Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
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Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with relish as they open...
Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe
Yann Algan, Alberto Bisin, Alan Manning and Thierry Verdier
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence....
Abraham's Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions
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Most of us believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is "God's will," "karma", or "fate,"...
Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen
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"Essential Chan Buddhism "is the rare unearthing of an ancient and remarkable Chinese spiritual...
Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church
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Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now...
The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality
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The Antagonist Principle is a critical examination of the works and sometimes controversial public...
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought
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Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a...
The True Significance of Sacred Tradition and its Great Worth, by St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny: A Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Response to Roman Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in the East
Raphael M. Hawaweeny and Patrick Demetrios Viscuso
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Never before published, the theological thesis of St. Raphael Hawaweeny (1860 1915) is a fascinating...
Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness: Conversations with Albert Hofmann, Stanislav Grof, Rick Strassman, Jeremy Narby, Simon Posford, and Others
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After many dark years of zealous repression, there are now more than a dozen government-approved...
Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens
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Among the many significant discoveries excavated from Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's royal library in...