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Jacques Ellul
Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World (Jacques Ellul Legacy)
Living Faith is a groundbreaking exploration of the meaning and dynamics of Christian faith today by a major theologian and social critic of our time. Jacques Ellul thoughtfully examines all aspects of the phenomenon we call faith to distill the essential characteristics of true Christianity. He arg...
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Donna Jean Murch
Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling ...
$39.72
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Andrew Dreitcer
Living Compassion: Loving Like Jesus
Named One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2017 by Spirituality and Practice (Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat). In the face of hurtful public dialogue and worldwide conflict, many Christians want to practice and experience genuine compassion. After all, centuries of Christian teachings have insisted tha...
$16.13
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David Benatar
Living with Adversity: Eighteen Personal Accounts
Adversity is widespread. While many people recognize the challenges posed by destitution, disease, disability, or discrimination, considering only these conditions seriously underestimates how much adversity there is. We meet and interact with many people, but only rarely do we know anything about...
$21.00
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Ajuan Mance
Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance
In homage to the radical power of art, Living While Black celebrates the small acts of resistance that comprise the daily lives of Black folks by presenting them in a series of vivid illustrations. Laughing. Grieving. Being a kid. Even the purest expression of pleasure, the most human display of...
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Ren Davis
Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery: An Illustrated History and Guide
In Atlanta and Environs , historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that Oakland Cemetery is “Atlanta’s most tangible link between the past and the present.” Within its forty-eight acres are more than seventy thousand personal stories―of settlers and immigrants who forged a city from a rowdy rail...
$14.16
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Ken Korach
If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
Throughout their history, the Oakland Athletics have been one of the most audacious and individual franchises in all of baseball. As the longtime radio voice of the A's, Ken Korach has called countless improbable, unforgettable moments. As the San Francisco Chronicle's veteran beat reporter, Susan...
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Robert O. Self
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Modern America)
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which ...
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Robert O. Self
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Modern America)
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland ...
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Marney Rich Keenan
The Snow Killings: Inside the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation
Over 13 months in 1976­-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most extensive manhunt ...
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Moshe Kasher
Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
In this "moving and powerful memoir" (Mayim Bialik), comedian Moshe Kasher details his outrageously dysfunctional early years in this darkly hilarious, absurd coming-of-age story. Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, h...
$17.02
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Nan Shepherd
The Living Mountain
An internationally bestselling classic on the power of the natural world--"part memoir, part field notebook, part lyrical meditation on nature and our relationship with it, evocative of Rachel Carson and Henry Beston and John Muir" ( The New York Times ). Now with a new introduction by Jenny Odell...
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Sam Fatzinger
A Catholic Guide to Spending Less and Living More: Advice from a Debt-Free Family of 16
Are you struggling under the burden of debt without a financial cushion to fall back on? Do you long for financial freedom—to live comfortably, pay for your children’s education, or retire while you’re still young enough to enjoy it? Sam and Rob Fatzinger can help you cultivate the values and ...
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Angela Longo
Dr. Angela Longo’s QUANTUM WAVE GUIDED LIVING: Exchange My Patterns, Changes Everything
Our lives are supposed to be resplendent, radiant, meaningful, and glorious. Instead what most of us experience is a life filled with struggles, conflict and illness. Relationshifting creates a bridge to a quantum wave guided living based upon Dr. Angela Longo's 50 years of TCM clinical experience. ...
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Nichiryu Mark Herrick
The Living Mandala: Understanding the Gohonzon of Nichiren Buddhism
The Living Mandala: Understanding the Gohonzon of Nichiren by Nichiryu Mark Herrick, Renshi The Gohonzon is not a thing to be gazed upon—it is a relationship to be entered. Few elements of Nichiren Buddhism have been more misunderstood than the Gohonzon. Too often reduced to superstition or ritu...
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Mara Melandry
Growing Up in a Historic Mansion in Oakland, California: Memoirs of Emelita Cohen
Emelita Cohen’s fascinating memories of living in her historic mansion in Oakland details growing up in the years when California was just beginning its great expansion. Through her letters, compiled by Mara Melandry, you see the daily experiences of her childhood at the turn of the century before...
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Robert Silverberg
To the Land of the Living
The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the mythical world of  Gilgamesh the King  in this adventurous sequel: “An enthralling quest.” — The Times (London)   The warrior-king Gilgamesh—part man, part god—is not only larger than life; he is larger than death. Trapped in the After...
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Aida Salazar
When Water Flows (My Living World)
Derived from Mexican Indigenous wisdom, this is the second title in a series of poetic board books centering around establishing an authentic, heartfelt connection with nature. Using Mexican concepts, this poignantly lyrical series invites young children to pay witness to nature, to value it, and ...
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Unknown Author
I Drink the Living Water: Finding the Spirit in Nature with Father John B. Kirsch
This book offers a how to for readers looking for a deeper connection to the Earth and the natural world, with description of nature retreats and meditations. Pat Feldsien is a writer/editor. She has a master's degree in Early English from The University of Chicago and a master's degree in spiritua...
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Kenneth R Trapp
The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life
This work focuses on the rich artistic and social history of the arts and crafts movement in California, as well as describing the highly collectable objects which the movement has produced. The period covered ranges from about 1895 to 1930. Artists include Julia Morgan and Dick van Erp. Developed i...
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