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Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness. "Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
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xx, 444 p. ; 24 cm.
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Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of "volunteer ministers" at disaster sites such as the World Trade Center; its notably aggressive response to criticism or its attacks on psychiatry; its requirement that believers pay as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach the highest levels of salvation. The author offers a full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that establishes...
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Cowley Publications
Pub. Date
[2005]
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xiv, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Framing his meditations as a Book of Hours, scientist Chet Raymo exercises the languages of theology and science to express the majesty of Ireland's remote Dingle Peninsula. As he wanders the land year upon year, Raymo gathers the revelations embedded in the geological and cultural history of this wild and ancient place. “When I called out for the Absolute, I was answered by the wind,” Raymo writes. “If it was God's voice in the wind, then I...
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2013.
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"Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
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Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2013]
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116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Introduces ancient Egypt as the god Anubis takes readers on a tour of the Land of the Dead, describes how the sun god, Ra, and he fight forces of chaos and destruction, and discusses mummies, major deities, and famous pharaohs.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
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xviii, 284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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"Sagan sets down his detailed thoughts on the relationship between religion and science and describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. In 1985, Sagan was invited to give the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland on the grand occasion of the lectureship's centennial. The result is this delightfully intimate discussion of his views on topics ranging from the likelihood of intelligent life on other...
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"In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in the bush--sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date. Honest, evocative and articulate, he explores the various manifestations...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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vii, 112 pages : illustration ; 19 cm.
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Dalai Lama outlines both the inward and outward paths to peace, addressing a wide range of contemporary topics ... from war, climate change, and materialism to meditation, universal ethics, and even neuroscience.
17) A secular age
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007
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x, 874 p. ; 24 cm.
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Drawing upon the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians, as well as her own research, Pagels opens unexpected ways of understanding persistent religious aspects of our culture."--Amazon.com.
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2018.
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"Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward."--Amazon.com....
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