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Killing the Buddha
A Heretic's Bible
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."
The ninth-century sage Lin Chi gave this advice to one of his monks, admonishing him that this Buddha would only be a reflection of his unexamined beliefs and desires. Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet took Lin Chi's advice to heart and set out on a car...
Simple Gifts
Great Hymns: One Man's Search for Grace
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
If there is one simple phrase that lies at the heart of this moving tribute to the pleasures of singing hymns, it is this: "Only joy." Bill Henderson, a tough man with a gentle vision, found community and religious grace as a middle-aged man while lifting his voice in church. In a book that will inspire...
by Deborah Dash Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 1994
The first great modern migration of Jewish people from the Old World to America has been often and expertly chronicled, but until now the second great wave of Jewish migration has been overlooked. After World War II, spurred by a postwar economic boom, American Jews sought new beginnings in the nation’s...
by Max Weber
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Weber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings, Political Decline, Religious Conflict and Biblical Prophecy.
In the Valley of the Shadow
On the Foundations of Religious Belief
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
TEN YEARS AGO, Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer. “I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music had suddenly stopped—the music of daily life that’s constantly going, the...
God's Middle Finger
Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the...
Vamped
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
Martin Kowalski is an eighty-year-old man stuck in a twenty-year-old body. He works the graveyard shift. He has a poster of Bela Lugosi on his wall and a box of uneaten Count Chocula in his pantry. He drinks stem-cell-derived blood from cleverly packaged and marketed juice boxes. He is, in short,...
Who Can Save Us Now?
Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Twenty-two of today's most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure. Edited and with contributions by Owen...
by Carol Delaney
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“One of the 100 best books of the year.” —The Times Literary Supplement
Christopher Columbus is reevaluated as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction—on a mission to save Jerusalem from Islam.
Five hundred years after he set sail, Columbus is still a controversial...
Spellbound
Inside West Africa's Witch Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
As I attempted to digest stories of spiritual cannibalism, of curses that could cost a student her eyesight or ignite the pages of the books she read, I knew I was not alone in my skepticism. And yet, when I caught sight of the waving arms of an industrious scarecrow, the hair on the back of my neck...
by Robert N. Bellah
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Robert N. Bellah's classic study, Tokugawa Religion does for Japan what Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism did for the West. One of the foremost authorities on Japanese history and culture, Bellah explains how religion in the Tokugawa period (160-1868) established the foundation...
Crashing the Borders
How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Unflinching, timely, and authoritative, Crashing the Borders is the beginning of a much-needed conversation about sport and American culture. For those who care about both, this book will be the must-read work of the season.
The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world’s fastest-growing...
Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel
A Memoir of Becoming Whole
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1999
What would you do if you were seventeen years old and broke your neck? It's tough enough to stand on the verge of adulthood without the extra burden of not being able to stand at all. Steve Fiffer had his whole life ahead of him in December 1967 when he fractured his fifth cervical vertebra in a wrestling...
Where They Ain't
The Fabled Life and Ultimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
Greedy owners, spoiled players, disillusioned fans -- all hallmarks of baseball in the 'nineties. Only in this case, it's the 1890s. We may think that business interests dominate the sport today, but baseball's early years were an even harsher and less sentimental age, when teams were wrenched from...