Why is That in Tradition', Paperback

You shouldn't read this book if: you think Yom Kippur is a kind of fish...you see a menorah and ask 'is that from IKEA?'...you think a minyan is a ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe tradition of the poet warrior endures throughout human history, finding expression in the Bible's King David, the Vikings of Iceland...

DescriptionMusic has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there...

Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in t...

Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of ...

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, wrote such famed works as Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and On Grammatology, has made impo...

DescriptionIn a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this ca...

DescriptionA JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF RURAL ENGLAND Channel 5's beloved Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright brings us a heartwarming love letter to the ...

Reducere. Do you know why the Queen of England used to ride around Nice in a little cart pulled by a donkey? Or why the Apollo Fountain in Place Massena does...

Reducere. Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the Mac...

Reducere. DescriptionDISCOVER THE TRUE CHRISTMAS STORYEven when he was an atheist, Lee Strobel enjoyed the Christmas season-the gift-giving, holiday parties,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeremy GardinerHave you ever wondered why some women cover their heads in church, while men remove their hats? Have you tho...

ONE OF USA TODAY'S "20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS" In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a...

DescriptionIn Natural Theology, William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world....

Reducere. We human beings had no say in existing--we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and t...

Reducere. This book takes readers on a journey to understand what it means to be beautiful. True Beauty is to be felt with all of our senses and incites us t...

Reducere. Esoteric Orders and their Work examines how and why esoteric schools have restricted admission to their secret societies and orders, and shrouded t...

From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on displa...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

"The Werewolf of Ponkert" first appeared in Weird Tales magazine and H. Warner Munn remembers that the idea stemmed from a query of H. P. Lovecraft...

Reducere. A dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman's every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day, in th...

Reducere. Eloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism.--The B...

Reducere. In 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of ...

Reducere. The death of a grandparent is often a child's first encounter with grief. Why did this happen? What should I do? How do I feel? When a Grandparent ...

You've heard the old saying, 'You can't fit a square peg in a round hole.' You can try to force the peg by shaving some of the sides off. But once ...

Reducere. The experiential and transformational teachings brought to each human being by Jesus of Nazareth transcending religious beliefs, creeds, cultures, ...

DescriptionSuleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, has a harem of three hundred beautiful concubines. His soul and eyes desire only...

Welcome to the adventure When I was growing up, the idea that being Catholic was an "adventure" was the farthest thing from my mind. You just "were...

Reducere. ""Our subject is the lost sayings of our Lord, or--to give them their Greek name--the ""the agrapha, "" which means literally the ""unwritten sayin...

DescriptionFrom the cold-blooded murder of a man well known in London's Bohemian society, to a sinister tradition in an old Tudor manor-house, thes...

Reducere. This book is excellent for individual reading or can be used as the small group study book for the Christianity's Family Tree DVD-based study. Adam...

Reducere. Awards🏆Finalist (2008) - Connecticut Book Awards - (Poetry)Contributor(s): Author: Aracelis GirmayWinner, 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry Stunning, h...

This book began as a two-part issue of e-flux journal devoted to the question: What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this que...

Reducere. A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the earl...

Reducere. An accessible introduction to how to read, study, and understand Torah--the Bible and related sacred texts that have grown up around it. For everyo...

Reducere. When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked--"How? Where do I begin?" I...

Reducere. The Starry Bull tradition is a contemporary expression of Bacchic Orphism with roots in mainland Greece, Crete, Southern Italy, Asia Minor and Nort...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the tradition of the lush historical dramas of Kate Morton, Philippa Gregory and Barbara Erskine, USA TODAY bestselling author Nicola...

Reducere. What was Jesus' relationship with Mary Magdalene? What did he teach about the role of women? Is God only male? Mary Magdalene and the Divine Femini...

Reducere. It's what you don't know about the sun that could be hurting you...Have you ever noticed how much better you feel when the sun is out?Maybe you've ...

Reducere. From the author's perspective the answer to Are We Preaching "Another" Gospel? is a resounding, "Yes." "It isn't that we don't understand the basic...

What would you see if you looked directly at your mind? The Tibetan Buddhist teachings on mahamudra are known for their ability to lead to profound...

The dynamic relationship between the individual and society has been a central concern of Taoism from its ancient beginnings--which is perhaps why ...

Reducere. Caitlyn Le Fey is enjoying her first autumn in England, nut-picking in the forest, creating delicious treats in her grandmother's enchanted chocola...

Reducere. "Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it."--Bill McKibben, au...

Reducere. DescriptionMany people have questions about Scripture they are too afraid to ask.Are all the stories of the Bible true? What about all the books th...

Reducere. If your students have ever heard the story of Job, they are likely to remember one thing--suffering. (Well, they might remember a pile of cow dung,...

Twelve Step Sponsorship is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark J. ZiaDiscover the basic principles of authentic biblical interpretation. Learn why the Magisterium is the only way to...

Discover your personal path to bliss"This book will give anyone interested in the spectrum of core meditative practices stemming from the Buddhist ...

Reducere. Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has always excelled at making the Bible approachable and engaging. Drawn from a series of public conversations ...

Reducere. One power-packed word: amen.Millions of Christians all over the world say this word every day. Yet few realize what richness, depth, truth, and con...

Reducere. Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of...

Reducere. The spiritual teachings of many faith traditions can help you step beyond the limits of any one tradition to the reality that can't be named.The fa...

Reducere. Within you is a greater, wiser self that is not bound by your fears, worries, or perceived limitations. Dr. Jose Luis Stevens calls this the Inner ...

Reducere. "Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intellige...

Reducere. With a lifetime of experience, knowledge, and appreciation, the internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nilesh Nilkanth OakIn a drastic re-evaluation of astronomy observations from Mahabharata, using high-tech tool of modern as...

Reducere. In this newly updated, expanded version of his popular work of apologetics, Shea presents a lively and entertaining look at his conversion to Catho...

Reducere. Cur Deus Verba unfolds a systematic theology of Scripture from a single key question: What did God seek to accomplish by making the Bible? The answ...

Reducere. Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read N...

DescriptionA Los Angeles Times Bestseller Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards "Be...

Reducere. In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious a...

Reducere. When the Israelites began disobeying God, He was not pleased. Why couldn't they simply obey His instructions instead of worshipping false gods? He ...

Reducere. This update of tantra for the 21st century manages to be snappy and cutting-edge at the same time it remains faithful to the profound truths of an ...

Reducere. A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America Why do so many Africa...

Reducere. Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are th...

Reducere. The book discusses in detail the why and the how of our call to transform faith communities into eco-justice communities in the context of climate ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe classic of Christian ministerial thought by Charles Bridges is presented to the reader anew in this superb edition, complete with th...

Reducere. The doctrine of the Trinity is taught and believed by all evangelicals, but rarely is it fully understood or celebrated. In The Deep Things of God,...