Lawrence Kushner

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk

"According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world became reality. (The Aramaic for 'I create as I speak' is avara k'davara, or in magician's language, abracadabra.) ... This does not protect words from the numbing effects of overuse in any religious tradition.... We need to dust off the words, shake away the accretions, wonder again about what they originally might have meant and enable ourselves to live in the word."
--from the Introduction

With creativity and poetry (and occasional heresy) Kushner dusts off thirty classical Hebrew words, shakes them free of the effects of generations of overuse, "re-translates" them and liberates their ancient holy power. The result is a contemporary spiritual guide for your personal religious life.

According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world came into being. Words therefore are not merely sounds signifying something else; they are instruments of creation, primary reality itself. They need only to be read, spoken and interpreted. And to know them is to know reality itself.

Kushner has designed the book himself, seamlessly blending graphics and content. In doing so he evokes the aesthetics of an ancient manuscript and a vision of our power to shape the future.

Each finely crafted chapter begins with a Hebrew word and Kushner's provocative English translation. At the bottom of the page is a transliteration of the Hebrew along with its more customary English rendering. In addition to his own intriguing definition, he includes a biblical citation anchoring the word, along with a more recent text showing the word's evolution. Finally, we are offered a personal, meditative exercise designed to enable you to "live in the word."

The Book of Words

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Sarah Glidden

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"A graphic memoir of subtlety and understated wit." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "A humorous and heartfelt look at one woman's journey of self-discovery in an unfamiliar land." - IGN Written by SARAH GLIDDEN Art and cover by SARAH GLIDDEN When Sarah Glidden took a "Birthright Israel" tour, she thought she knew what she was getting herself into. But when she got to Israel, she found that things weren't quite so simple. HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL is Sarah's memoir not only of her Israeli government-sponsored trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Masada and other famous locations, but of the emotional journey she never expected to take while she was there. Her experience clashes with her preconceived notions again and again, particularly when she tries to take a non-chaperoned trip into the West Bank. Sarah is forced to question first her political beliefs and then her own sense of identity, until she finds that to understand Israel she first must come to understand herself. On sale AUGUST 24 - 208 pg, FC, $19.99 US MATURE READERS

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

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Hasidic masters and portraits as told through the beautiful writing of Ellie Wiesel.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Portraits and legends of Hasidic masters

Souls on fire

A book that combines medrashic, Talmudic, and biblical stories that will challenge and stimulate young readers, as it shows how all stories and miracles ultimately lead back to the Torah, God‘s blueprint for all creation

A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spirituality

Combines midrash, storytelling, and evocative illustrations to impart the connections between God and Torah and every element of creation.

The Book of Miracles

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A manual for all spiritual travelers who would attempt a spiritual journey in our times. 

Spirituality, Judaism, Consciousness

A manual for all spiritual travelers who would attempt a spiritual journey in our times. Taking us step by step, Kushner allows us to discover the meaning of our own quest: "to allow the river of light-the deepest currents of consciousness-to rise to the surface & animate our lives."

The River of Light

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Elie Wiesel

Ellie Wiesel’s sequel to Souls on Fire. Hasidic masters- portraits and legends.

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Somewhere a Master

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Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning

Selected as a Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC)
"Significant Jewish Book"

Jacob was running away from home. One night he lay down in the wilderness to sleep and had one of the great mystical experiences of Western religion. He dreamed there was a ladder, with angels ascending and descending, stretched between heaven and earth. For thousands of years, people have tried to overhear what the messengers came down to tell Jacob, and us.

Now in a daring blend of scholarship and imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner gathers an inspiring range of interpretations of Genesis 28:16 given by sages, from Shmuel bar Nachmani in third-century Palestine to Hannah Rachel Werbermacher of Ludomir who lived in Poland two hundred years ago. Through a fascinating new literary genre and Kushner's creative reconstruction of the teachers' lives and times, we enter the study halls and sit at the feet of these spiritual masters to learn what each discovered about God's Self and ourselves as they ascend and descend Jacob's ladder.

In this illuminating journey, our spiritual guides ask and answer the fundamental questions of human experience: Who am I? Who is God? What is God's role in history? What is the nature of evil? How should I relate to God and other people? Could the universe really have a self?

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner brilliantly reclaims a millennium of Jewish spirituality for contemporary seekers of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know is about God and about you; it is about discovering God's place in the universe, and yours.

God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

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Elbert S. Maloney

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Seamanship and Small Boat Handling

Surveys the latest developments in safety systems, marine electronics, radar, and communications, and includes information on tides, and currents, weather, and navigation

Chapman Piloting

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Karen Lee

Diana Porter

More Than 200 Robust Dishes to Satisfy Both Full and Part-time Vegetarians

Gathers healthful recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, pasta, beans, grains, vegetable main dishes, and desserts

The Occasional Vegetarian

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National Lampoon’s Rudest and Crudest Cartoons 

That’s Sick!

Do What He Says! He’s Crazy!!!

And Other Cartoons to Live By

Digesting the Child Within

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A Book of Food Cartoons by New Yorker Cartoonist Jack Ziegler

A collection of 125 food-related cartoons by the New Yorker artist best known for his social satire and wordplay includes previously unpublished pieces and features such subjects as a fish psychiatrist who counsels a patient to quit the food chain and a culinary face-off between Rene Magritte and Betty Crocker.

How's the Squid?

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Boxed Edition

The Prophet

#antiquarian #children #germany #vintage #collectible #preww2 

Mitz and Fritz of Germany 1933

English-Italian/ Italian-English

For businesspeople, students, travelers-- perfect for anyone who wants to quickly find a word, its pronunciation and use. This "pocket pal" can be used equally well by beginners or by those who already have a good working knowledge of the language. Over 11,000 entries (5000+ Italian/English, 5000+ English/Italian). Pronunciation accompanies Italian words on both sides , along with helpful usage information. Pronunciation Guide explains the sounds of Italian, how to produce and combine them-- takes the mystery out of developing a good accent! Concise Italian Grammar for a quick overview or specific explanations; sections include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, sentence formation, etc., plus verb tables for instant look-ups. Phrases for Use Abroad gives you the right thing to say (and how to pronounce it) in a number of everyday situations. Menu Reader , complete with pronunciation, ensures you'll never be surprised by what you order!

Traveler's Italian Dictionary

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Featuring favorite quotes from the original texts and E. H. Shepard's incomparable illustrations, this book offers wisdom for everyone--wisdom that our chum Pooh has gained himself, usually the hard way. With chapters entitled "For Your Inner Bear," "For Those Bothersome Days," "For When You're in a Tight Spot," and "For Those Hummy Sort of Days," Positively Pooh is the perfect means to inspire smiles and offer encouragement. This well-appointed volume will charm collectors, friends in need of a pick-me-up, and new graduates who may well have to rely on the wisdom of Winnie-the-Pooh.
 

Positively Pooh: Timeless Wisdom from Pooh

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Ranking Past and Present

Part of the series that includes The Black 100 & The Jewish 100.

The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

With 48 photographs

Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey 

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#sociology #subjection #womensstudies #johnstuartmill #feminism 

In seeking to explain his opinions on a timeless subject--the relations between the sexes--John Stuart Mill admits that he has undertaken an arduous task. For "there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this subject the most intense and most deeply-rooted of all those which gather round and protect old institutions and customs, that we need not wonder to find them as yet less undermined and loosened than any of the rest by the progress of the great modern spiritual and social transition." Yet typically in this essay Mill assails a system of inequality which he feels supports and encourages the subjection of one individual by another and raises questions about the nature and relationship of power and liberty. He proposes to tap the existing climate of opinion that would admit to the great injustice of excluding half the human race from decent occupations and public function on the basis of sex. More than a classical theoretical statement of the case for women's suffrage, the book attacks the full range of social and cultural attitudes and customs that transform physical fact (often compared by Mill to slavery in its most extended form) to social sanction and legal decree. The book treats inequities of the marriage contract and property rights as well as the psychological effects (the "positive evil") that personal servitude and exclusion from public affairs have on women. Are marriage and motherhood socially useful and humane goals? Mill contends that these roles are not "natural" and not always desirable, asserting that their narrow definition prevents women from exercising a truly civilizing influence on family and society. Publication of The Subjection of Women in 1869 drew attention to the fact that despite the implacable opposition of Queen Victoria, a great many women refused to accept the conditions imposed upon them and had recorded their protests. (Had not Queen Victoria inherited the throne, Mill reasons, she would not have been entrusted with the smallest of political duties.) The liberal and enquiring nature of Mill's thesis on one of the great questions of his time easily spans the century and applies, despite legal modifications, to the same issues today.

The Subjection of Women

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The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America 

Feminism and Suffrage

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Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender

From Simon & Schuster, Moving Beyond Words is a collection of essays by influential feminist Gloria Steinem.

In the book, Steinem examines the state of the women's movement in the 1990s and offers possibilities for the future, focusing on such issues as economic empowerment, women politicians, and life affirmations that affect women today.

Moving Beyond Words

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Essays from Sojourner's First 20 Years

Two decades of essays on the key issues of feminism.

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