Monday, November 1, 1999

Praying the Labyrinth: A Journal for Spiritual Exploration

Praying the Labyrinth: A Journal for Spiritual Exploration

Praying the Labyrinth: A Journal for Spiritual Exploration

Walking the labyrinth is becoming an increasingly popular spiritual exercise across the country and around the world. Based on her experience at Chartres Cathedral in France and her training with Lauren Artress at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion has created a simple, meaningful approach to preparing for, undertaking, and meditating on labyrinth walks. "Praying The Labyrinth" is a journal that will lead the uninitiated seeker into a spiritual exercise of self-discovery through scripture selections, journaling questions, poetry, and space for personal reflection. While it may be the perfect introduction to the art of walking the labyrinth, this book can also be used by seasoned labyrinth users to bring new and deeper meaning to their spiritual lives.

ISBN: 0829813438
Author: Lauren Artress
Publisher: United Church Press
Rating: 4.33

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Wednesday, October 6, 1999

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first one being segregation--emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According to Steele,1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of America guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races. This "culture of preference" betrayed America's best principles in order to give whites and America institutions an iconography of racial virtue they could use against the stigma of racial shame. In four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afro-centrism, group preferences, victimization--and what he deems to be the atavistic powers of race, ethnicity, and gender, the original causes of oppression. A Dream Deferred is an honest, courageous look at the perplexing dilemma of race and democracy in the United States--and what we might do to resolve it.

ISBN: 0060931043
Author: Shelby Steele
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Rating: 4.00

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Sunday, August 1, 1999

The Promised Land

The Promised Land

The Promised Land

This combination Bible story and activities book helps hildren make the connections among the various people in the Old Testament stories of the Hebrew people as they seek the Promised Land.

ISBN: 0687081912
Author: Linda Robinson Whited
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Rating: 0.00

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Monday, March 1, 1999

The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination

The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination

The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination

The alphabet is at once familiar and mysterious. Its letters have been the object of speculation since their invention almost four thousand years ago; the symbols represent sounds, yet they exist in their own right, often invested with quasi-magical power. Johanna Drucker, who teaches art history at Yale University, examines the imaginative and idiosyncratic ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in political, spiritual, or religious belief systems over two millennia.The first book to explore fully this colorful, poetic, and frequently eccentric realm, The Alphabetic Labyrinth is richly complemented by images that have rarely or never before been reproduced. Drawing on a wide variety of little-known sources, both literary and artistic, the author adds a new and exciting chapter to the history of ideas which will prove fascinating to cultural historians, art historians, and anyone interested in the history of writing.

ISBN: 0500280681
Author: Johanna Drucker
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Rating: 4.13

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Wednesday, January 27, 1999

Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano s Story of Life in the Mafia

Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano s Story of Life in the Mafia

Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano s Story of Life in the Mafia

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

ISBN: 0060930969
Author: Peter Maas
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Rating: 3.71

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Friday, January 1, 1999

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620

ISBN: 0930270096
Author: Lucy Mary Kellogg
Publisher: General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Rating: 4.00

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