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Spiritual Activism
A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
"Avi doesn't only talk the talk, or even walk the walk. He writes the instruction manual. This book shows a way, perhaps not the only way but one indispensable way, of being an activist on behalf of the Jewish people. Read it and learn."
—from the Foreword by Alan M. Dershowitz I
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by Tiffany Current
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Living in sin isn't what it used to be. Nowadays, shacking up is almost a rite of passage;couples are living together now more than ever. The question is, are they any good at it? Or will you be any good at it? Whether you're in a live-in relationship or about to be in one, Tiffany Current's How to...
Whitman
The Mystic Poets
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Discover How Whitmans Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own
Whitmans collected poems and prose are not an object or icon to be gazed upon or revered but a transparency we look through to see ourselves with greater clarity, excitement, and meaning. They wake us up to our potential,...
A Thousand Hills
Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous...
Into the House of the Ancestors
Inside the New Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . .
INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS
"Rich . . . fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review
"A master of eyewitness description and of the telling interview,...
1959
The Year Everything Changed
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the...
Lost Causes
The Romantic Attraction of Defeated Yet Unvanquished Men & Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Lost Causes: The Romantic Attraction of Defeated yet Unvanquished Men and Movements, by George and Karen Grant, is a thoughtful look at several causes that captured the hearts of people, survived defeat, and ultimately out-lived their foes.
Jacked
The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood...
by Connie Goddard, Bruce Hatton Boyer, C Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
A fun-filled volume for Chicagoans, visitors, and anyone interested in Chicago, it is a collection of fascinating facts, wonderful quotations, and surprising history about famous biggests, longests, oldests, and firsts"". A useful, entertaining introduction to America's most livable great city.
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Now or Never
Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
In his bestselling It's Getting Ugly Out There, CNN’s Jack Cafferty skewered the liars and losers who were trying to harm the nation and explained why Americans had to take their country back. While the Bush exit from the White House brings a certain sense of "mission accomplished," for...
by Tena Bastian
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Praise for The Horses We Love, The Lessons We Learn
"Tena's real-life stories are modern-day parables for the lessons horses have to teach us: Learn from your mistakes, trust your instincts and, above all, have fun. Some stories made me laugh out loud as I recalled being in similar predicaments....
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Selections from Confessions and Other Essential Writings—Annotated & Explained
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The restless heart and searching mind of this influential early church father can offer spiritual and intellectual companionship for your spiritual journey.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430), theologian, priest, and bishop, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity....
Sri Sarada Devi, The Holy Mother
Her Teachings and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
An inspiring message for all humanity from one of
India’s most beloved spiritual teachers
If Sri Ramakrishna was a leaping flame of spiritual realization, Holy Mother was a steady glowing fire of God-consciousness. To the Master, Sri Ramakrishna, she was the goddess of wisdom in human form....
Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Translated by
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Ramakrishna experienced the truth of all religions, inspiring seekers of
every creed. Now his “gospel” is made accessible to all readers.
Ramakrishna is India’s greatest example of God-consciousness and mystical ecstasy in recent history. He became known to the world not merely as a saint...