Yesterday, I Cried : Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving
What is the lesson in abuse, neglect, abandonment, rejection? What is the lesson when you lose someone you really love? Just what are the lessons of life’s hard times? Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life — one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to wisdom gained. […]
History of God : the 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions–Judaism, Christianity, and Islam–shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain’s foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, […]
Freethinkers : a History of American Secularism
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers celebrates the noble and essential secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.In impassioned, elegant prose, Susan Jacoby offers a powerful […]
You–the Owner\’s Manual : an Insider\’s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
Publishers Weekly Anti-aging guru Roizen and celebrated heart surgeon Oz combine their popular approaches to patient-centered care in this assessment of how much, or more to the point, how little, readers know about their bodies. After taking the quizzes in the book, readers may feel shocked by their ignorance of basic anatomy and the processes […]
HTML for the World Wide Web
FROM THE PUBLISHER As both the Web and the browsers used to navigate it mature, work-arounds that compensate for the myriad factors that affect Web page appearance no longer cut it. Users expect Web pages to look beautiful regardless — and with the Fifth Edition of this popular Visual QuickStart Guide, you can make your […]
1776
Gordon S. Wood – The Washington Post David McCullough, America\’s most celebrated popular historian, has done it again — written another engaging work of narrative history. This book, however, is very different from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams. Not only is it much shorter than those gigantic tomes, but it […]
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
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The New Moosewood Cookbook
FROM THE PUBLISHER Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper wi th it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the author […]