Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices by Andrew Rippin
$64.00 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Ser.
Andrew Rippin's Muslims is essential reading for students and scholars alike. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and for the first time features a companion website with extensive links to additional reading and resources to help deepen students' understanding of the subject. Muslims offe ...Show more
The Koran: a Very Short Introduction by M.A. Cook
$16.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions
Explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in traditional Muslim culture. This book provides an account of the Koran as codex, as scripture, as liturgy, and as the embodiment of truth, and examines its means of formation and dissemination. It also discusses issues of interpretat ...Show more
The Koran by Alan Jones (Consultant Editor); J. M. Rodwell (Foreword by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Religion
The Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632. It has exerted untold influence upon the history of mankind. Apart from its specifically religious content, inspirin ...Show more
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax
$23.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard at school an ...Show more
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Health
Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Pa ...Show more
Astrology for the Soul by Jan Spiller
$33.00 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Bantam Classics
Astrologer Jan Spiller shows you the key to discovering your hidden talents, your deepest desires, and the ways you can avoid negative influences that may distract you from achieving your true life purpose, as revealed in your chart by the position of the North Node of the Moon. With insight and depth i ...Show more
Authentic Life by Ezra Bayda
$25.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
How to live your life genuinely, honestly, and happily in the face of the inevitable difficulties that arise--more wonderfully accessible Zen teachings for living from the author of "Being Zen." Ever feel like your efforts to live a life of wisdom, honesty, and compassion are hijacked by, well, life? Ta ...Show more
Journeys of the Heart by Jodi Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Self-Help
Journeys of the Heart is a book about love and compassion and the resilience of the human spirit. It is a serious but uplifting book; it is the beginning of a conversation about the value of being a carer in today's world. In 2012, Jodi Rose cared for her beloved husband Murray in his final months of li ...Show more
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances E. Jensen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Pregnancy & Parenting
Why is it that the behaviour of teenagers can be so odd? As they grow older, young children steadily improve their sense of how to behave, and then all of a sudden, they can become totally uncommunicative, wildly emotional and completely unpredictable. We used to think that erratic teenage behaviour was ...Show more
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
What makes life worth living? What can we do to lead meaningful lives? And how do we confront our inevitable end? In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of ...Show more
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pregnancy & Parenting
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents? In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolatin ...Show more
Clean Living: Paleo Diet Basics by Luke Hines; Scott Gooding
$18.00 AUD
Category: Diet
Being healthy is a priority in today's world - and with new fad diets popping up all the time, it can be hard to know what to eat in order to get the most out of your body. Get back to basics and let Australia's Clean Living experts Luke and Scott show you how to live the paleo life and be the best that ...Show more