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The remarkable true story of two families that survived against all odds in the heart of the Nazi capital. Survival in the Shadows rivetingly chronicles the incredible survival of seven German Jews in Berlin through the final and most deadly years of the Holocaust.

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States, and she trekked over many battle sites with him during her childhood. After reading about General Joshua Chamberlain's supernatural experience at the Battle of Gettysburg, Roberts began to collect tales of the blue and gray and write them down.

The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement - whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens - speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman tells his own story to challenge the orthodoxies of this movement and make a passionate argument that atheists should engage religious diversity respectfully.

The Amish, one of America's most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for 300 years! How has that happened? While much has been written on the Amish, little has been revealed about their history. This book brings together in one volume a thorough history of the Amish people. From their beginnings in Europe through their settlement in North America, the Amish have struggled to maintain their beliefs and traditions in often hostile settings.

The Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a huge new following among evangelical church youth.

This fourth book in Dando-Collins’ definitive history of Rome’s legions tells the story of Rome’s 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for their leader, Mark Antony, these common Roman soldiers, through their gallantry on the battlefield, reshaped the Roman Empire and aided the spread of Christianity throughout Europe.

What is the RSS’ imagination for India? If India becomes a Hindu Rashtra, what will be the place of Muslims and other faiths in it? How big is the RSS project of history writing? Will Hindutva override caste politics? And what is the RSS view of social issues pertaining to the changing nature of family, the rights of people with different sexual orientations and the third gender? These contentious questions are just a few of the myriad political and social issues that Sunil Ambekar, a high-ranking pracharak, analyses in his book, The RSS: Roadmaps for the 21st Century.

Un relato esclarecedor de lo que nos aguarda tras la muerte y el despertar final. Uno de los testimonios espirituales más lúcidos y poderosos de nuestro tiempo.        

Un véritable voyage intérieur, servi par des illustrations apaisantes. Il est temps de redécouvrir la sophrologie et ses merveilleux bienfaits. Anne-Laure Mahé et Pépé, toutes deux formées aux médecines alternatives, nous expliquent comment prendre conscience de son corps et de sa force vitale jusqu'à s'ouvrir aux autres et améliorer ses relations, en utilisant la sophrologie, avec des exercices de respiration et de relaxation.

Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco - became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone....

Você já despertou durante a noite e descobriu que não podia se mover? Saiba que esses momentos de terror e agonia foram motivados pelo seu desconhecimento sobre o assunto. Com o conteúdo revelado neste audiolivro, você terá as ferramentas para passar por essa experiência sem nenhum risco.

Em Jesus, o homem mais amado da história, Rodrigo Alvarez recria a trajetória do messias de uma forma inédita, tentando chegar o mais perto possível da informação em estado bruto. Para isso, ele se debruçou durante sete anos sobre textos históricos antigos e as descobertas arqueológicas mais modernas.

Our lives have become so busy that we are living in a constant state of go, go, go. What did you do last Thursday? What about two weeks ago Monday? Our days are so consumed with emails, telephone calls, errands, status updates, texts, and tweets that entire days go by without one single moment of joy. And we wonder why we are stressed out, anxiety-ridden, tired, walking zombies.

Audible Studios présente Transcendances, une série documentaire de Leslie Menahem, produite par Narrative. À travers des témoignages intimes, des hommes et des femmes nous livrent des expériences spirituelles et ésotériques qui ont marqué leur vie. À écouter au casque pour profiter du son 3D. Expérience 5 : Dans le ventre de la Mer : Une nage méditative dans le détroit de Gibraltar. Constance, 46 ans, travaille dans le luxe, mais elle rêve d'aventure.

Audible Studios présente Transcendances, une série documentaire de Leslie Menahem, produite par Narrative. À travers des témoignages intimes, des hommes et des femmes nous livrent des expériences spirituelles et ésotériques qui ont marqué leur vie. À écouter au casque pour profiter du son 3D. Expérience 4 : Des flammes dans l'obscurité : Une purification par le Temazcal au Mexique. Vanessa, une française de 38 ans, raconte son immense amour pour le Mexique. C'est là, adolescente, qu'elle découvre le Témazcal, une sorte de hutte à sudation. 

Si estuvieras enfermo y los médicos no fueran capaces de ayudarte, ¿esperarías 20 años a que la ciencia descubriera la verdadera causa de tu enfermedad? Anthony William, el único médium reconocido mundialmente como una autoridad en el diagnóstico médico, está ayudando en la actualidad a decenas de miles de personas a curarse de dolencias mal valoradas, erróneamente tratadas o que los doctores no supieron resolver. Según explica él mismo, sus éxitos se deben a una voz inspiradora que le habla al oído, literalmente, y le revela cuál es la raíz del dolor de los pacientes.

It is a popular belief that the Ramayana is idealistic while the Mahabharata is realistic. Yet these two epics have identical building blocks, identical themes and identical history. In this groundbreaking book, Devdutt Pattanaik, India’s most popular mythologist, explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the two epics in a ‘playful analysis’. Whether it is the family structure, forest exile or war, the comparison between the two epics proves a startling point - the Mahabharata is in fact a reaction to the events in the Ramayana.

The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires nor rejects belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible - a book that is too large to swallow whole yet too important in our history and culture to spit out. Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew's account of the birth of Jesus so different from Luke's? Why was St Paul so rude about St Peter?

In his new book, There is No App for Happiness, Strom illustrates three imperatives to take back control of our lives. Learn that joy and fulfillment require us to be active participants, not passive viewers. We should not strive for a virtual life - but a life truly lived. There is No App for Happiness helps us to overcome our negative presets and propels us into a new and more meaningful experience of living.

Beginning with a sweetly funny, moving account of her arranged marriage, the author undercuts stereotypes and offers the refreshing view of an American life through Muslim eyes. In chapters leavened with humor, hope, and insight, she recounts an immigrant's daily struggles balancing assimilation with preserving heritage, overcoming religious barriers from within and distortions of Islam from without, and confronting issues of raising her children as Muslims - while they lobby for a Christmas tree!