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  • The Hallucination Hypothesis and the Resurrection

    A Comprehensive Review

    More than two billion people believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and that he was seen alive in a real, physical body--not just as a hallucination, a dream, or a vision. The main Gospel accounts and Acts say plainly that men and women met the risen Jesus. Still, many skeptics and followers of other religions question the resurrection appearances. Most agree, however, that something unusual ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hypothesis of Undesigned Coincidences

    A Critical Review

    The hypothesis of Undesigned Coincidences was first proposed by William Paley (1743-1805) and later popularized by J. J. Blunt (1794-1855). More recently, Lydia and Timothy McGrew have revived this hypothesis. McGrew defines an undesigned coincidence as "a significant connection between two or more accounts or texts that does not appear to have been planned by the individuals providing the ... Read more

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  • The Resurrection: a Critical Inquiry

    The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry is a scholarly work that refutes Jesuss purported physical, bodily resurrection and those writings in support of it. This book is compelling, relevant and current for those readers seeking scholarly refutations of that resurrection. This in-depth work presents the reader with 113 issues. Altogether one hundred twenty contradictions and 217 speculations are ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Name Israel

    Israel is a divine name. The Name Israel is a scholarly, niche project that provides its readers with an informative, meaningful, and spiritually uplifting reading experience. The purpose of The Name Israel is to investigate the name employing four levels of study (PaRDeS): peshat, remez, derash, and sod. Each level is deeper and more profound than its predecessor. This text is divided into eight ... Read more

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  • Why the Torah Begins with the Letter Beit

    Why does the Torah begin with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet? In seeking answers to this question, Michael J. Alter has gathered a wealth of material drawing from the Oral Law (Mishnah and Talmud), the Midrash, anonymous kabbalistic texts, and the works of many prominent rabbis, scribes, and writers spanning the past 2,000 years. ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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    His Very Best

    Jimmy Carter, a Life

    Narrated by Michael Boatman ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 4 min

    From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, “splendid” (The Washington Post)biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian.Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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    On the Road

    Adventures from Nixon to Trump

    Narrated by James Naughtie ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.James Naughtie, the acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster, now brings his unique and inquisitive eye to the country that has fascinated him and drawn him across the Atlantic for half a century. In looking at America, from Presidents Nixon through to Biden, he tells the story of a ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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    Why Bob Dylan Matters

    Narrated by Nick Landrum ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony?In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Mayflower

    The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America

    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 28 min

    From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Heaven’s Ditch

    God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal

    by Jack Kelly ...
    Narrated by Andrew Reilly ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    “The Erie Canal rubbed Aladdin’s lamp. America awoke, catching for the first time the wondrous vision of its own dimensions and power.”—Francis Kimball, American architectThe technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn’t just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

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    America and Iran

    A History, 1720 to the Present

    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 12 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America—two powers who were once allies and now adversaries—by an admired historian and former journalist.In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations ... Read more

    $42.50 CAD

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    White Shoe

    How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century

    by John Oller ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 58 min

    **The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world“Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing."—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage**The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for ... Read more

    $29.50 CAD