Aspects of religion (non-Christian)

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Book Cover:  Kath's Miracle
The uplifting true story of how Kathleen Evan's miraculous recovery from terminal lung cancer led to the canonisation of Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop.
The uplifting true story of how Kathleen Evan's miraculous recovery from terminal lung cancer led to the canonisation of Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop.
Published: 21/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921901195
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Behind the Exclusive Brethren
By Michael Bachelard

Out of nowhere in 2004, this obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about who they were — preferring, as they said, to 'fly under the radar'. Brethren members assiduously...

Out of nowhere in 2004, this obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising...

Published: 04/01/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640230
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Comfort
By Brett C Hoover

Comfort is a universal human need. It's that craving to feel at one with the world we live in, warm (but not hot), protected (but not smothered), and secure (but not marooned) in what the future holds. Yet in our increasingly complex and overstressed world, we tend to overlook this important aspect in our lives.

Comfort is a universal human need. It's that craving to feel at one with the world we live in, warm (but not hot), protected (but not smothered), and secure (but not marooned) in what the future holds...

Published: 03/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594485480
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Sacred Path Companion: Guide to Walking the Labyrinth to Heal & Transform
By Lauren Artress
Lauren Artress, the author of The Sacred Path Companion , calls this new book 'Everything Else You Ever Wanted to Know About the Labyrinth Movement,' and she has a point: This is a comprehensive and indispensable companion to Walking a Sacred Path , which has become a quasi-Bible of the Labyrinth movement. In this workbook, Artress – one of the guiding forces in the Labyrinth movement –...
Lauren Artress, the author of The Sacred Path Companion , calls this new book 'Everything Else You Ever Wanted to Know About the Labyrinth Movement,' and she has a point: This is a comprehensive and indispensable...
Published: 31/05/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594481826
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Essential Marcus Aurelius
By Jacob Needleman & John P Piazza
This inaugural - and all new - Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and ethical traditions.

The late antique world possessed no voice like that of Roman emperor Marcus...

This inaugural - and all new - Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius...
Published: 17/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585426171
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
By Lao Tzu
A new presentation of the classic spiritual work places its eighty-one verses in an accessible format for both casual and serious students, in a new translation that seeks to illuminate the timeless relevance of its message.
A new presentation of the classic spiritual work places its eighty-one verses in an accessible format for both casual and serious students, in a new translation that seeks to illuminate the timeless relevance...
Published: 17/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585426188
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  All You Ever Wanted to Know From His Holiness the Dalai Lama on
By Dalai Lama & Mehrotra Rajiv

ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW FROM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA ON HAPPINESS, LIFE, LIVING, AND MUCH MORE 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes himself as 'a simple Buddhist monk.'   However to millions of people around the world, he embodies the highest human aspiration: to be happy.   His messages of compassion, altruism, and peace are articulated in a unique secular ethic and supported...

ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW FROM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA ON HAPPINESS, LIFE, LIVING, AND MUCH MORE 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes himself as 'a simple Buddhist monk.'   However...

Published: 29/06/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781401920180
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Quaker Writings: An Anthology, 1650-1920
By Thomas D Hamm

A uniquely comprehensive collection of work from the Religious Society of Friends, one of the most distinctive Christian sects in the English-speaking world

A uniquely comprehensive collection of work from the Religious Society of Friends, one of the most distinctive Christian sects in the English-speaking world

Published: 21/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143106319
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Prophet
First published in the 1920s, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century.

Gibran's Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life: love, marriage, death, beauty, passion, eating, work and play. The spiritual message he imparts, of finding divinity through love, blends eastern...

First published in the 1920s, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century.

Gibran's...

Published: 26/04/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141187013
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Angel Cats: When Feline Friends Touch Hearts and Change Lives
By Allen Anderson & Linda

Meet the cats who acted as a pacemaker when a woman's heart suddenly stopped beating in the night;

Paprika, a gentle giant with deep orange stripes who saved a little Hungarian girl from Russian soldiers;

Lucky, the kitten who survived against the odds and went on to help deaf children as a therapy cat;

Princess the courageous cat who helped a lady make friends in an unpleasant and intimidating work...

Meet the cats who acted as a pacemaker when a woman's heart suddenly stopped beating in the night;

Paprika, a gentle giant with deep orange stripes who saved a little Hungarian girl from Russian soldiers;...

Published: 05/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141044415
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Rig Veda
By Wendy Doniger
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology, religion and culture. This selection of 108 of the hymns, chosen for their eloquence...
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over...
Published: 12/05/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140449891
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Revelations of Divine Love
By Of Norwich Julian
'Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness, and his wish that it should be known?' Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite in the great medieval city of Norwich, nevertheless used the English vernacular of the day to describe an extraordinary...
'Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness, and his wish that it should be known?' Coming from...
Published: 12/10/1998
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140446739
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Koran: With Parallel Arabic Text
By N J Dawood
The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters, or surahs, recount the narratives central to Muslim belief, and together they form one of the world's most influential prophetic works and a literary masterpiece in its own right. But, above all, the Koran provides...
The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters, or surahs...
Published: 07/01/1991
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445428
RRP: $33.00
Book Cover: The New Religions
By Jacob Needleman

Now restored to print, here is philosopher Jacob Needleman's groundbreaking study of America's alternative spiritual movements, with a new introduction by the author.

Originally published in 1970, The New Religions was the first full-scale study of alternative spirituality in America. It remains unparalleled for the intellectual depth and seriousness with which it regards Eastern, New Age, and alternative...

Now restored to print, here is philosopher Jacob Needleman's groundbreaking study of America's alternative spiritual movements, with a new introduction by the author.

Originally published in 1970, The...

Published: 15/12/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585427444
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Art of Amazement: Judaism's Forgotten Spirituality
By Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld
Have you ever stopped to look at a breathtaking sunset and felt tremendous joy, calmness, or even timelessness? Has your entire body ever responded to something with awe? The Art of Amazement helps us to identify the source of that wonder, and to cultivate it and experience it daily-even hourly and minute by minute.

Have you ever stopped to look at a breathtaking sunset and felt tremendous joy, calmness, or even timelessness? Has your entire body ever responded to something with awe? The Art of Amazement helps us...
Published: 07/08/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585424184
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All & Everything
By G I Gurdjieff
The teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has come to be recognized as one of the most original, enduring, and penetrating of our century. While Gurdjieff used many different means to transmit his vision of the human dilemma and human possibility, he gave special importance to his acknowledged masterwork, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. Beelzebub's Tales is an 'ocean of story' and of ideas that...
The teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has come to be recognized as one of the most original, enduring, and penetrating of our century. While Gurdjieff used many different means to transmit his vision...
Published: 03/07/2006
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781585424573
RRP: $100.00
Book Cover:  I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
By Hafiz

From the renowned translator of "The Gift" comes a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers.

From the renowned translator of "The Gift" comes a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers.

Published: 31/10/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143037811
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
By Geza Vermes

'He will heal the wounded and revive the dead and bring good news to the poor'

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic...

'He will heal the wounded and revive the dead and bring good news to the poor'

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds...

Published: 16/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141197319
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Upanishads
By Juan Mascaro

The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and immortality.

The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion...

Published: 24/01/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140441635
RRP: $19.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

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