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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Karen Armstrong

Yet Karen Armstrong argues that compassion is inseparable from humanity, and by transcending the limitations of selfishness on a daily basis we will not only make a difference in the world but also lead happier, more fulfilled, lives.
The Case for God: What religion really means

The Case for God: What religion really means

Karen Armstrong

Does God have a future? Karen Armstrong examines how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled and dangerously polarised world.
Islam: A Short History

Islam: A Short History

Karen Armstrong

It concludes with an assessment of Islam today and its challenges. With this brilliant book, Karen Armstrong issues a forceful challenge to those who hold the view that the West and Islam are civilizations set on a collision course.
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. * Religion is as old as humanity: Fields of Blood goes back to the Stone Age hunter ...
The Ecology of College Readiness: ASHE Higher Education ...

The Ecology of College Readiness: ASHE Higher Education ...

Karen D. Arnold

ASHE Higher Education Report Volume 38, Number 5 Karen D. Arnold, Elissa C. Lu, Kelli J. Armstrong ... This monograph on college readiness by Karen Arnold, Elissa Lu, and Kelli Armstrong offers important information and perspectives to ...
Membership Directory

Membership Directory

American Consulting Engineers Council

175 Armstrong. Glenn, DAMES & MOORE 488 Armstrong. James S., DOUGLAS V. MACMAHON, LTD. 251 Armstrong. Mark, OBEC CONSULTING ENGINEERS 513 Armstrong, Richard, C. T. MALE ASSOCIATES, PC. 460 Armstrong, Ronald ...
Plädoyer für Gott

Plädoyer für Gott

Karen Armstrong

English summary: In the modern period, the conception of religion in the West changed and became problematic.
Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings

Louis Armstrong

This volume also includes introductions to the writings, as well as an annotated index of names and places significant to Armstrong's life.
A Wise Birth: Bringing Together the Best of Natural ...

A Wise Birth: Bringing Together the Best of Natural ...

Penny Armstrong

also by Penny Armstrong & Sheryl Feldman A Midwife's Story Penny Armstrong & Sheryl Feldman 2006 | paperback | 208 pages | ISBN 9781905177042 When hospitaltrained midwife Penny Armstrong takes on a job delivering the babies of  ...
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The Hebrews

The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The Hebrews

Karen Armstrong

Hebrews marks a parting of the ways for Jews and Christians of the first century.
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Karen Armstrong

Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam.
The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary

The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary

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HOT FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1 999) 46 JOSHUA BERRETT LOUIS ARMSTRONG SPECIAL (1 932) 48 ANONYMOUS ENGLAND'S WELCOME TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG (1932) 50 DAN S. INGMAN HOT JAZZ (1934) 56 ROBERT  ...
Louis Armstrong: Jazz Is Played from the Heart

Louis Armstrong: Jazz Is Played from the Heart

Michael A. Schuman

Joshua Berrett, editor, The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary (New York: Schirmer Books, 1999), p. 38. 6. Michael Meckna, Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004), p.
Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong

Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong

Kelley Armstrong

“A Haunted House of Her Own” copyright © 2009 by Kelley Armstrong. First appeared in The Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary, edited by Carol Serling (Tor Books: New York). “Learning Curve” copyright © 2010 by ...
Practicing the Presence of Jesus: Experience the Gift of His ...

Practicing the Presence of Jesus: Experience the Gift of His ...

Wally Armstrong

This is the story of how Wally Armstrong learned to communicate with the real person of Jesus in his everyday life. Armstrong experiences Jesus up close and personal and introduces readers to the same experience.
All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to ...

All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to ...

Lawrence Sutin

In the tradition of Karen Armstrong, Jack Miles, andThomas Cahill comes a magisterial history of the coming of Buddhism tothe West.
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

Karen Armstrong

This book explores the symbiosis of these 2 impulses and its development as these confessional faiths came of age. The aggression of secularism has often damaged religion and pushed it into a violent mode.
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong

Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong

Steven Brower

Michael Cogswell. Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo, Collector's Press Inc. Portland, Oregon, 2003. p. I0. 26. Thomas Brothers, Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words, New York, Oxford University Press, I 999, p. 279. 27. Ibid. p. ix.
A Short History of Myth (Myths series)

A Short History of Myth (Myths series)

Karen Armstrong

This is a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense – from Palaeolithic times to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last 500 years – and why we dismiss it only at our peril.
Lance Armstrong: A Biography

Lance Armstrong: A Biography

Paula Johanson

This readable biography of Lance Armstrong surveys his legendary cycling career as well as the details of his life outside of cycling. * Presents a chronological timeline of important events in Lance Armstrong's life and a list of the major ...
Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Michel Boujut

Traces the life of the great jazz trumpter, and describes Armstrong's accomplishments as a musician and goodwill ambassador
A History Of God

A History Of God

Karen Armstrong

'An invigorating, unpretentious, sympathetic history, of interest to believers curious about what they believe, and non-believers fascinated by belief, as non-believers ought to be' Observer 'This is the most fascinating and learned survey ...
Better All the Time

Better All the Time

Carre Armstrong Gardner

Visit Carre Armstrong Gardner's website at www.carregardner.com. TYNDALE and Tyndale's quill logo are registered trademarks of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Better All the Time Copyright © 2015 by Carre Armstrong Gardner. All rights ...
Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture ...

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture ...

Andrew Hadfield

Karen Armstrong cites John Chamberlain's astonishment that King's first sermon should be a high-profile one at Paul's Cross.3 (He 'did reasonablie well but nothing extraordinarie, nor neere his father'.) Jeanne Shami notes that a portrait of ...
Kitty Capers: 15 Quilt Projects with Purrsonality

Kitty Capers: 15 Quilt Projects with Purrsonality

Carol Armstrong

Carol Armstrong is back with all-new appliquEd frolicking kitties.
Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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A French jazz critic appraises Louis Armstrong's career and his contribution to the music world
Cats in Quilts: 14 Purrfect Projects

Cats in Quilts: 14 Purrfect Projects

Carol Armstrong

Appliqué artist Carol Armstrong delivers another irresistible treat for your needle.
Lance Armstrong (Revised Edition)

Lance Armstrong (Revised Edition)

Matt Doeden

One of the world's best professional bicyclists, Lance Armstrong overcame many obstacles to get to the top.
Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Yona Zeldis McDonough

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician.
A Short History of Myth

A Short History of Myth

Karen Armstrong

The author of The History of God and In the Beginning: A New Reading of Genesis offers a useful, well-written introduction to mythology from the Paleolithic period to the "Great Western Transformation" that used science to discredit myth.

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