noa - Religion & Spirituality 1

A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism. Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributorsーmen and women, scholars, rabbis, theolog……続きを見る

The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Yearーwhat it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal. Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributorsーmen and wome……続きを見る

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies. Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omn……続きを見る

Explore the sprawling network of culture to discover the incredible ways in which ideas connect to shape the world we see today. These mind-blowing essays dig down to the roots of stories, myths and……続きを見る

En esta cuarta entrega de Biblia y Teología Hoy que se va consolidando en el mundo científico de la era postmoderna y donde abordamos temas de actualidad y pertinentes a la sociedad en la que inter……続きを見る

Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist th……続きを見る

This book offers a way of approaching the place of the will in Descartes' mature epistemology and ethics. Departing from the widely accepted view, Noa Naaman-Zauderer suggests that Descartes regards……続きを見る

The most controversial prayer of the Jewish New Yearーwhat it means, who wrote it, why we say it. Over forty contributors who span three continents and all major Jewish denominations examine Un'tane……続きを見る

A new approach to thinking about the representation of the Other in Western society, The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative offers an insight into the gendered difference o……続きを見る

Are you feeling overwhelmed and a little empty? There is something warm and comforting about a steaming bowl of beef stew that has been slow-simmered with savory spices and fresh herbs. The aroma al……続きを見る

Amados en el Amado trata sobre el profundo amor que Dios ha demostrado por el ser humano al adoptar nuestra esencia. No solo hizo esto, sino que también nos representa en su vida, en su muerte y en ……続きを見る

Noam Chomsky and linguist Andrea Moro explore language, the history of science, Big Data and AI, and the mysteries of the human brain. Influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague An……続きを見る

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and i……続きを見る

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon……続きを見る

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?' Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landm……続きを見る

This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood.　 New and emerging technologies, such as ……続きを見る

This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreakin……続きを見る

This edition of Treatise on Purgatory comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by chapter.Saint Catherine of Genoa is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for h……続きを見る

O eminente bibliographo e meu prezado amigo Innocencio Francisco da Silva, historiando em breves linhas a vida quasi obscura de Braz Luiz d'Abreu, conclue com estas palavras: Se algum dos nossos rom……続きを見る

Our lives in God are not a puzzle to be solved, but rather a mystery to be lived. "Sometimes God gives us a path," says Mary Katharine Deeley, "instead of an answer." Though it is true that decision……続きを見る

True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emo……続きを見る

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His schol……続きを見る

The Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa tells the powerful story of fifteenth century mystic and humanitarian, St. Catherine of Genoa. It begins with her biography, which depicts both her……続きを見る

the story of what happened to me is true, if unbelievable? the answers that the goddess gave to my questions are as accurate as i can recall them (i had no way of recording them word for word at the……続きを見る

Every person’s life is a profound mystery. Deep and invisible currents make us who we are, and the world around us is full of secret purposes and laws. One reaction to all this mystery is to treat i……続きを見る

You can’t erect walls where there's no foundation. You can’t add a roof where there are no walls. The life-changing facts about God couldn’t have been added to my life hadn't a strong foundation of ……続きを見る

After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 e……続きを見る

A Great Transaction in Land The people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had s……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

If you're chasing after the bucket list idea, you’re going to ask yourself what’s the point? A bucket shouldn't be full of impulsive stuff that we pick up as we go along through life. It shouldn't b……続きを見る