Author: Robert S. EllwoodPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.
The Encyclopedia of World Religions
Author: Robert S. EllwoodPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.
Nature
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Christian Life
Author: The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Astrology Book
Author: James R LewisPublisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578593018
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 925
Book Description
The most complete and affordable single-volume reference on Astrology available anywhere! This massive 928-page tome is the definitive work on celestial forces and the influence of the stars and other heavenly bodies on human personality, behavior, and fate. The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences defines and explains more than 800 astrological terms and concepts from air signs to Zeus and everything in between. Students of the sun and stars and the laypeople interested in knowing more about those passionate Scorpios or intuitive Pisceans can examine the total astrology culture, famous astrologers, heavenly bodies, explanations, and interpretations of every planet in every house and sign—even pesky technical terms. And to further them on their star quest, The Astrology Book includes a special section on casting a chart. It also includes a table of astrological glyphs and abbreviations, a helpful bibliography, an index, and a list of organizations, books, periodicals, and websites dedicated to the study of the influences reigning from the heavens. The wealth of information it contains makes it is one of the most useful guides to astrology available today.
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Author: Bryan CaplanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400828821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand. Boldly calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precisely because it does what voters want. Through an analysis of Americans' voting behavior and opinions on a range of economic issues, he makes the convincing case that noneconomists suffer from four prevailing biases: they underestimate the wisdom of the market mechanism, distrust foreigners, undervalue the benefits of conserving labor, and pessimistically believe the economy is going from bad to worse. Caplan lays out several bold ways to make democratic government work better--for example, urging economic educators to focus on correcting popular misconceptions and recommending that democracies do less and let markets take up the slack. The Myth of the Rational Voter takes an unflinching look at how people who vote under the influence of false beliefs ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. With the upcoming presidential election season drawing nearer, this thought-provoking book is sure to spark a long-overdue reappraisal of our elective system.
Harm Jan Huidekoper
Author: Nina Moore TiffanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Harm Jan Huidekoper was born at Hoogeveen, Provice of Drenthe, Holland, in 1776, son of Anne and Gesiena Frederica Wolthers Huidekoper. He immigrated to the United States in 1796 and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Rebecca Colhoon (1779-1839), daughter of and Esther McDowell Colhoon, in 1806 at Meadville, Pennsylvania. They had seven children, 1807-1819. He died in 1854 at Meadville. Descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Massachusetts.
Poems Household Edition
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Book Excerpt: ch usage, as stated prayer when the spirit did not move, and especially the administration of the Communion, he honestly laid his troubles before his people, and proposed to them some modification of this rite. While they considered his proposition, Emerson went into the White Mountains to weigh his conflicting duties to his church and conscience. He came down, bravely to meet the refusal of the church to change the rite, and in a sermon preached in September, 1832, explained his objections to it, and, because he could not honestly administer it, resigned. He parted from his people in all kindness, but the wrench was felt. His wife had recently died, he was ill himself, his life seemed to others broken up. But meantime voices from far away had reached him. He sailed for Europe, landed in Italy, saw cities, and art, and men, but would not stay long. Of the dead, Michael Angelo appealed chiefly to him there; Landor among the living. He soon passed northward, making little stay in Paris, but sought out Carl Read More
English Essayists
Author: William Hawley DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Salvation and Suicide
Author: David ChidesterPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253216328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar . . . promises of redemption through sacrifice."