From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries and Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith
10 best books like From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries and Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith (L. Michael White): Saint Joan, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Nikolski, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family, A String in the Harp, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0140437916 |
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
| Author | Brian Greene |
| ISBN | 0965900584 |
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the...
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
| Author | Carl Sagan |
| ISBN | 0345409469 |
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific...
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
| Author | Albert Einstein |
| ISBN | 0143039822 |
An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself
According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested...
| Author | Nicolas Dickner |
| ISBN | 1590307143 |
Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal, each on a voyage of self-discovery, dealing with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree.
Filled with humor, charm, and...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Books of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all of history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instructions for the behavior of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods, it served as the most important repository of religious...
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible.
The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and...
| Author | Nancy Bond |
| ISBN | 0689804458 |
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond is one of those novels I love so much it almost hurts. It concerns the Morgan family – Jen, Peter and Becky - who, after their mother is killed in car crash, move from Massachusetts to Wales. Still reeling from the blow, the family is falling apart. Peter, in particular,...
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users....
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0767903692 |
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
| Author | Max Tegmark |
| ISBN | 1846144760 |
Our Mathematical Universe is a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality. Our Big Bang, our distant future, parallel worlds, the sub-atomic and intergalactic - none of them are what they seem. But there is a way to understand this immense strangeness...
Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery
| Author | Rhett McLaughlin |
| ISBN | 0751570575 |
“Internetainers” Rhett & Link met in first grade when their teacher made them miss recess for writing profanity on their desks, and they have been best friends ever since. Today, their daily YouTube talk show, Good Mythical Morning, is the most-watched daily talk show on the Internet, and...
Legends and Lore of Birmingham and Central Alabama
| Author | Beverly Crider |
| ISBN | 1626193967 |
From Jasper to Selma to Hoover, central Alabama is bursting at the seams with unique stories and legendary characters. Read about the Goat Man, the famous wandering traveler who wrestled a bear, narrowly avoided being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, was pronounced dead and taken to the morgue and later...
| Author | Cameron Newham |
| ISBN | 0596009658 |
Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition, is the definitive guide to bash, the Free Software Foundation's "Bourne Again Shell." It's a freely available replacement for the UNIX Bourne shell, and is the shell of choice for users of Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, and other UNIX systems.
You'll find this...
Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer
| Author | George Lawrence Stone |
| ISBN | 1892764040 |
George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. It is the ideal book for improving control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination, with extra attention...
Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance
| Author | Robin Furth |
| ISBN | 0743297342 |
The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Begun more than thirty years ago, seven books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling, epic fantasy series. Previously published in two separate volumes, The Complete Concordance is the definitive encyclopedic...
Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer
| Author | Ted Reed |
| ISBN | 0882847953 |
This book is divided in two parts: note reading exercises and then actual syncopation. The first part just introduces you to basic figures up to 8th-notes triplets and 16th notes. The second part is the real core of the book. As a beginner drummer I found the syncopation exercises useful to get my first...
'UNIT: Silenced is very nearly a perfect set of four stories that highlights one of the most unique and dangerous foes of the Doctor Who universe... Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver again headline a stellar cast.' Doctor Who Reviews
Decades after their defeat by the Eleventh Doctor, the Silence...
