As seen on "Oprah!", Blanke, the CEO of LifeDesigns", offers a life-changing program designed to help women of any age instantly enhance their professional and personal lives.
An expanded and updated edition of a classic by one of the giants in this field. Faith and belief in a multireligious experience are discussed, with emphasis on understanding one's own religion and tradition before attempting to understand someone else's.
Writing in a wry but insightful style, Stewart provides simple examples that shed light on the terminology, written language, and "celestial" mechanics behind music. Illustrations.
Interviews with these two important figures who speak about how to conceive of who God is in of the light of the Holocaust. Emphasize in copy that these are two independent interviews. Also, mention Metz's A Passion for God. An academic catalog selection.
From the award-winning author of "Where the Heart Is" comes the story of a down-and-out cafe owner, Caney, who opens his restaurant after returning from Vietnam in a wheelchair. Then one day Vena Takes Horse, a vibrant young women, enters the cafe, changes the lives of the regulars forever, and, eventually, captures Caney's heart.
Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world:the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an ani...
Ever wondered how to create better accompaniments for the melodies in your favorite fake books? This "teach yourself" book introduces you to chord building, various rhythmic styles, and much more, so that you play the songs you like just the way you want them. Keyboard players with a basic understanding of notation and sight-reading will be on their way to more fun with fake books. The relaxed tone of the text and selection of fun songs keep H...
Why is the practice guru yoga (union with the nature of the guru) so important? Because with the help of the outer teacher, the inner teacher (the true nature of our own mind) is discovered. This particular guru yoga is called "The Wish-fulfilling Jewel, " and it is the outer practice of the guru from the Longchen Nyingtik revelation of Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa. It was during a summer retreat in France in 1984 that Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche gave tea...
A thought-provoking work that shifts the boundaries of theology by examining the traditional understanding of God and melding it with evolutionary ideas.
The author of the American classic "Little Women" is the subject of a new title in the beloved, ongoing series "Childhood of Famous Americans." Illustrations.
A simple, direct introduction to the Christian moral life based on the conviction that morality and spirituality converge when we explore the sort of persons we ought to become and the sort of lives we ought to lead by virtue of our commitment to God.
This book explores and affirms the religious dimension of education. Peter Hodgson argues that the passage of knowledge from teacher to student is in many ways analogous to God's method of imparting divine wisdom by leading the human spirit into its widest range of possibilities.
Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. This book situates itself in a region beyond criticism but this side of literature, characterized by forgetting and finitude, and investigating important yet seemingly inaccessible "gray areas" in texts as old as those of Homer, and as recent as those of Beckett.
Inspires and instructs students and pastors to use the Hebrew Bible appropriately in their preaching and teaching. Includes sample sermons and lessons.
A "little treasure" of prayers that will open your heart and soul and give voice to your deepest yearnings. Using the startling wisdom of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who lived two hundred years ago, The Gentle Weapon will help you talk with God and enable you to hear your own voice as well.