Author: Lama Surya Da
Publisher: Doubleday Religio
Keywords: western, world, wisdom, tibetan, buddha, awakening
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 1998-06-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0767901576
ISBN-13: 9780767901574

If you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya Das doesn’t spin platters for a living, but he does have a hip delivery that belies his years of sheltered training in Buddhist monasteries. In Awakening the Buddha Within, he borrows a time-tested bestseller format for a 2,500-year-old tradition that comes off as anything but ancient. With the "Five T’s of Concentration," the question of "need or greed," and the story of the monk who bares his backside to prove a point,

Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher: Doubleday Religio
Keywords: war, terror, politics, darfur, survivors, saviors
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0385525966
ISBN-13: 9780385525961

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “

Author: John L. Allen Jr.
Publisher: Doubleday Religio
Keywords: church, catholic, revolutionizing, trends, future
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-11-10
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0385520387
ISBN-13: 9780385520386

One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed—and what the changes will mean for all of us.What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the United States and the rest of the world go bankrupt from years of scandal? In THE FUTURE CHURCH, John L. Allen puts forth the ten trends he believes will transform the Church into the twenty-second century. From the influence of Catholics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on doctrine and practices to the impac

Author: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Doubleday Religio
Keywords: nazareth, jesus
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0385523416
ISBN-13: 9780385523417

“This book is… my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord.’” —Benedict XVIIn this bold, momentous work, the pope—in his first book written as Benedict XVI—seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and incites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. From Jesus of Nazareth… “the great question

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Publisher: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religio
Keywords: supplements, religion, philosophy, indian, language
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 1978-05-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0919812074
ISBN-13: 9780919812079

Author: Michio Kaku
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: fields, teleportation, time, travel, force, phasers, impossible, scientific, exploration, world, physics
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0385520697
ISBN-13: 9780385520690

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future. From te

Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: summons
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0385503822
ISBN-13: 9780385503822

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He’s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family’s black sheep.And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.With the end in sight, Judg