African & African-American Religion (Religion, Scriptures & Spirituality Series)
By: Victor Anderson
3.49
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
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1. The Black History of the White House
By: Clarence Lusane
4.15
Format: 575 pages, Paperback
“Clarence Lusane is one of America’s most thoughtful and critical thinkers on issues of race, class… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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- history
- audiobook
3. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
4.31
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. … read more
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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality"-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
4. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
This is an older edition of ISBN 9780679761792. "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all k… read more
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"There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins fi…"-James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
5. The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Peter Levitt
4.42
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. In The Heart of Understanding, Thich Nhat Hanh offers a lucid… read more
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"If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
"If you don't understand and you love, that is not love; it is something else."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
"In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
"Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
6. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
7. The Gunman and His Mother: Lee Harvey Oswald, Marguerite Oswald, and The Making of an Assassin
By: Steven Beschloss
3.76
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
For most of us, the story of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy depicts Lee Harvey Oswa… read more
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- nonfiction
8. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
9. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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10. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
12. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
By: Rochelle Riley , Aisha Hinds
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slaveryis a plea to America to understand … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Larry Dossey , Rachel Neumann
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In order to understand why people pray, The Energy of Prayerexamines the applications and effective… read more
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14. Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
An exciting contribution to the growing trend of applying Buddhist practices to encourage wellness … read more
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- nonfiction
15. Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , None
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Happy Teachers Change the Worldis the first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/P… read more
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16. Up from Slavery
By: Booker T. Washington , Ishmael Reed
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slaver… read more
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17. Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Encouraging readers to be intelligent and skillful in their practice, this new collection by Thich … read more
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18. Naked
By: David Sedaris
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris tu… read more
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19. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
20. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
21. The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
By: Dōgen , Peter Levitt , Kazuaki Tanahashi
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), founder of the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, is one of the greatest religio… read more
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22. Shinto & Japanese New Religions
By: Ben Kingsley , None
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Audio CD
The traditional religion known as Shinto was present in Japan from prehistoric times, long before B… read more
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23. The World According to Physics
By: Jim Al-Khalili
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more
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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
24. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- audiobook
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
25. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.94
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more
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- audiobook
26. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
28. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices o… read more
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"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"..we find some of the deepest traces of Islam and other traditional African religions in places like Sapelo Island, home of the Gullah Geechee people. Islam's strong roots persisted here in ways that…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
29. The Anunnaki Connection: Sumerian Gods, Alien DNA, and the Fate of Humanity (From Eden to Armageddon)
By: Heather Lynn
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
This definitive guide connects a diverse range of new and existing theories about the Anunnaki, whi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
By: Adrian Greaves
3.80
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the e… read more
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- africa
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. African & African-American Religion (Religion, Scriptures & Spirituality Series)
By: Victor Anderson
3.49
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
This series describes the beliefs, practices and commitmets of the world's greatest religions. It e… read more
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