A history so funny, so true, so scary, it's bound to becalled a conspiracy. "Meticulous in its research, forensic in itsreasoning, robust in its argument, and often hilarious in itsdebunking, Voodoo Histories is a highly entertaining rumblewith the century's major conspiracy theorists and their theories"(John Lahr). From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to the assassination of JFKto the Birthers, Aaronvitch probes and explores the majorconspiracy theories (and theorists) of our time. In doing so, heexamines why people believe these conspiracies and makes anargument for a true skepticism.

Holman Bible Publishers is pleased to offer its first student Bible featuring the popular Holman Christian Standard Bible translation, combining biblical accuracy with modern readability like never before. A visually driven product for a visually driven culture, The Holman Student Bible enhances the study of God's Word with colorful page designs, explanatory sidebars, engaging study questions, and many other reading helps that are especially relevant to the development of true faith among this new generation.

An account by the first commandant at the Auschwitzconcentration camp who was later executed for his wartimeactivities shares insights into his early childhood, his ascentthrough the ranks of the SS and his oversight of the camp'satrocities and mass killings. 15,000 first printing.

After a period of training with the man he calls Socrates, Dan Milman is sent away by his old mentor to apply what he has learned to everyday life. Struggling with personal failure and growing disillusion, he sets out on a worldwide quest to rediscover the sense of clarity, meaning, and purpose he found with Socrates. Then a long-forgotten memory drives Dan to seek a mysterious woman shaman in Hawaii. She is the gateway to all his hopes and fears -- and the only one who can prepare him for what may follow. Deep in a rain forest on the island of Molokai, Dan encounters mortal challenges, vivid characters, and startling revelations as he ascends the peaceful warrior's path toward the light that shines at the heart of all our lives. In this compelling tale, the author breathes new life into ancient wisdom and reminds us that all our journeys are sacred, and all our lives an adventure. The eagerly awaited sequel to the author's bestselling Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior provi

In this remarkable book, Martin Buber presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of imagination and spirit, together with his own unique insights, Buber offers us a way of understanding ourselves and our place in a spiritual world. Challenging us to recognize our own potential and to reach our true goal, this is a life-enhancing book.

Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story ofDan Millman, a world champion athlete, who journeys into realms ofromance and magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and spirit.Guided by a powerful old warrior named Socrates and tempted by anelusive, playful woman named Joy, Dan is led toward a finalconfrontation that will deliver or destroy him. Readers join Dan ashe learns to live as a peaceful warrior. This internationalbestseller conveys piercing truths and humorous wisdom, speakingdirectly to the universal quest for happiness.

In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venicedetermined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But thecrusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by theshrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople,wreaking devastation so terrible and inflicting scars so deep thatas recently as 2001 Pope John Paul II offered an apology to theGreek Orthodox Church. The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands,plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. A prostitutedanced on the altar of the ravaged Hagia Sophia. And by 1204,barbarism masquerading as piety had shattered one of the greatcivilizations of history. Here, on the eight hundredth anniversaryof the sack, is the extraordinary story of this epic catastrophe,told for the first time outside of academia by Jonathan Phillips, aleading expert on the crusades. Knights and commoners, monastic chroniclers, courtly troubadours,survivors of the carnage, and even Pope Innocent III left vividac

Raja and Nilu are fated to fall in love. They both have been abandoned—he through his mother’s suicide inthe public pond, she through her mother’s constant escape intodrink. He has grown up on the streets, she in a crumbling mansion.And yet, they find each other, again and again. First when they arechildren. Then when they are young lovers. And finally after theyboth fear they have lost their marriage. But the events of thepast, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present.And Raja and Nilu’s story is not only their own. Using Nepal’s political upheavals as a backdrop to demonstratehow we are irreparably connected to past and home, Buddha’s Orphansis an engrossing, unconventional love story, a seductive,transporting read, and further evidence that Samrat Upadhyay is oneof our finest writers, thoroughly deserving of his acclaim as “theBuddhist Chekhov” and comparisons to Amitav Ghosh, William Trevor,and Jhumpa Lahiri.

Review 'He taught himself and men how to read the language of dreams as if they were the forgotten language of the gods themselves.' - Laurens van der Post Product De*ion Science of Mythology provides an account of the meaning and the purpose of mythic themes that is linked to modern life: the heroic battles between good and evil of yore are still played out, reflected in contemporary fears.

In Coming to Our Senses, internationally renowned author JonKabat-Zinn wrote the definitive book for our time on the connectionbetween mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing.Arriving at Your Own Door is the perfect gift for his many fans: abeautifully illustrated collection of 108 verses excerpted fromthat acclaimed work. These gems of knowledge provide simple,intuitive ways to achieve deeper understanding of our genius, ourbeauty and our life path in a complicated and rapidly changingworld.

For many years, Parker Palmer has worked on behalf of teachers and others who choose their vocations for reasons of the heart but may lose heart because of the troubled, sometimes toxic systems in which they work. Hundreds of thousands of readers have benefited from his approach in The Courage to Teach , which takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with themselves, their students, their colleagues, and their vocations, and reclaiming their passion for one of the most challenging and important of human endeavors.This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, in community with their students and their subject. They possess 'a capacity for connectedness' and are able to weave a complex web of connections between themselves, their subjects, and their students, helping their student

Throughout recorded history it has been thought that onlythose with a special gift could connect with a spirit guide, theirhigher self or the universal mind. Now, bestselling author andchannel for Orin, Sanaya Roman has collaborated with Duane Packer,Ph.D., channel for DaBen, to produce the first step-by-step guideto the art of channeling. Their methods can be used by anyone whowishes to open to higher dimensions. Channeling is a skill whichcan be learned. Sanaya and Duane have successfully trained hundredsof channels using these safe, simple and effective processes.Included are chapters by Orin and DaBen on how to tell if you areready, who the guides are, how to attract a high level guide, howto go into trance and much more. A step-by-step guide to the art ofchanneling for those who wish to connect with a spirit guide. Byusing this safe, simple, and effective process, thousands haveachieved mastery with their higher selves. (Channeling)

Different styles of martial arts offer contradictoryinformation, philosophies, and techniques for the body in combat. Apractitioner of Judo might advocate grappling, reasoning that mostfights converge into close range after a short time, when anadvocate of Tae Kwon Do would argue that one should strive tomaintain one's distance in an encounter that would allow one to usethe legs, the most powerful weapon on the human body. As a lifelong student and teacher of multiple styles of martialarts, Steven Pearlman has sought to distill from these disciplinesnot a fusion of techniques, but rather a compilation of fundamentalprinciples that can guide the individual martial artist to theideal action. Through his exploration of a set of basic principlesthat range from the physical (spinal alignment, the triangularguard, breathing) to the spiritual (the void, the body-mind, thecharacter), Pearlman arrives at a system open to all martialartists without bastardizing the techniques of the originaldisciplines.

Neal Donald Walsch was experiencing a low periodin his life when he decided to write a letter to God, venting hisfrustrations. What he did not expect was a response. As he finishedhis letter, he was moved to continue writing - and out cameextraordinary answers to his questions. This work presents theanswers that Walsch received, helping him to change himself, hislife and the way he viewed other beings.

Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expressed in the Rig-Veda more than 4000 years ago. Remarkable for their meditative depth, spirit of doubt and intellectual honesty, the Upanishads are concerned with the knowledge of the Brahman, the Ultimate Reality, and Man's relationship with it. The name Upanishad is derived from the face-to-face mode of imparting knowledge - in the utmost sanctity and secrecy, to prevent its trivialisation or perversion. Composed in Sanskrit between 900 and 600 BC, the Upanishads presented here are by far the oldest and most important of those that exist. Twelve were first translated more than a hundred years ago, and have been extensively revised and edited. The thirteenth is an entirely new translation by Suren Navlakha.

In Carroll's provocative reading of the deep past, the Bible'sbrutality responded to the violence that threatened Jerusalem fromthe start. Centuries later, the mounting European fixation on aheavenly Jerusalem sparked both anti-Semitism and racist colonialcontempt. The holy wars of the Knights Templar burned apocalypticmayhem into the Western mind. Carroll's brilliant and original leapis to show how, as Christopher Columbus carried his own Jerusalemcentric worldview to the West, America too was powerfully shaped bythe dream of the City on a Hill - from Governor Winthrop to AbrahamLincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan. The nuclearbrinksmanship of the 1973 Yom Kippur War helps prove his point:religion and violence fuel each other, with Jerusalem the groundzero of the heat.

Recent exciting discoveries by independent researchers havedramatically challenged our understanding of ancient Egypt, raisingprofound questions about our past. STARGATE CONSPIRACY exposes themost insidious dangerous plan of our times. It involvesintelligence agencies, politicians, bestselling writers, scientists industrialists. The authors believe that this conspiracy,centred upon the eternal mysteries of ancient Egypt, targets threatens us all. Tracing the identity of the groups involved, LynnPicknett Clive Prince argue that at the heart of this strangeplan is the belief that the ancient Egyptian gods were-and are-realextraterrestrials, about to return through the 'stargate' betweenour world theirs. They suggest that the US-funded excavationson the Giza plateau - officially denied, but for which the authorsproduce documented evidence - now appear to be the result ofdirectives allegedly received through communication with beings ofhigher intelligence, who are instructing the conspirators to laythe f

This is the story of one man's faith, told with unrivaledreflection and candor. William F. Buckley, Jr., was raised aCatholic. As the world plunged into war, and as social moreschanged dramatically around him, Buckley's faith -- a mostessential part of his make-up -- sustained him. In Nearer, My God,Buckley examines in searching detail the meaning of his faith, andhow his life has been shaped and sustained by religious conviction.In highly personal terms, and with the wit and acuity for which heis justly renowned, Buckley discusses vital issues of Catholicdoctrine and practice, and in so doing outlines for the reader boththe nature of CathoLic faith and the essential role of religiousbelief in everyday life. In powerfully felt prose, he contributesprovocatively and intelligently to the national interest in thenature of religion, the Church, and spiritual development. Nearer,My God is sure to appeal to all readers who have felt the stirringsof their own religious faith, and who want confirmation of theirbelie

Being and Becoming is a wide-ranging analysis of thenature of being and selfhood. The book presents an original,integrated paradigm with the aim of creating a comprehensiveoverview of the human condition—and finding ways to alleviatesuffering. In essence, the book explores the question, “What doesit mean to be?” Being and Becoming begins with fresh interpretations of thework of Martin Heidegger and Buddhist, Taoist, and Christianwritings as they relate to this question. Most of Being andBecoming, however, is about the nature of self and selfhood asa process of “I-am-this,” “my becoming” rather than “my being.”Author Franklyn Sills interweaves concepts from object relationstheories, psychodynamics, pre- and perinatal psychology, andBuddhist self-psychology, along with his own rich experience as aBuddhist monk, somatic therapist, and psychotherapist, into hisinquiry. The works of Fairbairn and Winnicott are discussed indepth, as are Winnicott and Stern’s insights into the nature of t