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From award-winning author Ariel Sabar comes the gripping, true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that engulfed Harvard University. In 2012, Dr Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery. She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus - 'The Gospel of Jesus's Wife', as she titled it - in which Jesus called Mary Magdalene 'my wife'. Her announcement made international headlines. If early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history of the world's predominant faith, threatening not just the celibate, all-male priesthood but sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women's leadership. As debates over the manuscript's authenticity raged, award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar set out to investigate a baffling mystery: where did this tiny scrap of papyrus come from? His indefatigable search for answers became an international true-crime story, in which, remarkably, he managed to solve the crime.

Exploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound.

Verso's classic Mapping series, published in association with New Left Review, collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world and delineates the controversies among the most important scholars in each field.

How to create products, services and brands that will appeal to the entire mainstream (female and male) audience

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieys, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on todays politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

An approachable, uplifting guide to finding happiness and leading a fulfilling life through the wisdom of famous humanists from the past and present

CAN A NATION LOOK LIKE HEAVEN?As the daily news points to growing spiritual darkness over the nations, many Christians are tempted to believe that America is a lost cause. But is this true?Many Christian prophetic leaders agree: there is hope for America and the nations!Apostle John Benefiel has witnessed tremendous spiritual breakthrough, both in his home state of Oklahoma and across the nation. In Binding the Strongman Over America and the Nations, Benefiel outlines a prophetic strategy believers can employ to pray effectively against the darkness invading their homes, communities, and nation!Discover how to:Identity and overthrow ancient thrones of iniquity.Issue a divorce decree to the spirit of Baal.Unmask idolatry and repent on behalf of the nation.Contend for God's prophetic destiny for America to be fulfilled.So shake off discouragement and fear! Join the fight for your nation's destiny, and Bind the Strongman today!

Some crimes become defining moments in history; the perpetrators infamous. During the 1980s, Belgian citizens were equal parts terrified and horrified by a series of brutal supermarket massacres committed by a trio of cold, callous murderers. The media dubbed the trio the Insane Brabant Killers. No one could identify the men, who used various disguises, but they became known as the Old Man, the Psycho, and the Giant.The Brabant Killers targeted supermarkets, but they didn't seem to be motivated solely for money. They didn't hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way, ruthlessly murdering even women and children in cold blood. Witnesses and victims who survived were threatened into silence and crucial evidence disappeared.Conspiracy theories abound, raising questions about high-level involvement by foreign powers, terrorist factions, the Gendarmerie, a child pornography ring comprised of powerful people, and a dangerous neo-Nazi splinter cell. This book will help readers finally piece together the truth about the Brabant Killers.

The tenets of the Jedi Code (peace, knowledge, serenity and harmony) are applicable not just in the STAR WARS Galaxy, but also in our own. Here is an accessible, illustrated collection of quoted wisdom illuminated to shine light on readers' own lives, including elements of practice for taking the lessons to heart.

Shino Oshima is so shy she cannot even say her name out loud.

The Spirit-Filled Life Bible offers a dynamic experience with the Holy Spirit through the study of Scripture. Now in a full-color third edition with new contributors, it continues to equip God's people to live in His kingdom, exercise gifts of the spirit, and lay hold of God's promises.

***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE***'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN-------------------------------------------------------In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious work - detailing the names and 'specialities' of the capital's sex-workers- became one of the eighteenth century's most scandalous bestsellers.Yet beyond its titillating passages lies a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by its profits - a tragicomic opera of the Georgian era, motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration and shame. In this modern and visceral narrative, historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the story behind Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, and the legion of ordinary women whose lives in the sex trade history has chosen to ignore. 'Scrupulously researched' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Crackles with drama and tension' GUARDIAN'Compelling and ingenious' INDEPENDENTWHAT READERS ARE SAYING:'This book is an absolute 'must'-read for any person interested in English social history' 5 ****'Fascinating' 5 ****'Brilliant. Full of intelligent insight which brings this period to vibrant life' 5 ****

This first comprehensive study in English of the many and variegated ways the afterlife was envisioned in the Middle Ages presents exciting new interpretations that will interest literary scholars, (art) historians, and theologians.

A study on the nature and power of thoughts this is the most well-known book of the prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

Explores the many and varied milestones in cross-channel flight, beginning back in July 1785 when John-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries made the first crossing by balloon and brought right up to date by detailing the Channel Tunnel and the Single European Sky

Authoritative, highly illustrated history and guide to the Battle of Hastings in 1066

A new edition of The Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight's bestselling book, providing a remarkable summary of what biblical Christianity is at its core: Loving God and Loving Others. It fosters a practical understanding, appreciation of and application of Christian formation in grace and love toward God and Neighbor.

Notes on Love is a humorous and heart-felt look at being single and dating in the Church for a generation of Christians wrestling with what it means to love and be loved today.