On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : The Church and the Last Things Vol. 1
By: Saint Symeon the New Theologian
4.34
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
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1. Two Hundred Chapters on Theology (Popular Patristics Series)
By: Maximus the Confessor , Luis Joshua Salés
4.36
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus’ most eclectic writings. In this short piece, Maximus di… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
"Whenever you see Herod and Pilate befriending each other for Jesus' destruction, notice, then, the converging of the demon of fornication and vainglory for the same purpose, to kill the logos of virt…"-Maximus the Confessor, Two Hundred Chapters on Theology (Popular Patristics Series)
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
3. City of God
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson
3.93
Format: 1186 pages, Paperback
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more
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- christianity
- religion
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- theology
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
5. On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans
By: Melito of Sardis , Alistair Stewart-Sykes
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
The Quartodecimans were early Christians who kept a single feast of Pascha on the Passover, maintai… read more
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- christianity
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- theology
6. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
7. On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great
By: Basil the Great , None
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
St Basil s homilies on the subject of wealth and poverty, although delivered in the fourth century,… read more
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8. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
11. The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
By: Eusebius , Andrew Louth , G.A. Williamson
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 3… read more
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12. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
13. On the Holy Icons
By: Catharine P. Roth , None , None , None
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Written in the midst of the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th-9th centuries, these essays affirm … read more
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14. On The Human Condition: St. Basil the Great
By: Basil the Great , Nonna Verna Harrison
4.34
Format: None pages,
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15. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
16. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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- christianity
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- nonfiction
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
17. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
18. How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
By: Seneca
4.05
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
“It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,” wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 B… read more
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"Hanya orang lemah yang mati karena menanggung sakit, tapi hanya orang bodoh yang tetap hidup untuk menahan rasa sakit. (Surat-surat 58. 32-36)."-Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
"Kematian akan membatalkan semua nestapa, suatu penghujung yang tak bisa dilalui oleh penyakit; mengembalikan kita pada kedamaian yang menaungi kita sebelum kita lahir."-Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
"If fall I must, let me fall amid the smashing of the world, not because it’s right to wish for a national disaster, but because it’s a great comfort in the face of death to see that the earth too is …"-Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
"Orang bijak tidak akan pernah merasa dicampakkan, karena dicampakkan berarti diusir dari tempat yang dengan terpaksa kau tinggalkan; orang bijak tidak pernah melakukan sesuatu karena paksaan; ia terl…"-Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
19. Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief
By: David Bentley Hart
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much … read more
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- theology
20. On Marriage and Family Life (Popular Patristics) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)
By: John Chrysostom
4.43
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Christian tradition often seems to give only grudging approval to the married life, particularly it… read more
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21. On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : The Church and the Last Things Vol. 1
By: Saint Symeon the New Theologian
4.34
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Now Back in Print. St Symeon's theology emphasizes the mystical encounter with God and transfigurat… read more
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22. Catechetical Discourse: A Handbook for Catechists
By: Gregory of Nyssa
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
St Gregory of Nyssa wrote the Catechetical Discourse as a handbook for his catechists, to help them… read more
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23. Orthodox Worship: A Living Continuity with the Synagogue, the Temple, and the Early Church
By: Benjamin D. Williams
4.21
Format: 221 pages, None
The Orthodox liturgy a living continuity with the worship of Judaism (temple and synagogue) and the… read more
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24. From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
By: Louis A. Markos
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might … read more
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25. Saint John of Damascus: Writings (The Fathers of the Church, 37)
By: John of Damascus
4.40
Format: 478 pages, Paperback
St. John of Damascus (ca. 675-749) is generally regarded as the last great figure of Greek Patrolog… read more
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26. On Ascetical Life (English and Syriac Edition)
By: Isaac of Nineveh
4.36
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
On Ascetical Life Isaac of Nineveh was a native of Bet Qatraye near present-day Bahrain on the Pers… read more
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27. On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, Volume 1
By: Maximus the Confessor
4.75
Format: 533 pages, Hardcover
Maximos the Confessor (580–662) occupies a unique position in the history of Byzantine philosophy, … read more
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28. On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : On Virtue and Christian Life Vol. 2
By: St. Symeon the New Theologian
4.45
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
This is the second of a three-volume series translating The Ethical Discourses into English for the… read more
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"Do you see how he who has acquired a good heart through his efforts and by doing the commandments has acquired the whole Godhead, which is that good treasure, to dwell within him?"-St. Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : On Virtue and Christian Life Vol. 2
"As our body, whether ill or not, is unable to move or even live at all without a soul, so our soul, too, whether it sins or not, is dead without the Holy Spirit and can in no way live everlastingly."-St. Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : On Virtue and Christian Life Vol. 2
"But, being Himself at once God and man, His flesh and soul were and are holy - and beyond holy. God is holy, just as He was and is and shall be, and the Virgin is immaculate, without spot or stain, a…"-St. Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : On Virtue and Christian Life Vol. 2
"To such ignorance of God and His divine commandments were they brought down who were begotten of dust from the man of dust, that the honor which they ought to have rendered to God they gave instead t…"-St. Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : On Virtue and Christian Life Vol. 2
29. Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Popular Patristics Series Book 37)
By: Mark the Monk
4.53
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
The spiritual counsels of Mark, a fifth century monk in Asia Minor, are equally rich in theological… read more
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30. Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses
By: Symeon the New Theologian
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
"A major new project...to reengage people with their own spiritual roots...the first contemporary f… read more
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"Have you not come to fight against invisible foes? Did you not come here to take up the warfare against your passions? For what reason did you wish to be enlisted and take your place in the ranks of …"-Symeon the New Theologian, Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses
31. On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, Volume 2
By: Maximus the Confessor
4.84
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Maximos the Confessor (580–662) occupies a unique position in the history of Byzantine philosophy, … read more
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