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By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of intricate molecular accidents. Some scientists take this logic one...
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For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively-to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola-she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common.
Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how...
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Over the past few decades, the roles women play in public life have evolved significantly, as have the pressures that come with needing to do it all, have it all, and be all things to all people. And with this progress, misogyny has evolved as well. Today's discrimination is more subtle and indirect, expressed in double standards, microaggressions, and impossible expectations. In other ways, sexism has gotten more brash and repulsive as women have...
9) Holy war: how Vasco da Gama's epic voyages turned the tide in a centuries-old clash of civilizations
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A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama's groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam which forever altered the relationship between East and West.
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"Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches...
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Are you satisfied that your children's current educational environment is bringing out their best potential?
In a world where traditional education systems make little or no accommodation for individual learning styles (such as auditory or visual learning), and they're failing to teach even the basics, it's time for parents to take charge of their children's education.
In Reclaiming Education, parents are equipped with practical and immediately...
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"Set during the French and American wars, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is a true story about an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, who is adopted by a sixty-four year old monk, Thau, who carries great responsibility for his people as a barefoot doctor. Thau manages, against all odds to raise his son to follow in his footsteps and in doing so, saves his son, as well as a part of Vietnam's esoteric knowledge from the Vietnam holocaust. Fourth Uncle in the Mountain...
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"Spanning seventy years and several continents--from a refugee's shattered dreams in 1938 Berlin, to a discontented American couple in the 1950s, to a young woman's life in modern-day Jerusalem--this epic, enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters."--Publisher's website.
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The observations and insights of the Buddha are practical and eminently down to earth, dealing exclusively with awareness in the here and now.
Buddhism Plain and Simple offers listeners these fundamental teachings, stripped of cultural trappings that have accumulated around Buddhism over the past 25 centuries. The newcomer will be inspired by the clear, simple principles found in Buddhism Plain and Simple, and those familiar with Buddhism will welcome...
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A clash between cultures has happened many times throughout history. Events from 1979 to this point leading the western and Muslim cultures into a crusade with no present way out. The reason for all this fighting for the last 37 years has no simple answer and history has a way of always repeating itself.
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In seinem Appell an die Welt entwirft der Dalai Lama eine neue säkulare Ethik als Basis für ein friedliches Jahrhundert. Nicht Religionen werden die Antwort geben, sondern die Verwurzelung des Menschen in einer Unterschiede überwindenden Ethik. Ein herausfordernder wie mutmachender Text eines bescheidenen wie bedeutenden Mannes unserer Zeit.
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Loving-kindness is one of the most important principles in Buddhism, and the 'metta bhavana', traditionally devised by the Buddha to develop it, is one of the most popular and important meditation practices. It is used throughout the world - practised in both in a secular and a Buddhist context for, as Vessantara (Tony McMahon) the English-born Buddhist meditation teacher with 40 years of experience declares, it appeals to, and is effective for, everyone...
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Bienvenidos a esta increíble aventura auditiva que te llevará a descubrir que, aunque ahora las cosas estén difíciles, siempre hay luz al final del túnel.
Este audiolibro, titulado "Aunque ahora las cosas estén difíciles, confía en que lo mejor está por venir", es una guía invaluable para aquellos momentos en los que la vida nos pone a prueba y sentimos que ya no podemos más.
La importancia de este audiolibro radica en recordarnos que...
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The Love of Devotion is the result of several decades of spiritual work. It began the day I first opened the metaphysical door and stepped into a world only minimally understood at the time but strongly desired. Metaphysics is concerned with the ultimate, primary, inner aspects of existence. It does not see life in material terms but sees life in terms of thought and strongly emphasises healing.
Love and Devotion is a 2-book nonfiction series. A...
20) Hanuman
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"Sripad Jagannatha Dasa guides us into the sacred heart space of this life-changing hymn as only a dedicated lifelong Ram bhakta may. A self-realized yogi - a wonderful trip!." The Yoga Journal
"I bow to the Hanuman who is swifter than the mind and wind. The sacred one who has controlled his senses, the one who is the epitome of learning and wisdom. Salutations to the son of the God of Air and chief of the Vanaras, I pray always to Lord Hanuman."
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