Armstrong: 1158 books

**She's watching you, but who's watching her? ** Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen bird-watcher, she can't help spying on her neighbors.  Until one day Lily sees something suspicious...

From the bestselling author of Sienfeldia, a behind-the-scenes history of the Mickey Mouse Club that is a treat for anyone who grew up with Walt Disney's television classic. Full of nostalgia, this book gives you the never before told story of how The Mickey Mouse Club paved the way for all...

The team-spirit sign by the side of the highway seems a good omen to loner Morgan Walsh, as he drives to what could be the most important visit of his life—a chance to join the North American Pack. Then he wakes naked in the woods, surrounded by wolf tracks and a ring of suspicious cops. The situation...

This full-length anthology of novellas and short fiction complements the Darkest Powers trilogy, adding new dimensions to the characters and their stories. Dangerous returns to Derek and Simon’s past and tells how they came to be at Lyle House. Divided continues Derek’s story,...

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Mexico is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gather all your senses and dive head-first into the ancient Maya world at exquisite...

Director Paul Bartel enjoyed poking holes in the expectations of audiences and critics with amusing films about murder, greed and transgressive sex—among them Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul (1982) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989). He believed that strange stories...

The Most-Advanced Max Factor Biography Available. This book is your ultimate resource for Max Factor. Here you will find the most up-to-date 87 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Max...

You will enjoy reading this book about the exciting adventures my husband, Cliff and I had living in an outfit car on the AT&SF railroad tracks. We lived a rough life being moved from one job site to another. We traveled from the coast, valleys, desert and the mountains of south California. The...

**The debut novel from the creator of HBO's Succession, premiering in Summer 2018. ** It’s 1994, and war rages on in Yugoslavia—Sarajevo is under siege, and Bosnia’s different ethnic groups are battling for control of the newly independent country. Hundreds of miles away, in a...

Few know the story of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish Resistance ... Even fewer know the stories of the children caught in it ... She closed her eyes and listened to the forbidden Chopin nocturne ... its magic hung in the air. It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elz'unia is an indulged teenager who longs for...

Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by never...

A gem of a reference book covering everything you could possibly want to know about Shakespeare between two handsome covers. Entries are quite short and range from "What did Shakespeare look like?", "Shakespeare on Film" and lists of compliments, oathes, lovers' vows and boys and...

Seven kids, Thor's hammer, and a whole lot of Valkyries are the only things standing against the end of the world. When thirteen-year-olds Matt Thorsen and Fen and Laurie Brekke, modern-day descendants of Thor and Loki, discovered they were fated to take the places of the Norse gods in an epic...

《週日泰晤士報》（Sunday Times）暢銷書 一趟數千年西方宗教歷史之旅， 一場對科學宗教和無神論者的答辯 16、17世紀科學興起之後，以基督宗教為中心的西方宗教受到極大的衝擊和挑戰。近期應運而生的無神論者之砲火，更是針對宗教施行的暴力、教條、文字信仰猛烈抨擊，引起廣大民眾的熱烈迴響。但世界級的宗教權威學者阿姆斯壯卻指出，當代盛行的無神論者所抨擊的，往往是宗教的非正統逆流，即那些扭曲其所捍衛傳統的宗教糟粕。這些糟粕本身也是科學現代性出現之後，宗教核心價值失落的結果。 那麼，什麼是信仰傳統最重要的核心呢？透過回溯六千年來宗教歷史的演變與發展，阿姆斯壯帶領讀者返回前現代世界之前，尋找宗教最具價值的神聖、靜默、超越性的傳統。 阿姆斯壯在序文中提到自己其實很能體會無神論者的憤怒，因為她自己也是過來人。她在自傳《螺旋梯》裡講過：她自己也有很多年對宗教避之惟恐不及，早年寫的東西也確實傾向於道金斯等人，可是經過二十年浸淫在世界宗教研究之後，不得不修正自己的想法。這些經驗拓展了她的視野，見到其他宗教的宗教實踐，她兒時狹隘教條式的想法頓時失色。同時，詳加審視證據也讓她對基督宗教的認識改變了，她的體認之一是：為宗教起爭執適得其反，無益於開啟新知，不僅無從認識真正的宗教經驗，也有悖於科學承繼蘇格拉底的理性傳統。 在書中第一部分，她分析了宗教在人類生活扮演的角色，借鑒於前現代人過去怎麼思考神，期盼釐清現代人困擾的一些議題，如：奇蹟、聖經、啟示、創世、信仰、信心這些跟現代人所認知有著極大歧異的信仰關鍵字，藉此指出現代宗教出了什麼問題。 在書中第二部分，她追溯了「近現代之神」的崛起過程，討論這些概念如何顛覆了許多傳統的宗教前提，科學的高度發展更讓科學家主張：我們對神所需要知道的一切，自然都能告訴我們。如此將神化約為科學解釋，讓神的概念變得偶像化，之後進一步變得無法令人信服，或是變得與人類生活疏遠無關，從而也導致人開始對科學產生宗教般的依賴。 但是，人的心靈需求能透過科學得到慰藉嗎？可以透過無神論者的批判找到安歇之地嗎？在這樣一個危險的極化時代中，若無法回信仰的原初價值，現代人的靈魂將無法安生立命。因此，透過爬梳從歷史脈絡，深刻探索了信仰與理性的關係，並檢視了幾個重大價值出現分歧的歷史時間點。 ．從何時起，原本重視透過實踐轉化內心的信仰，變成只執著於聖經的字面意義？ ．近代性興起後，科學如何承襲一神教最為人所詬病不寬容根性，將科學理性視為通往真理的唯一道路？ ．原本在伊甸園與人一起漫步、容易親近的神，如何在17世紀後變得與人類生活無涉？ ．對於宗教的理性化詮釋，如何導致無神論的獨特的現代現象？ 透過這本書，阿姆斯壯為我們這時代作診斷，也試圖重建可以讓現代人感到滿足的現代宗教論述。 名人推薦 周學信　中華福音神學院教會歷史與神學教授 崔國瑜　國立政治大學宗教研究所副教授 郭承天　國立政治大學華人宗教研究中心、國立政治大學政治學系專任教授 各界好評 ◎資料翔實，筆觸熱情。——《金融時報》（Financial...