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National Book Award Finalist A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former...

Le Carême est un moment intense de la vie spirituelle du chrétien. Durant 40 jours, l’Église invite les humbles fidèles à se tourner davantage vers le Christ pour le suivre dans ses combats au désert et son cœur à cœur avec le Père dans un même Esprit. Pour chaque jour, ce livre propose...

Many spells and charms can take days or even weeks to complete. In Magic When You Need It, Judika Illes offers a collection of super-powered magic to help you right now. Is your career in a slump? Are you being visited by ghosts? Short on cash? Magic When You Need It can help with these problems and...

In The Encyclopedia Of 5,000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts, independent scholar, educator and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology Judika Iles enables the reader to enter the world of folklore, myth and magic with binding spells and banishing spells,...

The author of Rights of Man and Common Sense argues for belief in God without religion. My own mind is my own church.   In The Age of Reason, political activist and Founding Father Thomas Paine makes a powerful case for a rational approach to theology. In keeping with the intellectual tradition...

Since ancient times, Wiccans have practiced the Craft and created magick using ritual ceremony and correspondences. Crucial to this custom are Witches’ tools and talismans, powerful items that help focus energy around the altar in order to manifest the desired outcome of their spells. Discover the...

Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics around the world commonly believe. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the...

Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious...

A collection of popular spells for busy Neo-Pagans, for beginners or seasoned practitioners. Harness the power of your intent and the magick of Wiccan correspondences to manifest love, better health, more wealth, a perfect home and more. Ideal for any and everyday of the year, these spells are easy...

Rather than depending on snippets of wisdom to build a new faith, Wicca for Beginners provides a solid foundation to Wicca without limiting the reader to one tradition or path.

From the new afterword by the author: Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its...

“A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (The Washington Post) from the bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other....

The compiler Timothy Jenkins in his 1883 book "The Ten Tribes of Israel" gathers together a vast array of different facts, stories, legends, anecdotes, archaeological discoveries, language comparisons, etc., from a vast array of different sources to support the claim first propounded by...

Climb every mountain… Find out how a fun-loving young girl was motivated to turn early life tragedy and challenges into a life of freedom and ‘mountain top’ experience. Discover how a strong faith, courage and tenacity were required to reverse her destiny and  find her true identity. This memoir...