American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
10 best books like American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion (Paul M. Barrett): White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Ishmael, The Book of Chuang Tzu, How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction, El murmullo de las abejas
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially,...
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender...
| Author | Zhuangzi |
| ISBN | 0140194886 |
A Chinese classic, the Chuang Tzu was written sometime in the 4th century BC, and consists of original teachings, stories, tales and jokes told by Master Chuang, as well as others which have coalesced round his name. It is considered second only to the Tao Te Ching, but the two books coundn't be more different....
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1616963069 |
“[Yolen is] the Aesop of the twentieth century”
—The New York Times
Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil’s Arithmetic) delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging transformed fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets,...
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
| Author | William B. Irvine |
| ISBN | 0195374614 |
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows...
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
| Author | Tyler Kepner |
| ISBN | 1984883291 |
From
The New York Times
baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
The baseball...
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 1681684578 |
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and...
| Author | Jonathan Littman |
| ISBN | 0316032298 |
Face it, whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I HATE PEOPLE!, a smart, counter-intuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how...
| Author | John Fea |
| ISBN | 0664235042 |
Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded...
El murmullo de las abejas
El murmullo de las abejas
, nombrada "La mejor novela del 2015" por iTunes.
La autora que despierta la historia de México y recupera su lugar en nuestros corazones.
En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo, un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia...
The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
| Author | Tom Verducci |
| ISBN | 0804190011 |
With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become...
Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
Catholicism and American Freedom is a groundbreaking historical account of the tensions (and occasional alliances) between Catholic and American understandings of a healthy society and the individual person, including dramatic conflicts over issues such as slavery, public education, economic...
Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
| Author | Tracy Fessenden |
| ISBN | 0691049637 |
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation...
An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies
| Author | Steve Coutinho |
| ISBN | 0231143397 |
Steve Coutinho explores in detail the fundamental concepts of Daoist thought as represented in three early texts: the "Laozi," the "Zhuangzi," and the "Liezi." Readers interested in philosophy yet unfamiliar with Daoism will gain a comprehensive understanding of these works from this analysis,...
| Author | Richard Feldman |
| ISBN | 0133416453 |
Sophisticated yet accessible and easy to read, this introduction to contemporary philosophical questions about knowledge and rationality goes beyond the usual bland survey of the major current views to show that there is argument involved. Throughout, the author provides a fair and balanced blending...
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0393004597 |
In The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca, representative selections from Seneca's writings offer the reader an excellent introduction to the range of his work.
The selections are drawn from the essays, or dialogues, and the "Consolations;" from the treatises, of which "On Clemency," addressed...
Metaphysics: An Introduction
| Author | Alyssa Ney |
| ISBN | 0415640741 |
Metaphysics: An Introduction combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics, connecting the abstract nature of metaphysics with the real world....
Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, and God
Basic sceptic writings
It is from a feeling of puzzlement or ignorance, a doubting attitude, that man's whole search for knowledge emerged. p. 3
Scepticism sought was not a sort of paralytic anaesthesia; it was peaceful living acording to the institutions of one's own country and the...
