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Conventional wisdom maintains that the differences between Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and in this fresh, provocative book he looks beneath the rhetoric of hatred and misunderstanding to cha... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | We all need to make a retreat. To find a few moments in our busy lives to try to stop worrying and fretting about so many different things, and to sit in silence at God's feet and just to listen. A retreat is simply an attempt to see beyond the 101 cares and occupati... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spirit... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media. Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Progressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facil... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Jeffrey A. Kroessler's comprehensive and entertaining time line stretches from the pastoral entertainments of the Dutch to the corporate captivity of professional sports. He chronicles events ranging from the truly heroic to the heartbreaking, from moments of municip... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and ser... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes through later generations, for those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party, winning key union p... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors: Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered pe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | This is a book to accompany the readings in year B of the Lectionary. It aims to help individuals and groups to understand and use Mark's Gospel. There are two other books that will follow this one: Journeying with Luke in Year C and Journeying with Matthew in Year A... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold warthe moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower Administrations policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensio... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:24 | '[An] addictive tale of intrigue' - the IndependentIn 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body h... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world. A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's secret services, Unit 701, where he is assigned the task of breaking the elusive... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE The Separation by Dinah Jefferies is a sweeping novel set in 1950s Malaya, about a mother searching for her daughters.What happens when a mother and her daughters are separated; who do they become when th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | The Pleasures of Summer is a steamy erotic story of romantic obsession and explosive sexual chemistry for fans of Fifty Shades of Grey, The Pleasures of Winter and Sylvia Day's stories.Summer O'Sullivan is rich, beautiful and in mortal danger. Her father has made pow... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during the Irish Civil WarThe Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of ye... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Randall P. Bezanson's How Free Can Religion Be? explores the Supreme Court's varied history of interpreting the religious guarantees outlined in the First Amendment. The book discusses eight provocative Supreme Court decisions to track the evolution of Free Exercise ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Analyzing a wide range of legal documents recorded in Israel from 1961 to 2007, this book argues that the laws governing Israeli electronic media are structured to limit the boundaries of public discourse. Amit M. Schejter posits the theory of a "e;muted democrac... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Inspired and informed by the music and urban landscape of New York City, Tongue & Groove employs jazzy and descriptive language in a sweep of city-life experiences and memories. A passionate rendering of incidents in spaces that include the subway, a school for the h... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | King of the Queen City is the first comprehensive history of King Records, one of the most influential independent record companies in the history of American music. Jon Hartley Fox tells the story of a small outsider record company in Cincinnati, Ohio, that attracte... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an ideal mascul... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | In this compelling portrait of interracial activism, Mark A. Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier. Mobilized and inspired by the idea of a Union that would benefit all, bla... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those who ... Полное описание |
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