Christmas: A Biography
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Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of...
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Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed
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This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying...
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Spirituality and Childbirth: Meaning and Care at the Start of Life
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Highlighting aspects of birth often taken for granted, ignored or left silenced, this book questions...
Christian Mythology: Revelations of Pagan Origins
Philippe Walter and Claude Lecouteux
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In this extensive study of the Christian mythology that animated Europe in the Middle Ages, author...
Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Todd Meyers and Richard Baxstrom
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Benjamin Christensen's Haxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of...
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and...
The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Living Faith and Negotiating Authority Since the Second Vatican Council
Lucas van Rompay, Sam Miglarese and David A. Morgan
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With the Second Vatican Council (1962@-65), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a...
The Solace of Water
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After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer devoted his adult life to the articulation of a philosophy for the world, a...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
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One needs to be a fox to recognize snares, and a lion to frighten the wolves Niccolo Machiavelli...