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Hardcover:
9780708909416 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: At 17, the author left her Birmingham suburb to enter a cloistered community of Catholic nuns.
9780312803834 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1981, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A renowned religious commentator and author of A History of God details her own spiritual quest, presenting a moving and eloquent account of an adventure that started when she was seventeen and came to include seven years in a convent.
Paperback:
9780312340957 | Reprint edition (Griffin, February 28, 2005), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Recounts the seven years that the author spent in a convent beginning at the age of seventeen, describing her religous doubts and spiritual struggles which led to her final recognition that she was not suited for life as a nun.
9780312119034 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A renowned religious commentator and author of A History of God details her own spiritual quest, presenting a moving and eloquent account of an adventure that started when she was seventeen and came to include seven years in a convent.
Product Description: This comprehensive and clearly presented book outlines the history, theory and practical applications of the uniquely effective Wing Chun art. Included in the book are sections on the Wing Chun principles, practical self-defense for men and women, sticky hands and a complete outline of the Sil Lim Tao form...read more
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9780865680715 | Action Pursuit Group, December 1, 1985, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive and clearly presented book outlines the history, theory and practical applications of the uniquely effective Wing Chun art.
Poetry by authors including John Donne, Aeschylus, Czeslaw Milosz, and Emily Dickinson explores the nature of religion
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9780670808786 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poetry by authors including John Donne, Aeschylus, Czeslaw Milosz, and Emily Dickinson explores the nature of religion
Hardcover:
9780385240789 | Anchor Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Looks at the influence of Christianity on women's place in modern society, argues that conventional histories of Christianity have left out women's contributions, and discusses current attitudes towards women
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9780385240796, titled "The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Looks at the influence of Christianity on women's place in modern society, and argues that conventional histories of Christianity have left out women's contributions
Hardcover:
9780385241939, titled "Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World" | 1 sub edition (Doubleday, March 1, 1991), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Probes beneath the mythic features of the Crusades to examine the reality of religious wars that continue to have repercussions in the Middle East, and discusses the significance of the Crusades in the collective consciousness of Muslims and Jews
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9780385721400, titled "Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World" | 2 reprint edition (Anchor Books, November 1, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Covers the history of the Crusades, from Pope Urban II's call to holy war through its violent conflicts, while explaining their direct influence on the modern world's ongoing Middle East turbulence among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
9780385241946, titled "Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A penetrating narrative history of the Crusades that reveals the ominous links and parallels between those medieval clashes and the violent rivalries of the Middle East today.
Discusses the life of the founder of Islam, the emergence of Islam in the midst of the turbulence of seventh-century Arabia, and Western views of the prophet and his religion from a historical perspective
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9780062500144 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Discusses the life of the founder of Islam, the emergence of Islam in the midst of the turbulence of seventh-century Arabia, and Western views of the prophet and his religion from a historical perspective
Paperback:
9780062508867 | Reprint edition (Harper San Francisco, October 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Discusses the life of the founder of Islam, the emergence of Islam in the midst of the turbulence of seventh-century Arabia, and Western views of the prophet and his religion from a historical perspective
9789990051834 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1993, cover price $0.02
Product Description: Women have a need for personal safety. They want to know how to prevent and avoid danger and, if something does happen, they want to know how to react. This book carries a powerful message for women about their potential for strength and confidence, and offers a simple, strategic approach to increase safety, including simple movements and key information...read more
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9780788166495 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Women have a need for personal safety.
Hardcover:
9780517223123, titled "A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" | Gramercy, March 1, 2004, cover price $9.99
9780679426004, titled "A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present
Paperback:
9780345384560, titled "A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present day.
9789990105407, titled "A History of God: The 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity And Islam" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $0.02
9780756790882 | Diane Pub Co, September 30, 1993, cover price $22.00
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9780694515035, titled "A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 1994), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God--from Abraham to the present day--in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Prebinding:
9780613647274 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $28.10 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God, from Abraham to the present day.
Paperback:
9780553351996 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1, 1994, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Explores the work of mystics who resisted the confines of traditional religion, including writings of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Walter Hilton, Dame Julian of Norwich, and the unknown author of 'The Cloud of Unknowing'
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781564553072 | Sounds True, February 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Karen Armstrong The Future of God Learn how the mystical God of our past reflects the God of our future â a vibrant, living presence available to all of us â on The Future of God.
Paperback:
9781863736589 | Allen & Unwin, June 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Women have a need for personal safety.
Paperback:
9788449310881 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 30, 1995), cover price $70.95
Hardcover:
9780756758851 | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Jerusalem, the Holy City, venerated for centuries by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike; no other city has remained the center of such conflict for so long.
9780679435969, titled "Jerusalem: One City Three Faiths" | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1996), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Jerusalem, the holy city venerated by the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, explains how the city became a defining site for the three religions, following its development from its earliest origins to the present
Paperback:
9780345391681 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Jerusalem, the holy city venerated by the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, explains how the city became a defining site for the three religions, following its development from its earliest origins to the present
CD/Spoken Word:
9780060591861 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Jerusalem, the holy city venerated by the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, explains how the city became a defining site for the three religions, following its development from its earliest origins to the present.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780694517169 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 1996), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Jerusalem, the holy city venerated by the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, explains how the city became a defining site for the three religions, following its development from its earliest origins to the present.
Hardcover:
9780679450894 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1996), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents a new interpretation of the stories of Genesis, explaining how these ancient tales illuminate the human quest for meaning and the struggle between good and evil
Paperback:
9780345406040 | Ballantine Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a new interpretation of the stories of Genesis, explaining how these ancient tales illuminate the human quest for meaning and the struggle between good and evil
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Hardcover:
9780761813880 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1999, cover price $70.50
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9780761813897 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1999, cover price $41.99
Hardcover:
9780679435976 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity
Paperback:
9780345391698 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780060591878 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780694523047 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From one of today's foremost commentators on religious affairs and the author of A History of God comes an insightful chronicle of the fundamentalist form of religion and the forces of modernism that have, paradoxically, brought it into existence.
Paperback:
9780819218018 | Morehouse Pub Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "Does the face of God change?
Hardcover:
9780819218513 | Vhs edition (Morehouse Pub Co, January 30, 2013), cover price $20.00
Hardcover:
9780819218582 | Morehouse Pub Co, January 1, 2001, cover price $20.00
Paperback:
9780944344859 | Polebridge Pr Westar Inst, October 1, 2001, cover price $20.00
Paperback:
9788439709039 | Random House Mondadori, May 30, 2002, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780786268115 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 10, 2004), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
9780375413186 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2004), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
Paperback:
9781594150678 | Large print edition (Christian Large Print, May 11, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
9780385721271 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 22, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780060594381 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780060587048 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780060591854 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the evolution of the idea and experience of God--from Abraham to the present day--in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Hardcover:
9781571816504 | Berghahn Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union.
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