Reimagines interfaith engagement by blending diverse religious perspectives and activist insights to foster unity and challenge division in a polarized world.Blending academic rigor with activist passion, Beyond Dialogue redefines interfaith engagement for the twenty-first century, exploring how diverse faiths can combat hatred and foster unity. Contributors employ multidisciplinary approaches, from theology to anthropology, to confront challenges like nat...

They Say You need three things: Honor, integrity, & Courage.What you really need is the nerve to fly half a billion light years, touch down on alien soil, and fight in a major land war...every other week.Welcome to the world of The Radiation Angels. Follow this team of crack mercenaries as they are beset, beleaguered, and betrayed.

Mercenaries in the 27th century are said to be pragmatic, crafty, and even callous. Yet there are some things they hold above all else. The first must be the lockbox, for every man who fights must be paid. The second is the integrity of the commander, for none wish to be sent to die needlessly to save on pay or paperwork. And lastly, if the commander gives his word to come get you, he must keep that promise.It is this Oath that shall define the command of Captain Todd Rook....

A witty and fun graphic depiction of the classical music worldWith this fun and lighthearted book, readers can see the world of classical music as it's never been seen before. Using flow charts, pie charts, Venn diagrams, checklists, graphs, and other ingenious graphics, the authors have neatly represented many favorite pieces of classical music, musicians, and composers, along with insights on orchestras, concert etiquette, and much more, in nearly 100 simple and ...

On a hot, windy day at Thingammyjig Nature Reserve, the conditions are perfect for a bushfire. Up in his lookout tower, Ranger Roger is keeping watch, eager to finish his shift and enjoy Mrs. Appleby's famous homemade apple pie and ice cream.But his plans change when he spots a thin plume of smoke near the barbecue area. Radioing base, Roger teams up with Boss McClane, the reserve's skilled helicopter pilot. Together, they race toward the danger in their helicopter, "Whirrly," with...

Why do we stay in dead-end jobs, unhappy marriages, or finish terrible books? Because we've already invested time, money, or effort. Psychologist Daniel Ross tackles the "Sunk Cost Fallacy" in "The Quitting Point." Ross explains that the human brain is wired to avoid the pain of "waste" more than it seeks the pleasure of gain, leading us to throw good money (or years) after bad. The book distinguishes between "grit" (perseverance with a purpose) and "stubbornness" (refusing to admit a mist...

A revealing account of the three main disciples of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, an essential figure in Orthodox Judaism in AmericaOrthodox Judaism is one of the fastest-growing religious communities in contemporary American life. Anyone who wishes to understand more about Judaism in America will need to consider the tenets and practices of Orthodox Judaism: who its adherents are, what they believe in, what motivates them, and to whom they turn for moral, ...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, developers built bigger and taller. Everywhere, attention turned to the problems and possibilities at the commercial and civic heart of cities.The Heart of Toronto follows one such example of reinvention: downtown Yonge Street. Efforts to keep pace with, or even lead, urban change included t...

This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is organized and amplified around common buzzwords. This method enables us to navigate more easily the huge volume of online utterances, but it also increases the risk of leveling statements and extinguishing difference, as exem...

Why do we watch movies? If we read in search of more life, as Harold Bloom is fond of saying, then we watch movies, this book proposes, in search of wonder. We watch movies in search of awe-inspiring visions, transformative experiences, and moments of emotional transcendence and spiritual sublimity. We watch movies for many of the same reasons that we engage in religion: to fill our ordinary evenings and weekends with something of the extraordinary; to connect our isolated, individual selv...

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring.In this first volume of a new series, the leading cul...

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a ‘crisis of spirit’, brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention,...