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  • The Question of the Animal and Religion

    Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications

    by Aaron Gross ...
    Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have almost without exception approached religion as a phenomenon that radically marks humans off from ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Dharma and Halacha

    Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion

    by Rachel McDermott, Daniel Polish, Tracy Pintchman, Phillipe Bornet, Aaron Gross, Purushottama Bilimoria, Paul Martin, Barbara A. Holdrege, Shoshana Razel Gordon-Guedalia, Ithamar Theodor, Thomas A. Forsthoefel1, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg2, Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber4 ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion represents a significant contribution to ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Feasting and Fasting

    The History and Ethics of Jewish Food

    by Aaron S Gross, Jody Myers, Jordan D Rosenblum, Hasia R Diner ...
    Series Book 1 - Latina/o Sociology
    How Judaism and food are intertwinedJudaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animals and Religion

    Edited by Dave Aftandilian, Barbara R. Ambros, Aaron S. Gross ...
    What do animals—other than human animals—have to do with religion? How do our religious ideas about animals affect the lives of real animals in the world? How can we deepen our understanding of both animals and religion by considering them together? Animals and Religion explores how animals have crucially shaped how we understand ourselves, the other living beings around us, and our relationships ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Animals and the Human Imagination

    A Companion to Animal Studies

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida, South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, and American theorist Donna Haraway have initiated rigorous inquiries into ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • From Boyz To Men

    A Simple Guide To Surviving Adversity

    by Knowledge B ...
    From Boyz To Men: A Simple Guide To Surviving Adversity is more than a book—it's a movement. Justice-impacted author and entrepreneur Knowledge B draws from his lived experience behind prison walls to deliver a practical field manual for transformation. Built around three distinct guides, this book equips readers to face adversity with discipline, resilience, and purpose. • Guide One: It's Not a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Falling from Horses

    by Molly Gloss ...
    Narrated by David Aaron Baker ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    In 1938, 19-year-old cowboy Bud Frazer sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies. Fantasizing about rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth, he leaves his home in Echol Creek, Oregon, and heads for Hollywood. On the long bus ride south, Bud meets a young woman who also harbors dreams of making it in the movies, though not as a starlet but as a writer, a real ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    In All Good Faith

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    by Liza Nash Taylor ...
    Narrated by Sophie Amoss ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    A riveting new historical fiction novel, In All Good Faith continues the story of May Marshall, the captivating protagonist introduced in Taylor’s acclaimed 2020 debut, Etiquette for Runaways.In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times. May Marshall has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Invention of Everything Else

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    by Samantha Hunt ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla, and a young hotel chambermaid, Louisa, who is obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests. Louisa first catches sight of the hotel’s most famous resident on New Year’s Day, 1943, and is determined to befriend the strange man. As they share their ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Em's Awful Good Fortune

    A Novel

    by Marcie Maxfield ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    Paris. Tokyo. Shanghai. Seoul. Em’s Awful Good Fortune is part global romp, part dysfunctional marriage. Em is not simply married—it’s more like she’s handcuffed to her husband’s international career. Sure, they might be velvet cuffs, but still … cuffed. What else can she do but stomp her way through global capitals in search of her own identity?Part dysfunctional marriage, part global romp, this ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Jump-Off Creek

    by Molly Gloss ...
    Narrated by Sara Morsey ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award • Winner of the Oregon Book Award • A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist""An instant classic. . . a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling."" —William Kittredge, author of Owning It AllA widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in this “powerful novel of struggle and loss ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Brilliant

    The Evolution of Artificial Light

    by Jane Brox ...
    Narrated by Randye Kaye ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn't—through the many centuries ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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