Henry De Candole

Rob Bell Bestselling author Rob Bell returns with a provocative new book which gets to the heart of questions about life and death. His perspective, encapsulated by his famous slogan 'love wins', will surprise and challenge both Christians and atheists, and will inspire people of all faiths and none.

Andrew J Drain

Chris Winitana

Jostein Gaarder A startlingly original presentation of the Nativity story, woven into an enthralling and mysterious novel.

Alan Barwick

Peter Vardy A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language. This new edition is fully revised and updated.

David Adam

Gillian Ambrose, Peter Craig-Wild, Diane Craven, Mary Hawes Aimed at those planning and leading worship and those working with children and adults in groups, this title offers material designed to bring to life the seasonal liturgy of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. It us accompanied by a CD-ROM that includes: the illustrations and templates in downloadable format; the texts of services; and more.

Murray Watts

Fred Wright

Simon Kershaw

Bartholomew O'Brien

Mary Sweeney

John B. Taylor

Clark Carlton

Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin

Kate Mosse

Jerram Barrs

John O'Donohue

Robert Legg, Stella Vassiliou

John O'Donohue This text uses the Celtic vision of life as a means to examine the landscape of the soul. It argues that instead of seeking to satisfy our spiritual hunger on an everlasting journey of exploration, we should seek to gain an understanding that the soul lies within us always.

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Nicky Gumbel Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel (978 1 90407457 1)

An evangelistic booklet for those who are having their first thoughts about the Christian faith, given to all guests at a supper/appetiser event and during the Alpha course.
An evangelistic booklet for those who are having their first thoughts about the Christian faith, given to all guests at a supper/appetiser event and during the Alpha course.

Helen Julian

Klaus Koch Koch, K. (1983). The Prophets. Vol. 2, The Babylonian and Persian Periods, trans. M. Kohl. London: SCM Press.

Publisher’s information:
Volume 1 of this two-volume work was welcomed by the Expository Times as ‘a most important study of the prophets and one which will have to be reckoned with in all future research’. Volume 2 continues the study from Jeremiah down to the end of the Persian period, with Deutero- and Trito-Isaiah, Jonah and Malachi, ending with an important summary of the results achieved.

Professor Koch’s approach is to stress that the prophets were thinkers working out in their prophecies a theological response to the problems of their day in the light of their understanding of God, rather than ecstatics or preachers of judgment. This gives his books a distinctive stamp and offers the reader quite a different perspective from that offered elsewhere. The ideas put forward here are always interesting and never sensationally controversial.

‘This is a fine book which, together with Volume One, will be an excellent introduction to the thought of the prophets’ (Church Times).

Klaus Koch is Professor of Old Testament in the University of Hamburg.

Claus Westermann

Russ Weakley The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to immediately apply it to your work. Author Russ Weakley is a well-respected member of the CSS community and is known for his ability to make complicated concepts easy-to-understand for even inexperienced CSS users. With this book, you will cover the essentials for standards compliant techniques that are supported by the most common browsers. Once you master the basics, Weakley will also take you inside positioning, troubleshooting CSS, and handling common CSS bugs. Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes is the ultimate quick learning tool and handy desk reference guide to CSS.

Mike McGrath Instructs how to create exciting interactive web pages using the latest major release of the popular PHP scripting language. PHP allows data to be easily exchanged between a web browser and a web server - both on the Windows platform and on Unix-based platforms, such as Linux. Exciting chapters, with complete code examples, illustrate the major features of the PHP language and screenshots depict the actual output from each example script. You are also introduced to MySQL databases and shown, by example, how PHP can interact with databases to store user input, and to retrieve stored data for delivery to a web browser as components of a web page.

Pat Barton

Alan Gallop

foreword by Graham Hancock Martin Gray

Barack Obama Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a "political process that is broken" and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people. Amazon.com had the opportunity to ask Senator Obama a few questions about writing, reading, and politics—see his responses below. —Daphne Durham 20 Second Interview: A Few Words with Barack Obama

Q: How did writing a book that you knew would be read so closely by so many compare to writing your first book, when few people knew who you were?
A: In many ways, Dreams from My Father was harder to write. At that point, I wasn't even sure that I could write a book. And writing the first book really was a process of self-discovery, since it touched on my family and my childhood in a much more intimate way. On the other hand, writing The Audacity of Hope paralleled the work that I do every day—trying to give shape to all the issues that we face as a country, and providing my own personal stamp on them.

Q: What is your writing process like? You have such a busy schedule, how did you find time to write?
A: I'm a night owl, so I usually wrote at night after my Senate day was over, and after my family was asleep—from 9:30 p.m. or so until 1 a.m. I would work off an outline—certain themes or stories that I wanted to tell—and get them down in longhand on a yellow pad. Then I'd edit while typing in what I'd written.

Q: If readers are to come away from The Audacity of Hope with one action item (a New Year's Resolution for 2007, perhaps?), what should it be?
A: Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn’t matter what it is—improving the school system, developing strategies to wean ourselves off foreign oil, expanding health care for kids. We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

Q: You're known for being able to work with people across ideological lines. Is that possible in today's polarized Washington?
A: It is possible. There are a lot of well-meaning people in both political parties. Unfortunately, the political culture tends to emphasize conflict, the media emphasizes conflict, and the structure of our campaigns rewards the negative. I write about these obstacles in chapter 4 of my book, "Politics." When you focus on solving problems instead of scoring political points, and emphasize common sense over ideology, you'd be surprised what can be accomplished. It also helps if you're willing to give other people credit—something politicians have a hard time doing sometimes.

Q: How do you make people passionate about moderate and complex ideas?
A: I think the country recognizes that the challenges we face aren't amenable to sound-bite solutions. People are looking for serious solutions to complex problems. I don't think we need more moderation per se—I think we should be bolder in promoting universal health care, or dealing with global warming. We just need to understand that actually solving these problems won't be easy, and that whatever solutions we come up with will require consensus among groups with divergent interests. That means everybody has to listen, and everybody has to give a little. That's not easy to do.

Q: What has surprised you most about the way Washington works?
A: How little serious debate and deliberation takes place on the floor of the House or the Senate.

Q: You talk about how we have a personal responsibility to educate our children. What small thing can the average parent (or person) do to help improve the educational system in America? What small thing can make a big impact?
A: Nothing has a bigger impact than reading to children early in life. Obviously we all have a personal obligation to turn off the TV and read to our own children; but beyond that, participating in a literacy program, working with parents who themselves may have difficulty reading, helping their children with their literacy skills, can make a huge difference in a child's life.

Q: Do you ever find time to read? What kinds of books do you try to make time for? What is on your nightstand now?
A: Unfortunately, I had very little time to read while I was writing. I'm trying to make up for lost time now. My tastes are pretty eclectic. I just finished Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, a wonderful book. The language just shimmers. I've started Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, which is a great study of Lincoln as a political strategist. I read just about anything by Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, or Philip Roth. And I've got a soft spot for John le Carre.

Q: What inspires you? How do you stay motivated?
A: I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels—hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

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Niall Williams

Tess Ward

John Clifford Henson

Richard A. Burridge

Richard A. Burridge

The ARCIC Statement: The Vatican and the Anglican Communion

Francis Davis, Elizabeth Paulhaus, Andrew Bradstock

Michael Harvey

John Foxe, W.Grinton Berry

Kate Summerscale

John Ortberg

Christopher Jamison

Steve stickley, Janet Stickley

Steve Stickley Janet Stickley Jim Belben

Paul Burbridge Murray Watts

Paul Burbridge Murray Watts

Ashley Martin Andy Kelso

Grace Fraser

Marina Lewycka

Sandy Bharat

Doug Pagitt Tony Jones

Steve Jeffery Mike Ovey Andrew Sach

Khaled Hosseini

Siku

Richard Foster & Emilie Griffin

Rick Warren

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Michael Baigent Richard Leigh Henry Lincoln Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail which befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. According to the authors, their point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. They claim that the power of this secret, which has, they say, been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and the alternative history which it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of scepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. —Jodie Buller

Jane Grieve

Roger Bastable

Andrew P. Wilson

Alister McGrath; Joanna Collicutt McGrat

Richard Dawkins

Pamela Evans

David Runcorn

Duncan James Dormor

House of Bishops

Church of England House of Bishops

Dale A. Bargmann

Alpha

Peter Jackson Chris Wright

Alpha This comprehensive guide provides course leaders with all the tools required to present the Alpha course to a varied and diverse youth audience. Includes sections on strategy, practical skills, planning and preparation, as well as tips on aspects of youth ministry from accomplished youth leaders from around the world. The book also features a CD ROM with all the materials in the book ready to reproduce and share with entire Youth Alpha team.

International Commission on English in the Liturgy

Church of England

Church of England

Church of England

Robert Llewlyn

John Puddefoot

Jo Ind

Michel Quoist Original French version 1954, this is 3rd imprint of the !st English Hard back edition.

Nick Harding

Christopher Jamison

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Maggie Durran

Maggie Durran

Don Stafford

William Leonard Williams

Tracey Elliot-Reep

Ian Brodie

CCBI

Michael King

Colin Buchanan

Susan Sayers

Elie Wiesel

Lesslie Newbigin

David L Edwards

David Edwards

David L Edwards

Thomas R. Hawkins

Peter Atkinson

Elizabeth Rees

Matthew Pinsent

Lynne Truss

Jr. Sibbett

Church House Publishing

C. S. Lewis In 1943, when hope and the moral fabric of society in Britain were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. Over half a century after the original lectures, the topic retains its urgency. Expanded into book form, Mere Christianity never flinches as it sets out a rational basis for Christianity and builds an edifice of compassionate morality atop this foundation. As Mr Lewis clearly demonstrates, Christianity is not a religion of flitting angels and blind faith, but of free will, an innate sense of justice and the grace of God.

Sotirios Christou

William Edgar

The Archbishops' Commission on Church Music

Church of England

James Behrens

Colin Buchanan

Kitty Hart-Moxon

Robert Warren

Thomas O'Loughlin

Michael Mitton

Esther De Waal

G.P. Taylor Written to include such elements as magic, witchcraft, superstition, sorcery, history, folklore and smuggling, Shadowmancer has become a book that simply cannot be ignored. Despite such fierce competition as JK Rowling's mighty bestseller Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Reverend Graham Taylor's debut children's novel has nevertheless garnered impressive media coverage.

At the heart of his story lies the classic battle between good and evil. On one side Taylor has painted one of the most despicable men possible—Obadiah Demurral, an 18th century vicar who preaches restraint and tolerance to his flock of god-fearing but misguided souls while all the time hiding the fact that he is a shadowmancer—a sorcerer who speaks to the dead—who commands these unfortunates to do his own bidding. For Demurral is intent on seeking to control the ultimate power in the universe. He doesn't want to worship God anymore, he wants to be God. And in the finest traditions of such stories, he will stop at nothing to achieve his dastardly goal.

Lined up against him, however, are some equally inventive good guys. Thomas Barrick, at 13, is the spunky almost-orphan who can intuitively see straight through Demurral's pious act and knows him to be evil to the core. Helping him is feisty tomboy Kate Coglan, Raphah—a mysterious African who has journeyed far to reclaim the precious symbols that Demurral is using for evil purpose, and Jacob Crane, a smuggler with a big grudge against the demented vicar.

The plot might wobble a little in places and the simmering religious overtones might get up a few people's noses, but Taylor's colourful cast is undoubtedly a triumph. The characters are larger than life, engaging, plentiful—and you'll care what happens to them. (For ages 10 and over) —John McLay

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Mick Sharp

Courtney Davis

Dana Delap

Mark Redknap

Brendan O'Malley

The Ven Martin Wallace

Esther De Waal

B. O'Malley

Ian Bradley

Ian Bradley

Ian Bradley

Mark Atherton

J. Romilly Allen

Robert Adkinson

Philip Sheldrake

Richard J. Woods

Roger Ellis Chris Seaton

Bob Moffett

Bob Moffett

Yvonne Richmond Nick Spencer Steve Croft

John Witcombe

David Ison

Brian Bell

Caroline Williams

O.B. Duane

Robert Van De Weyer

Robert Van De Weyer

Society of Saint Francis

Collins

Oxford University Press

Steve Chalke

Damon A. Dean Andy Cowitt

George Carey

Fynn

Rick Warren

Nick Aiken

Andy Ihnatko Tony Bove

Gavin Reid

Wayne A. Meeks

Mother Thekla John Tavener

Raymond Edward Brown

R. Joyner

David J. Bosch

Jeremy Begbie

L. Cunningham K. Egan

Robert Warren

Michael Downey

Yvonne Coppock

Yvonne Coppock

Lesslie Newbigin

Philip Sheldrake

Alister E. McGrath

Alister E. McGrath

Northumbria Community

Rowan Williams

Alister E. McGrath

Simon Jenkins

E.P. Sanders

Christopher Cocksworth Rosalind Brown

Cheslyn Jones Geoffrey Wainwright Edward Yarnold

Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin

Robert Van De Weyer

Judith Russi

House of Bishops

M. Maddocks

Walter Wangerin

Bonnie Blake

Kenneth Leech

Susan Sayers

Susan Sayers

Susan Sayers

Gideon Goosen Margaret Tomlinson

C.K. Barret

Michael Perry

Esther De Waal A. Carmichael

Alexander Carmichael John MacInnes This is a comprehensive collection of lyric poems and prayers from the Gaelic tradition of oral poetry, gathered from the highlands and islands of Scotland.

Alexander Carmichael John MacInnes This is a comprehensive collection of lyric poems and prayers from the Gaelic tradition of oral poetry, gathered from the highlands and islands of Scotland.

Nicky Gumbel

Andy Raine

Dodie Smith

Michael Meadhra

David Adam

Ray Simpson

Jenny Robertson

Ray Simpson

Ray Simpson

Church House Publishing

Dan Brown With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoterica culled from 2,000 years of Western history. A murder in the silent after-hours halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle.

The duo become both suspects and detectives searching not only for Neveu's grandfather's murderer, but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England and history itself. Brown has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries—from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. —Jeremy Pugh, Amazon.com

Church House Publishing

Bob Jackson

Trevor Dennis

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Tom Wright

Tom Wright

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Ken Milburn

Rafeeq Rehman Scott Kelby Some people make their living with a camera, and for these people the maturation of digital photo technology means a significant shift in their trade. The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers is for people who are already adept with a camera, and pretty much up to speed on the peculiarities of digital photography, too. The book teaches these people how to use Adobe Photoshop, the standard photo-editing software package. More accurately, the book explains how to use Photoshop for the kinds of work professional photographers do.

Case in point: the removal from photographs of what are politely called skin blemishes. Author Scott Kelby (the editor of Photoshop User offers two strategies: one you can use to remove all traces of a mark but which requires a fair amount of time, and another procedure that delivers "pretty good" results and which can be done on many pictures (such as a set of class portraits) rapidly. Kelby teaches by means of heavily illustrated procedures, each between five and 20 steps long and spanning several pages. A good way to use this book is by scanning the table of contents for a procedure that interests you (say, "Fixing Underexposed Photos", or "Pro Wrinkle Removal"). This will enable you to spot Photoshop techniques you hadn't considered. —David Wall

Topics covered: how to use Adobe Photoshop if, for you, the program is one tool out of many in a photographic kit. Tricks teach you how to recolour hair, whiten teeth and eyes, modify unflattering body contours, dodge and burn, apply filters for effect, assemble panoramas, and do a score of other slick photo jobs.

David Cook

Sotirios Christou

Nicky Gumbel Defining itself as "a practical introduction to the Christian faith", this paperback is addressed both to those who want to find out more about Christianity and those who have recently come to faith. The book is based on the massively successful "Alpha" enquirers' course which the author runs at his church in London, from which it had spread to over 7,000 other churches by the beginning of the year 2000. Indeed, it is partly designed to accompany that course, for each chapter has as a "study guide" a set of questions intended to prompt further thinking (and facilitate discussion, if used in groups). There are 15 such chapters, with titles such as "Who is Jesus?", "Why did Jesus die?", "Why and How Do I Pray?".

The first three chapters argue for the truth of the Christian gospel. The rest of the book assumes the reader is a believer and presents the initial steps of the Christian life in a clear, lively and accessible manner. Though Gumbel is a clergyman in the Church of England, he does not plug Anglicanism. Indeed, he dissolves denominational questions, claiming to take his understanding of the church straight from the New Testament. Readers should be aware that the book has a pronounced charismatic slant. For instance, there are three chapters on the Holy Spirit, but none on the Father. More striking still, the section on speaking in tongues is significantly longer than that on the Resurrection. Nevertheless, the cross-denominational success of the Alpha course shows that members of other Christian traditions can enjoy and benefit from its approach. —Michael Ward

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Michael Vasey

Rowan Williams