Maria: 6239 books
Falun Gong
The End of Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The world first took notice of a religious group called Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 of its followers protested before the Chinese Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates events in the wake of the demonstration: Beijing’s condemnation of the group as a Western,...
La Rambla
Barcelona Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Anna flies to Barcelona for a week alone and is immersed in the intoxicating power of the famous Rambla. An encounter with the young Catalan Louis Mustafa in the stunning city gives her more and more clarity about herself. In a fascinating way the author Maria Reinecke succeeds in allowing the reader...
Terrariums - Gardens Under Glass
Designing, Creating, and Planting Modern Indoor Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Dive into the ultimate handcrafted, fun way to bring the natural world indoors! Terrariums are back and better than ever! If you haven't seen this virtually foolproof and no-fuss way to bring nature indoors in the last forty years, you are in for a treat. Whether you live in an apartment, are chained...
A Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart
Crafts, Recipes, Letters, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
An exploration of 365 days of shared experiences between two friends on opposite sides of the country, inspired by their blog, 3191 Miles Apart.
Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes share a love of art and design, handmade pleasures, and a well-lived domestic life. Almost a decade...
by Maria B. O'Hare
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
IS: ‘HOW THIS BOOK WAS MADE’ FOR YOU?
Thank you for considering downloading this e-book – a book within a book, where the book itself explains as it goes along, how it was created so that you can easily create your own. By following the steps within this book, in the end you will be able to...
by Paulo Freire, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, Walter de Oliveira
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, Freire addresses issues not often highlighted in his work, such...
Alle netter ni
Mysterier, innvielsesritualer og den hellige drikken i norrøn mytologi
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Norrøne myter bærer mange elementer i seg fra religionshistorien. Maria Kvilhaug analyserer Eddadiktningen i lys av innvielsesritualer, sjamanisme og Antikkens mysteriekulter.
Kvilhaug har tidligere utgitt flere verker på engelsk, deriblant "The Seed of Yggdrasill" og "The Maiden with the Mead". Dette er hennes første utgivelse på norsk.
Tongues of Fire Devotional
50 Days Celebrating Pentecost
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A fifty-day devotional for Pentecost featuring the words and teachings of faithful men and women of God, both classic and contemporary authors, regarding the miraculous power available through God's gift of the Holy Spirit. Includes excerpts from Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, William Seymour,...
Organ Donation in Japan
A Medical Anthropological Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. The history of organ transplantation in Japan is a unique and...
by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI has proclaimed a year dedicated to St. Paul, beginning on June 29, 2008. Readers can celebrate the "Year of St. Paul" by praying through this unique collection of meditations by renowned biblical scholar and retired archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini. In simple and moving...
The Limits of Forgiveness
Case Studies in the Distortion of a Biblical Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Maria Mayo questions the contemporary idealization of unconditional forgiveness in three areas of contemporary life: so-called Victim-Offender Mediation involving cases of criminal injury, the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa, and the pastoral care of...
by Maria Woodworth-Etter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
As revealed through her extraordinary ministry, Maria Woodworth-Etter was anointed by God to reach the sick and the lost for Christ. With her example, we are given a glimpse of the unparalleled outpouring of the Holy Spirit power to occur in the church during the end times. Drawing upon personal experiences...
Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”;...
by Maria Baghramian
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2004
'It's all relative'. In a world of increasing cultural diversity, it can seem that everything is indeed relative. But should we concede that there is no such thing as right and wrong, and no objective truth? Can we reconcile relativism and pluralism?
Relativism surveys the different varieties...