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Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas

A. H. Almaas

Shambhala, 2000

The very best enneagram book for self-unfoldment
Touching, warm, gentle and precise. Almaas explains how we get fixated on certain enneatypes, and also points the way out of fixations. Reaching far deeper than the 'standard' personality approaches to the enneagram, this book really opens the gates to those who are ...

Christ & Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (Facets)

Joerg Rieger

Fortress Press, 2007

Highly recommended for Christology shelves.
Joerg Rieger (Professor of Systematic Theology, Perkins School of Theology) presents Christ & Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times, an examination how our modern-day perception of Jesus Christ has been shaped by empires at critical turning points of history. ...

Spirituality of the Psalms (Facets)

Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2001

Brueggemann Shines Again
Barbara and I both avidly admire The Psalms and Dr. Brueggemann. Our greatest expectation for the summer is to hear him preach and teach at the Presbyterian Conference on Music and Worship at Montreat. I am deeply indebted to him for his keenly inspired commentary on ...

Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (Facets of Ruby)

Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

authoritative guide to rails basic tools
This is a superb book, the best compact writeups i've seen on setting up Apache load balancing and proxies, nginx, mongrel, SVN server and repos, DNS, MySql caching, capistrano, rake, profiling apps (and there's a lot of blogs, books on these subjects. Entire mailing ...

Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version With The Apocrypha Black Imitation Leather, Gift & Award Bible ...

Hendrickson

Hendrickson Publishers, 2005

Very affordable NRSV with Apocrypha
I really like the NRSV version. The NRSV is one of the best and most accurate translations around. It is more literal than the NIV and less wooden in its English than the NASB. The NRSV is gender-inclusive to reflect the most current English usage. I wanted to get a ...

Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way (Facets)

Walter Wink

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003

One of The Best of Walter Wink
This short book is a very good introduction to Analytic/Historic Christianity, that movement which considers the life of first-century, Roman-dominated faithfuls, their language and its often-flawed translation[s]. In other works Wink may seem obscure, but not here. ...

The Measure of a Man (Facets)

Martin Luther, Jr. King

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2001

To give this as a gift to every young man...
This is an excellent and treasurable little gift book to give to young people. While simple and humble at first glance, it gives some deep truths about life and how we can live responsibly. I've given copies of this to others, hoping that somewhere along their path ...

Facet Cutters Handbook (Gembooks)

Edward J. Soukup

Gem Guides Book Company, 1986

The Ideal Companion for the Glenn & Martha Vargas collection
This was the first faceting book I obtained, even before owning a faceting machine! From the moment I started reading I understood. This is a (sadly) a fairly unique state of affairs for books relating to crafts and hobbies. Edward Soukup assumes no prior knowledge ...

On Christian Liberty (Facets)

Martin Luther

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003

Freedom through Enslavement
Before being set free by the reading of Romans 1:17, Martin Luther was enslaved to the bondage of works righteousness. He was acutely aware of his need for salvation but sought it through the means of works instead of finding it through faith in Christ. Upon ...

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America (Facets)

Joseph Barndt

Fortress Press, 2007

A Classic in the Sociology of Racism
In recent years an ideology that Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla Silva from Duke University calls "color-blind racism" has permeated United State's popular culture. Most white Americans now report in surveys that race is no longer a feature of U.S. political, social and ...

Real Peace, Real Security: The Challenges of Global Citizenship (Facets)
Sharon D. Welch

Fortress Press, 2008

While just-war theorists hold that war is the last resort, many are now focusing on what is the first resort- what are the multiple tasks that can prevent war and resolve longstanding conflicts. Although there has been a fundamental shift in debates over military policy, these debates are not widely known, even among those within religious ...

The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets

Yogi Bhajan, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa

Kundalini Research Institute, 1998

The User's Guide to Your Mind and Life through Meditation
This book is for those who want to understand and use meditation to develop and transform themselves. It has over 42 meditations coded to every aspect of the mind in our personality. It discusses the three basic minds, postive,negative and neutral. It links these to ...

Rails for .NET Developers (Facets of Ruby)

Jeff Cohen, Brian Eng

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Great Resource for .Net Developers Wanting to Learn Rails
I've spent the last 4 years developing web applications in the Microsoft .Net framework. After hearing about rails for the past year or so I've tried getting up and going on my own but Rails is such a different beast than .Net I've always gotten frustrated. Being a ...

Archiving Websites: A Practical Guide for Information Management Professionals

Adrian Brown

Facet Publishing, 2006

Preserve an archive of selected portions of the World Wide Web for reference
Archiving Websites: A Practical Guide for Information Management Professionals is a guide written especially to teach librarians how to preserve an archive of selected portions of the World Wide Web for reference. Chapters cover the history of the development of web ...

Darwin And Intelligent Design (Facets Series)

Francisco Jose Ayala

Fortress Press, 2006

Excellent book - well written and a great read
The well thought out arguments and logical way of looking at things should bring comfort to those who are religious and irreligious alike. I am half way through the book and am thoroughly enjoying every bit of it. It is very well written and it is on a short list of ...