithfully the syntax of the original Hebrew and Greekwhich enabled them to dispense with the densely entangled prose style that characterized English writing at the timebut also because of their concern to writers from Milton to Coleridge to George Eliot. From the doctrinal richness of the letters of St. Paul to those four masterpieces of storytelling, the Gospels, The New Testament has served as a source of inspiration for centuries.
To quote George Steiner on the centrality of the Bible: "What you have in hand is not a book. It is the book. That, of course, is what 'Bible' means. It is the book which, not only in Western humanity, defines the concept of a text. All our other books, however different in matter or method, relate, be it indirectly, to this book of books&All other books are inhabited by the murmur of that distant source." [via]More editions of New Testament: The Authorized or King James Version of 1611:
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0380009951 (0-380-00995-1)
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The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accidentby Elie WieselISBN 0374521409 (0-374-52140-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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In the short novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang. Command to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage, the former victim becomes an executioner.
In The Accident, (1962), Wiesel again turns to fiction to question the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the author writes in his introduction, "In Night it is the 'I' who speaks; in the other two [narratives], it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction.
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O Holy Mountain: Journal of a Retreat on Mount Athosby M. Basil PenningtonISBN 0385135300 (0-385-13530-0)
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The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Apocalyptic Literature and Testamentsby James H. CharlesworthISBN 0385096305 (0-385-09630-5)
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The Only Dance There Is: Talks Given at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, 1970, and at Spring Grove Hospital, Spring Grove, Maryland, 1972by Ram DassISBN 0385084137 (0-385-08413-7)
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Our Lady of Fatimaby William Thomas WalshISBN 0385028695 (0-385-02869-5)
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This was the conclusion reached by William Thomas Walsh, distinguished author, historian, and teacher, after he had thorougly investigated the miracle of Fatima. Here is the whole remarkable story of the appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three simple children at an obscure Portuguese village in 1917. Her prophecies of World War II and the rise of communism, her plea to humanity to do penance, her promise that world peace and the conversion of Russia would take place if her messages were heeded -- these are some of the dramatic events in this fascinating account of a modern miracle.
Our Lady of Fatima is a magnificent re-creation of an event whose effects are still reverberating throughout the world -- the appearance in person of the Mother of God with a "peace plan from heaven."More editions of Our Lady of Fatima:
Place Apartby M. Basil PenningtonISBN 0385178506 (0-385-17850-6)
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Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 0375507930 (0-375-50793-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portnoy's Complaint'Book summary:Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spievogel says: "Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration." (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship. [via]
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabiaby Jean P. SassonISBN 0380719185 (0-380-71918-5)
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Psalms II, 51-100by Mitchell DahoodISBN 0385037597 (0-385-03759-7)
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The Question and Answer Catholic Catechismby John A. HardonISBN 0385136641 (0-385-13664-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Rabbi's Catby Joann SfarISBN 0375422811 (0-375-42281-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rabbi's Cat'Book summary:The preeminent work by one of Frances most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbis Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his masters consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didnt eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbis rabbi, who maintains that a cat cant be Jewish but the cat, as always, knows better.
Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabyas cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important and trivial details of life.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algerias Jewish community, The Rabbis Cat brings a lost world vibrantly to life a time and place where Jews and Arabs coexisted and peoples it with endearing and thoroughly human characters, and one truly unforgettable cat. [via]More editions of The Rabbi's Cat:
The Razor's Edgeby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0385043791 (0-385-04379-1)
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Red Water : A Novelby Judith FreemanISBN 0375420924 (0-375-42092-4)
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Ritual Deathby Brad ReynoldsISBN 0380784017 (0-380-78401-7)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Virginia WoolfISBN 0375757325 (0-375-75732-5)
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Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francisby Valerie MartinISBN 0375708839 (0-375-70883-9)
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The Secret on Araratby Tim LaHayeISBN 0375432418 (0-375-43241-8)
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Selected Sermons, Prayers, and Devotionsby John Henry Newman, John F. Thornton, Susan B. Varenne, Peter J. GomesISBN 0375705511 (0-375-70551-1)
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A Severed Waspby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374517835 (0-374-51783-5)
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The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ?by Ian WilsonISBN 0385150423 (0-385-15042-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Signposts in a Strange Landby Walker Percy, Patrick H. SamwayISBN 0374523452 (0-374-52345-2)
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Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Villageby June SpriggISBN 0375704329 (0-375-70432-9)
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Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcuttaby Malcolm MuggeridgeISBN 0385126395 (0-385-12639-5)
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First published in 1971, this classic work introduced Mother Theresa to the Western World. As timely now as it was then, Something Beautiful for God interprets her life through the eyes of a modern-day skeptic who became literally transformed within her presence, describing her as "a light which could never be extinguised."
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Song of Songsby Marvin H. PopeISBN 0385005695 (0-385-00569-5)
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A Southern Familyby Gail GodwinISBN 0380729873 (0-380-72987-3)
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The Story Knifeby Brad ReynoldsISBN 0380784009 (0-380-78400-9)
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A man lied dead in a Settle convention center--a lawyer with questionable ethics, brutally slain by a ceremonial knife from a village a thousand miles to the north. . .
As a Jesuit priest. Father Nark Townsend has spent much time among the native peoples who inhabit the merciless Alaskan tundra. He recognizes the deadly artifact--and knows the Eskimo tribe that carved the intricate pictures on its ivory handle. Now conscience and duty are calling him back to that place of harsh, frozen beauty and ancient spirits; a land where Inuit, environmentalists and corporate power structures collide. For there are secrets there that the blade can reveal--and a story it must tell of greed, betrayal. . .and murder.
BLOOD FLOWS NORTHWARDA man lied dead in a Settle convention center--a lawyer with questionable ethics, brutally slain by a ceremonial knife from a village a thousand miles to the north. . .
As a Jesuit priest. Father Nark Townsend has spent much time among the native peoples who inhabit the merciless Alaskan tundra. He recognizes the deadly artifact--and knows the Eskimo tribe that carved the intricate pictures on its ivory handle. Now conscience and duty are calling him back to that place of harsh, frozen beauty and ancient spirits; a land where Inuit, environmentalists and corporate power structures collide. For there are secrets there that the blade can reveal--and a story it must tell of greed, betrayal. . .and murder. [via]
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singersby Maria A. TrappISBN 0385028962 (0-385-02896-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflectionby Robert Farrar Capon, Ruth Reichl, Deborah MadisonISBN 0375760563 (0-375-76056-3)
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The Takingby Dean KoontzISBN 0375433694 (0-375-43369-4)
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Tao Te Ching: A New Approach-Backward Down the Pathby Jerry O. DaltonISBN 0380725606 (0-380-72560-6)
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A Thread of Grace: A Novelby Mary Doria RussellISBN 0375501843 (0-375-50184-3)
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To the Hebrewsby George W. BuchananISBN 0385029950 (0-385-02995-0)
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Tolstoyby Henri TroyatISBN 0374980101 (0-374-98010-1)
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Training in Christianity: And, the Edifying Discourse Which "Accompanied" Itby Soren Kierkegaard, John F. Thornton, Susan B. VarenneISBN 0375725644 (0-375-72564-4)
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Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Familyby Stephen J. DubnerISBN 038072930X (0-380-72930-X)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0375507949 (0-375-50794-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte Bronte, Deborah Lutz, A. S. Byatt, Ignes SodreISBN 037575850X (0-375-75850-X)
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"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette,flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new file as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her freindship with a wordly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.
"Villette is an amazing book," observed novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. "Written before psychoanalysis came into being, Villette is nevertheless a psychoanalytic worka psychosexual study of its heroine, Lucy Snowe. Written before the philosophy of existentialism was formulated, the novel's view of the world can only be described as existential. . . . Today it is read and discussed more intensely than Charlotte Brontë's other novels, and many critics now beleive it to be a true master-piece, a work of genius that more than fulfilled the promise of Jane Eyre." Indeed, Virginia Woolf judged Villette to be Brontë's "finest novel."
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The Wisdom of John Paul II: The Pope on Life's Most Vital Questionsby Nick Bakalar, Richard Balkin, John Paul, John WhiteISBN 0375727329 (0-375-72732-9)
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Throughout his more than two decades as the leader of the worlds Catholics, John Paul II has spoken both officially and informally on all aspects of life in the modern world.
Whether defining the Church's teachings or passionately espousing the basic human rights of all people, whether speaking from his throne in the Vatican or from a platform set up on a soccer field, the Pope has always eloquently and clearly stated his thinking, vision, and hopes for the Church and the world.
For this new edition, the compilers have added significant new material, including the pontiff's thoughts as we enter the third millennium of Christianity. [via]More editions of The Wisdom of John Paul II: The Pope on Life's Most Vital Questions:
The Wonder Workerby Susan HowatchISBN 0375401024 (0-375-40102-4)
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Worlds in Collisionby Immanuel VelikovskyISBN 0385045417 (0-385-04541-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds in Collision'Book summary:With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism - based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors - shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of humanity on a completely new basis - and caused an uproar that is still going on today. Worlds in Collision - written in a brilliant, easily understandable and entertaining style and full to the brim with precise information - can be considered one of the most important and most challenging books in the history of science. Not without reason was this book found open on Einstein's desk after his death. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the history of mankind, traditions, religions, mythology or just the world as it is today, Worlds in Collision is an absolute MUST-READ! [via]
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Yosl Rakover Talks to Godby Zvi Kolitz, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0375708405 (0-375-70840-5)
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