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How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
"When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives and deepest questions through writing. In seventeen concise thematic chapters that include...
The Art of Conversation Through Serious Illness:Lessons for Caregivers
Lessons for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Every day, thousands of people receive a diagnosis of serious, life-threatening illness, and their families and friends suddenly become caregivers. Despite the best of intentions it is not always easy to communicate well under these circumstances, or find deep empathy for something one has never before...
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror
Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience...
First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth...
Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
"Arguably the most distinctive feature of the early Christian literature," writes Bart Ehrman, "is the degree to which it was forged." The Homilies and Recognitions of Clement; Paul's letters to and from Seneca; Gospels by Peter, Thomas, and Philip; Jesus' correspondence with Abgar, letters by Peter...
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
A History of the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that...
Klansville, U.S.A:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan
The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with the largest Klan...
Saving Nelson Mandela:The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa
The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
When South Africa's apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its overthrow in 1963, most observers feared that he would be sentenced to death. But the support he and his fellow activists in the African National Congress received during his trial not only saved his life, but also enabled...
Qur'an and Woman:Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of...
by Jonathan A. C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Moynihan's Moment:America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism
America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
On November 10, 1975, the General Assembly of United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a form of racism. Afterward, a tall man with long, graying hair, horned-rim glasses, and a bowtie stood to speak. He pronounced his words with the rounded tones of a Harvard academic, but his...
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real...
by Allan H. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached...
Strategy: A History
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's...