Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief
8 best books like Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief (Rodney Stark): Tigana, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The Power of Myth, Chronicles of the Black Company, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age, The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Author | Guy Gavriel Kay |
ISBN | 0451457765 |
A masterful epic of magic, politics, war, and the power of love and hate—from the renowned author of The Fionavar Tapestry and Children of Earth and Sky.
Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel...
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Author | Steven Johnson |
ISBN | 0684868768 |
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author | Jared Diamond |
ISBN | 0143036556 |
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
Author | Joseph Campbell |
ISBN | 0385418868 |
The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." With Bill Moyers, one of America's...
Chronicles of the Black Company
Author | Glen Cook |
ISBN | 0765319233 |
Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.
Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more…
This omnibus edition comprises The Black...
Author | Robert N. Bellah |
ISBN | 0674061438 |
Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that...
The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction
Author | Roy Eskapa |
ISBN | 1937856135 |
Finally, there is a cure for alcoholism. This is the first step.
Featuring new and updated information and studies, including an introduction by actress Claudia Christian, the second edition of The Cure for Alcoholism delivers exactly what millions of alcoholics and families of alcoholics...
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for soul friend, the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the...