Miles, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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Summary: Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? The God of the Qur'an revises and perfects: His purpose is to make whole what had been corrupted or lost from the practices and scriptures of the earlier Abrahamic religions. Setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an side by side, Miles illuminates what is unique about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: "A short, provocative book on religion from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In his new book, acclaimed scholar Jack Miles poses a question: How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that wereonce inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity-a religion inextricably bound to Western thought-Miles reveals how we in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231 MILContents: House of the rising funk (Afrique) (3:20) -- Soul village (Blue Mitchell) (6:21) -- Magical connection (Sarah Vaughan) (2:38) -- Soulsides (Art Farmer) (4:29) -- Mask (Shelly Manne) (7:30) -- Never did I stop loving you (Alice Clark) (2:35) -- Abscretions (Buddy Terry) (4:54) -- Right on (Maxine Weldon) (4:03) -- Scatbird (Barry Miles) (3:57) -- Red clay (Jack Wilkins) (4:59) -- Rum and mumbles...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FEESummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUAnderson, Robert Mailer
Summary: An undocumented immigrant father has been bussing tables at the famous Windows on the World restaurant to support his family in Mexico. Then, tragedy strikes. His family hears no word for weeks. Refusing to give up hope, they send young Fernando on a quixotic mission across the border to find his father and bring him home. Along the way, Fernando experiences a warm embrace from fellow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2020