Can I break free from my eating disorder? Why do I struggle so much with anxiety? Where can I go with my shame & despair? 'I'm controlling & insecure & desperate to prove my own worth' admits Emma Scrivener 'I'm a Christian but I don't always feel like it' There are lots of how-to books out there In terms of the practicalities of recovery they're brilliant What they don't address is the spiritual dimension However even when writing about 'spiritual recovery' the author confesses that it's tempting to offer some sort of programme or strategy ' But I don't think I've got one' she says What she does offer are practical suggestions for how to apply gospel truths to practical circumstances With honesty examples from real life (including her own) Emma connects with her reader She shows how the gospel can speak to every heart & every addiction equipping readers with complete confidence in Christ's sufficiency & the power of his Word & Spirit to bring change where change seems impossible ...

The 10th anniversary edition of the international bestseller & worldwide sensation featuring a brand new preface by the author Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality & self-improvement for years to come leading readers to a new levels of consciousness & inner peace Taking off from the introspective work The Power of Now which is a number one bestseller & has sold millions of copies worldwide Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better more spiritually evolved place to live Shattering modern ideas of ego & entitlement self & society Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium & shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness & health that every reader can follow ...

The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion & the earliest attempts to resolve them Charles Freeman's meticulous historical account of Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century AD to the emergence of Western & Eastern churches by AD 600 reveals that it was a distinctive vibrant & incredibly diverse movement brought into order at the cost of intellectual & spiritual vitality Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable triumph of a single distinct Christianity Freeman shows that there was a host of competing Christianities many of which had as much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated Looking with fresh eyes at the historical record Freeman explores the ambiguities & contradictions that underlay Christian theology & the unavoidable compromises enforced in the name of doctrine Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent-from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state-Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith The imposition of correct belief religious uniformity & an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating & stifling Uncovering the difficulties in establishing the Christian church he examines its relationship with Judaism Gnosticism Greek philosophy & Greco-Roman society & he offers dramatic new accounts of Paul the resurrection & the church fathers & emperors ...

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy-the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-&-a-half thousand years Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages & the Enlightenment into the modern world He introduces us to the great thinkers & their ideas starting with Plato Aristotle & the other founders of Western thought In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand years of medieval philosophy & shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine Aquinas & Ockham Moving into the early modern period we explore the great works of Descartes Hobbes Locke Leibniz Spinoza Hume & Kant which remain essential reading today In the nineteenth & twentieth centuries Hegel Mill Nietzsche Freud & Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see the world Running though the book are certain themes which have been constant concerns of philosophy since its early beginnings the fundamental questions of what exists & how we can know about it; the nature of humanity the mind truth & meaning; the place of God in the universe; how we should live & how society should be ordered Anthony Kenny traces the development of these themes through the centuries we see how the questions asked & answers offered by the great philosophers of the past remain vividly alive today Anyone interested in ideas & their history will find this a fascinating & stimulating read ...

Covering the origins key features & legacy of the Islamic tradition the third edition of A New Introduction to Islam



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The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford Some cases are impossible to bury It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home Even more so when it's your first murder case Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago It was no real mystery Everyone knew Painter her odd-job man had done it There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind Until now Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter Only Archery can't let the past remain buried He wants to prove Wexford wrong & in probing into the lives of the witnesses questioned all those years ago he stirs up more than old ghosts ...

Tracklist Our Lady Of Perpetual Fucking Succour Belle Ile En Mer Dub Night Nobody's Been In Touch They're Burning Northerners Fifteen At A Time & Firing Them Into The Sky To Light Up London ...

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Charlie is excited about his first day at a new school but when he gets there he finds it full of cats! The difference is quite a shock for Charlie who isn't sure how to cope How can he make new friends? He may find the answer he's looking for in the library ...

The Internet is a complex environment that affords many practices while constraining others The challenge is to develop languages & tools to critically engage with these environments & to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically mediated environment This book begins this undertaking A New Theory of Information & the Internet first documents the historical emergence of the scientific mathematical computing & human communication discussions on information together with the rise of information as a resource & a commodity It posits that the contemporary situation has not changed in terms of resolving exactly what information might be as a real thing What has changed is the idea of information as a resource & a commodity which has become a cultural trope
- a standard way of looking at information In the process of examining the understanding of information & communication this book investigates the notion of an informed citizenry & the possibilities of a public spheres online within the context of the increasingly ubiquitous place of the Internet in social informational life
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