The Jewish Annotated New Testament
10 best books like The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Amy-Jill Levine): Citizen: An American Lyric, Leaves of Grass, I Await the Devil's Coming, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, The Jewish Study Bible, Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, The Four Loves, A Grief Observed, Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Citizen: An American Lyric
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555976905 |
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media....
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."
As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
I Await the Devil's Coming
| Author | Mary MacLane |
| ISBN | 1612191940 |
Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.
In...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
To read Ocean Vuong's
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0195297512 |
The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today....
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
| Author | Janet Reitman |
| ISBN | 0618883029 |
Scientology, created in 1954 by pulp science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members and huge financial holdings. Celebrity believers keep its profile high. Teams of volunteer ministers offer aid at disaster sites like Haiti and...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0062565397 |
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.
C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell,...
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
| Author | Ashlee Cunsolo |
| ISBN | 0773549331 |
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow...
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
| Author | Eli Clare |
| ISBN | 0822362872 |
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort,...
Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion
| Author | Stephen J. Shoemaker |
| ISBN | 0300217218 |
For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her...
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
| Author | Sara Ahmed |
| ISBN | 0415972558 |
In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions...
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic � at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the...
How to Do Things with Words
| Author | J.L. Austin |
| ISBN | 0674411528 |
John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words.
For...
| Author | Joanna Campbell |
| ISBN | 0061060828 |
Is Wonder's racing career over before it begins?Against all odds, Ashleigh Griffen's favorite racehorse, Wonder, has come through training with flying colors. Now Ashleigh and Wonder's trainer, Charlie, are putting everything they have into getting Wonder ready for the biggest race of her career:...
Guarding Diana - Protecting The Princess Around the World
Diana, Princess of Wales – security code name ‘Purple Five Two’ – travelled all over the world during her incredible life. Wherever she went, in public or in private, she was shadowed by her Scotland Yard personal protection officer, Inspector Ken Wharfe, whose job it was it keep her safe, even...
| Author | Joanna Campbell |
| ISBN | 0061060852 |
Ashleigh's dreams are in tatters...Ashleigh Griffen is thrilled when the owner of the horse farm where she lives puts her favorite horse, Wonder, into training as a Thoroughbred racer. Ashleigh has spent the past year turning the sickly filly into a beautiful, healthy yearling.
Ashleigh...
| Author | Joanna Campbell |
| ISBN | 0061060836 |
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