God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
10 best books like God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along (Gerald Schroeder): The Slap, If Not Now, When?, Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Confessions of a GP (The Confessions Series), If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood, Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses, Return of the Kosher Pig, The 90 Minute Manager: Lessons From The Sharp End Of Management
Author | Christos Tsiolkas |
ISBN | 1741753597 |
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap.
In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye...
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries,...
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
Author | Matthew Syed |
ISBN | 0061723754 |
This is a thoroughly enjoyable book; it appears to be the first of two books written by Matthew Syed. He is a champion table tennis player. He combines his own experience in his climb to champion status with the experiences of other champion sportsmen and celebrities, to come to some very interesting...
Author | Shane Bauer |
ISBN | 0735223580 |
A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...
Confessions of a GP (The Confessions Series)
Author | Benjamin Daniels |
ISBN | 1906321884 |
Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.
A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common...
Author | Ilana Kurshan |
ISBN | 0646152602 |
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...
Author | David R. Montgomery |
ISBN | 0393082393 |
In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world's flood stories and, drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists, discovered...
Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses
Author | Andrew Malleson |
ISBN | 0773529942 |
Whiplash, first described in a medical journal in 1953, now occurs so frequently that in the U.S. alone its annual cost is estimated at between $13 and $18 billion dollars. In Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses Andrew Malleson contends that whiplash is nothing more than a strain of the neck and, like...
Here is a definitive volume on the “Divine Messiah in Jewish thought” by Rabbi Itzhak Shapira. The candor of this volume comes from the author as a Rabbi deciding to delve into who the Messiah truly is. Trained to despise Christianity and Jesus Christ, his journey took is profound. These pages show...
The 90 Minute Manager: Lessons From The Sharp End Of Management
Author | Chris Brady |
ISBN | 0273693840 |
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Author | Primo Levi |
ISBN | 0140188924 |
In this exuberant and wildly funny novel, Primo Levi celebrates the joys of work and the art of storytelling. The magic is worked through the mesmerizing tales told by Libertini Faussone, a construction worker, and by the narrator, a writer-chemist, who share stories of their adventures. Faussone...
A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East
Author | Amos Elon |
ISBN | 0231107439 |
A Blood-Dimmed Tide gathers nearly thirty years of Amos Elon's work on the Middle East. Skillfully moving from the Intifada, to the Gulf War and its aftermath, to the Peace Now! movement, these essays provide a nuanced account of relations between Jews and Arabs, and among the Israelis themselves....
The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel
Author | Robert W. Jenson |
ISBN | 1579109624 |
This book presents a bold venture in theology, combining a presentation, explanation, analysis, and reinterpretation of trinitarian language. Rejecting the assumption that traditional trinitarian discourse is useless in an age of cults and sects, Jenson points to a profound and provocative...
The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: How a Spectacular Hoax Became History
Author | Peter Lamont |
ISBN | 1560256613 |
A rope rises up into the air. A boy climbs up the rope and when the boy gets to the top he vanishes into thin air, explains Peter Lamont, winner of the Jeremy Dalziel prize in British History, and author of The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick, about a tall tale that found its way into legend. The rope trick is one...
Permission To Believe: Four Rational Approaches to God's Existence
Author | Lawrence Kelemen |
ISBN | 0944070558 |
It pains me that the faith in which I believe is so poorly defended. It hurts even more that probably the most popular and oft-quoted book on the subject is so weak and filled with inaccuracies and old, dull arguments, that have long ago been refuted, to boot With some seasoning, I believe I can make a better...
Zohar: Annotated & Explained (SkyLight Illuminations)
The best-selling author of The Essential Kabbalah now
offers readers the best introduction to the Zohar.
The splendor and enigmatic appeal of the Zohar, the major text of the Jewish mystical tradition, has never intrigued readers of all faiths more than it does today. But how can we truly understand...
The Mystery of the Shemitah: The 3,000-Year-Old Mystery That Holds the Secret of America's Future, the World's Future, and Your Future!
Author | Jonathan Cahn |
ISBN | 1629981931 |
The book you can't afford NOT to read.
It is already affecting your life…
And it WILL affect your future!
Is it possible that there exists a three-thousand-year-old mystery that…
· Has been determining the course of your life without your knowing it?
· Foretells...
Author | Evelyn Waugh |
ISBN | 0316917338 |
Black Mischief, " Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance...