Publication date: 2008-02-28
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.65
Review The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.18
Review Jesus of Nazareth / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2008-07-01
RRP: £30.00
Price: £13.00
Review Disputed Truth: Memoirs v. 2 / Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.:
Creator: Henry Chadwick
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-03-05
Dewey code: 230
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.25
Review The Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Creator: Mother Agnes of Jesus
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-02-04
Dewey code: 282
RRP: £6.95
Price: £1.78
Review Story of a Soul: Autobiography of St.Theresa of Lisieux / Tan Books & Publishers Inc.,U.S.:
Authors
- Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
Publication date: 1998-04-02
Dewey code: 294
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.50
Review Freedom in Exile: Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet / Abacus:The Dalai Lama's autobiography should leave no one in doubt of his humility and genuine compassion. Written without the slightest hint of pretence, the exiled leader of Tibet recounts his life, from the time he was whisked away from his home in 1939 at the age of four, to his escape from Tibet in 1959, to the winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. The backdrop of the story is the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet. We learn in calm detail of imprisonment, torture, rape, famine, ecological disaster and genocide that in under four decades of Chinese rule have left a million-and-a-quarter Tibetans dead and the Tibetan natural and religious landscapes decimated. Yet the Dalai Lama's story is strangely one of hope. This man who prays for four hours a day harbours no ill will toward the Chinese and sees the potential for good everywhere he casts his gaze. Someday, he hopes, all of Tibet will be a zone of peace and the world's largest nature preserve. Such optimism is not naive, but a result of his daily studies in Buddhist philosophy and his doctrine of Universal Responsibility. Inspiring in every way, Freedom in Exile is both a historical document and a fable of deepest trust in humanity. -Brian Bruya.
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 952.025092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.49
Review The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi / Kodansha International Ltd:
Authors
- Jamie Buckingham
- Nicky Cruz
Publication date: 2003-05-22
Dewey code: 230
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.07
Review Run Baby Run / Hodder & Stoughton:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-07-22
Dewey code: 270.0922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.34
Review The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 150.195
Price: £4.99
Review Man's Search for Meaning / Simon & Schuster Inc:Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Therefore, Frankl's logotherapy is much more compatible with western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is", Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. [+]" -Christine Buttery.
Publication date: 2008-06-17
Dewey code: 945
RRP: £20.00
Price: £11.07
Review Pius XII: The Reluctant Reich Maker / Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.:
Publication date: 2002-01-17
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.21
Review My Forbidden Face / Virago Press Ltd:My Forbidden Face frames a fragment of Afghanistan's bloody history through the eyes of its author, Latifa. Now 22, Latifa was 16 when the Taliban seized power in 1996. Overnight, Afghani women were stripped of their aspirations, their pleasures and their freedom. She describes the sudden change that transformed her home into her prison and her clothes into symbols of shame in evocative yet matter-of-fact tones. The facts are familiar to us from countless articles and petitions but reading them here in a personal account brings home the state of abject fear Afghani women had to adjust to as the new reality of their lives. Every day Radio Sharia, the Taliban's mouthpiece, would broadcast harsh new decrees to bind the confines of peoples' lives ever tighter. The severest restrictions were reserved for women: they were forbidden to go out unaccompanied by a male relative-which meant poor widows risked beatings and even death, they were forbidden to work or to go to school and even forbidden health care-since that would have meant being treated by a man. From being an educated, outgoing girl who dreamed of becoming a journalist, Latifa was plunged into sickness and depression. But somehow, this timid-and by Western standards-sheltered girl, finds the enormous courage to start running a "school" in her living room-just as her mother, a nurse runs an illicit surgery for women from their home. This combination of naivety and worldliness makes Latifa's voice extremely poignant. [+]My Forbidden Face is a powerful, readable little book you will want to absorb in one gulp. Not only does it give a voice to the nameless sufferings of so many but its bravery and determination are inspiring lessons to us all. -Rebecca Johnson.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-02-22
Dewey code: 225.92
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.46
Review Paul: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / OUP Oxford:
Authors
- Jan Greenough
- Angus Buchan
Publication date: 2006-03-24
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.37
Review Faith Like Potatoes: The Story of a Farmer Who Dared to Believe in God / Monarch Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-11-30
Dewey code: 232.908
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.96
Review The Historical Figure of Jesus / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: "Papas"
Publication date: 2005-04-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.41
Review Mister God, This Is Anna / Bibles/Liturgical/Music:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-05-09
Dewey code: 782.50922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.51
Review The Story of the Trapp Family Singers / HarperCollins:
Authors
- Tony Anthony
- Angela Little
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 291
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.33
Review Taming the Tiger / Authentic Lifestyle:
Creator: Mark Ridley
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-22
Dewey code: 591.5092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.89
Review Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think / OUP Oxford:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2006-04-01
Dewey code: 280.4
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.02
Review Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series) / Zondervan Publishing House:
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