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Akhenaten, Dweller in Truthby Naguib Mahfouz, Tagreid Abu-HassaboISBN 0385499094 (0-385-49909-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth'Book summary:From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
In this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--and the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his horrible death--including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti--in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal. An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly. [via]More editions of Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth:
The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesisby Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergISBN 0385483376 (0-385-48337-6)
Softcover, Image Books
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Beyond the Walls: Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Lifeby Paul WilkesISBN 038549436X (0-385-49436-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Black Dogsby Ian McEwanISBN 0385494327 (0-385-49432-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Dogs'Book summary:Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years earlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civiliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions that both create love and destroy it. [via]
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Blood and Fire : The Story of William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Armyby Roy HattersleyISBN 0385494394 (0-385-49439-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agencyby James BamfordISBN 0385499086 (0-385-49908-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency'Book summary:Everybody knows about the CIA--the cloak-and-dagger branch of the U.S. government. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent years than its better-known counterpart. The NSA is responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. Its home office in Maryland "contains what is probably the largest body of secrets ever created."
Little was known about the agency's confidential culture until veteran journalist James Bamford blew the lid off in 1982 with his bestseller The Puzzle Palace. Still, much remained in the shadows. In Body of Secrets, Bamford throws much more light on his subject--and he reveals loads of shocking information. The story of the U-2 crisis in 1960 is well known, including President Eisenhower's decision to tell a fib to the public in order to protect a national-security secret. Bamford takes the story a disturbing step forward, showing how Eisenhower "went so far as to order his Cabinet officers to hide his involvement in the scandal even while under oath. At least one Cabinet member directly lied to the committee, a fact known to Eisenhower." Even more worrisome is another revelation, from the Kennedy years: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba."
Body of Secrets is an incredible piece of journalism, and it paints a deeply troubling portrait of an agency about which the public knows next to nothing. Fans of The Sword and the Shield will want to read it, as will anybody who is intrigued by conspiracies and real-life spy stories. --John J. Miller [via]
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Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Centuryby James BamfordISBN 0385499078 (0-385-49907-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Little was known about the agency's confidential culture until veteran journalist James Bamford blew the lid off in 1982 with his bestseller The Puzzle Palace. Still, much remained in the shadows. In Body of Secrets, Bamford throws much more light on his subject--and he reveals loads of shocking information. The story of the U-2 crisis in 1960 is well known, including President Eisenhower's decision to tell a fib to the public in order to protect a national-security secret. Bamford takes the story a disturbing step forward, showing how Eisenhower "went so far as to order his Cabinet officers to hide his involvement in the scandal even while under oath. At least one Cabinet member directly lied to the committee, a fact known to Eisenhower." Even more worrisome is another revelation, from the Kennedy years: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba."
Body of Secrets is an incredible piece of journalism, and it paints a deeply troubling portrait of an agency about which the public knows next to nothing. Fans of The Sword and the Shield will want to read it, as will anybody who is intrigued by conspiracies and real-life spy stories. --John J. Miller [via]
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Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychologyby June SingerISBN 0385475292 (0-385-47529-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology'Book summary:After thirteen printings and with nearly 100,000 copies in print since its publication twenty years ago, Boundaries Of The Soul has become recognized as THE classic introduction to Jung and the practice of Jung's psychology. The book has been described as "the clearest and most coherent exposition of Jung's total thought," by Robertson Davies, and Alan Watts has called Dr. Singer "one of the great masters of the art." Now, in a completely revised edition of Boundaries Of The Soul, Dr. Singer incorporates the latest developments in Jungian psychology over the last two decades, particularlv in the areas of masculine/feminine relationships, the use of psychotherapeutic drugs, and the evolution of Jung's concept and personality types and its application both clinically and in the world of business and industry. In addition, the case histories, so central to understanding many of Jung's concepts, have been re-examined and revised where necessary to correspond to the spirit of today's world. The updated edition of Boundaries Of The Soul should reaffirm the book's long-standing reputation as the best introduction to Jung's thought available. [via]
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The Burdens of Sister Margaretby Craig E. HarlineISBN 0385473958 (0-385-47395-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Catechism of the Catholic ChurchISBN 0385479670 (0-385-47967-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
Find This BookBook summary:Catechism of the Catholic Church is the first new edition of the catechism in 400 years. Catechism means "instruction," and this text will remain the standard reference for Catholics for many future generations. It is the authoritative summary of Catholic belief regarding the Church creeds, sacraments, commandments, and prayers. To get some idea of the level of detail with which the Catechism engages Catholic doctrine, consider that 17 pages of explanation accompany the opening words of the Apostle's Creed ("I Believe in God the Father"). The book is exceptionally well organized, with line-by-line explanations of every conceivable aspect of orthodox Catholic belief. Extensive cross-referencing, indexing, footnotes, and "In Brief" summaries of each section further ease the project of finding the precise answers to any questions a reader might have. Even the layout of information on the page is easy on the eyes, with wide margins for readers who wish to make notes. Furthermore, the back cover features a true rarity in the annals of world literature: a blurb by the Pope. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Catholic Way: Faith for Living Todayby Donald W. WuerlISBN 038550182X (0-385-50182-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catholic Way: Faith for Living Today'Book summary:The Catholic Way is an up-to-date reflection on what it means to be a Catholic today. It is a clear, intelligent, and authoritative guide to the perennial faith of the Catholic Church as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Written by a bishop recognized internationally and nationally for his teaching and writing, and for producing video presentations on the Catholic faith, this indispensable book illuminates the riches of the Catholic Church, guiding readers -- whether recent converts or lifelong Catholics -- to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Church.
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In concise, easy-to-understand language, Bishop Wuerl explains what the Church's Catechism is and how its content touches our life. He elucidates the words of the Sacred Scripture, the meaning of Jesus' life and ministry, Mary's place and significance within the Church's teachings, what the articles of the creed mean, what the sacraments signify, and how the commandments apply to us today. His insights provide answers to the questions "What do we believe?" and "Why do we believe that?"
The Catholic Way can be used with confidence by all Catholics. For the faithful and the questioning, for believers and seekers, The Catholic Way will stand as the definitive book on the meaning and power of the Church's Catechism and its beliefs and teachings.More editions of The Catholic Way: Faith for Living Today:
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Chokeby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385501560 (0-385-50156-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choke'Book summary:We can more or less deduce the following of the main protagonist in Choke; Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzehimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.
"Art never comes from happiness" says Mancini's mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son's life would be chock full of nothing but art. Alas, that's not the case--in the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn't quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he's trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he's settling for the Heimlich.
Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palanhiuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot but suffice to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room and, well, a little bit of Fight Club. Just as with that book and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, such as this sceptical slight on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."
Whether this is the novel that will break Palanhiuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end though, the author's nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just. And what's next for Victor Mancini's creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does on the final pages: "Maybe it's our job to invent something better ... What it's going to be, I don't know." --Bob Michaels, Amazon.com [via]
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Clowning in Romeby Henri J.M. Nouwen, Sue MostellerISBN 038549999X (0-385-49999-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clowning in Rome'Book summary:Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation collects four lectures given by the Catholic priest Henri Nouwen at the North American College in Rome in the 1970s. The lectures, which explore each of the topics named in the book's subtitle, are direct, pragmatic and delightful. Nouwen's views on these weighty subjects are suffused with a lightness inspired by the clowns whose street performances captured his imagination during his visit to the Holy City. He describes these clowns as "awkward, out of balance and left-handed"; as reminders of human weakness whose fumblings offer important lessons about the holiness of play. "[W]henever the clowns appear we are reminded that what really counts is something other than the spectacular and the sensational", Nouwen writes. "Clowns remind us of what happens between the scenes. The clowns show us by their 'useless' behavior not simply that many of our preoccupations, worries, tensions, and anxieties need a smile, but that we too have white on our faces and that we too are called to clown a little". --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Communion: Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in Their Livesby David RosenbergISBN 0385474830 (0-385-47483-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Livesby Susan L. Taylor, Khephra BurnsISBN 0385483783 (0-385-48378-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Confucius Speaks : Words to Live Byby Chih Chung Tsai, Brian Bruya, Tsai Chih ChungISBN 0385480342 (0-385-48034-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confucius Speaks : Words to Live By'Book summary:In Confucius Speaks, the teachings of the greatest sage of all time are vividly brought to life by the wonderfully endearing and humorous characters drawn by East Asia's most famous cartoonist, Tsai Chih Chung. Although readers everywhere are familiar with the name of Confucius, few have encountered his actual teachings in such an accessible manner. Illustrations throughout. [via]
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Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hatsby Michael Cunningham, Craig MarberryISBN 0385500866 (0-385-50086-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats'Book summary:Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black women of various religious denominations. A woman's hat speaks long before its wearer utters a word. It's what Deirdre Guion calls "hattitude...there's a little more strut in your carriage when you wear a nice hat. There's something special about you." If a hat says a lot about a person, it says even more about a people-the customs they observe, the symbols they prize, and the fashions they fancy.
Photographer Michael Cunningham beautifully captures the self-expressions of women of all ages-from young glamorous women to serene but stylish grandmothers. Award-winning journalist Craig Marberry provides an intimate look at the women and their lives. Together they've captured a captivating custom, this wearing of church hats, a peculiar convergence of faith and fashion that keeps the Sabbath both holy and glamorous. [via]More editions of Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats:
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Damien the Leperby John FarrowISBN 0385489110 (0-385-48911-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damien the Leper'Book summary:The great adventure of Damien the Leper began quietly over a century ago. Since then, his remarkable story has become legend throughout the world.
Joseph De Veuster left his secure life in Belgium, thrusting aside all thoughts of personal danger and spending the rest of his days as Father Damien comforting the sick and the dying. Though virtually entombed among the living dead of a leper colony on the island of Molokai, Father Damien managed to find beauty and enchantment in the lush surroundings. His extraordinary journey of the spirit comes to life in John Farrow's splendid biography, which has become a classic over the years and is sure to endure as long as people thrill to deeds of valor and pay homage to the great spiritual truths so perfectly reflected in this unforgettable story of courage, sacrifice, and devotion. [via]More editions of Damien the Leper:
Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandmentsby Shmuley BoteachISBN 0385496206 (0-385-49620-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave, a Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospelsby Raymond E. BrownISBN 0385494483 (0-385-49448-3)
Softcover, Doubleday
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The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheismby David KlinghofferISBN 0385499744 (0-385-49974-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Divine Hoursby Phyllis TickleISBN 038549758X (0-385-49758-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Divine Hours : Prayers for Autumn and Wintertimeby Phyllis TickleISBN 0385497571 (0-385-49757-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Hours : Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime'Book summary:The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime by Phyllis Tickle draws on the Book of Common Prayer and the Church Fathers, as well as the New Jerusalem Bible, to provide daily readings and prayers (for morning, noon, vespers and compline) for every day between October and January. Tickle's book of hours modernises the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, as originally practised by the Jews ("Seven times a day do I praise you" (Psalm 119:164)) and adapted by early Christians. The book's introduction provides a short history of this tradition of prayer, whose centrality in Christian worship was cemented in the sixth century, when St Benedict fashioned the Rule of his community according to the schedule of fixed-hour prayer. The introduction also encourages readers to experiment with sung and chanted prayer (which encouragement includes the tantalising observation by Saint Augustine that "Whoever sings, prays twice"). The discipline described by The Divine Hours is demanding, but the rewards, as Tickle describes them, are great. Christians who practice fixed-hour prayer "find themselves filled with a conscious awareness that they are handing their worship, at its final 'Amen', on to other Christians in the next time zone. Like relay runners passing a lighted torch, those who do the work of fixed-hour prayer create thereby a continuous cascade of praise before the throne of God". --Simon Priestly [via]
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The DNA of God : The True Story of the Scientist Who Reestablished the Case for the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin and Discovered Its Incredible Secretsby Leoncio A. Garza-ValdesISBN 0385488505 (0-385-48850-5)
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Doubleday Pocket Bible Guideby Linda L. GrenzISBN 0385485689 (0-385-48568-9)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Enduring Loveby Ian McEwanISBN 0385494149 (0-385-49414-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enduring Love'Book summary:Joe Rose has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after six weeks in the States. To complete the picture, there's even a "helium balloon drifting dreamily across the wooded valley." But as Joe and Clarissa watch the balloon touch down, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. As the wind whips into action, Joe and four other men rush to secure the basket. Mother Nature, however, isn't feeling very maternal. "A mighty fist socked the balloon in two rapid blows, one-two, the second more vicious than the first," and at once the rescuers are airborne. Joe manages to drop to the ground, as do most of his companions, but one man is lifted sky-high, only to fall to his death.
In itself, the accident would change the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, happiness, and endless self-reproach. (In one of the novel's many ironies, the balloon eventually lands safely, the boy unscathed.) But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. For Jed is instantly obsessed, making the first of many calls to Joe and Clarissa's London flat that very night. Soon he's openly shadowing Joe and writing him endless letters. (One insane epistle begins, "I feel happiness running through me like an electrical current. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable.") Worst of all, Jed's version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe's feelings for Clarissa.
Apart from the incessant stalking, it is the conditionals--the contingencies--that most frustrate Joe, a scientific journalist. If only he and Clarissa had gone straight home from the airport... If only the wind hadn't picked up... If only he had saved Jed's 29 messages in a single day... Ian McEwan has long been a poet of the arbitrary nightmare, his characters ineluctably swept up in others' fantasies, skidding into deepening violence, and--worst of all--becoming strangers to those who love them. Even his prose itself is a masterful and methodical exercise in defamiliarization. But Enduring Love and its underrated predecessor, Black Dogs, are also meditations on knowledge and perception as well as brilliant manipulations of our own expectations. By the novel's end, you will be surprisingly unafraid of hot-air balloons, but you won't be too keen on looking a stranger in the eye. [via]
Eyewitness to Jesus : Amazing New Manuscript Evidence about the Origins of the Gospelsby Matthew D'Ancona, Carsten Peter ThiedeISBN 0385480512 (0-385-48051-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The First and Second Letters to Timothy : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Luke Timothy JohnsonISBN 0385484224 (0-385-48422-4)
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First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinityby Scott HahnISBN 0385496621 (0-385-49662-1)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church And the Trinity'Book summary:Scott Hahn, in First Comes Love, uses the idea of family to explain Catholic thought about the Trinity. Hahn believes that the relations among the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are a model for the relations among every nuclear unit composed of father, mother, and child. And he believes that the family of the Church helps people emulate the Trinitarian family and can heal them when they fall short of such holiness. Hahn moves easily from personal anecdote to Scriptural analysis, making his case that Jesus understood all of humanity as part of one family when he called his followers brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. First Comes Love makes the salutary point that neither romance nor parenthood alone can give us a sufficient sense of belonging. "God built us all to live in a much larger family, to experience a much larger love ... a love that extends infinitely." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Gnostic Scriptures : A New Translation with Annotations and Introductionsby Bentley LaytonISBN 0385478437 (0-385-47843-7)
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God, Doctor Buzzard, and the Bolito Man : A Memoir of Life on Sapelo Islandby Cornelia Walker Bailey, Christena BledsoeISBN 0385493762 (0-385-49376-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Islandby Cornelia Bailey, Christena BledsoeISBN 0385493770 (0-385-49377-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island'Book summary:It has been said that the Africans who were brought to the United States as slaves were completely stripped of their native culture. But pioneering scholars such as anthropologist Melville Herskovits have disproved this in academia, while the literature of Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison has also debunked this persistent myth. Living proof of that fact is Sapelo Island, a South Sea island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, where West African traditions persist despite considerable odds. This vivid memoir by Cornelia Walker Bailey, a lecturer and tour guide on Sapelo Island, transports the reader to this enchanted land of miracles and magic.
Walker is a self-described "Geechee," a descendant of Islamic African slaves taken from modern-day Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Liberia (she traces her family lineage on the island back to 1803). In God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man, the author brings alive a land where black people speak an African-based Creole language, believe in "mojo" (the American equivalent of Haitian voodoo), and who work to keep their culture alive. "You can think of the Africans as being victims, and in a sense they were" she writes. "But they were also great survivors. If they survived the Middle Passage, and a lot of people didn't, then they survived everything thrown at them. They were determined people." Thanks in large part to Bailey, this determination lives on. But her book, which recalls life on Sapelo Island from the 1940s and rings with the same ebullient language found in Jean Toomer's Cane, also serves as a warning, noting that outside business interests and the disinterest of the youth threaten the very existence of their ancient ways. "We need to be proud of our ancestors from slavery days and of our old people who went through modern hardships and to learn from them that if you believe in something, strength comes from that." With this book, she hopes to pass some of that strength on. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Golden Age of Zen : The Classic Work on the Foundation of Zen Philosophyby John C. Wu, Thomas MertonISBN 038547993X (0-385-47993-X)
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Hildegard of Bingen : The Woman of Her Ageby Fiona MaddockISBN 0385498675 (0-385-49867-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hildegard of Bingen : The Woman of Her Age'Book summary:Among Catholic saints, the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen perhaps best fits the description of wild womanhood offered by Cole Porter's "The Lady Is a Tramp." That is, Hildegard did it all, she did it her way, and everyone who hears about her is amazed. Such is a fair summary of the evidence offered in Hildegard of Bingen, a biography by Fiona Maddocks (the chief music critic for London's The Observer). Hildegard is today best known for her haunting musical compositions. She was also, in Maddocks's description, "a polymath: a visionary, a theologian, a preacher; an early scientist and physician; a prodigious letter writer who numbered emperors and popes among her correspondents ... Her boldness, courage, and tenacity made her at once enthralling and haughty, intrepid, and irksome." This is a straightforward, chronologically organized biography, beginning with Hildegard's girlhood (she entered a male monastery when she was 8 years old) and ending with the story of her canonization and a contemporary account of the procession that occurs annually on her feast day in Eibingen, the site of the second convent she founded. Throughout, Maddocks reminds readers of the rich historical background of Hildegard's life (the Crusades, the rise of monasticism, the beginnings of the Renaissance), offering not only an account of one extraordinary woman but of an era whose influence on our own is still being felt. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Hold Me up a Little Longer Lordby Marjorie HolmesISBN 0385493606 (0-385-49360-6)
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The Holy Book of the Beardby Duff BrennaISBN 038547962X (0-385-47962-X)
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchardby Kiran DesaiISBN 0385493703 (0-385-49370-3)
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In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islamby Milton ViorstISBN 0385476914 (0-385-47691-4)
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Introduction to Rabbinic Literatureby Jacob NeusnerISBN 0385497512 (0-385-49751-2)
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Isaiah 1-39 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Joseph BlenkinsoppISBN 0385497164 (0-385-49716-4)
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Isaiah 40-55 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Joseph BlenkinsoppISBN 0385497172 (0-385-49717-2)
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Isaiah 56-66: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentaryby Joseph BlenkinsoppISBN 0385501749 (0-385-50174-9)
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The Jesus Papyrus : The Most Sensational Evidence on the Origin of the Gospel since the Discover of the Dead Sea Scrollsby Matthew D'Ancona, Carsten Peter ThiedeISBN 038548898X (0-385-48898-X)
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Joshuaby Joseph F. GirzoneISBN 0385495102 (0-385-49510-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joshua'Book summary:Joshua: The Homecoming is Joseph F. Girzone's sequel to the immensely popular Joshua. The title character, a kind and solitary carpenter, returns to the small town of Auburn after a 20-year absence. Joshua finds that many of his old friends have died, and he sees in the new generation a pervasive fear and spiritual insecurity. Many of the anxieties that plague the citizens of Auburn stem from millennial hysteria; and when signs of the Apocalypse begin to appear (such as a great earthquake just before the turn of the new year), Joshua soothes their fears by reminding them that God is love. "My father does not follow people's calendar," Joshua says. "If he decides to bring the world to an end, it will be when the work of His creation is perfected." Eventually, it becomes clear to Joshua that he must leave Auburn to preach his powerful message to the rest of the world. Like all of Girzone's books (including Never Alone and A Portrait of Jesus), this novel exudes empathy for its characters' loneliness and fears, and gives readers a strong sense of what it means to live in an intimate relationship with God. [via]
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Joshua, the Homecomingby Joseph F. GirzoneISBN 0385495099 (0-385-49509-9)
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The Left Hand of God: A Biography of the Holy Spiritby Adolf Holl, John CullenISBN 0385492855 (0-385-49285-5)
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The Letter to Philemon : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Joseph A. FitzmyerISBN 038549629X (0-385-49629-X)
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Leviticus 23-27 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentaryby Jacob MilgromISBN 0385500351 (0-385-50035-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviticus 23-27 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary'Book summary:Jacob Milgrom, a rabbi and Bible scholar, has devoted the bulk of his career to examining the laws of the Torah. His incisive commentary on Leviticus, which began with Leviticus 1-16, continues in this last volume of three. It provides an authoritative and comprehensive explanation of ethical values concealed in Israel's rituals. Although at first glance Leviticus seems far removed from the modern-day world, Milgrom's thoughtful and provocative comments and notes reveal its enduring relevance to contemporary society.
Leviticus 23-27 brings us to the climactic end of the book and its revolutionary innovations, among which are the evolution of the festival calendar with its emphasis on folk traditions, and the jubilee, the priestly answer to the socio-economic problems of their time.
With English translations that convey the nuance and power of the original Hebrew, this trilogy will take its place alongside the best of the Anchor Bible Commentaries. [via]More editions of Leviticus 23-27 : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary:
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalizationby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0385499345 (0-385-49934-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization'Book summary:From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today.As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life: Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Islamic students in Teheran, and the financial wizards on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.Now Friedman has drawn on his years on the road to produce an engrossing and original look at globalization. Globalization, he argues, is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced the Cold War system; the new, well-greased, interconnected system: Globalization is the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and, to some degreee, a global village. Simply put, one can't possibly understand the morning news or one's own investments without some grasp of the system. Just one example: During the Cold War, we reached for the hot line between the White House and the Kremlin--a symbol that we were all divided but at least the two superpowers were in charge. In the era of globalization, we reach for the Internet--a symbol that we are all connected but nobody is totally in charge.With vivid stories and a set of original terms and concepts, Friedman offers readers remarkable access to his unique understanding of this new world order, and shows us how to see this new system. He dramatizes the conflict of "the Lexus and the olive tree"--the tension between the globalization system and ancient forces of culture, geography, tradition, and community. [via]
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0385487266 (0-385-48726-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Maurice and Therese: The Story of a Loveby Patrick V. AhernISBN 0385497407 (0-385-49740-7)
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Never Alone: A Personal Way to Godby Joseph F. GirzoneISBN 0385476833 (0-385-47683-3)
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The New Jerusalem Bible : Saints Devotional Editionby Bert GhezziISBN 0385500661 (0-385-50066-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Jerusalem Bible : Saints Devotional Edition'Book summary:This highly accessible translation of The New Jerusalem Bible features inspiring quotes from the saints. Within the pages of this solidly bound text readers find a convincing testament to how the saints steeped themselves in Scripture. "You will see it in what they said, what they wrote, and above all in what they did, for in all things they concentrated on conforming to God's Word," according to the introduction. The 200 assorted readings from the saints (100 for the Old Testament and 100 for the New Testament) are delightfully diverse, including commentary, reflection, preaching, testimonies, poetry, hymns, letters, and more. The one commonality is that all the quotes emphasize or illuminate various passages of the Bible. For instance, in the Book of Ruth, Saint Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) speaks to when Moabite ordered his reapers to discreetly leave ears of corn in the field for Ruth to find, so she could collect his charity without shame. Saint Aelred uses Moabite's compassion as a measurement for how to give generously and respectfully to friends.
Along with a complete text of the ancient canon of the Scriptures, this also includes a mini course (20 brief lessons) on the teachings and experiences of the saints. The final pages offer biographical sketches of each of the 90 saints quoted in the text, a yearlong calendar of the saints, as well as a listing of patron saints (such as Adelard and Dorothy for gardeners and Joseph of Cupertino for air travelers). --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Nine Commandments : Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bibleby David Noel FreedmanISBN 0385499876 (0-385-49987-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nine Commandments : Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible'Book summary:The Nine Commandments is David Noel Freedman's daringly original reading of the early history of the Israelites. Freedman's thesis is as follows:
Hidden in the Bible is a previously unrecognized pattern of commandment violations that has gone undetected for over two thousand years. In the books spanning from Exodus to Kings the nation of Israel is presented as thoroughly defying its covenant with God by breaking each of the Ten Commandments, one by one, book by book, until there are none--leaving God with only one choice: the destruction of the nation.
(The book is titled The Nine Commandments because the pattern it describes is of nine commandments being violated in nine books; Freedman argues that the remaining commandment, against covetousness, is implicitly broken in the perpetration of the other nine offences.) Furthermore, Freedman believes this pattern indicates the presence of a "Master Editor" who arranged these stories in this order so that readers would be discouraged from emulating Israel's rebelliousness. Freedman, a Professor of Hebrew Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and General Editor of the Anchor Bible series, backs up his ingenious and controversial claims with close textual readings and informs them with deep knowledge of the biblical texts. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of The Nine Commandments : Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible:
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracyby Thomas FrankISBN 0385495048 (0-385-49504-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'Book summary:After nearly a decade of bull markets, Americans have come to equate free markets with democracy. Never one for mincing words, social critic Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool, challenges this myth. With his acerbic wit and contempt for sophistry, he declares the New Economy a fraud. Frank scours business literature, management theory, and marketing and advertising to expose the elaborate fantasies that have inoculated business against opposition. This public relations campaign joins an almost mystical belief in markets, a contempt for government in any form, and an "ecstatic" confusion of markets with democracy. Frank traces the roots of this movement from the 1920s, and sees its culmination in market populism as a fusion of the rebellious '60s with the greedy '80s. The overarching irony is the swapping of roles--suddenly Wall Street is no longer full of stodgy moneygrubbers, but cool entrepreneurs "leaping on their trampolines, typing out a few last lines on the laptop before paragliding, riding their bicycles to work, listening to Steppenwolf while they traded." Meanwhile, "Americans traded their long tradition of electoral democracy for the democracy of the supermarket, where all brands are created equal and endowed by their creators with all sorts of extremeness and diversity." Frank's close reading of the salesmen of market populism nails such financial gurus as George Gilder, Joseph Nocera, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas Friedman. Their writings, he contends, have served to make "the world safe for billionaires" by winning the cultural and political battle--legitimizing the corporate culture and its demands for privatization, deregulation, and non-interference. Frank's incisive prose verges on brilliant at times, though his yen for repetition can be exasperating. In either case, his boisterous reminder that markets are fundamentally not democracies is worth repeating as the level of wealth polarization in America reaches heights not seen since the 1920s. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Other Creations: Rediscovering the Spirituality of Animalsby Christopher ManesISBN 0385483651 (0-385-48365-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Creations: Rediscovering the Spirituality of Animals'Book summary:A Saint Bernard, despite its name, is unwelcome in church. Any dog, cat, sheep, bovine, terrapin, or bird clearly faces this same prohibition. Modern religion seems to be for humans only, and the absence of animals in our places of worship is taken for granted. It is as if we have built glorious temples to zoophobia, showing that we prefer to worship not in the richness of creation, but rather in what Yeats called the "artifice of eternity," the purely human spaces of our own making.
Or do we? What would human spirituality be without animals? The Bible portrays Satan as a snake, Jesus as the lamb of God, the Holy Spirit as a dove. Cathedrals team with stone birds, stags, and other animal images. We express our moral ideas through animal stories, whether the Buddhist Jataka, Aesop's fables, or Orwell's Animal Farm. At the prehistoric heart of humanity's attempts to articulate spiritual sentiments, we find the caves of Lascaux and images not of white-robed deities, but of the giant beasts of the Ice Age.
Other Creations details the pervasive effect of animal life on the human psyche, and ties it all together from past to present in a fascinating study which is unlike any yet published. What is most impressive is that as beautiful and evocative as animals are, they do not simply decorate our spiritual lives but form the very texture of human spirituality. Indeed far from being dead in ancient religion they are very much alive today as immensely significant icons of popular culture, as seen in phenomena such as stuffed animals, Disney movies, and sports team mascots. [via]More editions of Other Creations: Rediscovering the Spirituality of Animals:
The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodusby Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergISBN 0385491530 (0-385-49153-0)
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Passion for Creation : Meister Eckhart's Creation Spiritualityby Matthew FoxISBN 0385480474 (0-385-48047-4)
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A Portrait of Jesusby Joseph F. GirzoneISBN 0385484771 (0-385-48477-1)
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Prayers for All Peopleby Mary Ford-GrabowskyISBN 0385476434 (0-385-47643-4)
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Princess Sultana's Daughtersby Jean P. SessonsISBN 038547444X (0-385-47444-X)
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Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biographyby Bruce ChiltonISBN 0385497938 (0-385-49793-8)
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The Rainbow People of Godby Desmond TutuISBN 0385483740 (0-385-48374-0)
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The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolutionby Desmond Tutu, John AllenISBN 0385475462 (0-385-47546-2)
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The Reenchantment of Nature : The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisisby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0385500602 (0-385-50060-2)
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Ruth, a Portrait : The Story of Ruth Bell Grahamby Patricia CornwellISBN 0385488793 (0-385-48879-3)
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Ruth, a Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Grahamby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0385489005 (0-385-48900-5)
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The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away--in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter of medical missionaries, she and her family were caught in a crucible of unspeakable hardship; in addition to pestilence and plague, there was the unstable political and military turmoil surrounding the Nationalist government, the Communists, and the Japanese invaders. These hazardous realities shaped Ruth Bell and her family, a family inured to difficulties, but buoyed up by their deep belief in God's abiding will.
Virtually raised by the Grahams, the author is a repository of Ruth Bell Graham's stories and has seen firsthand the spirit of this courageous woman. Patricia Cornwell not only gives readers a full, rounded, and intimate portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, but also insight into the life of the Graham family and particularly Billy Graham. [via]More editions of Ruth, a Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham:
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Saints and Sinners : The American Catholic Experience Through Stories, Memoirs, Essays and Commentaryby Greg TobinISBN 0385493312 (0-385-49331-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saints and Sinners : The American Catholic Experience Through Stories, Memoirs, Essays and Commentary'Book summary:Saints and Sinners, edited by Greg Tobin, gathers some of the best published stories, memoirs, and essays about Catholicism and American politics, intellectual life, arts, and immigration experiences since World War II. This anthology considers "American Catholicism" to be "a state of mind that recognizes a hierarchy within the universe--whether accepting that hierarchy or rebelling against it. It is a state of mind that draws on common images and language to describe life. It is a place of belief in purpose and history (even more than religion)." And it is embodied here by authors including Dorothy Day, Helen Prejean, William F. Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Mary McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice McDermott, among others. It's hard to imagine a more powerful and insightful group of writers. Even if the organization of this volume, and the criteria by which the book was patched together, seem a bit rag-tag, it is at least a good chance for great reading pleasures such as Doris Kearns Goodwin on "The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Catholic Church" or Maria Augusta Trapp (think The Sound of Music) on the wonder of arriving at Ellis Island. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Templeby Deborah LaytonISBN 0385489846 (0-385-48984-6)
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The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscapeby Phyllis TickleISBN 0385497563 (0-385-49756-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape'Book summary:Phyllis Tickle's exquisite memoir Shaping a Life ranges across a sweeping Southern landscape where we see the events--highly dramatic and tenderly simple--that shaped her esteemed spiritual life. (Tickle, author of The Divine Hours, is a contributing editor on religion for Publisher's Weekly and is one of America's most respected authorities on religion.) When we first meet Tickle, she is a highly imaginative only child growing up in the mountains of eastern Tennessee in the 1930s. By the end of the book we have followed her through the formative days of college, her migration into the Episcopal Church, and into some of her most riveting moments as a young wife and public school teacher in the 1950s.
Tickle has the wisdom of a mature storyteller as well as the humility of a spiritual seeker. She makes meaning out of the smallest details, showing us how a backyard forsythia bush became a sacred hiding place, foreshadowing her lifelong compulsion to find private sanctuaries. We meet her gentle mother, who made a daily ritual out of reading a magazine, manicuring her nails and studying the Bible. This, she concludes, influenced Tickle's adult attraction to the daily psalms. Even the way she sneaked cigarettes in her college dorm offers insight into the nature of her Christian yearnings.
Some of her scenes are utterly gripping, like her near-death experience after having an adverse reaction to an anti-miscarriage drug. "Without a care for anything that had ever been or ever was or ever might be, I lifted toward the light as lithely as if I had been a sparrow upon the courses of the early morning wind." Throughout the memoir we are held in this kind of lilting narration. Like a feminine version of Pat Conroy, Tickle is a strong, descriptive author who thoroughly appreciates how Southern landscapes, family, marriage, and death can shape a character as well as a spirit. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Soul: God, Self and the New Cosmologyby Angela TilbyISBN 0385471254 (0-385-47125-4)
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Ultimate Journeyby Robert A. MonroeISBN 0385472080 (0-385-47208-0)
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An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields ofby Richard ZacksISBN 0385483767 (0-385-48376-7)
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Violence and Compassion : Dialogues on a World Todayby Jean-Claude Carriere, Dalai Lama XIVISBN 0385479603 (0-385-47960-3)
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Violence and Compassion : Dialogues on Life Todayby Dalai Lama, Jean-Claude CarriereISBN 0385501447 (0-385-50144-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Violence and Compassion : Dialogues on Life Today'Book summary:Timeless wisdom on life today from a leading French intellectual and one of the greatest of contemporary spiritual leaders that picks up where The Art of Happiness left off.
French film writer Jean-Claude Carri're had the extraordinary opportunity to sit down for a series of conversations with one of today's most respected and popular spiritual leaders His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Those interviews, which make up Violence and Compassion, give readers a historic chance to listen in as two formidable thinkers discuss issues that are of concern to all.
The discussion covers the various problems that confront world civilization today; including terrorism, the population explosion, environmental dangers, and an escalation in random violence. The Dalai Lama exhibits his characteristic warmth and clarity of thought throughout each of these talks, but what readers will find most valuable is his ability to cut through to the essence of each issue and offer insightful guidance. Carri're, though respectful, never settles for pat answers and consistently asks the down-to-earth questions readers themselves would undoubtedly have asked.
The insightful dialogues contained in Violence and Compassion brings humanity the profound wisdom needed to tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen : Women in Judges and Biblical Israelby Susan AckermanISBN 0385484240 (0-385-48424-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen : Women in Judges and Biblical Israel'Book summary:Some of the Bible's most memorable characters are the women in the book of Judges. From Deborah and Jael to Delilah and Samson's mother, these women led the Israelites in battle, used their wits to defeat the enemy, their wiles to seduce mighty men, and their wisdom to prevail on God. In Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen author Susan Ackerman offers a keen analysis of the main types of women found in Judges and examines other biblical books and ancient Near Eastern literature to demonstrate how these types recur elsewhere. Thorough yet entertaining, her study leaves readers with an understanding of what roles these women played in Israelite society and religion. The first female author to be published in the Anchor Bible Reference Library, Ackerman and her cutting-edge biblical scholarship will be a valuable addition to this venerable series. [via]
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusadeby James RestonISBN 0385495625 (0-385-49562-5)
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Warriors of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusadeby Reston, James, Jr.ISBN 0385495617 (0-385-49561-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warriors of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade'Book summary:Throughout the medieval era, the Holy Land was a fiercely contested battlefield, fought over by huge Muslim and Christian armies, by zealots and assassins. The Third Crusade, spanning five years at the end of the 12th century, was, writes James Reston Jr. in this absorbing account, "Holy War at its most virulent," overseen by two great leaders, the Kurdish sultan Salah ad-Din, or Saladin, and the English king Richard, forevermore known as Lionheart.
Writing with a keen sense of historical detail and drama, Reston traces the complex path by which Saladin and Richard came to face each other on the field of battle. The Crusades, he observes, began "as a measure to redirect the energies of warring European barons from their bloody, local disputes into a 'noble' quest to reclaim the Holy Land from the 'infidel'." Of the five Crusades over 200 years, only the first was successful, to the extent that the Christian armies were able to conquer their objective of Jerusalem. The Third Crusade, as Reston ably shows, was complicated by fierce rivalries among the Christian leaders, by a chain of military disasters that led to the destruction of an invading German army and its emperor, and by the dedication of an opposing Islamic army that shared both a goal and a language.
Saladin, Reston writes, was a brilliant leader and a merciful victor, but capable of costly errors; Richard was extraordinarily skilled at combat, but his lack of resolve cost him many battles, and, ultimately, Jerusalem. Richard returned to Europe, Saladin to Damascus. Neither leader has long to live, and the peace they made would soon be broken. James Reston's splendid book does them both honor while examining a conflict that has never really ended. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Web of Life: A New Understanding of Living Systemsby Fritjof CapraISBN 0385476760 (0-385-47676-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Web of Life: A New Understanding of Living Systems'Book summary:The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, he juxtaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. In The Web of Life, Capra takes yet another giant step, setting forth a new scientific language to describe interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena--the "web of life."
During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have developed new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Life, Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems. Capra's surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted paradigms of mechanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for ecological policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without diminishing the opportunities for future generations.
Now available in paperback for the first time, The Web of Life is cutting-edge science writing in the tradition of James Gleick's Chaos, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Matter, and Ilya Prigogine's Order Out of Chaos.
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What Is God?by Joseph F. Girzone, Leslie W. WuISBN 0385482612 (0-385-48261-2)
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