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The 92nd Street Y has gathered scholars and authorities to discuss the questions and issues raised in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. What are the implications for religion and private faith when talk about God moves into pop culture, and popular entertainment becomes a mode of education?

The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human.

In Meaningful Economics, Bart J. Wilson challenges economics to directly engage human beings as we really are, not as economists ideally assume. Wilson argues that economic science is as much about purposes and human values as it is about incentives. Moreover, he shows how the outcomes of our decisions (costs and benefits) and the origins of our decisions (motives and goals) can be understood in an integrated way.

At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness.

At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.

Whether taken as a book of faith or a cultural artifact, the New Testament is among the most significant writings the world has ever known, its web of meaning relied upon by virtually every major writer in the last 2,000 years. Yet the New Testament is not only one of Western civilization’s most believed books, but also one of its most widely disputed, often maligned, and least clearly understood, with a vast number of people unaware of how it was written and transmitted.

This fundamental historical question and its complex answer speak penetratingly to the spiritual impulses, concerns, and beliefs that have played a seminal role in our world, even as they reveal the foundation of history’s most global religious movement, and fresh insights into the Western world's single most influential human being. Tackling all of these matters and more, Great Courses favorite Professor Ehrman returns with the unprecedented historical inquiry of How Jesus Became God.

From the late Roman Empire all the way to our own time, no continuously existing institution or belief system has wielded as much influence as Christianity, no figure as much as Jesus. Worshipped around the globe by more than a billion people, he is undoubtedly the single most important figure in the story of Western civilization and one of the most significant in world history altogether.

In It’s a Silver Lining, Bart Mahrer opens his heart in an inspirational memoir about faith, healing, and redemption. This is a real-life recovery story about finding purpose through pain and discovering peace through faith. This deeply personal faith and healing book takes listeners through Mahrer’s remarkable life transformation story. He shares his journey from a young man battling addiction and despair to a husband, father, and believer who found renewal and grace.

In Quickies, Dr. Heather Bartos, OB/GYN, renowned menopause specialist, and Oprah-approved women's health advocate, delivers a witty, wise, and unapologetically bold roadmap for reclaiming sensuality, confidence, and self-love in midlife.

This is a book for leaders who think about legacy, their own and the one their business is leaving. Yet, none of us get to write our legacy, that is for those who come after us. This book and the lessons within will enable you to improve yours.

The growth of Christianity in the early centuries of the Common Era is one of the most extraordinary stories in world history. What began with a preaching day laborer and his dozen or so disciples soon grew to be the largest religion in the world, eventually taking over the entire Roman Empire. How did that happen? How was such a movement possible?

From classics such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid to fifth-century Christian apocrypha, narratives that described guided tours of the afterlife played a major role in shaping ancient notions of morality and ethics. In this new account, acclaimed author Bart Ehrman contextualizes early Christian narratives of heaven and hell within the broader intellectual and cultural worlds from which they emerged.

After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California’s Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can’t see. When, high on a mountain pass, he and his partner find the wrecked plane of a billionaire adventurer who disappeared months earlier, a seemingly innocent act triggers a breathtaking cycle of violence that threatens Tommy’s world.

En hjertegribende historie om medmenneskelighed og splittelse i en hollandsk familie og om en jødisk piges skæbne under 2. Verdenskrig. Under 2. Verdenskrig skjuler en hollandsk familie den jødiske pige Lien. Efter krigen adopterer de hende, men der bliver stridigheder mellem Lien og hendes adoptivmor, familien splittes og Lien bliver skåret ud af familiens historie. Halvtreds år senere opdager Bart Van Es, der er barnebarn af Liens adoptivmor, at der har været et skjult medlem af familien.

US Marine Colonel Robert Buckner, passed over for a coveted command, takes a post working for Vice Admiral Falkner on his way to retirement. As the world is lurching towards World War Ill, he finds his way towards a panoramic view of the unfolding crisis with a pivotal role to play. War breaks out across the globe, but the pin falls in the far north, where soldiers and civilians alike must battle not just the enemy, but the unforgiving elements. With arsenals of high-tech weapons loosed in both directions, the ultimate reward may not be victory, but survival.

Guantanamo Bay, vrouwenbesnijdenis, verdwijningen, massamoorden en religieus geweld: dagelijks worden wereldwijd de rechten van de mens geschonden. Toch is er veel gewonnen sinds de Verenigde Naties in 1948 de Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens aanvaardden. Maar, recht hebben is nog altijd niet hetzelfde als recht krijgen. In deze serie hoorcolleges illustreren wetenschappers en deskundigen uit de praktijk aan de hand van concrete voorbeelden welke kracht er uitgaat van mensenrechten, maar ook welke beperkingen het recht kent.

My Life on the Run chronicles the heatstroke and frostbite, heartache and triumphs he's experienced while competing in more than 1,000 competitive races on all seven continents. With the wit and wisdom of a seasoned insider, Yasso tells runners what they need to know to navigate the logistics of running in an unfamiliar country. He also offers practical guidance, such as 5-K, 10-K, half-marathon, and marathon training schedules, including his innovative technique known as the Yasso 800s for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners.

In times when everything is connected to the internet, we must innovate more and more and learn ways to replace unproductive actions with effective ones, because establishing a social media marketing is very time-consuming. When you are building a business, you are doing a great juggling. The internet is flooded with help services and also others that are getting in the way, but we have come up with all the topics of social media business under the sun.

一般人の、一般人による、一般人のための株式投資を提唱し、無理のない、持続可能な利益の積み重ねを紹介しているBart氏を迎え、ガンバル必要のない「自然体」の投資スタイルが語られています。・戦略構築の流れ(チャンスの見分け方)・情報収集(どんな情報を、どんなソースから)・仕掛け・仕切りのタイミングなどなど、力まない(そんな時間がない)サラリーマンの投資スタイルがここにあります。大局的な相場判断で「確実に仕込み、じっくり利幅を蓄積する」サラリーマン投資家の相場アプローチは、相場観が掴みやすい得意セクターで、需給と割安の両面から銘柄選択を行います。このトークでは、「相場の大局観」、「銘柄の需給環境(トップダウン)」、そして「割安判断(ボトムアップ)」の認識について、Bart氏が自ら解説しています。日々の相場の動きに右往左往しない(そんな時間もない)、サラリーマン投資家のための具体的な戦略は、中期投資の基本形でもあります。現役サラリーマン投資家であるBart氏の、投資を継続するためのヒントが凝縮されたトークは、「意外とすごい個人投資家」になるためには聞き逃せない内容となっています。