" An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In this stunningly intelligent book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780006383475
'A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us. ' Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world. Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac...more details Format:Paperback / softback
A compelling investigation into myth; what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. From the Palaeolithic period and the myths of the hunters right through to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500 years and the discrediting of myth by science....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781841958002
This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event...more details Format:Paperback Pages:159
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781841957166
This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:159
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781841956442
Takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' over years and the discrediting of myth by science...more details Format:Hardback Pages:208
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781841958125
Offering an investigation into the history of myth, this book takes the readers from the Palaeolithic period and the mythology of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation'. It shows that the history of myth is the history of humanity...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:168
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781841957036
An investigation into the history of myth, this book takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the mythology of the hunters to the 'Great Western Transformation'. It shows us that the history of myth is the history of humanity...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:168
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780002555234
One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism. The need to understand it has never been greater, and Karen Armstrong attempts to do so in this text. Focusing in detail on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States...more details
Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a new way of living. All that is known about him comes from a collection of ancient writings that fuse history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780143034360
With such bestsellers as "A History of God and Islam," Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered apenetrating, readable, and prescienta ("The New York Times") works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In "Buddha" she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780670891931
Karen Armstrong has been acclaimed for her scholarship and vision, in works The New York Times Book Review calls "penetrating, readable and prescient". Her rich...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:205
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780297646259
Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha stands with Christ, Confucius and Mohammed as someone who revolutionized the religious ideas of his time to advocate a new way of living. All that is known about Buddha comes from a collection of ancient writings that fuse history...more details Format:hardback Pages:208
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781847920355
An essential book for our times: Karen Armstrong answers bestselling atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and argues that faith still has a fundamental role in the modern world.
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The enormous popularity of books by Richard Dawkins...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781843545071
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire, fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human....more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781843540564
A stunning examination of the world in the time of
Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah and why
they shared similar ideas about humanity. Paperback 468 pages...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780099273677
The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah- has existed for over 4000 years. In this account of the evolution of belief Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of one God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders...more details Format:Book
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781842125830
In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the world's fastest growing faith; more than three-quarters of the world's refugees are Islamic; it has produced government by authoritarian monarchies in Saudi Arabia and ultra-republicans in Iran. Whether we are reading about civil war in Algeria or Afghanistan...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780297643722
In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes, but do we really understand the central tenets of this faith, or why so many people around the world turn to fundamentalism? This book traces how Islam grew from Judaism and Christianity and demonstrates its enlightening aspects....more details Format:Hardback Pages:200
Jerusalem, the Holy City, venerated for centuries by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike; no other city has remained the center of such conflict for so long. Now Karen Armstrong...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781842126080
Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly...more details Format:paperback (B format) Pages:288
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780575050129
Western relations with the Muslim world are increasingly important to international stability, but, although more can be discovered about Muhammad than about any other founder of a world religion...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
This biography presents a picture of the prophet Muhammad that facilitates a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam, and the people who adhere to it so strongly...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780061155772
The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing Religion
"Muhammad" presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780060598976
Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:249
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780007232482
From the best-selling writer of "The History of God" and the widely acclaimed "Islam - A Short History" comes Karen Armstrong's "Muhammad". Karen Armstrong has become one of our most important and relevant commentators on religious world affairs today...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780007232451
From the bestselling writer of "The History of God" and the widely acclaimed "Islam - A Short History" comes another valuable addition to the "Eminent Lives series"...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781741148985
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over 2,000 languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last 200 years alone. A work made up of 66 'books' and divided into two Testaments...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780761813897
Shifting Ground and Cultural Bodies addresses questions about the interrelationship of cultural practices, social relations, and gender through three studies of rural villages and two urban situations in Africa and India. The contributors point out that by looking at gender...more details Format:Paperback Pages:146
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780007122295
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780007122288
It is emblematic of a more general flight from institutional religion and a groping towards a form of faith that has not yet been fully articulated but which is nevertheless in the process of declaring itself...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780060591878
Fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world. However, it remains incomprehensible to large numbers of people. In "The Battle for God...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780006383482
One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism. The need to understand it has never been greater, and Karen Armstrong attempts to do so in this text. Focusing in detail on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States...more details Format:paperback Pages:464
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780679435976
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:464
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781410403780
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. The Bible is also the world's most widely distributed book. Translated into over two thousand languages...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:375
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780871139696
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. The Bible is also the world's most widely distributed book. Translated into over two thousand languages...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:302
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780802143846
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. The Bible is also the world's most widely distributed book. Translated into over two thousand languages...more details Format:Paperback Pages:302
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781594152634
As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. The Bible is also the world's most widely distributed book. Translated into over two thousand languages...more details Format:Paperback Pages:373
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781409058335
Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, this title shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780307269188
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:406
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780307702371
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781410421531
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:767
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780307389800
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names...more details Format:Paperback Pages:406
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781903809754
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and all others emerge in this five-hundred-year span? In this book...more details Format:Hardback Pages:464
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780385721240
From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of "A History of God" and "The Spiral Staircase," comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought. In the ninth century BCE...more details Format:Paperback Pages:565
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780739325322
From one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780060591854
"Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism," Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work "A History of God." Armstrong considers herself a "historian of ideas...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780694515035
This fascinating account of the development of the idea of a single god in Judaism, Christianity and Islam debates the centuries-old question of whether God created people...more details Format:Paperback
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780060594381
Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before -- hoping...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780312340957
"Through the Narrow Gate" is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780006550549
"Through the Narrow Gate" is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life...more details Format:Paperback
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780307595591
One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world--author of such acclaimed books as "A History of God, Islam, "and "Buddha"--now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place. Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:222
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781847921581
After the bestselling The Case for God, Karen Armstrong makes the case for compassion - an urgent appeal to establish empathy and altruism at the centre of our private and public lives.
Drawing on a wide range of material...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:215
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780307742889
One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world--author of such acclaimed books as "A History of God, Islam, "and "Buddha"--now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place. Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is intrinsic in all human beings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781446402245
Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of neuroscience - this title argues that compassion is hardwired into our brains...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9781417715596
The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day. They broke into a new religion...more details
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ISBN:9781423307723
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs...more details Format:CD
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What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong;Sandra Burr
ISBN:9781423307709
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong;Sandra Burr
ISBN:9781423307693
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781423307686
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781423307679
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong;Karen Armostrong
ISBN:9780679640400
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Iris Murdoch;Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780142180099
Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
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ISBN:9781400153947
In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of historya (TM)s most powerful book---the Bible. This is a brilliant...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong;Josephine Bailey
ISBN:9781400133949
In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of historya (TM)s most powerful book---the Bible. This is a brilliant...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong;Josephine Bailey
ISBN:9781400103942
In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of historya (TM)s most powerful book---the Bible. This is a brilliant...more details Format:CD
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Karen Armstrong;Jeanette Atwood MargaretWinterson
ISBN:9781423307914
A Short History of Myth: What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world...more details Format:CD
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Armstrong Karen
ISBN:9780099524038
There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad;Karen Esposito John LArmstrong
ISBN:9780813021034
Important for a general audience interested in women and religion, this book will be especially valuable to scholars in the fields of feminist theology...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Armstrong Karen
ISBN:9780739473085
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In 1948, the German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term 'Axial Age' to denote an astonishing era...more details Format:Paperback Pages:469
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ARMSTRONG KAREN
ISBN:9780375413179
In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China...more details Format:Hardback
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ARMSTRONG KAREN
ISBN:9780385721400
Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God," "skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence...more details Format:Paperback Pages:672
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ARMSTRONG KAREN
ISBN:9780345406040
As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature--the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis remains enigmatic. In this fascinating volume...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Armstrong Karen
ISBN:9780099555476
The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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John Reeve;Everett Armstrong KarenFox
ISBN:9780712349758
"Sacred" is the lush official catalog of the groundbreaking British Library exhibit bearing the same name, which presents many of the world's most beautiful religious texts for the first time. Illustrations from rare and exquisite examples of Jewish...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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John Reeve;Everett Armstrong KarenFox
ISBN:9780712349550
"Sacred" is the lush official catalog of the groundbreaking British Library exhibit bearing the same name, which presents many of the world's most beautiful religious texts for the first time. Illustrations from rare and exquisite examples of Jewish...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Karen Speerstra;George Armstrong
ISBN:9780879611095
Karen Speerstra's research is authenticated by the archaeologists of the Eastern National Parks Association. To make facts interesting, her story follows Yellow Moon...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80