Martin Prechtel
Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown ... [... more]
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A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine Comedy
 Tour Guide Available for Trip "To Hell and Back": Joseph Gallagher, a retired Catholic priest and professor, who has taught at such venerable institutions as John Hopkins, Notre Dame, Loyola, and Oxford presents on an easy-to-understand guide [... more]
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The Charterhouse of Parma
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, ... [... more]
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Conscious Breathing
Conscious Breathing presents contemporary Breathwork methods in a comprehensive, structured way for modern readers. Emphasizing the practice as a way to access the most elevated states of consciousness and the deepest states of meditation, author ... [... more]
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Penguin Classics Georgics
"Not Virgil's Best": The warm and friendly poet from Mantua, Publius Virgilius Maro, in his didactic poem entitled the "Georgics," covers topics relating to farming: in book one he deals with crops, in book two trees and shrubs, in [... more]
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Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn 'Arabi and New ...
good translator: 1.Cannot say that the language he uses when talking about the prophets is respectful. 2.His own poems are rubbish. 3.He is a good translator. Making a great poetry accessible to modern readers: People might have different views of Sells' [... more]
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The Lost Battalion
The Power of Passive Resistance: The Lost Battalion was originally written in 1938 and has been re-issued with minor editing in 2000. For those readers seeking a companion volume to the 2000 A & E film by the same title, this book is more than a bit [... more]
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Interior Castle or the Mansions
Castles in the air: Teresa of Avila is one of the more remarkable figures in the history of Christianity. Living in a perilous time, when the Roman Catholic church was suspicious of anything that might develop into Protestant heresies and schisms, she [... more]
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A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's Inferno
Author: Rodney J. Payton Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 851.1 EAN: 9780820418278 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0820418277 Number Of Pages: 276 Publication Date: 2005-01 [... more]
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Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life
typo in previous review: In a review dated 9 May 2000.... "Pascal was a Jansenist, the Roman version of a Catholic...." I am reasonably certain that he intended to say, "of a Calvinist." The Calvinists claimed, as did the Jansenists, [... more]
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Translated and ...
From Amazon.co.uk: The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophical texts gathered and translated into Coptic by [... more]
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The Idiot
A revealing classic: The Idiot is one of the finest novels in history, perhaps the finest. In this novel, the enigma that is often referred to as "THE RUSSIAN SOUL" is variously dissected through the different characters and more so by the hero [... more]
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