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Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood... -
![Ahol megszakad by Péter Závada]()
Ahol megszakad by Péter Závada
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Moszkva tér kocsmáitól a népligeti fákig, az Oktogon hajszalonjaitól a Bartók Béla úti mecsetig sokféle tájat bejárnak Závada Péter versei, akit legtöbben a kortárs underground kultikus zenekara, az Akkezdet Phiai tagjaként ismernek, ám a dalszövegei mellett évek óta publikál rangos irodalmi folyóiratokban is... -
![Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism by Sarah Hurwitz]()
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism by Sarah Hurwitz
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA renowned political speechwriter rediscovers Judaism, finding timeless wisdom and spiritual connection in its age-old practices and traditions... -
![Light on Life by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans]()
Light on Life by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsB.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be the most important living yoga master--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga...Categorized as:
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![Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti]()
Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
![One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups]()
One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya]()
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPalden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at 18 — just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of “reform” that would eventually affect all of Tibet’s citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture... -
![Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann]()
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical...Categorized as:
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![Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf]()
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale... -
![How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, about Racial Reconciliation by Derwin L. Gray]()
How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, about Racial Reconciliation by Derwin L. Gray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhy must everything be so black and white? Like many of us, Derwin Gray is weary of the racial divide in our society. He longs to see hurts healed, wrongs corrected, and trust replace distrust.The good news is that the Bible has a lot to say about how to heal our persistent racial divides... -
![Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel]()
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies... -
![Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America by David Clarke Jr., Nancy French]()
Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America by David Clarke Jr., Nancy French
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerica has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing racial tension, animosity toward law enforcement professionals, government corruption, and disregard for the constitutional process, there seems to be no easy answer in sight... -
![Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion by David Barton]()
Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion by David Barton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover how the United States Supreme Court has reinterpreted the Constitution, diluting the Biblical foundations upon which it was based. Filled with hundreds of the Founders' quotes revealing their beliefs on the role of religion in public affairs, the proper role of the courts, the intended limited scope of federal powers, and numberous other current issues... -
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![Catch the Jew! by Tuvia Tenenbom]()
Catch the Jew! by Tuvia Tenenbom
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCatch the Jew! recounts the adventures of gonzo journalist Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel and the Palestinian Authority for seven months in search of the untold truths in today's Holy Land... -
![Escape from Reason (IVP Classics) by Francis A. Schaeffer, J.P. Moreland]()
Escape from Reason (IVP Classics) by Francis A. Schaeffer, J.P. Moreland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDespite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face perennial existential problems anxiety, despair, purposelessness... -
![On Palestine by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé]()
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOperation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater... -
![Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins]()
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic.Authoritative, personal, and vividly written, Romney: A Reckoning is a revealing account of Mitt Romney’s life... -
![The Dim Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out by Leonard Peikoff, Robin Field]()
The Dim Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out by Leonard Peikoff, Robin Field
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his groundbreaking and controversial book "The DIM Hypothesis," Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history... -
![Won by Love by Norma McCorvey]()
Won by Love by Norma McCorvey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most controversial United States Supreme Court decision, Norma McCorvey fought for and won the right to secure an abortion. Though she never had an abortion, under the pseudonym "Jane Roe," Norma reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement... -
![Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism by Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg]()
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism by Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish traditionJewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis... -
![The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant]()
The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day , comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action.'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Queen reigned for seventy years... -
![Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony]()
Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken... -
![By What Standard? God's World...God's Rules by Jared Longshore, Tom Ascol]()
By What Standard? God's World...God's Rules by Jared Longshore, Tom Ascol
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBy What Standard? | God’s World…God’s RulesEdited by Jared Longshore©2020 Founders PressPrinted in the United States of AmericaISBN: 978–1–943539–21–5267 pages (soft cover)Contents1. Hollow and Deceptive Philosophies: Tom Ascol2. Cultural Marxism: Voddie Baucham3. The Religious Root of our Sexual Perversion: Jared Longshore4. White Privilege: Tom Ascol5...Categorized as:
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![We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe by Kate Cohen]()
We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe by Kate Cohen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"It's an inspiring book that will—hopefully—push us toward a larger cultural conversation in which 'atheism' isn't seen as a dirty word." —The Humanist America doesn't need more God. It needs more atheists. Here's an impassioned call for nonbelievers to be honest with themselves and their families about their lack of belief—and help change the American cultural conversation... -
![The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappé]()
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSince its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology... -
![Living My Life, Vol. 2 by Emma Goldman]()
Living My Life, Vol. 2 by Emma Goldman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“You damn bitch of an anarchist, I wish I could get at you. I would tear your heart out and feed it to my dog.” This was one of the less obscene messages received by Emma Goldman (1869-1940), while in jail on suspicion of complicity in the assassination of McKinley. The most notorious woman of her day, she was bitterly hated by millions and equally revered by millions... -
![Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat]()
Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009“The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years.”—Richard Spencer, The Times (London) “A majestic work that goes a long way in unraveling . . . the country’s enigmas and apparent contradictions... -
![The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird]()
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American PrometheusEver since Ronald Reagan's landslide win in November 1980, pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's single term in the White House a failed presidency... -
![2 Chairs: The Secret That Changes Everything by Bob Beaudine]()
2 Chairs: The Secret That Changes Everything by Bob Beaudine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this inspiring book, Bob Beaudine helps you live a life guided by your relationship with God by asking three critical questions.In this world you will have trouble. Count on it!It might be something small or something big, but you know you don't have an answer. You've come to a realization there is a limit to what you can do alone...
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