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|  | Wisdom of the East by Susan Suntree
The spiritual philosophies from the East--from Islam to Buddhism--have influenced our lives in the West. Wisdom of the East is a captivating collection that brings together ancient teaching stories with contemporary reflections by women and men who have been influenced by these philosophies. The majority of entries are original, written by the leading writers and authorities on Eastern thought. AUTHOR: Susan Suntree
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality 
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 | Baby's First Easter by Matthew Singer, Moira MacClean
Description not available.A beautifully illustrated and vividly written book--which features a pint-sized handle and clasp that is perfect for little hands to tote everywhere they go--teaches children the story of Easter. AUTHOR: Matthew Singer, Moira MacClean
PUBLISHER: Reader's Digest Children's Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Essential Zohar by Philip S. Berg
Berg, director of the Kabbalah Centre, explores the Zohar-an enigmatic book of the Kabbalah. In doing so, he offers insight into human nature and shows readers how to use these insights to move toward their spiritual salvation. AUTHOR: Philip S. Berg
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Truth & Existence by Adrian van den Hoven, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Aronson
At long last, Truth and Existence allows us to read Jean-Paul Sartre`s analysis of knowing and truth. This brilliant epistemological sequel to Being and Nothingness was found among Sartre`s unpublished manuscripts by his adoptive daughter and executor, Arlette Elkaim-Sartre. Posthumously published in France in 1989, the work dates to 1948, shortly after Sartre`s controversial call for the writer`s political commitment and his celebrated public lecture Existentialism Is a Humanism . Truth and Existence, written in response to Martin Heidegger`s The Essence of Truth, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This brief, coherent, and engaging text presents Sartre`s ontology of truth in terms of his characteristic key moral questions of freedom, action, and bad faith. While stressing the intuitive and personal dimensions of truth, Truth and Existence also explores the argument that ignoring is an intentional act starting, like all knowledge, from the primary ontological condition of ignorance. Thus, at the heart of Sartre`s discussion are explanations of ignorance (as resulting from the choice to ignore), phenomenological descriptions (of behavior seeking to avoid the truth), and the reasons why one chooses to avoid the truth. Sartre explores why one Madame T., afflicted with tuberculosis, should choose to ignore the disease that is killing her rather than take responsibility for it. Here is Sartre the existentialist at his most original and most provocative: this work of epistemology, based on ontology, becomes a work of ethics. At the same time, Truth and Existence foreshadows and lays thebasis for some of the most important insights of the Critique of Dialectical Reason. Truth and Existence is introduced by an extended biographical, historical, and analytical essay by Ronald Aronson. AUTHOR: Adrian van den Hoven, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Aronson
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | The Great Goddesses of Egypt by Barbara S. Lesko
The great goddesses of Egypt inspired magnificent temples and art and a literature that speaks of their supreme importance to the ancients -- men and women, royalty and commoners. In this book Barbara S. Lesko follows the changing fortunes, over thousands of years, of the seven most significant Egyptian goddesses: Nut, Neith, Nekhbet, Wadjet, Hathor, Mut, and Isis. Some already appeared in prehistory, and some were later political creations. One became a universally revered goddess of the Greco-Roman world who successfully held her own against Christianity for five hundred years. Although they often assumed human form, some goddesses were associated with animals that Lesko traces back to African clan divinities. Understood as the sun's heat, the Milky Way, the flood, and the mother of the king of Egypt, the great goddesses also assumed the caring role of protector for deserving humans, assisting with careers, romance, and fertility. They held out the promise of eternal life, and records show that they won fierce loyalty from their followers. Wherever Egyptians traveled, favorite goddess cults were sure to accompany them. Because works on Egyptian goddesses generally appear in scholarly series or European publications, they are inaccessible to most American readers. Furthermore, many studies of Egyptian religion overlook goddesses, focusing instead on male deities. In this volume, Lesko presents a distillation of available sources and offers original insights that bring into focus goddesses whose powers equaled those of the gods and whose attributes are sometimes astounding. AUTHOR: Barbara S. Lesko
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Showing the Spirit by D. A. Carson
Most of this book expounds the crucial passage, I Corinthians 12-14. But the concluding chapter integrates material from other portions of Scripture - especially the Book of Acts - so that the author's conclusions reflect all of the biblical evidence... AUTHOR: D. A. Carson
PUBLISHER: Baker Academic
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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