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"The World's Greatest Books (Religion and Philosophy)" takes you on an exciting journey across the fields of religion and philosophy. Explore legendary books such as Augustine's "City of God," which provides significant insights into spirituality, and Aristotle's "Ethics," which explores the foundations of moral philosophy. From the calm contemplations of Thomas à Kempis' "Imitation of Christ" to the cerebral depth of Descartes' "Discourse on Method,"...
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Get ready to fall in love, experience heartbreak, and discover the true meaning of identity in this poignant collection of short stories about Jewish teens, including entries by David Levithan, Nova Ren Suma, and more!
A Jewish boy falls in love with a fellow counselor at summer camp. A group of Jewish friends take the trip of a lifetime. A girl meets her new boyfriend's family over Shabbat dinner. Two best friends put their friendship to the test...
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"Useful men are some of the greatest blessings of a people. To have many such is more for a people's happiness than almost anything, unless it be God's own gracious, spiritual presence amongst them; they are precious gifts of heaven."
Certainly one of the most useful men in evangelical history was the man who preached those words, pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards. Commemorating his 300th birthday, general editors John Piper and Justin Taylor...
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Jacques Derrida and other scholars explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift.
In fifteen insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars explore the implications of deconstruction for religion, focusing on two topics: God and forgiveness. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God...
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A new book from Really Woolly® brand by DaySpring that will put a smile on the face of any child. Wake up everyone! It's time to come and play, jump, clap, hop, and sing. Today is a happy day for Really Woolly® friends-little duck, pretty butterfly, singing bluebird, peek-a-boo bunny, lovable lamb.
Playtime fills the day with fun, but look! The day is almost done. Five lambs are romping to and fro-please find lamb six before you go!
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6) Rave-n-Rant
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Serenity finds out the hard way what happens at all night raves...doesn't always stay there.Escaping work, Serenity parties all night at a rave. But the rave turns into a rant when an intimate conversation reveals some frank truths. And when she realizes her friends may not actually even like her--things really come to a head. It's all about love in this all-new adventure.
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Everyone needs a little Serenity--or do they?She's only five feet tall and 98 pounds - but she's one tense bundle of attitude and anger.Serenity's life is a mess on every front. Now she's got one last shot at a fresh start . . . but her new school seems to just be adding new problems.Being the "New Kid" isn't making life any easier. But her friends might have just what she's been searching for - if they don't drive her crazy first.
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Mysterious new friend.Suki stumbles into the hi-tech lair of a mysterious figure who watches the beach buddies from afar. Meanwhile, new romances are blooming under the Orange County sun, and Scott gets a great job as a surf instructor. Chardonnay causes drama with the new girl, but can Suki keep the peace?
9) Stepping Out
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It's deep dish trouble for Serenity.Detention, date-stealing, and an out-of-control driving mishap. It all adds up to some unexpected twists and turns in Serenity's life--leading her to a job delivering pizzas and a desperate plea for deliverance that only God can answer.
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An inspirational anthology that draws on sacred texts to provide essential insight into Islam, one of the world's great religions.
The Wisdom of Muhammad: This compelling examination of the life and sayings of Muhammad offers the modern reader a guide to the history and principles of the world's second largest religion. Covering a diverse range of topics, from marriage and civic charity to the individual's relationship to God and the afterlife, the...
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This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger social and cultural worlds that made these phenomena possible. In doing so, the book helps to explain why blood libel accusations continued to spread in Europe...
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A master translator's beautiful and accessible rendering of the seminal Chinese text
In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting grew. Although...
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Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over the...
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