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A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values
By Dennis Dunn. 2016
The book reveals the nexus between religion and politics today and shows that we live in an interdependent world where…
one global civilization is emerging and where the world s peoples are continuing to coalesce around a series of values that contain potent Western overtones Both Putin s Orthodox Russia and regions under the control of such Islamist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda resent and attempt in a largely languishing effort to frustrate this series of values The book explains the current tension between the West and Russia and parts of the Muslim world and sheds light on the causes of such crises as the Syrian Civil War Russia s aggression against Ukraine and acts of terrorism such as 9 11 and the ISIS-inspired massacres in Paris It shows that religion continues to affect global order and that knowledge of its effect on political identity and global governance should guide both government policy and scholarly analysis of contemporary historyUngewöhnlicher Erfolg
By Gabriel Agbo, Christine Wilhelm. 2018
Ungewöhnlicher (gelegentlicher Erfolg!) Gott hat dich dazu bestimmt, erfolgreich zu sein. Es ist dein Recht. Es ist deine Natur. Es…
ist genau dort in deiner DNA. Sie haben keine Entschuldigung, um ein Versager zu sein. Alles, was du jemals in diesem Leben tun musst, ist bereits in dich eingepflanzt und auch in das Wort Gottes eingebettet. Wahr. Dieses Buch wird deine Augen für diese ewige Wahrheit öffnen. Sie können nicht durchgehen und gleich bleiben. Sie finden hier Themen wie: Sie können erfolgreich sein, Dinge sind nicht gut? O Herr, Gott des Himmels, er hält seine Bündnisse, höre auf mein Gebet, gewähre mir Erfolg und Gefallen, Vision-Plan-Arbeit, Timing, Überwindung von Hindernissen, es ist geschehen! Sie werden die Geheimnisse des reichsten Mannes, der jemals gelebt hat, des stärksten Mannes und des mächtigsten Königs entdecken. Und auch Gebete, die dich automatisch auf den Erfolgspfad bringen. Gott hat dich nicht zum Scheitern verurteilt. Er hat dich nach Seinem Ebenbild geschaffen. Das bedeutet einfach, dass, wie Er ein Erfolg ist, wir auch sein müssen. Du wurdest geboren und gerettet, um erfolgreich zu sein! Lesen und transformieren.God van Abraham,Isaak en Jakob
By Gabriel Agbo, josepha van den Brink. 2018
God van Abraham,Isaak en Jakob . Een geweldig boek over Godsverbonds beloften falen niet. Dit boek is geschreven om je…
te helpen bereiken al God's beloftes voor jouw leven. Het is een voorzichtig uitgewerkte studie, met persoonlijke getuigenissen over de mogelijkheid en bereidwilligheid van god om zijn woorden tot stand te brengen voor ons. Hij zegt dat hij elk woord niet ledig terug laat keren. Hier kijken we critisch naar de dynamische en goddelijke belofte; hoe die tot stand kwam, gegroeid en onderhouden en tot vruchtbaarheid kwam. Elke verbonds belofte heeft zijn begin,tijdsbepaling en condities. we moeten dit altijd weten om instaat te zijn om perfect en comfortabel in te toetsen God's wil voorons leven. Inderdaad alle dingen zijn mogelijk met God.Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
By James Boyce. 2015
"Original sin is the Western world's creation story."According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad,…
and only through God's grace can they achieve salvation. In this captivating and controversial book, acclaimed historian James Boyce explores how this centuries-old concept has shaped the Western view of human nature right up to the present. Boyce traces a history of original sin from Adam and Eve, St. Augustine, and Martin Luther to Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, and Richard Dawkins, and explores how each has contributed to shaping our conception of original sin.Boyce argues that despite the marked decline in church attendance in recent years, religious ideas of morality still very much underpin our modern secular society, regardless of our often being unaware of their origins. If today the specific doctrine has all but disappeared (even from churches), what remains is the distinctive discontent of Western people-the feelings of guilt and inadequacy associated not with doing wrong, but with being wrong. In addition to offering an innovative history of Christianity, Boyce offers new insights in to the creation of the West.Born Bad is the sweeping story of a controversial idea and the remarkable influence it still wields.The Irish Brotherhood: John F. Kennedy, His Inner Circle and the Improbable Rise to the Presidency
By Helen O'Donnell. 2015
The Irish Brotherhood is the history of Jack Kennedy's original political inner circle. Led by Bobby Kennedy, Kenny O'Donnell, Larry…
O'Brien, and Dave Powers they were tough minded, Irish-Catholic guys who were joined together by a common ambition to see Jack Kennedy through to the White House. War veterans who were young, ambitious, and they wanted their country back. Jack Kennedy was their man, their leader. No matter that he was Irish, Catholic, and his "Old Man" had made as many enemies as friends - Jack had ambition, brains, a special charisma. To win the White House would be a victory not only for Jack Kennedy, but for the downtrodden. They collectively decided that if the political powers would not let them in willingly then they would kick the door down. At the center of the story is Kenny O'Donnell, Jack Kennedy's tough talking, no-bullshit, top political aide. Jack recognized he needed Kenny's blue collar, political genius and Kenny recognized something special in Jack.The Irish Brotherhood describes what it was like to be inside the Kennedy inner circle. With Bobby, who was determined to make his own mark apart from his famous family, his life-long struggle, never won, never lost. With Joe, as Kenny and Larry prove to him that their outsider approach was going to work after Jack's crushing victory in '58, which sets the stage for the Presidential campaign to come. This book is a missing piece of the story of the improbable rise to power of John F. Kennedy and further fills out the picture of the man revealing that Jack Kennedy was at heart a politician. He enjoyed the rough and tumble and despite his personal issues, or perhaps because of them, he became determined to succeed beyond anybody's expectations. It is intriguing an indelible portrait of the son, brother, friend, Congressman, Senator and President.Poison Blossoms From a Thicket of Thorn: The Great Zen Record Of Zen Master Hakuin
By Norman Waddell, Hakuin Zenji. 2014
Hakuin Enkaku Zenji (1686-1769) was one of the greatest Zen masters to ever live. In additional to being the author…
of the most famous koan ever written, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" he is credited with reviving the Rinzai sect of Zen in Japan, perhaps the most important and most rigorous branch in the Golden Age of Buddhism. His "Song of Zazen" is chanted in monasteries daily all over the world. Hakuin taught that there are three essentials to Zen practice: Great Faith, Great Doubt, and Great Resolve. Only Dogen comes close to matching the power and breadth of his writing and teaching.Norman Waddell has spent his life reading and commenting on the vast work of Hakuin. He has published several previous selections, all leading to his work on this major, monumental gathering, the Keiso Dokuzui, never before translated in any foreign language. Translating sacred texts requires years of practice and intimate familiarity with the material in its original language, as well as complete mastery of the available commentary. There's no one alive better capable of handling this important and difficult offering.For this collection Hakuin gathered more than 200 individual pieces, consisting of commentaries, memorials, poems, koans, and teisho (lectures). They were offered to the many students living around his temple as well as to the countless lay followers around the country, and Hakuin spent his life offering these teachings together with his own commentary. Result is an organic, growing collection of understanding and advice, certain to engage Zen students as well as religious practitioners in other spiritual disciplines.Peron&Evita: Love Letters.
By L zaro Droznes. 2017
Peron&Evita: Love Letters. The extraordinary story of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón, whose intense 33-year life became a universal myth.…
The career of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón is one of the most extraordinary stories ever told. This work, based on apocryphal correspondence, casts light on the subjective experience of the protagonists of one of the most intense love stories Argentina has ever known. Evita's death is most likely due to her refusal to accept medical treatment of any kind. Her catchphrase was “Doctors are for people who have nothing to do, not for me. Treatment is for oligarchs, for those who don't work. Can't you see that they want to invent illnesses in order to sabotage my administration?” exemplifies what the Greeks called “hubris” -the illness of power-, the essential ingredient for any tragedy. Evita's 33-year life has become a universal myth. This dramatic work of fiction spans the following stages of Evita's incredible life: Her birth as a natural daughter in the second family of a rancher in the Province of Buenos Aires. Her trip to Buenos Aires at the age of fifteen and her lonely time in the big city. Eking out an existence as a courtesan and theater and radio actress. Birth and adoption of her daughter Marriage to Colonel Perón. The President's wife and first lady of the Nation. Her trip to Europe. Eva is transformed into Evita during her work with the Foundation. Illness, operations, lies and death. Embalmment of Evita's body. Disappearance and return of the embalmed body. Post mortem complaints about decisions made by the widower during his third administration. Buy this book for an intimate glimpse into the lives of two giants from Argentine history!Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938
By Blanche Wiesen Cook. 1999
The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Three, 1938-1962,…
will be published in November. Volume Two covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt-- an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.From the Trade Paperback edition.Who Was Frederick Douglass? (Who was?)
By April Jones Prince, Nancy Harrison, Robert Squier. 2014
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was…
power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China
By Red Pine. 2010
In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a…
pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter's account captures the transformations taking place at religious centers in China but also the abiding legacy they have somehow managed to preserve. Porter brings wisdom and humor to every situation, whether visiting ancient caves containing the most complete collection of Buddhist texts ever uncovered, enduring a six-hour Buddhist ceremony, searching in vain for the ghost in his room, waking up the monk in charge of martial arts at Shaolin Temple, or meeting the abbess of China's first Zen nunnery. Porter's previously published Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits has become recommended reading at Zen centers and universities throughout America and even in China (in its Chinese translation), and Zen Baggage is sure to follow suit.Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination (Playaway Adult Nonfiction Ser.)
By Thom Hartmann, Lamar Waldron. 2009
John F. Kennedy's assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions…
by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The coup plan's exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up prevented a full investigation into Kennedy's assassination, a legacy of secrecy that would impact American politics and foreign policy for the next 45 years. It also allowed two men who confessed their roles in JFK's murder to be involved in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, in 1968. Exclusive interviews and newly declassified files from the National Archives document in chilling detail how three mob bosses were able to prevent the truth from coming to light - until now.Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
By Wendell Berry. 2000
[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of…
knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today. The Washington Post€œI am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism.The Christian Science MonitorIn Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
By Shunryu Suzuki, Eihei Dogen, Sojun Mel Weitsman, Kazuaki Tanahasi, Shohaku Okamura, Michael Wenger, Uchiyama Kosho, Nishiari Bokusan. 2011
One of the greatest religious practitioners and philosophers of the East, Eihei Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) is today thought of as…
the founder of the Soto school of Zen. A deep thinker and writer, he was deeply involved in monastic methods and in integrating Zen realization into daily life. At times The Shobogenzo was profoundly difficult, and he worked on it over his entire life, revising and expanding, producing a book that is today thought to be one of the highest manifestations of Buddhist thought ever produced. Dogen's Genjo Koan is the first chapter in that book, and for many followers it might be thought to contain the gist of Dogen's work-it is one of the groundwork texts of Zen Buddhism, standing easily alongside The Diamond Sutra, The Heart Sutra, and a small handful of others.Our unique edition of Dogen's Genjo Koan (Actualization of Reality) contains three separate translations and several commentaries by a wide variety of Zen masters. Nishiari Bokusan, Shohaku Okamura, Shunryu Suzuki, Kosho Uchiyama. Sojun Mel Weitsman, Kazuaki Tanahashi, and Dairyu Michael Wenger all have contributed to our presentation of this remarkable work. There can be no doubt that understanding and integrating this text will have a profound effect on anyone's life and practice.Full Disclosure
By Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti. 2018
Instant New York Times bestseller"Standing up to bullies is my kind of thing."How did Stormy Daniels become the woman willing…
to take on a president? In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage, and everything about her interaction with Donald Trump that led to the nondisclosure agreement and the behind-the-scenes attempts to intimidate her.Stormy is funny, sharp, warm, and impassioned by turns. Her story is a thoroughly American one, of a girl who loved reading and horses and who understood from a very young age what she wanted?and who also knew she'd have to get every step of the way there on her own.People can't stop talking about Stormy Daniels. And they won't be able to stop talking about her fresh, surprising, completely candid, nothing-held-back book.Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography
By Burton Hersh. 2010
In this groundbreaking biography, historian and journalist Burton Hersh combines extensive critical research with more than fifty years of never-before-told…
anecdotes and observations from his lifelong acquaintance with Edward Kennedy to create an indelible portrait of one of the finest legislators and most influential senators in American history.Hersh develops such themes as Kennedy's deep-seated fears that he was an afterthought within his powerful, driven family, as well as Kennedy's genius for conciliation, which arguably made him a dramatically more effective senator than either of his older brothers. This book is richly laden with disclosures not made while Kennedy was alive, from amazing details pertaining to the accident at Chappaquiddick to Kennedy's behind-the-scenes manipulations that brought down Richard Nixon. The personal accounts the author shares, combined with in-depth reporting and insightful analysis, boldly create a revelatory account of Kennedy, one that reinterprets his public and private personas. In this fearless portrayal, Hersh has not hesitated to examine both the matchless achievements and the sometimes out-of-control private life of this legislative giant.The Jewish People and the Holy Land: A Zondervan Digital Short
By Henry H. Halley. 2007
Derived from Halley’s Bible Handbook, a world-renowned, accessible guide to the Bible now in its 25th edition, this digital short…
sketches the history of the Jewish people in the Holy Land from the time of Jesus until the present day. Useful for students of the Bible and church history, The Jewish People and the Holy Land will also fascinate readers wanting to better understand the historic roots of the modern state of Israel.Churchill The Greatest Briton Unmasked: The Greatest Briton Unmasked
By Nigel Knight. 2008
middot; Challenges the popular image of Churchill as a heroic leader middot; Controversial nature of this topic will stimulate press…
interest In this brand new assessment of Winston Churchill's political career, highly regarded writer and academic Nigel KnightJohn Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
By Richard Brookhiser. 2018
The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War…
veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Supreme Court, it was the weakling of the federal government, lacking in dignity and clout. After he died, it could never be ignored again. Through three decades of dramatic cases involving businessmen, scoundrels, Native Americans, and slaves, Marshall defended the federal government against unruly states, established the Supreme Court's right to rebuke Congress or the president, and unleashed the power of American commerce. For better and for worse, he made the Supreme Court a pillar of American life. In John Marshall, award-winning biographer Richard Brookhiser vividly chronicles America's greatest judge and the world he made.Take Cover: Finding Peace in God's Protection
By Philip De Courcy. 2018
Pastor and former police officer Philip De Courcy calls on Christians to take refuge in God (Psalm 46:1), drawing on…
lessons he learned in law enforcement to affirm that true security is not the absense of danger, but the presence of God. Identifying the major dangers today's Christian faces—including crime, North Korea, Islamic terror, aggressive secularism, and spiritual warfare—De Courcy shows us how we can take cover in God-given promises and protections.Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights
By Sarah J. Robbins, Malala Yousafzai. 2014
A chapter book edition of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's bestselling story of courageously standing up for girls' education.…
Malala's memoir of a remarkable teenage girl who risked her life for the right to go to school is now abridged and adapted for chapter book readers. Raised in a changing Pakistan by an enlightened father from a poor background and a beautiful, illiterate mother, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. Her story of bravery and determination in the face of extremism is more timely than ever. In this edition, Malala tells her story in clear, accessible language perfect for children who are too old for Malala's Magic Pencil and too young for her middle-grade memoir. Featuring line art and simplified back matter, Malala teaches a new audience the value of speaking out against intolerance and hate: an inspiring message of hope in Malala's own words.