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Product Description: What role should ambition play in our lives? Our culture generally buys the American Dream that yes, we can fulfill all our aspirations. But to seek personal power and fame in the competitive world of Western culture has a dark side...read more
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9781625641342 | Cascade Books, January 15, 2016, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: What role should ambition play in our lives?

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Product Description: Whenever you write content for your site be sure to use the keyword in the title, in the first sentence of the first paragraph, several times throughout the text and in the last sentence of the last paragraph. If you do this consistently, besides adding title and page tags you will see incredible results...read more

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9781505946345 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 7, 2015, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Whenever you write content for your site be sure to use the keyword in the title, in the first sentence of the first paragraph, several times throughout the text and in the last sentence of the last paragraph.

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9781612615158 | Paraclete Pr, February 1, 2014, cover price $17.00

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By Scott Cairns (adapted by)

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9781612615202 | Paraclete Pr, February 1, 2014, cover price $18.00

A selection of luminous texts from early mystical fathers and mothers, whose words are considered inexhaustible, generative powers, unites in their common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God. $10,000 ad/promo.

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9781557255259 | Paraclete Pr, May 31, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A selection of luminous texts from early mystical fathers and mothers, whose words are considered inexhaustible, generative powers, unites in their common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God.

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Traces the midlife spiritual crisis that prompted the author to journey to Greece's Mt. Athos, where he sought the counsel of local monks on how to discover the 'true prayer life,' a quest during which he forged relationships with a series of religious mentors and fellow pilgrims.

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9780060843229 | 1 edition (Harper San Francisco, March 1, 2007), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Traces the midlife spiritual crisis that prompted the author to journey to Greece's Mt.

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A classic account by the fourth-century Alexandrian, famed for its role in inaugurating the genre of the lives of the saints as well as its influence in the establishment of Christian hagiography, follows the spiritual story of the founder of Christian monasticism and his life in committment to God. Original.
By Scott Cairns (foreword by), Robert C. Gregg (trans) and Emilie Griffin (editor)

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9780060754693 | Harpercollins, August 16, 2006, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A classic account by the fourth-century Alexandrian, famed for its role in inaugurating the genre of the lives of the saints as well as its influence in the establishment of Christian hagiography, follows the spiritual story of the founder of Christian monasticism and his life in committment to God.

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Product Description: The fourth collection of poems by Scott Cairns, Recoverd Body employs disarming language as it revises and gives new life to a wide range of familiar stories. Here, we overhear some of Wallace Stevens's late ruminations, we witness an erotic frolicking between poet and muse, and we receive an epistle on the subjects of love and the body from Mary Magdalen...read more

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9780971748347 | 2 edition (Eighth Day Pr, December 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The fourth collection of poems by Scott Cairns, Recoverd Body employs disarming language as it revises and gives new life to a wide range of familiar stories.
9780807614372 | George Braziller, August 1, 1998, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: New and selected poems by Scott Cairns.

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9780970817730 | William Ralph Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: New and selected poems by Scott Cairns.

Product Description: Some of today's most significant writers and poets explore the relation between what we call the sacred and what we witness in the apparent world.This unprecedented anthology brings together a provocative mix of new and well known writers whose poetry and prose broaches the possibility of something "bigger" going on, something more significant at stake...read more
By Scott Cairns (editor) and W. Scott Olsen (editor)

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9780874805239 | Univ of Utah Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Some of today's most significant writers and poets explore the relation between what we call the sacred and what we witness in the apparent world.

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9780874805246 | Univ of Utah Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A unique anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays by such authors as Rick Bass, Carol Bly, Denise Levertov, John McPhee, and Ann Townsend celebrates and contemplates the relationship between nature, spirituality, and the supernatural.

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Product Description: These poems offer postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief. The collection is distinguished by an implicit proposition that uncertainty (or decenteredness) is a pleasurable state. The poet describes his poems as religious "in their intent"...read more

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9780820316017 | Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: These poems offer postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief.
9780820316000 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $9.95

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9780820311999 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.00

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Product Description: Book by Cairns, Scott

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9780820312002 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Cairns, Scott

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Product Description: Book by Cairns, Scott

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9780914946526 | Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center, June 1, 1985, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Book by Cairns, Scott

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