Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (58 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Harold B. Lee, eleventh President of the Church and an Apostle for over three decades, bore humble witness from a full heart "that God lives, that Jesus is the Redeemer of the world." With conviction born of years of service he said, "My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell." The journey home to our Father in Heaven was a central focus of ...

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Decoding Your Dreams Part Three: Dream Interpretation Books (What Does Your Dreams Mean Book 3) by Tella Olayeri (8 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

God has never ceased using dream and visions to guide, instruct, and warn us. We pray but God answer us through dreams. We hear the word of the Lord through dreams. Dreams are the most common way God speaks with us. Unlike the early Christians, today's believers often treat dreams, like junk mail. This is wrong, This book bridges the gap. It will introduce you to how God speaks through dream and visions. This book is a hope builder; a Christian reference book for interpreting dreams. It will give you hope to learn and hear God's ...

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The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 27) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the ...

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Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 30) by Leonard J. Greenspoon Price verified 8 hours ago

Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the ...

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Who Is A Jew?: Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 25) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?" This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide ...

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Jātaka Tales: Volume 3: Folk Tales of the Buddha's Previous Lives (Jataka Tales) by Eric Van Horn (18 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The J?taka Tales are the Buddhist equivalent of Aesop's Fables. They are morality stories. In the Buddhist cultures of that time, these were the stories that children grew up hearing. They were the popular entertainment of their time. Families would gather together in the evening after the day's work was done and share these tales. And it is from these stories that people learned about the standards of conduct for followers of the Buddha. Like Aesop's Fables, the main characters in these stories can be a king, a merchant, a ...

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Quranic Wisdom by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (85 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

According to the Quran, a person's life has been divided into two phases: the pre-death period and the post-death period. The present life is only temporary and is meant as a test. Depending upon our performance in this test, we shall be judged in the eternal life after death. The Quran aims to make one aware of this reality and help one lead one's life in this world in such a way that one is rewarded with Paradise in the life Hereafter.

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Unknown (The Forsaken Book 1) by Phil Price (Next Chapter) (556 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

It happens every year. A select few disappear, never to return. From The Falkland Islands to the Himalayas, Puerto Rico to England - people are vanishing without trace or explanation. A young man who's lost everything stumbles across an ancient secret. Can he unlock the mystery? Will he find those who need him? ... can he escape the Unknown? Praise from readers: "Phenomenal." - Rachel Granoff, Amazon review "Excellent storytelling." - Anne-Marie Chamberlain, Amazon review

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Missing Bessie (The Bessie Series Book 1) by Jody Overend (Next Chapter) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

It's the summer of 1972 and Bessie has just turned fifteen in Ravenspond, Canada. She is young, curious and restless. Having just broken up with her boyfriend Jason, she decides to hitchhike to Vancouver with her best pal, Ash, and catch her hero Chris Lisacker in concert. But instead of ending up on the West Coast, Bessie and Ash find themselves in Heaven, with no idea how they got there. With the help of the Hawaiian-shirted Angel, Mel, Bessie gradually recovers her memories. But when her fate is about to be revealed, does she ...

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The Dividing: The Adamic Trilogy: Book 1 by Devin Downing (1,132 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Brandon Sanderson meets The Hunger Games in this dystopian fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by biblical theology, The Dividing will pull you into a world of magic, monsters, and mystery! Adamic is the language of the Gods. When spoken, it has the power to create worlds, to raise the dead, to make man as God. Fortunately, no one has spoken it in thousands of years. The only remnants are the written spells. The people of Cavernum depend on these spells. They're etched into the city walls, fending off the feeders -- deadly ...

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Teaching, No Greater Call by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (69 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Part A: Your Call to Teach -- The Importance of Gospel Teaching in God's Plan Part A: Your Call to Teach -- Prepare Yourself Spiritually Part A: Your Call to Teach -- Improve upon Your Talents Part B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching -- Love Those You Teach Part B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching -- Teach by the Spirit Part B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching -- Teach the Doctrine Part B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching -- Invite Diligent Learning Part B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching -- Create a Learning ...

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Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, ... by Frank F. Ellinwood (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Winter's Captive (The Georgia Series Book 1) by June V. Bourgo (Next Chapter) (304 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Recently separated from her cheating husband and unaware of a budding pregnancy, Georgia Charles is on her way to Yukon to visit a childhood friend. After she's attacked by unknown men, Georgia's trip becomes a fight for survival. Escaping to the wild, she seeks shelter in an abandoned cabin. With no survival skills and an impending childbirth, Georgia has to face the harsh elements of British Columbia's Last Frontier - and her inner demons - in order to survive. As adversity and unrelenting conditions test her character and ...

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Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era by Zeev Maoz (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused primarily on the effects of religion on domestic and international conflict. Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics offers a comprehensive evaluation of the role of religion in international relations, broadening the scope of investigation to such topics as the relationship between religion and cooperation, ...

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Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship Book 5) by Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional ...

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Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West ... by Edward Y. J. Chung (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong ?) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and ...

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Eco-Theology by Celia Deane-Drummond (Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Concern for the environment has developed and intensified over the last few decades to the point where it now dominates much of our contemporary political landscape and culture. The rise of religious environmentalism in particular adds its own distinctive voice to the debate, for it seeks to trace both the malaise and a potential solution to environmental understanding. In Eco-Theology, Celia Deane-Drummond offers a comprehensive resource book for this burgeoning field of enquiry that highlights and seeks to evaluate the merits or ...

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Moonlight, Murder, and Small Town Secrets: A Christian Cozy Mystery (A Katy Cross Cozy Mystery Book 1) by KC Hart (433 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Katy Cross is more than Skeeterville's favorite home health nurse; she's also a Sunday school teacher and the lead guitarist for The Moonlighters, a local bluegrass band. But when she discovers a body during the mic check at the annual Peanut Patch Festival, she becomes an accidental sleuth as well. In Skeeterville, sweet tea and gossip are staples, so when news gets out that a community member has been murdered, everyone wants to talk to Katy about the tragedy. She does her best to separate truth from rumor, anxious to protect the ...

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The Secrets of Revelation: Now in your hands by Sekhar Reddy Vasa (www.FaithScope.com) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Dear readers! God had created Adam and had installed him as the guardian of the Garden of Eden, and from his side bone, he had created the woman. Though Adam was not aware of the fruit of a tree that was pertinent to the destruction of humans, which was existed in the garden itself, God himself had informed Adam that the destruction of man would take place for sure through the eating of that fruit. But Adam and Eve, both were subjected to the preaching of the serpent, they had consumed that forbidden fruit and had received death and ...

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The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated] by Thomas Watson (Aneko Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

The sermon on the mount is full of sweet variety. It is a piece of spiritual needlework that is worked throughout with various colors. This is both useful and pleasant. In this portion of Holy Scripture, you have a synopsis of the Christian religion. You have the Bible summarized. There is a garden of delight in this sermon. It is set with special growths where you may pick those flowers that will enrich the hidden man of your heart. In this sermon, you find the golden key that will open the gate of Paradise. It contains the channel ...

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Prayers that Shake Heaven and Earth: Prayer Retreat To Possess Your Year 2023 (Prayer for New Year 2022) by Prayer M. Madueke (Prayer Publications) (90 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Dangerous Prayers That Bring Heaven And Earth At Your Disposal. Are you suffering from setbacks in your business, health, marriage, or personal relationships? Are you under the oppression of the enemy? Are you a victim of near-to-success syndrome? Is your family member, friends and your loved ones passing through sickness or the oppression of the Devil and his principalities? It does not matter to God what your problem is. What is important to Him is whether you're ready to turn all the burden over to Him. Prayers that Shake ...

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Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615 (New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800) by João Vicente Melo (Palgrave Macmillan) Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. This 35-year period includes the launch of the first Jesuit mission to Akbar's court in 1580 and the preparation of the royal embassy led by Sir Thomas Roe to negotiate the concession of trading privileges to the EIC, and encompasses not only the extension of the conflict between the ...

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When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species by Rafael Rachel Neis (University of California Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book investigates rabbinic treatises relating to animals, humans, and other life-forms. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late ancient Palestinian rabbis and other thinkers in the Roman Empire, Rafael Rachel Neis shows how rabbis blurred the lines between humans and other beings, even as they were intent on ...

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DOLLHOUSE: A Supernatural Horror (Dark Carousel Book 1) by Anya Allyn (1,031 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

"Something happens to you when you read this. You will be changed. It's. Just. That. Amazing." -Nancy Holder, NYTimes Best-selling Author of BUFFY: THE MAKING OF A SLAYER ~ The DARK CAROUSEL series is a heart-stopping saga, a mix of the chill of American Horror Story and the fantastical elements of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. A dark presence is collecting girls, deep in the forest. Two girls have vanished, and now a third. Cassie and her friends desperately search the forest for their friend, who went missing on a ...

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The Ark of Humanity by Scott Toney (Breakwater Harbor Books) (56 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

God flooded the earth to annihilate humanity's sins. What if that sinful race didn't die when floodwaters covered them but instead adapted to breathe water? Under the depths of the ocean one boy has raised himself, until the day when he meets a dark-skinned man with news that will change the lives of his civilization forever. Now he must save his people from another empire of water dwellers bent on enslaving the oceans and torturing his peaceful realm. Yet another question is posed as he learns that his people are descended from ...

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Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times by Gordon C. Chang (Palgrave Macmillan) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. This book establishes these "idea systems" as an academic concept. Through three intense episodes of manipulation and mayhem connected to idea systems -- Europe's witch hunts, the Mao Zedong-era "revolutions," and the early campaign of the U.S. War on Terror -- this book charts the cognitive and informational matrices that seize control of people's mentalities and behaviors across societies. ...

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When Totems Fall: A JPAC Group Thriller (Zeb Dalton Book 1) by Wayne C Stewart (Amazon Digital Services) (288 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

US nuclear forces lay sidelined by cyber attack as China moves unopposed on the Greater Seattle area. An American Terror Wars Vet stands horrified. It's his rogue code. And his hometown. Seattle. Retired Army Signal Corpsman Zeb Dalton made a deal with the US Military: apply his gift of calculating battlefield potentialities to their efforts in the Middle East and then simply be left alone. But now, his off-duty coding experiments while stationed in Iraq have made that impossible. Told they were deep classified, the next gen ...

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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines) by Divya Cherian (University of California Press) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of ...

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New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison (The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review Book 17) by Steven J. Ross (Purdue University Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi leadership unleashed an unprecedented orchestrated wave of violence against Jews in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland, supposedly in response to the assassination of a Nazi diplomat by a young Polish Jew, but in reality to force the remaining Jews out of the country. During the pogrom, Stormtroopers, Hitler Youth, and ordinary Germans murdered more than a hundred Jews (many more committed suicide) and ransacked and destroyed thousands of Jewish institutions, synagogues, shops, and homes. Thirty ...

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HeavenWord Daily by David Servant (Ethnos Press) (209 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

HeavenWord Daily guides you through the New Testament following a unique reading plan that will make your daily devotions even more interesting and enriching. HeavenWord Daily is not a fluff devotional, but rather a "motivational do-votional," full of insight and inspiration.

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The Life of the Buddha (The Buddha's Path) by Eric Van Horn (Smashwords) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In the centuries that followed the Buddha's death there were many fanciful and mythologized accounts of his life. Unfortunately these stories gained traction, and even today movies and television programs are often based on these accounts. The Life of the Buddha goes back to the original sources in order to reconstruct his life from the oldest material. This helps answer important questions about the nature of the Buddha and his quest for Awakening. Despite some assertions that there is little biographical information about the life ...

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Sermons on Gospel Themes: Addressing the Bible's Dual Themes of Justification and Sanctification (Annotated and Illustrated) by Charles G. Finney (Aneko Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

All Christians and sinners should understand that the whole plan is complete. They should understand that the whole of Christ - His character, His work, His atoning death, and His ever-living intercession - belongs to each and every person and simply needs to be accepted. There is a full ocean of it. There it is. You can just as well take it as not. You are invited and urged to drink, and to drink abundantly! This ocean supplies all your need. As the Scriptures say, He is of God made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and ...

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Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) by Jonathan N. Lipman (University of Washington Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers ...

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Life in Christ Vol 6: Lessons from Our Lord's Miracles and Parables [Updated and Annotated] by Charles H. Spurgeon (Aneko Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

"Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you." (Mark 5:19) Original title: Miracles and Parables of Our Lord. Volume 6 A deep, inspiring, and often challenging study of the Lord Jesus Christ's miracles and parables. Men who were led by the hand or groped their way along the wall to reach Jesus were touched by his finger and went home without a guide, rejoicing that Jesus Christ had opened their eyes. Jesus is still able to perform such miracles. And, with the ...

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The Double-Edged Choice: A Futuristic Fantasy (Heirs of Novaun Book 1) by Katherine Padilla (Novaun Novels) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Now ruled by nobles exiled from their home planet Diron, the primitive planet Earth has, in a mere twenty years, risen to heights of technology and power unforeseen by the civilized galaxy. As Earth seeks to expand its dominions, Novaunian agent Daniel Zarek discovers a secret tie between Earth and Novaun. The Earthons kill Daniel to keep him from revealing this terrible knowledge to his people and capture his son Myke. The Earthons send Myke to serve as a cadet aboard a Star Force base ship stationed on the perimeter of the galaxy ...

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Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Matthew [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary by J. C. Ryle (Aneko Press) Price verified 6 hours ago

Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. - Matthew 7:24 Wisdom, encouragement, and exhortation is contained in these pages. Not because of the author's brilliance, but because of the words of truth contained in the gospel of Matthew. And just as the apostle Matthew didn't draw any attention to himself, so also J. C. Ryle clearly and wonderfully directs his words and our thoughts towards the inspired words of scripture. If we truly love God, we ...

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Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (156 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Letters of Helena Roerich II: 1935-1939 by Helena Roerich (Agni Yoga Society) (19 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Helena Roerich was an unusually gifted woman, author of many books. Her collected Letters, in two volumes, are an example of the wisdom, spiritual insight, and simple advice she shared with a multitude of correspondents -- friends, foes, and co-workers alike.

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A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American by Kathleen Sprows Cummings (The University of North Carolina Press) (24 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally about holiness, it is never only about holiness, reveals Kathleen Sprows Cummings in this panoramic, passionate chronicle of American sanctity. Catholics had another reason for petitioning the Vatican to acknowledge an American holy hero. A ...

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Neighbours: A Contemporary Christian Romance: Series 1 by Tracy Krauss (Fictitious Ink Publishing) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 11 minutes ago

Lester Tibbett, a former rodeo cowboy from Southern Alberta, moves to the big city for work - and to look out for his wilful teenage sister. In the process, he meets up with a cast of quirky characters, most living right in his own apartment building. With romance, intrigue, humor, and a touch of the unexpected, the twists and turns just keep coming as the first 'season' of NEIGHBOURS unfolds. Note: It's a contemporary Christian romance from best-selling and award-winning author Tracy Krauss. "Fiction on the edge without crossing the ...

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DIVIDED: The Days of Peleg (Bearer of The Seed Book 2) by V. Morrow (Karasmatic Consulting) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Bow to the Image! Has the whole world gone mad? Or is there something wrong with a statue that speaks and the giant man who makes the people worship it? Peleg is virtually alone in his misgivings. Meanwhile, all the rest of Shinar follows the mighty hunter Nimrod in building a Tower to reach the gates of heaven and even the Ancient One Himself. Could the mysterious encounters and cruel whispers heard since the Tower Temple's construction lead to something good? To Peleg the matter is simple, find someone who remembers the truth, ...

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Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues: Medicine, Magic and Divination by Ulrike Steinert (De Gruyter) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and ...

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Women in the Ancient Near East by Marten Stol (10 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol's book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

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Heaven's Rain: Noah's Family and Their Journey of Faith by Jonathan Macnab (Story Reborn) (276 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Take a leap of faith into a world unlike any you have ever known, one where mankind still remembers its foundations and all the earth is clothed in perpetual springtime. Here, angels and demons wage war for the souls of mankind, and man lives for hundreds of years, forever growing either in righteousness or in evil. In these days, there are few who acknowledge where they have come from, few who keep hold of the one true God who wrought the world. For those who do, the blinders are ripped off and they see the truth: a world at war. ...

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The Moonlight Pegasus: A Standalone High Fantasy Novel by C. S. Johnson (32 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Sapphira is a desert world with little plant life, where the people live in the shadows of gray sunlight, sickened by the Dark Plague. To cure the people, the Guardian of Dreams sends the Spirit of Truth to bring the light back into his darkened world. In the form of Pegasus, he enters the world through the pure, innocent dreams of Selene, the reluctant princess and heir-apparent to the throne. Now, with her brother Dorian as king, another rebellion is stirring. All eyes are turning to Selene to bring peace through an arranged ...

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Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by C. K. Martin Chung (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection of German responses to the Nazi past, their interaction with the victims' responses, such as those from Jewish individuals, and their correspondence with biblical repentance. In demonstrating the victims' influence on German ...

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Inner Alchemy: The Path of Mastery, Updated and Revised Edition by Zulma Reyo (74 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

For those who want to deepen their understanding of the world we live in, for those who want to see change happen and know that this begins with themselves, Inner Alchemy offers a path to inner peace, meaning, purpose, joy and wisdom. In this practical guide to consciousness, you will discover key concepts relating to energetic work, such as chakras and the seven rays, as well as dimensional and astral realms, and karma, gratitude and dreams. Over 45 visualisations, meditations and exercises, many beautifully illustrated, will ...

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Slumbering: An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series (The Starlight Chronicles Book 1) by C. S. Johnson (324 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

A narcissistic teenager who doesn't believe in destiny. A city under supernatural attack. An adventure that unfortunately changes everything. Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger leads a charmed life. He's got the grades for the top of the class, the abilities of a star athlete and Tetris player, and the charisma to get away with anything. Everything seems to be going along perfectly, including his plans to ask out Gwen Kessler, as he enters into tenth grade at Apollo Central High School. Everything, that is, until a meteor crashes ...

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Peter Puckett & The Amulet of Eternity by R.C. VanLandingham (61 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

"I love it. I never knew what was next so I wanted to keep on reading it. I love the characters, too." Morgan, 11 years old. "I like it because it's exciting." Madison, 8 years old. "I liked it because I liked how they traveled to different places." Jack, 8 years old. When Peter Puckett prays for help, God sends him on an exciting quest through the fantastic world of EVERMORE! With the aid of giants, dwarfs, elves and his own guardian angel, Peter must face a horde of monsters, swim past the Leviathan and survive the Realm of ...

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Faith by Chuck Smith (The Word For Today) (392 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Faith is the key to a successful Christian life. Faith takes you by the hand and walks you from one level of spiritual maturity to another. That is why the Word of God says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6). But what is faith? Where does it come from and how does it work? What does it accomplish? Why does it please God? In this book, Pastor Chuck Smith explores these questions and a host of others as they relate to the issue of faith. Using examples from God's Word, as well as illustrations ...

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The Spirit Chaser (Spirit Chasers Book 1) by Kat Mayor (CreateSpace) (476 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Some places are too evil. Some places should be left alone. Austin Cole has it made. Star of the hit television show Spirit Chaser Investigations, he has become the world's most famous paranormal investigator. Although hard work, a talented investigation team, and favorable genetics have something to do with it, it's his lack of fear and willingness to take risks no one else will that make Spirit Chaser Investigations cable's number-one show. When a ghost-hunt-gone-wrong seriously injures his best friend and lead psychic, Austin is ...

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Uncommon Character: Stories of Ordinary Men and Women Who Have Done the Extraordinary - 3rd Edition by Douglas Feavel (Aneko Press) (771 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A captivating non-fiction anthology filled with heroic profiles, epic tales, and timeless parables. You'll meet valiant personalities who've challenged and changed the world in remarkable ways. Their unforgettable stories are religious and secular, historical and current, unknown and familiar, foreign and domestic. Prepare to encounter priests, farmers, pilots, immigrants, missionaries, engineers, martyrs, businessmen, lawyers, pioneers, presidents, soldiers, writers, and scientists - their dynamic legacies are destined to become ...

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RELEASED: WILL YOU BELIEVE TO THE POINT THAT IT CHANGES YOUR STORY? by Melissa Lloyd (23 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Released is a fresh perspective on the familiar Old Testament story of a young woman from the wrong town who was raised to believe in the wrong god. Then God housed his extravagant passion within the frail heart of an embittered Jewish woman who inadvertently carried His invitation right up to this Moabite girl's door. Attracted to the ember of hope that refused to die within Naomi, Ruth believed to the point that it radically changed her story and pushed past every obstacle that threatened to turn her around. Readers will quickly ...

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A Practical Guidebook for Lucid Dreaming and Out-of-Body Travel by Michael Raduga (76 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The practice of phase states of the mind is the hottest and most promising pursuit of the modern age. Unlike in the past, the notions of "out-of-body experience" and "astral projection" have already lost their mystical halo, and their real basis has been studied in minute detail from the most non-nonsense approach. Now, this phenomenon is accessible to everyone, regardless of their worldview. It is now known how to easily master it and apply it effectively. This guidebook is the result of ten years of extremely active personal ...

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Evening by Evening [Annotated, Updated]: Daily Devotional Readings by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Aneko Press) (454 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Evening by Evening Charles H. Spurgeon's devotionals Morning by Morning and Evening by Evening have inspired, encouraged, and challenged Christians for generations. Spurgeon, with his masterful hand, carefully selected his text from throughout the Bible and covered a broad range of topics, in order to present a well-balanced and fruitful daily devotional for readers both young and old. Now updated into more-modern English for today's readers, and again separated into two volumes as originally published, with morning devotionals in ...

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Living Water: The Power of the Holy Spirit in Your Life by Chuck Smith (620 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Jesus promised His bewildered disciples that He would not leave them as orphans, but that He would pray to the Father who would send them another Comforter who would come alongside to help them and would abide with them forever. Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would teach them all things and bring to their remembrance all the things that He had commanded them. In his warm personal style, Pastor Chuck Smith, a bible teacher for over 50 years, paints an intimate picture of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. He ...

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The Triple Path by James Kenneth Rogers (The Church of the West) (45 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

There's a crisis of meaning in the modern world. How many of us yearn for something, without knowing exactly what? We've lost something, straying in a world of distractions. Society's increasing secularization has stripped the sacred from our lives and culture, jettisoning much that is bright and good in exchange for dark, dull substitutes. Every human society has had religion-has needed religion. It is foolish to think ours is any different. But at the same time, the ancient cosmologies and doctrines of the world's major religions ...

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A Life for a Life: A Mystery Novel (Appalachian Mountain Mysteries Book 1) by Lynda McDaniel (Lynda McDaniel Books) (2,013 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

"Five Stars! The tale immediately drew me in, into the town, into the intriguing mystery, and into the people. A real treat to read." ~Deb, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 100 Reviewer Laurel Falls, N.C., 1985: I was done with being a crime reporter in Washington, D.C., tired of all the violence. So I packed up and moved to the small town of Laurel Falls, N.C. It looked like heaven to me -- ancient mountains brimming with tall trees and songbirds, peace and quiet. Until I found the body. The sheriff took the easy path, calling it a ...

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Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today (Updated Edition) by Charles H. Spurgeon (Aneko Press) (574 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. - Joshua 21:45 Faith's Checkbook is a one-year devotional meant to encourage you to take God at His Word - to take hold of God's promises by faith. Each day you will be presented with a specific promise from the Bible, along with accompanying exhortation by Charles Spurgeon. This is your "spiritual checkbook," if you will. God's bank account of provision is ample, and it cannot be overdrawn. Every situation you might face is ...

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Out of a Dream (Sandy Cove Series Book 1) by Rosemary Hines (6,057 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

New to Sandy Cove? Start here for free! Michelle Baron should be reveling in her new life in Sandy Cove, Oregon. From the outside, it all looks idyllic. A newlywed settling into a quaint coastal town, her husband establishing himself as a junior partner in a law firm -- what more could she want? But a series of disturbing nightmares haunts Michelle. Her quest to understand these dreams leads her to the New World bookstore, where she begins a spiritual journey that will challenge her Christian heritage as well as her marriage. "Out ...

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Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke: A Commentary (Updated Edition) by J. C. Ryle (Aneko Press) (408 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

It seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught. - Luke 1:3-4 Wisdom, encouragement, and exhortation is contained in these pages. Not because of the author's brilliance, but because of the words of truth contained in the gospel of Luke. And just as the Apostle Luke didn't draw any attention to himself, so also J. C. Ryle clearly and ...

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Going to Pentecost: An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism (Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Book 7) by Annelin Eriksen (Berghahn Books) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world - in particular the emergence of "non-territorial" religion (which is no longer specific to places or ...

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Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East) by Konrad Hirschler (Routledge) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe ...

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Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated] by J. C. Ryle (Aneko Press) (502 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A thorough study of sin, salvation by faith, and the Christian's journey of sanctification. He who wants a correct understanding of holiness must first begin by examining the vast and solemn subject of sin. He must dig down very deep if he wants to build high. Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption. Practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not given adequate attention by modern Christians. The unsaved sometimes rightly complain that Christians are not as kind and ...

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Kainnan The Prize: An epic Christian urban fantasy set between two worlds (The Kainnan Series Book 1) by Belinda Stott (74 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

KAINNAN - A WORLD WITH A CURIOUS AND POWERFUL CONNECTION TO EARTH... When a group of strangers win a competition they never entered, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Expecting a tropical holiday, instead Noah, Katerina, Alice and Caleb find themselves in the dangerous world of Kainnan. To return home is far from simple - they will need to stop the four rebellious children of Kainnan's ruler, King Wilhelm. The catch - not only will they encounter constant danger, they will need to face their own personal demons back on ...

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The Place of Devotion: Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism (South Asia Across the Disciplines Book 23) by Sukanya Sarbadhikary (University of California Press) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hindu devotional traditions have long been recognized for their sacred geographies as well as the sensuous aspects of their devotees' experiences. Largely overlooked, however, are the subtle links between these religious expressions. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted among worshippers in Bengal's Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, this book ...

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When the Wood Is Dry: An Edgy Catholic Thriller by Joseph Cillo Jr. (Infornuity Publishing, LLC) (140 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

"Sometimes we must suffer if we are to save souls." Jesus' words echo in a recurring dream to Lali Russo, a seventeen-year-old Catholic school girl. Lali wakes and asks, "Why that dream again?" Haunted by her ominous dream, Lali prays the rosary at an abortion clinic, as she would on any other day. Glancing up, a distraught, pregnant drug-addict approaches the clinic. Lali counsels the girl against having an abortion and walks her home where she meets the girl's boyfriend, a notorious gang leader. Ralo glares at her, as sharpens ...

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Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India (South Asia Across the Disciplines) by Elaine M. Fisher (University of California Press) (30 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term "sectarianism," Fisher's work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in ...

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Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia by Shankar Nair (University of California Press) (24 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha -- an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the ...

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Islamic Thought In The Quran by Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei (BookRix) (47 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

It is now more than forty years since these sermons were delivered, but throughout all these years, this great valuable work "The General pattern of Islamic thought In the Quran" remained unpublished! When the young Hojjat-al-Islam sayyed Ali Khamenei began these series of sermons at the half-built Imam Hassan Mojtaba Mosque in Mash-had for 28 sessions in the month of Ramadan 1394 (1975), the city of Mash-had acquired a different atmosphere: The sessions were held following noon-prayers in the heat of summertime when people usually ...

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MAYA HOPE: A Medical Thriller (A Dr. Nicklaus Hart Novel Book 1) by Timothy Browne (Agape Orthopaedics) (605 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A doctor stumbling through life. A North Korean bioterrorist plot. The two collide in an unforgettable tale. Dr. Nicklaus Hart, a gifted trauma surgeon, searches for meaning in his life. His self-reliant spirit is broken with the death of his missionary best friend, found sacrificed at the base of a Maya Temple. Going to Guatemala to fill the shoes of his friend at the mission hospital, he discovers God's redemption and peace in the smiles of the children he cares for. But his own life is in danger as he and his team stumble onto a ...

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Supermundane by Agni Yoga Society (31 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Supermundane is the fourteenth book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines, meditation, or asceticism -- but of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity ...

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Decoding The QURAN (A Unique Sufi Interpretation) by Ahmed Hulusi (193 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

In this incredible age of increasing awareness and the rise of consciousness, where the intellect is craving to find the answers to the place and purpose of one's existence, we often find ourselves at an intersection of ancient texts and modern science, falling into an array of dichotomies. Decoding the Quran is a unique interpretation, which shows the integration of the two ways, highlighting non-duality of existence, and more importantly how the human being is an integral factor of this Oneness. It employs a holistic approach to ...

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The Power of Prayer (Channeling Brain Waves Through Dhikr) by Ahmed Hulusi (72 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

"Prayer is the weapon of a believer." - Muhammad (saw) Prayer is the act of actualizing one's wants through the divine powers present within. There is of course a scientific explanation to this act. Essentially prayer is 'guided brain waves.' Just as the dimension of knowledge transforms into energy and the quantum field to form the universe, the wants and desires of consciousness emanate from the dimension of knowledge to reveal themselves as the wants and desires of man and become actualized through the densification of guided ...

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New Testament Study Guide by Chuck Smith (The Word For Today) (852 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Designed for the student of God's Word, Pastor Chuck has written a verse-by-verse overview of the New Testament. As you place this book next to your Bible, you'll discover key words that define Greek words commonly used, biblical maps, charts, diagrams and Calvary Chapel distinctives to help you visualize the text. Also included are introductions and study questions for each book of the New Testament.

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Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth by Ann W. Astell (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s Consolation of Philosophy -- texts closely associated with each other in the minds of medieval readers and writers -- and demonstrates that these two works served as a conduit for the tradition of heroic poetry from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. As she traces the complex influences ...

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Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours by Sharon Farmer (Cornell University Press) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Sharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communities -- the town of Tours, the basilica of Saint-Martin there, and the abbey of Marmoutier nearby -- all defined themselves through the cult of Saint Martin. She demonstrates how in the early Middle Ages the bishops of Tours used the cult of Martin, their fourthcentury predecessor, to shape an idealized image of Tours as Martin's town. As the heirs to Martin's see, the bishops projected themselves as the rightful leaders of the community. However, in the late ...

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Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Montana Rising: Wordplay by LeeAnn Bonds (Whithersoever Books) (64 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Montana Rising is a mild-mannered--okay not mild, but at least well-mannered--teacher by day, avid Scrabble player by early evening, and fast asleep by 10pm. Unless she's up writing a fantastical story using all the words played in a particularly good Scrabble game. But after her granddaughter brings home a frightened friend, Monti's story starts reading more like a crime drama than a romantic comedy. How will she write her Scrabble story to a satisfying "Happily Ever After" conclusion? And how can she get her sweet life back when ...

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