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How to Pray: A Step-by-Step Guide to Prayer in Islam
There has been an urgent need for a simple and concise guide which teaches the basics of prayer for Muslims. This book has been designed for people who don’t know how to pray yet or those who aren’t sure whether they learned correctly or not.In this book you will learn the prayers by reading clear and simple descriptions of what to do along with pictures to make sure you understood correctly. One of the unique features of this book is that it doesn’t limit itself to teaching the rituals behind the prayer only. Rather, there is an entire chapter dedicated to learning the meanings behind each statement and action in the prayer.Read more
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A Royal Christmas
’A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes’ Hugo VickersA Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, full of silver threepenny pieces.
Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas and conflict in the 20th century, Christmas pastimes, festive feasts, Christmas and the Commonwealth, and many more, to reveal the many ways in which the Royal Family have celebrated the festive season through the ages.
Jeremy Archer has delved into the Royal Archives to uncover the personal thoughts of many members of the Royal Family during the Christmas period. What comes over most strongly from Queen Victoria’s journals is the importance of family: the joys they shared, the trials they endured, and the carefully-selected gifts they exchanged. Although there is much happiness, tragedy is a common bed-fellow, particularly in earlier times. And conflict is seldom very far away.
But this is a celebration – both of an enduring festive season and an extraordinary family.
‘An easy to read treat for royal enthusiasts, skilfully assembled to highlight significant episodes in our history from the comic to the tragic informative and enjoyable’ Sarah Bradford
‘Jeremy Archer has an eye for an anecdote and a clever way of arranging his material. The result is like an enormous bran tub: dip in, and you’re sure to find something to keep you entertained’ Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday
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The Scientific Deception of the New Atheists
Proponents of the New Atheist movement commonly use scientific discourse to make a case against theism. Richard Dawkins famously positions Darwinian evolution as a replacement for the ‘God Thesis’. New Atheists like A.C Grayling, Christopher Hitchens and others make the case that belief in religion is inhibiting to science. Moreover, New Atheists claim that science can tell us all we need to know about the world. On this view, reference to a divine being is superfluous. This small book is a refutation of these claims. By referencing the works of western intellectuals, the author demonstrates decisively how flawed these postulations are. The author is able to show that despite the seemingly forceful and pervasive nature of New Atheist claims in public discourse, the actual success of New Atheists is largely over-rated.Read more
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Understanding Islam
Islam may be the most misunderstood faith in history. Most of us learn little or nothing about Islam in school; in fact, our knowledge of Muslims may be restricted to news reports on the Middle East and Louis Farrakhan. Surprise–the vast majority of Muslims aren’t Arabs, the Muslim Allah is very much the “one God” Christians and Jews believe in, many of the scientific and medical innovations we take for granted were passed on by Muslims, and the popular myths about Muslims often have little to do with the real beliefs of Islam. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Understanding Islam reveals fascinating facts about Islam; they accept both the Old and New Testaments as holy books and accept Moses and Jesus as prophets. The book offers tips on Muslim culture, actual quotes from the Qur’an, the Prophet Muhammad, and prominent scholars, and answers to questions regarding everyday life from the Muslim perspective.
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Islam 101 Second Edition: A Beginners Guide to Understanding the Muslim Faith
Islam is the religion of more than one billion Muslims living across the globe. From far eastern Asia to western Africa to the Americas, they come from all countries, many cultural backgrounds, ethnic groups, and speak numerous languages. However, all of them read the same book (the Holy Quran) and have the same fundamental beliefs. This book is a short introduction to who Muslims are, what they believe in, and pillars on which the building of Islam stands. The book also answers frequently asked questions and addresses common myths and misinformation about Islam.New for the second edition:
- New chapter on commonly used words by Muslims and their meanings
- New chapter on information for educators
- Many improvements in content
- Addition of diagrams and references
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Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good (Resources for Changing Lives)
If you have ever purposely injured yourself, it may seem normal, even right. But if you haven’t, it seems impossible to understand those who have. After all, don’t living creatures avoid pain? Edward T. Welch writes this eye-opening and encouraging booklet assuming that you feel trapped in a cycle of self-injury or that you love someone who does. Welch helps loved ones to understand the selfinjurer’s world. And if you are the one who feels trapped by this behavior, he lovingly describes a cure that is more attractive than you think. If you want peace and rest, you must look away from yourself. Look to Jesus the answers reside in him.Read more
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The Supernatural World of the Anglo-Saxons: Gods, Folklore and the Pagan Roots of Christmas and Halloween
The Supernatural World of the Anglo-Saxons covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon Paganism and folklore, including the Anglo-Saxon calendar. It is written with great knowledge and passion, exploring the Pagan Roots of Christmas and Halloween, of Wōden, the Wild Hunt and all the ancient Yule traditions. The Anglo-Saxons gave their name to England. Learn who they were, what they believed, who their Gods and Goddesses were. Discover the mythological beings found in Bēowulf and all across England’s ancient landscape, and learn about the Pagan roots of Morris Dancing, along with other dances and Pagan traditions.
Also includes German folklore such as Holda, Perchta and Krampus.
Amazon Reviews for The Supernatural World of the Anglo-Saxons:
…Wonderful!!…Another masterpiece from my favorite author!
…Absolutely enthralling, brilliant read!
…Superb content based on Anglo-Saxon lore
…A incredible source of Anglo-Saxon traditions and folklore compiled in a simple to read book.
…Gods, faeries, people and events are some the topics included. Those shed a light on how the Anglo-Saxon world was.
…Great chapters involving some of the world’s most infamous traditions such as Halloween and Christmas.
…A great read that might need an index because of the vast amount of the subjects covered.
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Blood on its hands?: The Church and LGBT Youth
Over half of young people between 18-24 in the UK currently identify as “not exclusively heterosexual.” Yet a sizable majority of Christian Churches in the UK, US and Australia still refuse to acknowledge the immutability of most LGBT identities or to engage with the lived realities of LGBT people. This apathy – and sometimes downright hostility – creates a toxic environment for some of our most vulnerable young people, leading to isolation, despair and sometimes, tragically, suicide. This poses the question, does the Church have blood on its hands?Blood on its Hands? should serve as a wake-up call to take LGBT identities and LGBT mental health seriously, to avoid some of the tragedies highlighted in this book. It is intended to be used as an aid to discussion in worship communities.
Dr Carol A Shepherd is a published academic and trade author, whose works include Bisexuality in the Western Christian Church (Palgrave) and Bi: the Way, Pastoring Bisexual Christians in Europe (EYP). Anthony Venn-Brown is the founder and CEO of Ambassadors & Bridge-Builders International (Australia). He is a much loved and globally renowned LGBT Christian ambassador and speaker.
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The Enigmas of History: Myths, mysteries and madness from around the world
History is replete with unanswered questions regarding rumoured past events, objects, and cultures that often turn into the stuff of legends.Each chapter in this engaging study examines a particular mystery; they come from locations across the globe and throughout the annals of human history. The topics addressed include the lost city of Atlantis; the Ark of the Covenant; the legend of the crystal skulls; and the enigma of the indecipherable Voynich manuscript.
Entertaining and informative, The Enigmas of History is an unbiased review of historical puzzles and bewildering discoveries that is perfect for the historian and curious sceptic alike.
Praise for The Enigmas of History:
’The Enigmas of History is an enjoyable romp through familiar material (bible mysteries, witchcraft, conspiracy theories) with some surprising new takes (an interesting comparison between belief in fairies back then and aliens more recently). It’s a good starting place for anyone who hasn’t read such a book before’ – Books from Scotland
Alan K. Baker was born in Birmingham. Having left university, he embarked on a series of unpleasant jobs, including a stint in a sausage factory which he credits with stimulating his interest in the bizarre and macabre. Since 1997 he has written several non-fiction books about the paranormal and popular history.
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The Last Reunion: The thrilling and achingly romantic new historical novel from the international bestselling author
*THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR KAYTE NUNN!*
‘Absolutely magnificent’ NATASHA LESTER
‘Hugely engaging’ DAILY MAIL
War would bring them together.
But would it ultimately tear them apart?Burma, 1945.
Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy are five young women looking for adventure, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle attached to the Fourteenth Army. Running a mobile canteen, navigating treacherous roads and dodging hostile gunfire, they soon become embroiled in life-threatening battles of their own – battles that will haunt the women for the rest of their lives.
Oxford, 1976. At the height of an impossibly hot English summer, a woman slips into a museum and steals several rare Japanese netsuke, including the famed fox-girl. Despite the offer of a considerable reward, these tiny, exquisitely detailed carvings are never seen again.
London and Galway, 1999. On the eve of the new millennium, Olivia, assistant to an art dealer, meets Beatrix, an elderly widow who wishes to sell her late husband’s collection of Japanese art. Concealing her own motives, Olivia travels with Beatrix to a New Year’s Eve party, deep in the Irish countryside, where friendships will be tested and secrets kept for more than fifty years are spilled…
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Surfing The Himalayas: W: Conversations and Travels with Master Fwap
An account of one man’s path to enlightenment through his strange encounter with an elderly Tibetan Buddhist monk.Read more
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A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Islam
ave you ever watched a T.V. programme or read a newspaper article where a commentator clumsily illustrates his complete ignorance of Christianity and its claims How often have you rolled your eyes and immediately discounted what is being said, saying to yourself “Well, why should I listen to them when they obviously haven’t got a clue!” How, then, can we expect to witness effectively to those of the Muslim faith if all that we know of Islam is picked up from passing references in the media This fascinating book provides Christians with a simple description of the origins of Islam, what Muslims believe and how it affects their attitudes, worldview, everyday life and culture. Practical guidelines are given for relating to Muslims in a culturally appropriate way, as well as for witnessing effectively and caring for converts. If you long to reach Muslim friends but are wondering where to start then this is the book for you.Read more
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Alice: A Christmas Ghost Story
Praise for Shani Struthers’ books:***** One of the best books in this genre. (Wildacre)
***** One of the best Christmas Ghost Stories I have ever read. (Eve)
***** It reminds me of the old black and white British ghost story films. (Rosamund)
***** Another instant classic from Shani Struthers. (The Damned Season)
***** A meloncholy masterpiece. (Carfax House)
***** Shani Struthers is my Queen of Horror. (Highgate)From the author of the bestselling Psychic Surveys series comes a Christmas Ghost Story like no other!
Is anyone ever who they seem?
After suffering the tragic loss of her best friend, Lottie Beck is struggling. Aged eighteen, she’s flunked school and spends her days lying in a darkened room, doing nothing. Finally, she is forced to get a job at Silver Birches Care Home.
Once there, and after meeting the residents, particularly the feisty, no-nonsense Bobby, she settles in, appreciating how much history lies behind each person. A history she can read, in her own special way, via the touch of a hand.
Alice is another resident, aged ninety-two, and mute. A woman who has always been institutionalised and is now near the end of days. It is she who intrigues Lottie the most, but whom she also fears. All she knows is something happened to make her the way she is, an event on Christmas Eve, way back, something sinister.
Surely she deserves peace, but if together they aren’t brave enough to confront what lurks in the darkest recesses of her mind, she’ll die in anguish.
It’s Christmas Eve again, 2023, and as Lottie is about to find out: not all ghosts are dead.
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Psychic Surveys Series:
Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall
Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me
Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street
Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage
Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension
Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion
Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep
Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul
Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil’s Liar
Psychic Surveys Companion Novels:
Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel
Blakemort (Corinna’s story)
Thirteen (Ness’s story)
Rosamund (Rosamund Davis – Ruby’s great-grandmother’s story)
Jed (the story of one of Psychic Surveys most loved and mysterious characters)
This Haunted World Series:
This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian
This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor
This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate
This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise
This Haunted World Book Five: Resistance
Reach for the Dead Series:
Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy
Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm
Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker
Jessamine Series:
Jessamine
Comraich
Summer of Grace – A Standalone Mystery Thriller
Christmas Ghost Stories
Carfax House
The Damned Season
Wildacre
Alice
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African Spiritual Practices: The Ultimate Guide to Yoruba, Santería, Orishas, Black Spirituality, Ancestral Veneration, Maat, Haitian Voodoo, and Hoodoo (African Spirituality)
Explore the numerous vibrant African spiritual practices and their traditions and beliefs.Are you curious to learn more about the many spiritual practices of the African continent?
Have you been looking for an accurate guide to African spiritual practices which doesn’t look at them through a Western eye?
Africa is home to numerous spiritual practices, from Santeria and Haitian Voodoo to Kemetism and Isese (the Yoruba religion). Despite the variety of these traditions, finding a cohesive guide that looks at them from a neutral perspective is challenging. This book is the ideal guide and a great way to further your exploration of African spiritual practices.
In this book, you will:
- Learn about the many African spiritual practices
- Explore the creator gods these traditions believe in
- Understand the gods and deities of these traditions in greater detail
- Explore the tradition of African ancestral veneration
- Learn more about the sacred herbs and plants of the African continent
- Discover how to build altars and shrines in these African spiritual traditions
This insightful book provides spiritual wisdom and historical facts that will help you further explore the world of African spiritual practices and develop a greater appreciation.
Click on the “add to cart” button now to unlock the secrets of traditional African spiritual practices today.
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Islam: Faith and Practice (Sussex Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices)
This book sets out the basic framework of Islamic belief and practice.Read more
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Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (Islam in the Twenty-First Century)
AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS ON RELIGION 2014 PICKFew things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumor, sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion’s founding moments. They were developed, like in other world religions, over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars.
Misquoting Muhammad takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. From the protests of the Arab Spring to Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and from the ochre red walls of Delhi’s great mosques to the trade routes of the Indian Ocean world, Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values.
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The Essential Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man; An Esoteric Cosmology; … Education; How to…
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of Rudolf Steiner’s most important works: ‘Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man,’ ‘An Esoteric Cosmology,’ ‘Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path,’ ‘An Introduction to Waldorf Education,’ and ‘How to Know Higher Worlds.’ Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist.Read more
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The Twelve Days of Murder: The perfect festive whodunnit to gift this Christmas
LOVEREADING’S BOOK OF THE MONTH! The perfect murder mystery to gift this Christmas.Find the truth. Solve the murder. Never reveal your secret.
Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Murder Masquerade Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, but they were always fictional – until their final Christmas puzzle, when one of the group disappeared, never to be seen again.
Now, the remaining members receive an invitation to a reunion masquerade, to be held in a beautiful and remote country house in Scotland. The game begins, and it feels just like old times.
Until the next morning, when Lady Partridge is found hanging from a pear tree.
It quickly becomes clear that in this game, the murder will be all too real, and the story is bringing long-hidden secrets to the surface. If they hope to survive the festive season then they will need to face the truth about what happened on that fateful night twelve years ago.
PRAISE FOR THE TWELVE DAYS OF MURDER:
‘(An) entertaining thriller’ Good Housekeeping
‘A devious holiday whodunnit’ Publishers Weekly
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Scientific Healing Affirmations
This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden laws for harnessing the power of concentrated thought — not only for physical healing, but to overcome obstacles and create all-around success in our lives.The book contributes to conscious understanding and application of the laws governing the super-consciousness. Paramhansa Yogananda was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’. Included are comprehensive instructions and a wide variety of affirmations for healing the obdy, developing confidence, awakening wisdom, curing bad habits, and much more.
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The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, A Christmas Tree and others
“The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens: Illustrated” is a festive treasury that gathers together some of the most beloved holiday tales penned by the celebrated author, Charles Dickens. This enchanting collection includes timeless classics such as “A Christmas Carol,” “The Chimes,” “The Cricket on the Hearth,” “The Battle of Life,” “A Christmas Tree,” and several others.Charles Dickens, known for his masterful storytelling, invites readers into the heart of Victorian England during the Christmas season. Through his vivid narratives and memorable characters, Dickens captures the spirit of generosity, redemption, and the joy of the holiday season.
In “A Christmas Carol,” readers follow the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from a miserly old man to a kind-hearted benefactor after a visit from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. “The Chimes” explores themes of social injustice and the power of hope, while “The Cricket on the Hearth” weaves a tale of love and family bonds.
“The Battle of Life” and “A Christmas Tree” round out this collection, offering readers a glimpse into Dickens’ skillful storytelling and his ability to convey the warmth and magic of Christmas.
This illustrated edition enhances the reading experience with captivating artwork that brings Dickens’ characters and settings to life. “The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens: Illustrated” is a perfect companion for the holiday season, providing readers of all ages with a timeless and heartwarming experience that celebrates the true spirit of Christmas. Rediscover these classic tales and let Dickens’ words fill your heart with joy and goodwill during this special time of year.
Contents:
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Battle of Life
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
A Christmas Tree
What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
The Poor Relation’s Story
The Child’s Story
The Schoolboy’s Story
The Holly-TreeRead more
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